IPOB denies burning of mosque in Enugu

 

Members of the In­digenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have dissociated them­selves from a recent burn­ing of a Mosque in Igbo Eze North Local Govern­ment Area of Enugu State.

IPOB assured Muslims and other residents in Enugu of their safety while they sojourn within their borders. 

In a press release by the Media and Publicity Sec­retary, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB said that it resolved to maintain a non-violent approach in her struggle for self-deter­mination.

IPOB, however, accused the army and Southeast governors of orchestrating such attacks to stir bad blood between them and other ethnic nationalities.

This came as Godwin Chukwunaenye Ezeemo called on the federal and state governments to fol­low due process in resolv­ing the conflict involving the IPOB while condemn­ing in strong terms the re­cent labeling of the IPOB group as terrorists.

The PPA gubernatori­al candidate in Anambra State was not happy that the Southeast governors played down several ac­counts of loss of Igbo lives and properties within their states but were quick to label the IPOB “terrorists” when the group has never been recorded as having brandished weapons nor harmed anyone.

Ezeemo said: “The gov­ernment should not forget that the mandate to rule came from the people and that the people can impeach them if they fail in their duties to protect lives and properties in their state.

“The voice of the people should be heard because they form the nucleus of every democratic govern­ment.”

While recalling some harassment he received in the past from the hands of the IPOB members, Ezee­mo maintained that such scenarios do not justify the several dehumanisa­tions, killing and negative labeling the group was receiving from the presi­dency and the state gov­ernors.

“When your child is growling and insistently defiant to orders, the onus lies on you, the parent, to dialogue with him and find out what the problem is and how to resolve it to satisfaction, not to crimi­nalize the child,” Ezeemo.