Barely 24 hours after global rights watch, Amnesty International indicted Nigerian security forces in the killing no fewer than 150 pro-Biafra protesters in South-East Nigeria, the Movement for Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) have disclosed they lost more than 2,000 members to the security agents.
They blasted the Nigerian Army for denying that they did not kill unarmed members of the pro-Biafran groups between 2015 and this year.
While commending Amnesty International for its report, IPOB said the respected group under-reported the killings of its members, stressing that far more than 150 of them were killed and injured in the period under review.
The Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Mr. Emma Powerful, while reacting to Amnesty International report said that over 2000 members were killed, 750 missing, and 567 undergoing medical treatment in different hospitals.
According to Powerful, “The report was welcomed by IPOB which has been at the forefront of the struggle for the restoration of Biafra nation. But the 150 people who were reportedly killed in the report by Amnesty International was not the accurate number of IPOB and Biafrans killed since August 2015 till date.
“Moreover, in IPOB’s records and statistics gathered from different parts of Biafra, we have over 2000 members killed, 750 missing till date, we have not seen their dead bodies and we are still searching for them, we also have 567 members undergoing medical treatment in different hospitals.
“In the same vein, we have 370 people undergoing torture in different prisons and security cells across the country.
“As we are talking right now, the DSS and other security agencies in Nigeria are searching for members of IPOB across the country, Some have been in the DSS secret cells since six months now without taking them to court while they were all kept incommunicado in different places.
“Importantly, we commend the report from Amnesty International which stands bold to condemn the crime against humanity committed by the government of Nigeria and her security agencies rbefore the world.
“We also urge Amnesty International and other relevant human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch to make more enquiries and investigations into this barbaric killings of members of IPOB.”
The leader of MASSOB, Mr. Uchenna Madu said the denial of complicity by the Nigeria Army was an act of cowardice and fear.
“MASSOB view the quick denial by the Nigerian Army as an act of cowardice and fear because their primitive acts backed by religious/ ethnic hatred against the people of Biafra are now bare to the whole World.”
He said, “With this latest denial by the n Army on their evil against the children of Chukwu Okike Abiama, soon the whole world will behold the nakedness and filthiness of the Nigeria Army. They can’t deny their daylight evil against the Biafrans because we have evidences even more from our sister organization, IPOB including the dead bodies of our members. We are set to disgrace the Buhari-led Nigeria Army at the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC).
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