IPOB denies mounting roadblocks, burning trucks, says security agencies plotted action

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that security agencies masterminded road blockage by truck drivers, who demanded the release of Kanu.

In a statement, yesterday, the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said: “We, the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under the command and leadership of the great liberator, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu, unequivocally state that Nigerian government, through her security agencies, namely the military, DSS, and police, are responsible for the so-called truck drivers’ protest for the release of Kanu.

“The public should know that it is the security agencies that forced the drivers to block roads with their trucks and the same security agents, with Ebubeagu militias, that set fire on trucks carrying goods to the East, not ESN, unknown gunmen, or criminals.

“Today, being the 21st of October, 2022, these government security agents blocked all the major routes to the eastern region and refused all trucks carrying goods into Biafra. In the end they set fire on those trucks loaded with consumable goods.”

He described the alleged act as another attempt to use food blockade as a weapon of war.

“Today, being the 21st of October, 2022, Nigeria security agents attacked trucks coming from Amorka in Ihiala Council of Anambra State at the border community between Anambra and Imo State. We were reliably informed that Nigerian soldiers forced some of the truck drivers to block the roads and to claim that it was ESN operatives and IPOB members that forced them to do so.

“The Nigerian Army and other security agencies forced the truck drivers to block roads, disguising they were protesting that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu should be released without delay by the Federal Government.

“IPOB never forced truck drivers to block roads in protest for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s release. IPOB knows how to handle issues without security agents directing us on what to do. This arrangement to use truck drivers to block routes leading to the East is a secret agenda of Nigeria security agents to create unrest, and to destroy our peoples, lives and properties.”