President Muhammadu Buhari has labeled the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as terrorists and thieves.
President Buhari insisted that the IPOB, led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, were not freedom fighters but thieves promoting terrorism.
The president contended that IPOB was not defending Christians in the South East as their foreign lobbyists claim.
In a statement by his Special Assistance on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, the president lamented the group’s attack on police stations and government facilities in the South East.
The statement reads, “Further afield in the South-East, IPOB are not struggling for freedom when they attack police stations and property, but rather committing acts of terrorism,” to steal money.
“IPOB is not defending Christians, as their highly paid foreign lobbyists claim when almost every citizen of those states they terrorise is uniformly Christian.”
The President called upon citizens to not give in to “…those who seek to divide us for their own nefarious financial and political gain.” That citizens should strive for unity and a peaceful coexistence in the country.
Meanwhile, the Igbo World Assembly (IWA), the umbrella organisation of the Igbo in the Diaspora, has cautioned the Federal Government against the use of force to stop ethnic nationalities from agitating for self-determination on July 9 this year.
