By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the Nigerian Army not to execute youths of Obigbo, Rivers State, that are in their custody.

The group said on Saturday that it has been drawn to a secret instruction by the Nigerian Army to move all Obigbo youths held in the military cell in Kaduna to unknown locations in the Northern Nigeria for possible execution.

The group in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said: “These innocent Biafrans from Obigbo have been held in different detention facilities under inhuman conditions since two years. They wereunlawfully arrested during the infamous Obigbo massacre in 2020 by the West African new generational Hitler of Rivers State, Gov. Nyesom Wike and the federal government at the heat of the #EndSARS protest because of their hatred against the Igbo Nation in Nigeria.

“We are aware that over 500 innocent Biafrans were unlawfully arrested and abducted by the military and evacuated to different secret cells in Abuja and Kaduna Army cells where they are daily tortured, raped and maltreated as animals because they are Igbos.

“With great efforts by our legal teams, some of them were released since last year but many are still in custody since two years for committing no crime but being Igbo.

“IPOB Intelligence unit has also intercepted secret instruction by the Nigeria Army high command to move the remaining detainees to unknown locations for possible execution and extra-judicial killing.It is only the Authorities of the Nigeria Army that knows what that order and instruction mean, but any attempt to execute or extra-judicially kill them, the Nigeria Army and Fulani controlled federal government will regret their actions.

Such barbarity will be costly and a blunder NIGERIA will ever live to regret.”

IPOB called the attention of other nations of the world to “the wicked plot by the Nigerian Army and government plots to silence innocent Biafrans without trace”, saying that the victims have been detained incommunicado in their custody for two years.

It said that the Nigerian Army should be held responsible if anything untoward happen to the Obigbo youths, insisting that they were arrested illegally.

The statement added: “The Obigbo youths currently in the Army cell in Kaduna are going to be extra-judicially executed by the Nigeria Army. We also want to remind the NIGERIA Army and the Fulani-controlled federal government of NIGERIA, that we are monitoring them. Should anything untoward happen to these innocent Biafrans, those behind their fate will not escape judgement!

“We demand unconditional release of these Biafrans because many have been released by competent courts because they committed no crime and the remaining Obigbo youths still be illegally detained are not different from those set free by competent court of Jurisdiction and must therefore be released.

“They have unjustly suffered enough and deserve to be release unconditionally. The Obigbo genocide must be remembered in history against Nyesom Wike and Nigeria security agents including Fulani terrorists controlled Nigeria federal government of Nigeria.

“The world should not maintain criminal silence when the same federal government that has been freeing Fulani bandits and mass murderers including terrorists rampaging and ravaging Nigeria for the past ten years, while continuing to keep innocent Biafrans in detention under inhuman conditions and treatments.”