The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday, said the purpose of its struggle is to end endemic injustice perpetrated against the harmless and peace-loving people of Biafra by the Nigerian State in collaboration with the colonial powers.
The group said this in a statement by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
The statement said, “The struggle for Biafra liberation is a fight against endemic injustice perpetrated against the harmless and peace-loving people of Biafra by the Nigeria State in collaboration with colonial powers yet to forgive Biafra for championing the Nigerian independence in 1960. Because of the prominent roles of Biafrans who championed the Nigerian independence struggles.
“So, IPOB has been in the forefront of this struggle for the liberation of our people and we must achieve it by the grace of God Almighty Chukwu Okike Abiama who is in Heaven. Our aim is to end the marginalisation and humiliation of our people; to restore their human dignity and hope and to give them a country where they can live in peace and fulfil destiny.
“We thank you for recognizing that there was a massacre of the people of the East in 1966 which Nigeria has been covering up by removing history from the Nigeria academic curriculum of primary and secondary schools since 1973. This crafty manipulation is simply because they don’t want the world to know the evil they committed against the innocent citizens of Biafra.
IPOB remains a peaceful movement seeking freedom for the oppressed people of Biafra and those who don’t know what we are doing are busy blackmailing us. But the fact is that the movement for the emancipation of Biafra is beyond any single individual including our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It’s now a global movement that cannot be stopped by any man born of a woman. It’s a divine project that must be completed” the group noted.