Politics
Updated: April 12, 2021

IPOB: Pro-Biafra Group Attacks Dambazau For Comparing Igbo Secessionist Movement, OPC, To Boko Haram

By Ridwan Yusuf
April 12, 2021
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The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has slammed Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, a former chief of army staff, for comparing the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), O’odua People’s Congress (OPC) and cohorts, with confirmed terrorist group, Boko Haram.

MASSOB described as unguided and reckless the utterances of the retired army general, maintaining that such comments were also debasing and unprofessional.

It alleged that it was Dambazau’s kinsmen that were terrorising Nigeria.

Speaking last Friday at the inauguration of Army War College Nigeria Course 5/2021 in Abuja, Dambazau had said both IPOB and OPC are exhibiting features similar to that of Boko Haram when the insurgent group started out in 2009.

He added that all three groups operate on the platform of extremism alongside secessionist threats.

But MASSOB in statement on Sunday by its National Director of Information, Edeson Samuel, said for Dambazau to compare an internationally accredited terrorist group with self-determination organisations without condemning the atrocities of criminal Fulani herdsmen across the country depicted conspiracy and Jihadist agenda in the South.

The statement partly read, “It is a well known fact that IPOB, OPC, MASSOB and other self-determination groups in Nigeria are engaged in a legitimate self-determination struggle for our people’s liberation from the series of slavery the British yoked us with the Hausa Fulani-dominated Nigeria Enterprise with their Islamic and Sharia hostages.

“How can a man who has served in the military as Army General suddenly become myopic and exhibit loss of his sense of reasoning by comparing IPOB, OPC to Islamic terrorist Boko Haram?

“The Fulani from Sudan, Mali, Niger and Libya are now residents in Nigeria. They are in our rural villages as shoe menders, water well diggers, okada riders and tailors waiting to execute their plans of overtaking the Southern and Middle Belt regions.

“The coordinated synergy of all pro-independence agitators in Biafra, Oduduwa and Middle Belt lands will always resist the Fulani domination.”