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IPOB: There’ll Never Be Biafra Again, Says Onochie

IPOB: There’ll Never Be Biafra Again, Says Onochie

Following the Imo State Attacked linked to the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Senior Special Assistant on Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie has said that there will never be the Republic of Biafra again.

Onochie stated this via her verified Twitter handle on Monday evening after the police have accused members of IPOB of being the masterminds of the jailbreak.

AllNews had earlier reported that the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Monday, accused IPOB’s ESN operatives of being the masterminds of attacks on the Imo State Police Command headquarters and the Owerri Correctional Prison, which led to the release of over 1,800 inmates and the destruction of scores of vehicles and state assets.

Reacting to the IGP claims, Onochie, who is from Southern Nigeria, tweeted a video showing the then Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, receiving the then Biafran Vice President, Major General Philip Effiong, who facilitated the surrender of the Biafran State to Nigeria in 1970.

Recall that Effiong had assumed leadership of the secessionist state after the Biafran leader, Colonel Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, fled to Ivory Coast in the heat of the civil war.

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She captioned the video posted on her Twitter page, “The very day nails were put in the coffin of Biafra. There’ll never be Biafra again."

Dissatisfaction over the Nigerian State and the quest for sovereignty had led Ojukwu to declare the exit of the Republic of Biafra from Nigeria in May 1967. The Biafran territory comprised the South-East region of Nigeria.

The declaration led to a civil war that lasted two and half years as the Nigerian State under Gowon battled to unify the soul of the country using state powers and military might.

The war ended in January 1970 with the South-East region back in Nigeria but the civil war left a ghoulish imprint on Nigerian history with squalid tales of deaths, blood, hunger, horror, sorrow and more deaths.

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However, decades later, secessionist agitations resurfaced in the South-East. The agitation, this time, is being championed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

The Buhari regime had in September 2017 outlawed IPOB and declared that the activities of the group constituted an act of terrorism and illegality.

Before then, Kanu was arrested and jailed but was later released from the Kuje Prison in Abuja after meeting bail conditions. The IPOB leader later fled the country and has been operating from overseas.

Of late, IPOB formed the Eastern Security Network but the security outfit has no backing of the governors of the South-East. It has, therefore, been at loggerheads with state-authorised security agencies like the police and the army.

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