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| Arase, the outgoing IGP |
On May 31 2016, Mr. Solomon Ehigiator Arase (Police
Service Number: AP16474 and born on June 21, 1956), who will retire from the
Nigeria Police on the 21st of June 2016, made unfounded allegations against the
peace-loving and law-abiding Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership
of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
According to the Vanguard Newspaper of May 31, 2016
and credited to this man from Edo state who allegedly have two Masters Degrees
including one in Law: “Following the manifestation of the disposition of the
armed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) activists to undertake premeditated
attacks on Police officers engage in operations aimed at restoring public order
in States in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zone of the country,
the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase, fdc, NPM has directed
the Assistant Inspectors General of Police and the Commissioners of Police in
the affected area to disarm members of the group operating firearms
immediately.“
First, it is appalling that someone with this level
of education cannot differentiate between “Indigenous“ and “Independent“ or can
he attribute this stupid error to the printer’s devil? It is laughable that this
retiring “quota system-based“ IGP is alleging that IPOB members were armed and
that we undertook premeditated attacks on Police Officers. I hope Mr. Solomon
Arase is aware that there is a case of genocide already hanging on his head at
the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague—Netherlands and it will
worsen his case with this spewing of lies against IPOB. How can the Police
disarm people who are not armed in the first place? By the way, did the police
disarm Buhari’s killer squads who go by the name Fulani Herdsmen? How come you
never issued any press statement when Buhari’s armed gang called Fulani
Herdsmen massacred thousands of Biafrans in Agatu, Nimbo, Aba, and other areas
in Biafraland?
This murderous and worst-performing IGP went further
to state that: “the targeted attacks on Police personnel, who have been
performing their statutory functions in the most professional and civil manner
since the latest resurgence disorder, portrays the IPOB activists who are
orchestrating the insurrection as having crossed the threshold in their
misguided attempt to test the common will of the nation.“
Can this decrepit and tired IGP provide any proof
that Biafrans attacked police personnel and at what point in time did this
so-called “resurgence disorder“ come into existence? Does this supposedly
educated man know the meaning of insurrection or is he throwing out words to
see which of them may stick on IPOB? Probably he is trying to make the job
easier for Buhari’s Department of State Services (DSS) who have been hopelessly
looking for the “smokine gun“ with which they will convince the trial Judge,
Hon John Tsoho, that IPOB is a violent organization so that the Judge will
uphold charge #2 in the case against the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
This grossly incompetent and ICC prison-bound IGP
also stated thus: “IGP Arase, while condemning the killing by members of IPOB,
also directed the arrest of any member of the group found in possession of
firearm and bring him/her to deserved justice, while all IPOB activists
arrested in connection with the killing of the Policemen should be charged to
court for murder.“
How many of
Buhari’s Fulani Herdsmen who massacred men, women, and children in Biafraland
have the police arrested? So are you always blind to the fact that the
so-called Fulani herdsmen are moving freely with AK-47 assault rifles? Why are
you not arresting them or are they a special breed of Nigerians who are above
the law? Why are you turning around this case of murder against your policemen
to make it look like it was the unarmed Biafrans that were doing the killings?
Are you making this press statement to cover your tracks and that of Col. Issah
Abdullahi? It will interest Mr. Solomon Arase to know that the Head of
Directorate of State of IPOB discussed the upcoming May 30th Heroes‘
Remembrance Day with the Commissioner of Police (CP) in Anambra, Hosea Karma,
and then followed it up with a letter which is attached to this press release.
It is a shame that Solomon Arase is displaying crass incompetence and ignorance
by lying through his teeth with concoctions that IPOB members were armed and
that they attacked Nigerian policemen. Perhaps he would have saved himself this
embarrassment by conducting thorough investigation and checking with the CP in
Anambra state. Now the entire world has seen through his lies and he is
complicating and deepening his indictment, conviction, and sentencing at the
ICC with these latest lies from the pit of hell.
Mr. Solomon Ehigiator Arase, you are aware of the
menace of Boko Haram, the serial killings of Biafrans by Buhari’s killer squad
known as Fulani Herdsmen, and the extra-judicial killings of Biafrans by
Nigerian security outfits, yet you have failed to issue a single press
statement on them. But you shamefully issued tissues of lies which you called
press statement even after your policemen and Nigerian soldiers killed unarmed
Biafrans some of them in their sleep inside a church as they prepare to
remember their fallen heroes and some of these fallen heroes were similarly
killed by Buhari in 1968 at Owerri.
Mr. Solomon Ehigiator Arase, as you retire on June
21, 2016, be it known to you that you will have no rest until you get to your
final destination which is ICC prison in The Hague. You can tell all the lies
in the world and try to manufacture evidence for your colleagues in the DSS so
that they can use it against the leader IPOB but the incontrovertible fact is
that nobody can stop the restoration of the nation of Biafra.
The restoration of the nation of Biafra is an
ideology and no human being born of a woman has ever defeated or exterminated
an ideology. For those of you who participate in the wanton killing of
Biafrans, there shall be consequences and the boundary of these consequences
are limitless and can include members of your family both immediate and
extended. No one takes a Biafran life and gets away scot-free.
Signed
Barrister Emma Nmezu Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokesperson for IPOB Spokesperson for IPOB
Letter
from IPOB Directorate of State to Anambra Police Commissioner before May 30,
2016:
Dear Sir
To the above matter referred. As a follow up to our
telephone conversation, the Indigenous People of Biafra hereby officially
inform the Commissioner of Police Anambra State that a remembrance rally for
the victims of the Biafran genocide will hold on the 30th of May 2016 in
Anambra state. The rally seeks to remember, recognize the sacrifices made and
honor those past and present that laid down their lives for the collective good
of Biafrans.
The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of
Biafra desirous of holding a hitch free May 30th Biafran Heroes Remembrance day
as was the case in Enugu State in 2014 and Abia state in 2015, is confident
that Anambra state police command will provide the enabling environment for a
peaceful May 30th 2016 Remembrance Rally.
Yours Sincerely
Mazi Uchenna Asiegbu
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