Press Release
THE RETIRING & TIRED IGP SOLOMON ARASE AND HIS UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB)
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 to the Anambra state Police Commissioner
23rd May 2016
The Commissioner
of Police
Anambra state Police command
Command Headquarters Awka
Anambra State
23rd May 2016
May 30th Biafran Heroes and Heroines Remembrance Day
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
Head Directorate of State
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