IPOB DID NOT KILL ANGLICAN PRIEST – EMMA POWERFUL

In a release from IPOB spokesman Comrade Emma Powerful, the group insists that killings and violence is not part of their agenda and that it was the Nigerian security agencies that killed the anglican priest in imo state in an attempt to demonize the separatist group, he also announced that the sit at home has been suspended till further notice.

PRESS RELEASE…….

Anglican priest killing: Hoodlums sponsored by security agencies committing crimes to demonise us. — IPOB

• Says killing not part of its mandate
• Sit-at-home suspended till further notice, Powerful insists.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has condemned the killing of an Anglican priest in Ihitteukwa in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo, describing it as a “sponsored attack created by security agencies to demonise” its reputation.

Vanguard reports the enforcers of the sit-at-home order issued by the IPOB, on Tuesday, 14 September, allegedly killed an Anglican Priest, whose name was given as Reverend Emeka Merenu, of St Andrew Personage.

Reacting, the Media and Publicity Secretary for IPOB, Emma Powerful in a statement signed Thursday, debunked the news, saying “anyone pointing accusing fingers at IPOB for such dastardly act is only doing so to demonise IPOB”.

According to him, “we (IPOB) don’t Kill, let alone a priest; is not part of our mandate. It makes no sense to associate IPOB which is a peaceful movement with such carnivorous behaviour. It will be unfair for people to finger IPOB for crimes commited by hoodlums most times sponsored by security agencies and enemies to portray us in the bad light.”

He added: “IPOB as a responsible organisation has respect for the sanctity of human lives. We have no hands whatsoever in such killing.”

He, however urged IPOB members to stop observing the sit-at-home on Mondays and Fridays until Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB leader appears in court for trial.

“We have since suspended Monday sit-at-home on modadys and no other sit at home order on Friday but some miscreants living in Europe claiming what they are not sponsored by overzealous politicians to destroy Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are working with the security agencies to ensure that they succeed torturing innocent Biafrans in the name of enforcing a non-existent sit-at-home.
We have set up a taskforce to deal with such hooligans. My fellow Biafrans there is no crack in IPOB and there is no sit-at-home order again this week until the day our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will appear in court.”