IPOB Denies Claims of Abducting Spy Soldier

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied abducting a retired solider who was sent to the region on a spy mission.

In a statement released by the IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, on Wednesday, he described the allegations as an army propaganda.

Earlier, on Sunday, the Director of Army Public Relations, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, released a press statement where he accused the self-proclaimed leader of IPOB, Simon Ekpa, of circulating the video which showed the torture of one retired soldier, Corporal Toriola Adewale.

While attributing responsibility of the crime on IPOB, the army condenmed the act.

IPOB have now reacted, insisting that the said video was not released by the group and is the handwork of the Nigerian Army hierarchy.

Powerful noted that IPOB has since disassociated itself from the activities of Simon Ekpa in faraway Finland.

“The Directorate of State of IPOB wishes to debunk the Nigerian Army’s concocted propaganda that the peaceful and unarmed IPOB activists abducted a Nigeria soldier sent to Biafra land to spy on the Biafra movement and forced him to call for the resignation of Biafran soldiers in the Nigerian Army.

“The propaganda from the Nigerian Army spokesperson claiming that IPOB captured a spying Nigerian soldier and forced him to deliver a message to the Biafran soldiers serving in the Nigerian Army to resign is a self-staged crime by the Nigerian Army’s leadership.

“Though IPOB has called for Biafrans serving in the Nigerian security agencies to resign, IPOB has never forced and will never force our brothers and sisters in the Nigerian security agencies to resign their positions.

“The so-called video of an abducted spying soldier captured and forced to call for the resignation of Biafran soldiers from the Nigerian Army is another false flag operation by the Nigerian Army and their agent provocateurs to continue their murderous onslaught against Ndigbo. The Nigerian Army has reduced itself to a mare social media gossip.

“IPOB did not abduct any Nigerian soldier. The army spokesman should stop linking IPOB to their criminal agents in their efforts to destabilise the South-East. IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have no relationship with the so-called Biafra Liberation Army,” the statement read.