The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) on Tuesday said it was no longer safe for its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, to be attending court hearings, alleging that the Department of State Services (DSS) had hatched sinister plans to eliminate him through arranged motor accident on his way to court.
The pro-Biafra group, in a statement issued by its media and publicity officer, Comrade Emma Powerful, said it decided to raise the alarm following the findings of its intelligence unit.
“The plan was perfected by DSS and the federal government to be executed by prison authorities,” IPOB said.
According to the group, its intelligence unit had discovered that the plan to kill Kanu through fake accident was the reason the DSS alleged that IPOB was planning to snatch the director of Radio Biafra on his way to the court.
It further explained that the kidnap theory was a decoy by DSS to carry out their sinister plan to eliminate Kanu and then link it to an accident, ostensibly to hide their murderous deed.
“The IPOB world wide family is calling on the international community, amnesty international and all relevant human rights organisations to take note and caution the FG and DSS (because) if anything happened to IPOB leader we will not take it lightly,” the group said in the statement.
The pro-Biafra organisation wondered how a non-violent and harmless activists would invade a court premises swarming with well armed security agents in order to kidnap Kanu, adding that the allegation was enough indication that the DSS and its pay master “are confused” in their trumped up charge against the IPOB leader.
“MASSOB and IPOB have no such intention, plan as we know that Kanu and others committed no offence against Nigeria,” the statement said, adding that “we depend and focus on divine justice of God.”
On the decision of the federal government through the DSS to use masked witnesses to testify against Kanu, IPOB said that it was a mark of “cowardice and unsteadiness.”
