The proscribed Igbo separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has condemned what it described as the indiscriminate arrest of innocent Igbo youths in Abia State over the killing of soldiers in the state on May 30 by gunmen during the Biafra Day commemoration.
Five soldiers were reportedly killed at Obikabia Community by gunmen who were enforcing a sit-at-home order declared by the self-styled Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile, Simon Ekpa, and since then, there have been reports of random arrests of youths in the community.
But in a statement on Saturday issued by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, the group frowned at the arrests of the youths, saying the “continuous intimidation, illegal arrest, torture, and forceful disappearance of Igbo youths by Nigerian Army was part of an ethnic cleansing agenda against Ndigbo.”
