The Indigenous People of Biafra has issued a statement explaining why its members attacked former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, Germany.
The group said the attack was due to the role Ekweremadu and others played during the Nigerian Army’s, “Operation Python Dance” exercise in the South-East.
The group alleged that Ekweremadu and others like Nnia Nwodo, David Umahi, Okezie Ikpeazu, Rochas Okorocha, Willie Obiano and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi plotted to kill the IPOB dream.
A statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on behalf of the group’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, accused the leaders from the South-East for plotting to assassinate Kanu, and kill the dream of IPOB through Operation Python Dance.
“These men mentioned above instigated, financed and defended a full-scale bloody military invasion of Biafra land they tagged Operation Python Dance that led to the torture and untimely death of over 600 Biafrans, 28 of which fell in my compound.
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“These men sanctioned the desecration of the home of an Igbo traditional ruler by Fulani soldiers and did not care if my father, HRM Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, and my mother, who were home with me during the unprovoked invasion, were killed or not. All that these desperate Igbo politicians ever wanted was my death, the death of IPOB, the death of our dream of freedom for all.
“In view of the Nuremberg encounter, it has become necessary for us to refresh our memory lest it succumbs to confusion and deliberate misinformation because most people, unlike IPOB, are in the habit of excusing intolerable evil and wickedness.
“Every perpetrator of evil, every purveyor of iniquity, every merchant of misery and every defender of injustice must and will be held to account. We will on relent until justice is served,” IPOB said.
