IPOB accuses military of secret abduction, torture of members

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has accused the Nigerian military of secretly abducting, detaining and detaining many of its members in secret cells in Abuja, Kaduna and other parts of the country.

IPOB raised the alarm in a statement issued by Emma Powerful, its Media and Publicity Secretary, where he seemed to pass a message to Ndigbos looking for their missing family members to check various detention facilities run by the military especially in Kaduna, Abuja.

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Other places listed by the group are Obinze-Owerri, Bori Camp in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, 82 Division Enugu, and the Nigerian Army barracks in Afikpo, Ebonyi State.

Part of the statement reads:

“The attention of global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has been drawn to the incessant abductions of innocent Biafran youths by the Nigeria security agencies.

“These innocent Biafran youths are taken to the Department of State Services, DSS, dungeons and Army barracks particularly the dreaded Abacha Barracks in Abuja, where they are dehumanized and tortured in secret cells.

“Currently, over 100 innocent Biafran youths are being detained incommunicado at the DSS Headquarters in Abuja; over 400 others have been detained at the Abacha Barracks, Abuja, cell since this year.

“Intelligence report gathered by IPOB intelligence unit and reliable sources indicate that some wicked DSS agents and Army personnel are killing some of the youths.

“These people are currently detained since February this year after they were arrested in Imo State and taken to Abacha Barracks by Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Unit of the Nigerian Police, where they are kept with many others.

“IPOB is therefore, calling on all Biafrans who are looking for their brothers and sisters, to go to DSS Headquarters, Abuja, and the notorious Abacha Army Barracks, Abuja, to check if they are still alive or dead.

“Seven persons have been slaughtered in the past two weeks according to intelligence report available to us. We are also alerting the world about the atrocities going on in Nigeria against the people of Biafra.

“We call on the United Nations, Amnesty International, and the global community to prevail on Nigeria to send all these innocent Biafran youths languishing in various secret cells to court for trial instead of subjecting them to extra-judicial killings.”