The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned its members that they have no business or interest in the pipeline security guards offer allegedly being dangled by the federal government to youths in the Southeast geo-political zone of the country.
It described the gesture as deceptive and dehumanizing which is coming from an oppressor.
IPOB director of Media and Publicity Secretary Comrade Emma Powerful in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday reminded all the members including its militia outfit, Eastern Security Network (ESN) that guarding pipelines is not part of the aims and objectives of IPOB.
He said, “It has become imperative to make the position of IPOB leadership very clear on this matter and to at the same time sound a note of warning to all IPOB family members as well as ESN operatives that guarding the crude oil pipeline which the Nigerian government uses to steal our natural resources for Nigeria our oppressor is not and will never be part of IPOB’s core aims and objectives.”
The group cautioned that “Every IPOB member and ESN operative must advise him/herself properly because any such involvement in this shameful and debilitating act amounts to automatic expulsion from the IPOB worldwide family.”
According to the body, “This statement goes to every IPOB family member, friends of Biafra freedom Take cognizance that no IPOB member is allowed to get him/herself entangled or involved in the deceptive and dehumanizing issue of pipeline security being dangled by the oppressor before our people present in our land.”
IPOB insisted that “If you are a true hardcore and dedicated follower of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB worldwide family, do not allow yourself to be associated or entangled with the Nigerian government’s trap in the form of a pipeline security guard.”
“IPOB is a freedom fighting movement and we have no business working as a security guard to our oppressor so that they may continue to suck our natural resources dry to the detriment of our children and generations yet unborn.”
The body stated that “Those gifts from the Almighty creator belong to us and we will take over and make it beneficial to our people in due time. Those who deemed it necessary to guard the infrastructure the oppressor used to steal from their land and use the proceeds to develop their land to the detriment of the land and people where the resources are found are at liberty to continue in their folly but must leave IPOB out of it.”
“We are the Indigenous People of Biafra and the natural resources found in our land belong to us, our Children and our unborn generations.
Every IPOB member or ESN operative should distance him/herself from the ongoing pipeline security recruitment process,” the group said.
