The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has rejected the Nigerian government’s plan to establish an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) rehabilitation and skills acquisition centres in Ehime Mbano, Ohaji Egbema and Owerri North Local Government Areas of Imo State.
IPOB which made this known on Monday in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, accused the Nigerian government of plans to dispossess people of the communities of their ancestral lands and heritage, saying “it will not work.”
Powerful said, “They have tried all forms of land grabbing techniques with different names such as RUGA, and these all failed. Now they want to import so-called displaced persons from Northern Nigeria, a distance of thousands of kilometres away from their locality and homeland into Imo State.
“These people never set up skills acquisition programs for the millions of jobless youths in our land but consider bringing in Boko Haram foot soldiers into South-East in the name of skills acquisition for internally displaced persons.”
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According to him, “The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra wants to inform the Nigerian government and Hope Uzodinma that we are aware of the real intention of this so-called IDP rehabilitation centre in Imo State.”
Powerful , who vowed that people of the South-East “will not allow such a wicked infiltration act to go on in Alaigbo,” said “The United Nations is fully aware of the persecution, subjugation, and intimidation Ndigbo are facing in the hands of the rest of Nigeria and their government.”
He said “The UN knows that Nigeria has not established or encouraged any infrastructural or industrial development in Alaigbo except prisons and military installations.”
According to him, there is no Federal Government presence in the South-East, “So, we cannot allow this IDPs training camp for training of Fulani repented Boko Haram terrorists to stand in our territory especially the one proposed in Ehime Mbano LGA, Ohaji Egbema LGA and Owerri North in Imo State.
“The United Nations never established any project in Igbo land, but now they agree to bring an IDP camp to Imo State. We are making it precisely clear that it will not be accepted nor will it work.
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Meanwhile, that location was set Ablaze by unknown people…
see what aggrieved persons are say :
TERRORlSTS are banned from alaigbo forever.‼️
IDP in southeast including Imo State is rejected completely… their agenda is clear and must be stopped by force.
They initially tried graving reserve, then cattle colony and now it is IDP.
One state in the north is bigger than the whole 5 states in Igbo land and should hold anything IDP.
You can as well pick another state in the south west like Kwara state but nowhere in Igbo land welcomes FULANl CRlMINAL TERRORlSTS at all.
TERRORlSTS are banned from alaigbo forever.
Confusion everywhere…….