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The ongoing restiveness in the Southeast of Nigeria was solely instigated by the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has submitted.
Revealing this on BBC News Igbo, Tuesday, IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, said the concept of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) by the Indigenous People of Biafra was to protect the region’s forests and bushes against herders that have been killing the people of the region.
Powerful expressed dismay that the present restiveness was informed by the military’s attack at the base of the Eastern Security Network at Orlu, Imo State, on the orders of Gov Hope Uzodinma.
He said: “Hope Uzodinma was the first governor to invite the military to come and kill us in Orlu. Our problem with him will not be easy to resolve. Some people are using him to kill his own youths.
“Why was Uzodinma so quick to blame his political opponents for the insecurity in the state when he knew he had some scores to settle with some diehard pro-Biafra agitators? By politicizing a very sensitive issue as the security of the lives and property of the people he claims to govern, has Uzodinma not admitted his own moral unfitness to lead a decent political society?”
He asked the governor stop deceiving himself that peace has returned in Imo State, saing, “in the last five days or so, Uzodinma has begun to celebrate and congratulate himself, ascribing the ostensible cessation of hostilities in Imo to himself.”