IPOB CLAIMS NIGER DELTA AVENGERS ARE FIGHTING FOR BIAFRA FREEDOM

Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, have stated that they support their fellow freedom fighters, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, describing them as their greatest allies.

While expressing their unflinching support for the Avengers, who they said were fighting for the freedom of the people of Biafra,‎ they noted, “We want to place it on record that IPOB under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has no connection with those groups who are criticizing the avengers, a group that is calling for the release of Kanu, the detained IPOB leader”.

In a statement jointly signed by their Spokesmen, Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya and made available yesterday, the group warned that should the Nigerian government send its troops to the oil-rich Niger Delta land to fight the Avengers again, as intelligence report was suggesting, it would direct its members to join hands with the Avengers and engage the troops head-on.

IPOB said it was making a reference to a particular group and their leader, who they alleged had been bribed with oil blocks allocations in the oil-rich areas of Biafraland.

The IPOB further accused the said compromised group of having started the ugly incidence of kidnapping in Biafraland, adding that their members were often used as thugs and hired killers for politicians in Nigeria.

The group recalled that the Avengers had consistently made the release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu as a precondition for any discussion with Nigeria.