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The Indigenous People of Biafra, has debunked claim, saying that the group is intending to force Igbo people out from the Nigerian Army and other security agencies.<\/p>\n

IPOB on Wednesday, also denied the Nigeria\u2019s millitary\u2019s allegations that its members abducted and assaulted a soldier sent to the South-East to spy on the Biafra movement.<\/p>\n

INFORMATION NIGERIA learnt that the Director of Army Public Relations, Maj. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, claimed in a press statement over the weekend that Simon Ekpa, a self-proclaimed leader of IPOB, circulated a video showing the torture of retired Corporal Toriola Adewale.<\/p>\n

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Reacting to the development in a statement released to the public on Wednesday, IPOB\u2019s spokesman, Emma Powerful, described Army\u2019s claims as propaganda and a self-staged crime by the military\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

According to him, Biafra\u2019s Directorate of State, distanced itself from Simon Ekpa, but the Nigerian Army continues to link IPOB with Ekpa to tarnish the group\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe Directorate of State of IPOB wishes to debunk the Nigerian Army\u2019s concocted propaganda that peaceful and unarmed IPOB activists abducted a Nigerian soldier sent to Biafra land to spy on the Biafra movement and forced him to call for the resignation of Biafran soldiers in the Nigerian Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe propaganda from the Nigerian Army spokesperson claiming that IPOB captured a spying Nigerian soldier and forced him to deliver a message to Biafran soldiers to resign is a self-staged crime by the Nigerian Army\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough IPOB has called for Biafrans serving in Nigerian security agencies to resign, IPOB has never and will never force our brothers and sisters in the Nigerian security agencies to resign under duress.<\/p>\n

\u201cIPOB can only appeal to the conscience of Biafrans but will never impose anything on anyone at gunpoint.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Biafra Nation IPOB is championing, which is a nation where rights are guaranteed and respected, guides our people through reasoning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe so-called video of an abducted spying soldier is another false flag operation by the Nigerian Army and their provocateurs to continue their murderous onslaught against Ndigbo.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Police Raid IPOB Camp, Nab Four Suspects In Anambra<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nigerian Army has reduced itself to mere social media gossip.<\/p>\n

\u201cIPOB did not abduct any Nigerian soldier. The Army spokesperson should stop linking IPOB to their criminal agents in their efforts to destabilize the South-East.<\/p>\n

\u201cIPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have no relationship with the so-called Biafra Liberation Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese institutions also understand that IPOB is non-violent and that IPOB members are persecuted by the corrupt Nigerian government and its murderous security agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nigerian government and its security agencies should stop blackmailing IPOB. Our non-violent approach should not be mistaken for weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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