How we forced FG, Fashola to sit up – IPOB

- The Indigenous People of Biafra has claimed responsibility for ongoing construction projects in the South-East region of Nigeria

- The group said its agitation for Biafra has forced the minister of power, works and housing to begin construction on South-East roads

- The IPOB also listed two other benefits of its agitation

The IPOB has said that it forced the minister of power works and housing Babatunde Fashola to sit up

The Indigenous People of Biafra has claimed responsibility for ongoing construction projects in the South-East region of Nigeria.

The group said it forced the minister of power, works and housing Babatunde Fashola to commence work on the abandoned road projects in the region.

IPOB’s spokesperson Emma Nmezu and Clifford Iroanya said: “Recently, Mr. Raji Fashola has been running amok with half-hearted road rehabilitation measures in Biafraland, in a bid to counter the progress of IPOB towards the total and irreversible liberation of Biafra from the British-supervised internal colonization of Biafraland by the Hausa-Fulani Islamic jihadists.”

The duo said Biafra and South-East people will not be carried away by the activities of the federal government.

They said the group will not be deceived by an form of ‘cosmetic’ infrastructural development that might be carried out by the Nigerian government in the region.

“But Biafrans have already been educated and know that there shall be proper not cosmetic infrastructural development in the areas of (roads, hospitals, IT, airports, seaports, schools, industries, etc.) in a sovereign nation of Biafra where the Presidency will not be determined by zoning and where nobody will be treated as a minority.

“We have a 75 year infrastructural development plan that will even outlast this present generation of freedom fighters. At IPOB our preoccupation is the well-being of our children yet unborn and posterity.

"We shall not build roads for the benefit of winning the next election but for the collective advancement of every soul within the society,” the IPOB said in its statement.

The group also claimed that within four years of its existence, political stalwart and party chieftains have started calling for the emergence of an Igbo president for Nigeria.

IPOB said: “It is on record that within four years of its existence, IPOB has taken the Biafra restoration quest to a crescendo unprecedented in the history of modern freedom-fighting in general and particularly for the exit of Biafra from the British-created contraption called Nigeria.”

“We IPOB led by Nnamdi Kanu can assuredly confirm that our relentless efforts have resulted in the laughable-panicky call for an Igbo Presidency as a means to assuage our unquenchable quest for the exit of Biafra from Nigeria,” the group added.

Nnezu further said that the much adopted slogan ‘restructuring’ is a s a result of the irreversible resolve of the members of the group to leave Nigeria.

“Without the impact of the truth preached by Nnamdi Kanu and activities of IPOB nobody would have had the confidence to advocate “RESTRUCTURING” in the first place. Even in the presence of the blood-thirsty dictator Muhammadu Buhari, we IPOB gave our lives and mortgaged our freedoms which had the effect of clearing the way for individuals and groups to publicly protest and rally for causes they cherish,” Nmezu said.

“Before the coming of IPOB, individuals and groups were afraid to publicly criticize Buhari or mention the word “BIAFRA“ before strangers outside the comfort of their homes but this is no longer the case,” he said.