{"id":129361,"date":"2024-08-30T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T11:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/simon-ekpa-we-didnt-threaten-imo-workers-30-days-lockdown-ipob-to-police"},"modified":"2024-08-30T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:13:51","slug":"simon-ekpa-we-didnt-threaten-imo-workers-30-days-lockdown-ipob-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/simon-ekpa-we-didnt-threaten-imo-workers-30-days-lockdown-ipob-to-police","title":{"rendered":"Simon Ekpa: We didn\u2019t threaten Imo workers, 30 days lockdown \u2013 IPOB to police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Friday denied claims of threatening workers in Imo State or imposing a one-month lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>IPOB was reacting to reports that the Imo State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Aboki Danjuma, claimed that it issued a threat to shut down the state\u2019s workers\u2019 secretariat for one month.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Powerful, the spokesman for IPOB, challenged the Police Commissioner to provide evidence where IPOB threatened Imo State workers or imposed a one-month lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement he signed, Powerful said Finland-based Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, threatened a 30-day lockdown, not IPOB.<\/p>\n<p>According to Powerful: \u201cThe noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by the great and indomitable leader Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu, caution the Imo State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Aboki Danjuma, to stop misinforming the Imo workers that IPOB issued a threat to Imo State workers. Dear Aboki Commissioner, stop behaving like an ostrich and call the criminals that issued the threats by their names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor public records, IPOB did not issue any threat and will never issue any threat to our people. IPOB can never impose any hardship on our people by issuing a one-month lockdown. IPOB are the people, and the people are IPOB; therefore, we cannot punish ourselves. Biafrans should ignore the Aboki Commissioner, as IPOB never threatened Imo State workers or Biafran workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe challenge the Aboki Commissioner to provide evidence where IPOB threatened the Imo State workers. However, the purported threat is coming from the Nigerian government\u2019s agent in Finland. He publicly threatened Biafran workers through his social media handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe claimed he has imposed an impossible one-month lockdown and threatened to attack Nigerian security and government establishments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do the Nigerian propagandist government and its murderous security police refuse to call their double agent and his criminal gang by their names? Is it not obvious that the government and the criminal gang, led by the nincompoop in Finland, are working together? The Nigerian government and its murderous security forces are the sponsors of insecurity in the East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian government imported and sponsored terrorists that have become an epidemic in the North to make Goodluck\u2019s government ungovernable, the same way they are sponsoring and grooming criminals in the East to blackmail IPOB. We call on Ndigbo to be very sensible and careful not to allow the sponsored criminals hiding under Biafra agitation to be used to destabilize Alaigbo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly Nigerian criminal agents will threaten Ndigbo with a 30-day lockdown in this cruel economic hardship of Tinubu\u2019s government. The Nigerian government and its notorious security agencies are doing all they can to make Biafrans hate IPOB through senseless blackmail; unfortunately, no one hates himself as IPOB are the people, and the people are IPOB. The Nigerian government should deal with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we call on Ndigbo and Imo State workers to disregard the Aboki Commissioner\u2019s propaganda, we also call on Ndigbo to disregard any purported one-month lockdown from the government agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIPOB calls on Ndigbo to lynch any criminal enforcing any lockdown in Biafra land. Moreover, we call on Biafrans to contact IPOB leadership should they have any intel about the sponsored criminal enforcers so that ESN operatives will give them proper treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Friday denied claims of threatening workers in Imo State or imposing a one-month lockdown. IPOB was reacting to reports that the Imo State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Aboki Danjuma, claimed that it issued a threat to shut down the state\u2019s workers\u2019 secretariat for one month. 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