Ipob challenges Governor Uzodinma to bring back 500 Imo youths detained in Abuja

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has challenged Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State to facilitate the return of 500 youths arrested in by security services across the state and taken to Abuja.

According to Ipob, many of the arrested youths were nabbed for doing nothing other than being supporters of the Biafran cause. Apparently, they were sent to Abuja following their arrest, where they are now languishing in detention centres.

Ipob spokesman Emma Powerful, said Governor Uzodinma should urgently facilitate the return of these youths before the association loses its patience. He lamented the fact that Governor Uzodinma invited security agents to arrest about 500 Biafra youths about one year ago and their whereabouts remained unknown.

Me Powerful said: “This is also one year that Hope Uzodinma and his APC party invited the military to kill innocent citizens in Imo State and they arrested and abducted many people who they ferried to Abuja. We are also yet to see them.

“They abducted over 500 Biafra youths in Imo State since last year, and we want those youths back for prosecution if they think they committed any crime. We gathered through intelligence that those youths were actually being brought back from Abuja to Imo State but unfortunately Nigeria security agents who were escorting them executed them along the way of Abaji and Lokoja in Kogi State.

“We are about to exhaust our patience. Hope Uzodinma should please return those youths before we lose our patience.

“Hope Uzodinma should be held responsible if anything untoward happens to our comrades. He should not expect to conduct his daughter’s traditional wedding in Abuja while the Igbo youths he aided their abduction were executed by security agents. The spirit of those youths won’t allow him go on cerebration spree after making many innocent families childless.”