The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB) has made a shocking revelation, alleging that Nigerian security forces have been detaining and holding Biafra activists in secret detention centres across the country.
The group claims that these facilities are notorious for human rights abuses, torture, organ racketeering, and forceful disappearances.
In a statement released on Thursday by IPoB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, the group listed several secret detention centres where Biafra activists are being held.
These include Wawa Military Base, Kanji Dam detention centre, Niger State barrack and prison, DSS headquarters in Abuja, and several others.
“We wish to alert the public about these secret detention facilities due to the horrible human rights abuses, maltreatment of innocent people, torture, organ racketeering, and forceful disappearances happening at these centres,” Powerful said.
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According to IPoB, Ndigbo are the highest ethnic group being detained, with many being accused of being members of IPoB or the Eastern Security Network (ESN), or framed as kidnappers by Nigerian security agencies.
“Ndigbo have been profiled because of their ethnicity by the Nigerian government and hunted and detained across all the illegal detention centres in Nigeria,” Powerful said.
“Not only the innocent Igbo are detained in these illegal detention facilities, but also innocent people from other ethnic groups are locked up in these gulags.”
The group urged people whose relatives are missing to search for them at these secret detention centres, warning that many have been tortured to death or butchered for organ harvesting.
“Until today, some of the IPOB members that the Nigerian Army and Police abducted during President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally in 2016 at Port Harcourt (Igweocha) Rivers State are still missing,” Powerful said. “IPOB is still searching for those men and women who were abducted during the peaceful rally, more than 8 years on.”
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