IPOB Alleges Illegal Detention, Torture Of Biafran Agitators At Secret Centres
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Friday, alleged that there are secret detention facilities where many Biafran agitators were clamped by Nigerian security forces.
The pro-Biafra sovereignty group further alleged that the detainees were being subjected to inhuman abuses, including torture, organ trafficking, and forced disappearances.
IPOB’s position was contained in a release by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Mr Emma Powerful.
Powerful stated that, “These facilities are notorious for the maltreatment of innocent people, with many subjected to extreme torture. The detainees are often falsely accused of being members of IPOB or its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN).”
IPOB listed the facilities to include Wawa Military Base, Kainji Dam detention centre, Niger State barracks and prison, DSS headquarters, Abuja; Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Abattoir, Abuja; Tiger Base Police detention, Owerri; Goodluck Jonathan’s Army Barracks, Ohafia, Abia State; Zone 9, Umuahia; Abia State detention centre, Zone 13 Ukpo, Anambra State; and Onitsha Army Barracks, Anambra State.
Others include Navy Base, Ogbaru, Anambra State; SARS Awkuzu, Ukpo, Anambra State; 82 Division, Enugu; Military Barracks, Enugu; Obinze Army Barracks, Owerri, Imo State; Central Police Station headquarters, Umuahia, Abia State; State CID headquarters, Awka, Anambra State; Naval Base Asaba, Delta State; Enugu Maximum Prison, Port Harcourt Maximum Prison, Aba Prison, Abakaliki Prisons, Kuje Prisons, Abuja; Keffi Prison; Suleja Prison, Niger State and Nigeria Military Intelligence Detention Facility, Abuja.
Powerful alleged that, “Ndigbo are the highest ethnic group being detained with accusations of being either members of IPOB or ESN; or framed as kidnappers.”
IPOB informed those whose relatives are missing to check these detention centres, adding that, “These illegal detention facilities are places to search for your missing relative; if they haven’t been tortured to death or butchered.”
IPOB was formed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to champion the excision of the South-East Region from Nigeria’s federal structure.
