IPOB Press Release
June 04 2025 | IPOB
The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of our indomitable leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has once again been drawn to yet another round of baseless, concocted propaganda reports circulating in compromised Nigerian media platforms, particularly The Guardian and PRNigeria, falsely linking IPOB and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) to criminal activities and so-called “arms smuggling” in Anambra State.
Let it be clearly and unequivocally stated: IPOB and ESN have absolutely no involvement in any of the fabricated incidents or false narratives being paraded by these government-aligned propaganda outlets. This is another coordinated media onslaught sponsored by the Nigerian State with the intent to demonize IPOB, criminalize our legitimate struggle, and influence judicial outcomes in the ongoing case of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
What we are witnessing is the descent of Nigerian journalism into an abyss of mediocrity, deceit, and professional suicide. Instead of upholding the sacred duty of truth-telling, journalists in Nigeria have become embedded propagandists, acting as mouthpieces of a genocidal regime. They regurgitate security agency press statements without the faintest attempt at independent verification.
None of them has ever visited Biafraland to understand the truth on the ground. None has ever investigated the root causes of the crisis in the East. None has even dared to question the illegal abduction, extraordinary rendition, and unlawful detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
What sort of journalism operates in blind obedience to tyranny? What kind of “news reporting” thrives on attribution without evidence? These journalists now serve as ideological enforcers of a collapsing colonial enterprise, eager to fabricate lies to sustain the fiction of national unity and suppress Biafra’s legitimate self-determination movement.
Every crime in the South-East, from petty theft to sabotage and now arms dealing, is lazily attributed to IPOB or ESN — a tired and dangerous script written by DSS operatives and repeated verbatim by docile editors looking for crumbs from their political masters. The Nigerian media has refused to investigate the activities of state-sponsored militias, failed to ask hard questions about the daily massacre of our people, and deliberately shields the crimes of the Nigerian security agencies under the veil of “national interest.”
This is not journalism. This is information terrorism.
Let the world take note: IPOB is a peaceful movement. ESN was established solely to protect our land from Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen, not to engage in arms trafficking or criminality. We do not operate in the shadows like the Nigerian state. We speak openly and act in the light. Our philosophy is rooted in truth, justice, and the right to self-determination as enshrined in international law.
To those journalists and media houses who have chosen to make themselves enemies of truth and tools of oppression, know this: history will remember you. You are not neutral. You are complicit. Your silence in the face of tyranny, and worse, your active participation in defaming a freedom movement, will haunt you when the tide inevitably turns.
We call on the international media, civil society, and lovers of freedom worldwide to expose the lies, challenge the narratives, and hold the Nigerian State accountable for the repression it wages under the cloak of “national security.”
IPOB will not be silenced. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will not be broken. Biafra shall be free.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: IPOB
