The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have called for the immediate and unconditional release of its media Head, Emmanuel Bassey Ekomiba, from detention in Akwa Ibom State, South-South Nigeria, Afriupdate reports.
The outlawed group as well asked security agents to release Ekomiba’s colleague, one Victor Sunday Okoro, from detention.
According to IPOB, the duo were arrested in Akwa Ibom State ‘during evangelism’ on September 30, 2020.
A recent statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said there was no justification for their arrests as they were not terrorists and had not committed any crime to warrant any arrest.
![[FILES] IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu in court](https://www.afriupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Nnamdi-Kanu-in-Court.jpg "IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu fails to regain freedom at Supreme Court 1")
The statement reads: “We want to put the world on notice of the abduction of Mazi Emmanuel Bassey Ekomiba, the Media Head of IPOB in Akwa Ibom State; and his colleague, Mazi Victor Sunday Okoro, who were abducted in Akwa Ibom State during the evangelism on September 30, 2020.
“We demand their immediate release because they are not terrorists nor did they commit anything to warrant any arrest.
“We equally demand the unconditional release of all Biafra agitators picked by security agents. We want the Army that besieged the home of our leader at Isiama Afaraukwu on the October 1, 2020, to stop harassing residents of the area because they are not terrorists.
“Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Yusuf Buratai should send his soldiers to Sambisa Forest, Baga in Borno State and other Northern communities taken over by terrorists.
“IPOB is a peaceful movement committed to peaceful restoration of Biafra.
“Biafra is a divine project designed by the Most High God in Heaven, and there is nothing anybody can do to change our resolve to actualise Biafra independence.”
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Controversial IPOB is canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria.
The group was founded in 2012 by Nnamdi Kanu, a British Nigerian political activist known for his prominent advocacy of the contemporary Biafran independence movement aims to restore an independent state of Biafra in the former Eastern Region of Nigeria through an independence referendum.
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