Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has blamed governors of the South East region and other Igbo groups for the murder of a Catholic priest.
Rev Fr. Paul Offu, who was the parish priest of St. James the Greater Parish, Ugbawka, Enugu, was killed late Thursday by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.
In a statement on Friday by IPOB’s spokesperson, Emma Powerful, Kanu said such death would have been prevented if South East governors had allowed the establishment of Biafra Secret Services (BSS) in the region.
“Had Ohaneze Ndigbo, Igbo governors and their cohorts supported IPOB in the formation and deployment of BSS, this senseless loss of the life at the hands of marauding primitive Fulani savages from the far north would have been prevented,” he said.
Kanu charged the people of the region to hold South East governors responsible for the killing.
“The family of Rev. Fr. Paul Offu and all besieged communities in Enugu and Ebonyi must hold Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Dave Umahi, Nnia Nwodo, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Aka Ikenga, Nzuko Umunna, South East Governors’ Forum and other mushroom Lagos-Abuja based Igbo/Fulani socio-cultural associations responsible for these preventable deaths in our land.
“They are the people that conspired and supervised Operation Python Dance 2 that killed, detained and disappeared many IPOB in the calculated effort of Caliphate to neutralise the credible threat IPOB posed for their invading Fulani terror herdsmen,” he said.
