In a statement signed by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has warned that security agents will pay a high price if anything happens to one Mazi Ofornedu Okoafor who is in their detention.
They allege that the Enugu state command and soldiers had arrested Okoroafor and his grandfather from the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) while receiving treatment for gunshots wounds they inflicted on him.
They said, “We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) condemn in the strongest possible terms the continued inhumane, illegal and immoral detention of Mazi Ofornedu Okoafor who was abducted with his grandfather at the (UNTH) Enugu where he was receiving medical treatment for bullet wounds inflicted on him by the same Nigerian Police and soldiers on the 23rd of August 2020 at Emene in Enugu State.
“Why an innocent man, grievously injured by the police, should be chained to the floor in a police cell rather than receiving treatment in a hospital defies logic and common sense. This brand of Janjaweed policing should be condemned by every right-thinking person.”
They allege that the Commissioner of Police wants Okoafor to die in custody as they claim that the victim has done nothing wrong before the law.
They went further to say, “The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State on whose order this recent abduction of Ofornedu Okoafor was made must understand the consequences of his actions. He must release Mazi Ofornedu Okoafor before it’s too late for him. The police must know that they would pay a heavy price should anything happen to Chinedu Okoafor or any of the innocent Biafrans being held illegally in their custody.”
