WRITTEN BY Obinna Akukwe
Those planning to declare Biafra after launching attacks at the Lokpanta Hausa Settlement along Enugu-PH Expressway, the manner the Abia Cattle Market was attacked lst week, are members of the splinter groups from IPOB who believe that the DOS have sold out after collecting billions of naira from the Buhari’s secret police. We dissuaded an earlier planned attack on the said settlement, immediately after the botched arraignment of Nnamdi Kanu of November 2021 where Barrister Ejiofor and his group staged an unprofessional walk-out, which sentenced the IPOB leader to Yuletide in detention.
We have explained to the dissident commanders that the counsels to Kanu were not shut out of court premises, as propagated, but were a result of poor judicial representation, and that attacking any northern settlement will do Igbos no good. I have always posited that IPOB field commanders whom myself and other Igbo Veteran activists have been discussing with since the Endsars period, are reasonable, and whenever they see superior arguments, they bow down. Thus we have helped in taming activities of Unknown Gunmen in the South East, de-radicalized lots of IPOB members, and resettled a few.