IPOB DOS: The Authentic Face Of Biafra To The Watching World

  IPOB DOS: The Authentic Face Of Biafra To The Watching World

The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (DOS) remains one of the most strategic innovations introduced by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his visionary leadership. He understood from the very beginning that no genuine liberation movement could thrive on the charisma of an individual alone. For Biafra to be taken seriously as a nation-in-waiting, it needed an institutional face; a structure through which the world could relate, engage, and recognize the seriousness of her people’s aspiration. That institutional face is the DOS.

The DOS is not a random committee but a carefully constituted body made up of hardcore IPOB members from different continents of the world. These are men and women proven in their loyalty, sacrifice, and discipline, chosen to reflect the global reach of IPOB and to anchor its affairs beyond one man’s physical presence. By bringing together this cross-continental body, Nnamdi Kanu insulated the movement from the vulnerabilities of targeting individuals. Even in his absence, the cause of Biafra stands firm, unshaken.

The importance of the DOS cannot be overstated. In the international community, governments and institutions prefer to deal with structured bodies rather than individuals. Nations relate with institutions, not personalities. Nnamdi Kanu knew this, and that is why he established the DOS, so that IPOB would always present itself to the world as a credible, organized, and institutional movement. The DOS speaks for Biafra, organizes for Biafra, and coordinates the global family of IPOB with the precision of an emerging nation.

This strength of structure is exactly why Biafra’s enemies tremble at the mention of the DOS. It denies them the hope that by arresting or silencing one man, the dream of Biafra would collapse. The DOS ensures continuity, resilience, and unity of direction. It is the nightmare of those who thought the Biafran struggle could be decapitated by targeting its leader. Instead, the DOS has become the fortress from which IPOB continues to advance its agenda unbroken.

For Nnamdi Kanu himself, the DOS remains his most powerful assurance. It is the institutional voice that presses forward his quest for justice, not only for his unlawful detention but also for the Biafran people’s right to self-determination. In the DOS lies the surest path to the justice Kanu seeks — because it is through this body that the world is engaged, that the message is amplified, and that the Biafran struggle maintains its focus as a collective mission, not a personal ambition.

Indeed, the DOS is the authentic face of Biafra before the watching world. It is the embodiment of structure, discipline, and continuity. It is the legacy of foresight that Nnamdi Kanu gave to IPOB, and the weapon that will eventually secure justice and freedom for Biafra.

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IPOB Condemns Latest Assault On Female Corp Member In Anambra, Accuses Gov. Soludo Of Perpetuating Insecurity In South-East

 IPOB Condemns Latest Assault On Female Corp Member In Anambra, Accuses Gov. Soludo Of Perpetuating Insecurity In South-East 

The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) movement has condemned the recent assault of a female corp member, Miss Jennifer Elohor by operatives of the state-owned vigilante codenamed Agunechemba security outfit in Oba, Anambra State describing it as inhumane and dehumanising.

This was made known in a press statement issued by the press secretary of the IPOB Directorate Of States, Mazi Okadigbo Chinwendum.  The statement not only condemned the egregious act but also went on to accuse the Soludo's government of importing hardened criminals from the South-South region and recruiting them into the Agunechemba militia 

According to the statement, these imported renegades are mostly responsible for the illegal and extrajudicial activities of the Agunechemba operatives against citizens and residents of Anambra State.

Recall that on 23rd July 2025, eight Agunechemba operatives stormed a residential apartment in Oba, Anambra State with the excuse of apprehending internet fraudsters, in the process they violently attacked, Miss Jennifer, a corp member, stripping her naked and brutalizing her live on camera. 

The Anambra State government announced they had dismissed the operatives involved and handed them over to the police for prosecution. 

However, the IPOB statement decried the assault, revealing there are multiple cases of same or worse degree of carnage perpetrated by operatives of these state-owned vigilante groups but goes unreported.

The statement reads, "The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) condemn without equivocation, the continued dehumanising activities of governor Chukwuma Soludo's imported criminals from the riverine areas of Nigeria into Anambra state in Biafraland. One of such activities was the shame exhibited on the 23rd of July 2025, where a woman a female Corp member was deliberately and actively stripped naked by men who, like their employers, have no single respect for womanhood. 

One very perplexing thing but not entirely surprising to us is the continued hatred of Igbo politicians for their people, Chukwuma Soludo since coming to power as governor in Anambra state has sacrificed the lives and wellbeing of hundreds of our innocent youths at the hands of these animals who operate without any proper oversight but with complete impunity and  utter disregard for human rights and the due process of the rule of law. 

"We have records of the terrible activities of rape, extortions, kidnappings, and murder by these criminals called Udo Ga Achi and Ndi Aka Odo brought into Anambra by governor Chukwuma Soludo." 

"A governor who claims that he is  educated sets up a militia and equip them with pounding pestles to interrogate, torture, and deliberately turn the vibrant youth of his states into cripples."

IPOB also accused the governor of having secret detention facilities where citizens mostly youths are subjugated and incarcerated for no crime or their diverse political backgrounds, likening the activities of the Agunechemba operatives to the notorious, banned Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), thus vowing to no longer tolerate the gross violations of human rights and dignity of Anambra State citizens by ill-trained state security operatives in the South-East.

"It will interest Biafrans and the world to know that over ninety five percent of the victims of soludo's militias are innocent of the crimes they are accused of. These victims are rather innocent Igbo youths, perceived rivals, and political opponents, and perceived enemies of governor soludo and his cronies. 

"There are records of many innocent victims locked up in different secret detention centres across Anambra state. These youths and perceived political opponents are subjected to all manner of  ill-treatment, rape, acts of torture, acts of cruelty, inhuman and degrading treatment, unlawful incarceration and forced disappearances without a trace."

"Gov. Chukwuma Soludo's militias brings fresh memories of what our people suffered in the hand of the Nigerian SARS whose modus operandi was the same as being applied by governor Soludo's Udo Ga Achi and Ndi Aka Odo." 

"Men like Chukwuma Soludo, Hope Uzodinma and their likes who are being propelled by empty and selfish ambition are the ones sponsoring and perpetuating insecurity in Ala-Igbo." 

"Just in four years Chukwuma Soludo has murdered our vibrant youths in their hundreds, through his AVG, Udo Ga Achi, and Agunechemba. He turned many into cripples through Ndi Aka Odo, turned many more into orphans, others he made childless, widows and widowers. Soludo must be stopped or Ọmanbala will be turned into a river of blood." 

"Had they killed the young NYSC Corp member, they will dump her violated body by the road side as they have done to so many of their other victims after kidnapping and extorting them of their hard earned money and resources, and then turn around to point their cursed fingers at the  IPOB/ESN." 

"Thus, The DOS wishes to inform Governor soludo and other politicians in Ala-Igbo with similar acts and intentions that we will no longer sit with our arms folded and watch them dehumanise, traumatise, torture, rape,  assault, forcefully disappear and extrajudicially murder innocent unarmed Biafran youths in their own land. This madness MUST STOP, or they should be ready to contend the owners of the land," the statement announced. 

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Amnesty Group Challenges Military, Claims Evidence Exists Of Extrajudicial Killings In The Southeast

Amnesty Group Challenges Military, Claims Evidence Exists Of Extrajudicial Killings In The Southeast

Amnesty International says it possesses concrete evidence including names and addresses of individuals allegedly killed extrajudicially by the Nigerian military in the South-East geopolitical zone of the country.

“We have our evidence and we are very glad to present those evidence. We are always in touch with families of victims and believe there is a need to do a soul-searching.

“Let us sit down, look at those cases, find out who did what and when, and make sure that the full weight of the law comes in to ensure justice for the victims,” said the Country Director for Amnesty International Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Friday.

In its latest report, ‘A Decade of Impunity: Attacks and Unlawful Killings in Southeast Nigeria’, the group accused the Nigerian police, military, the regional security outfit Ebube Agu, and non-state actors of widespread human rights abuses in the region.

It documents over 1,844 deaths between January 2021 and June 2023, alongside cases of torture, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, and other violations.

However, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye, had rejected Amnesty’s findings, insisting that the military does not engage in extrajudicial killings in the South-East or anywhere in Nigeria. He said security operations in the zone have reduced the capacity of criminal elements.

Sanusi dismissed claims by the Defence Headquarters that the organisation was consistently targeting the military

“I think what the defence spokesperson said is completely wrong. In the report, we also mentioned places where military men were executed or their barracks attacked. It is not about consistency in condemning the military; what we are doing is the honest thing, saying that we have cases,” he stated.

The group’s country director said that many of the extra-judicial killings occurred during operations in areas suspected of harbouring members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) or its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN). In some cases, individuals were picked up from their homes and never seen again, he said.

He further revealed that Amnesty interviewed 100 people, mostly face-to-face in the South-East, for its report, and wrote to the military about the allegations, but reportedly got no response, stressing that they have nothing against the military.

“In this investigation, we interviewed 100 people, 95 of them face-to-face in the South-East. Before releasing the report, we sent the military a letter informing them of the allegations and requesting any information that could help us understand how their operations affect human rights. We received no response,” Sanusi stated.

Amnesty noted that the rights organisation “have nothing against the military.” “Our records include victims killed not only by the military, but also by the police and the Ebube Agu, which was set up by some governors to address insecurity but has instead become a tool of abuse,” he said.

We May Not Have a Country in 2027 – El-Rufai Warns

 We May Not Have a Country in 2027 – El-Rufai  Warns 

Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, has issued a warning about Nigeria’s future, declaring that the country’s survival is at risk if the All Progressives Congress (APC) wins the 2027 general elections.

Speaking on Saturday, August 2, in Sokoto at a grassroots mobilisation rally for the opposition coalition led by the African Democratic Congress (ADC), El-Rufai made clear his intention to campaign vigorously against the ruling party.

“I’m not in politics to get anything for myself. I’m in politics to serve,” he stated

“When the government does not serve the people, it is my duty as a senior citizen to come out and condemn it and take steps to reverse the situation.

“That is why we come together as people opposed to the policies of this government to form the coalition, which has resulted in the adoption of ADC,” he explained.

El-Rufai, a former key member of the APC, said he is committed to rallying Nigerians across the country to unseat the party, describing it as “incompetent.”

“We are in Sokoto to begin the process of mobilising Nigerians against the APC government anywhere and the federal government in Abuja,” he said.

“I believe that if we allow this party and the government to continue for a second term in office, what remains of Nigeria’s social capital will be destroyed, and we may not have a country at all. This is a fight for our lives.”

El-Rufai was once a founding figure of the APC but left the party in March 2025 to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP) following the Senate’s refusal to confirm his ministerial nomination, reportedly due to security concerns.

However, his time in the SDP was short-lived. The party expelled him and imposed a 30-year ban, citing alleged forgery of membership documents, among other accusations.

Now a leading figure in the opposition ADC, El-Rufa’i joins other prominent politicians in working against the APC ahead of the 2023 polls.

Your Tactics of Deceit and Falsehoods are Ineffective, IPOB Blasts The Telegraph and the UK Government, Threatens legal Action for Defamation

Your Tactics of Deceit and Falsehoods are Ineffective, IPOB Blasts The Telegraph and the UK Government, Threatens legal Action for Defamation

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement has responded to the contentious article published by the online UK newspaper, The Telegraph, labeling it as a misleading narrative and misinformation intended to provoke the people of the Biafra region against the IPOB movement.

This information was conveyed in a press release issued by the press secretary of the IPOB Directorate of States, Mazi Okadigbo Chinwendum. The statement accused the British government of having an obsession with the Biafra region, thereby orchestrating a malicious agenda to instigate disorder within the area.

The IPOB representative refuted the claims made by the UK national newspaper regarding the movement's alleged role in the insecurity in South-East Nigeria due to the sit-at-home directive, asserting that the order had been rescinded by the IPOB leadership but was exploited by provocateurs funded by the Nigerian government to execute deceptive violent operations against the region and its inhabitants subsequently.

Furthermore, the statement disclosed that the IPOB movement, through its European continental representative, Mazi Austin Agbanyim, had provided a thorough and detailed response to a questionnaire posed by The Telegraph concerning this matter, but ultimately, it was disregarded by the latter.

The statement reads, "The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (DOS) have received with great disappointment a publication made by the Telegraph of UK on Saturday the 26th of July 2025 with the obvious intention to turn the minds of the international community and humans rights groups and as well as  incite the Biafran people against IPOB." 

"It is indeed a shame that at this time and age, the British government has continued to sponsor campaigns of calumny against a defenceless people against whom they the British sponsored an annihilating genocide in 1967-70."

"The British government is still obsessed with the Igbo people and the entire Biafra people. This can only be the explanation why a British tabloid just like the BBC would be interested in deception and falsehood." 

"The clearest evidence of their hatred to the Biafran people and IPOB is that they deliberately refused to publish the information given to them by Mazi sponsored genocide on Christian and Anglican IGBO and Biafran people using Muslims and islamic jihadists."

The statement also stated that the British government is perturbed over the diplomatic strides recorded by the IPOB movement for Biafra self-determination quest, thus resorting to deceitful ploys of misinformation. However, it assured that the IPOB movement nor the Eastern Security Network solely tasked to confront the Fulani killer herdsmen in the region, are responsible for the violence or enforcement of sit at home orders in the South-East. 

"We are aware that the British government is a bit jittery of the recent diplomatic engagement and successes recorded by the DOS on the Biafra restoration freedom and liberation project. They they are angry and disappointed that we survived their evil onslaught of 1967-70 and still focused on our right to a sovereign Biafra Nation today." 

"However, they should understand that they no longer hold the monopoly of information dissemination."

"Let the world be placed on notice once again, that at no time did IPOB or ESN personnel attacked our people on the streets of Biafraland or anywhere else. ESN has always been in the bushes and farmlands protecting our farmers, people and borders from Fulani terror herdsmen who are partly sponsored by the British government." 

"The DOS will no longer take the deliberate actions of certain government and foreign interest sponsored media houses and journalists whether locally or internationally whose set objective is to tarnish the hard earned image of IPOB, lightly — be they in Nigeria, in the UK or anywhere in the world. 

"Therefore, IPOB leadership demands an unreserved apology from the Telegraph of UK or consider the likelihood of a legal action against them. Enough is Enough!"

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Global Conspiracy Against Biafra: Misinformation, False Narrative Against IPOB’s Peaceful Self-Determination Quest

Global Conspiracy Against Biafra:  Misinformation, False Narrative Against IPOB’s Peaceful Self-Determination Quest 

It is already far established that there has been a global conspiracy against Biafra’s quest for self-determination. Today, some western media platforms, namely Reuters and Jerusalem Post published a false, bogus report concerning the South-East, IPOB, Biafra and the Sit-at-home orders, observations and its impacts. 

The alleged investigative report in question was conducted by a shadowy "private” intelligence consultancy firm, SBM Intelligence, which in all candor has deep ties with the Nigerian government, military and most definitely, its State Secret Services – DSS. 

It is no coincidence that this report was made public just four days to the highly anticipated Biafra Heroes Day, May 30th, 2025, a day which has been designated in honor of victims of the genocidal Biafra war of 1967-70. Amidst verbal counteraction remarks between the IPOB movement and the Chief of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Nuhu Ribadu, over the status of forthcoming Biafra commemoration day and how the people of the Biafra region reckons with it. 

There is no doubt that order for a voluntary sit-at-home observed was issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)movement, and as has been evidently proven in the past unenforced, before the era when trojan horse operations to discredit the legitimate quest for Biafra self-determination, its suppressed image and that of the IPOB movement. This era was after the kidnap and extraordinary rendition of the IPOB leader by the Nigerian government.

The 30th May Biafra anniversary as initiated by the IPOB movement since 2014, was always peaceful as citizens would either hold non-violent processions and memorial events on such day, however security forces would move in for mass crackdowns and killings. For instance in 2016, the Nigerian military and police carried out series of brutal massacre of the Indigenous People of Biafra protesters across the East, an extrajudicial execution spree led by the Nigerian army, in which over 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters, carrying only placards and flags to raise awareness of the ongoing marginalization of their rights and freedoms, were massacred. 

Additionally, more than 28 people were killed in an attack on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s ancestral home, where he hosted numerous visitors and supporters. Family members perished in this extrajudicial attack. 

Infact, the sit-at-home order was the latest improvised strategy by the IPOB movement to minimize crackdowns casualties during such days and events.

Yet, SBM Intelligence produced no reports detailing this daylight massacre of innocent civilians in the East. Despite being founded in 2013, a year after IPOB’s establishment, SBM Intelligence appeared to lack the “intelligence” to expose the unlawful massacre of indigenous peoples across the East by federal security agencies, for committing no crime known to law.

In this report as acknowledged by Reuters and the Jerusalem Post, confirmed that the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had already canceled the sit-at-home order, initially drawn up as a protest against his continued unlawful detention and rendition. The report acknowledged that IPOB lifted the sit-at-home order in 2021 shortly after its commencement. Why, then, does the media falsely claim that the alleged 600 deaths since 2021, are a result of IPOB’s sit-at-home orders? 

The gross contradiction in the reports of SBM Intelligence and collaborative media like Reuters, the Jerusalem Post, and probable other western media platforms are evidently dubious and reeks of journalistic unprofessionalism. It is like turning off the journalism purview and instincts of cross referencing every piece and fact pertaining a story or could it be that these media platforms failed to thoroughly study the SBM report and went on to publish them with its brazen contradictive flaws? 

The SBM report failed to acknowledge that IPOB has consistently stated it has never enforced sit-at-home orders and that compliance has always been voluntary. However, it aimed at linking the Eastern Security Network (ESN)– the vigilante wing set up by IPOB to solely confront the Fulani killer herdsmen in the Eastern region – of alleged sit-at-home enforcements. Meanwhile, the SBM report acknowledged that the ESN as publicly stated by IPOB was established solely to halt terrorist incursions in the East and protect lives and property in the region. 

IPOB and the ESN are innocent of these allegations propagated by Nigeria’s kakistocratic government, whose legacy is marked by violations of fundamental human rights, extrajudicial killings of indigenous peoples, and conspiracy of ethnic cleansing carried out by Islamic terror groups from the Sahel and these acts are encouraged by complacency and dubious positions of the West and its media platforms. 

IPOB has consistently distanced itself from the sit-at-home enforcements/enforcers and asserted that it is the Nigerian government sponsoring the violent enforcements to blackmail the IPOB movement and the ESN. 

Suffice to say, that none of the western mainstream media houses who are now taking swipe at the IPOB movement, right from the Nigerian government's playbook cared to come down to the South-East to conduct an on-site independent investigation to corroborate or debunk the claims of the IPOB movement, but are buying and spreading a well packaged government propaganda against the victimized and oppressed. 

IPOB is a peaceful self-determination seeking organization grounded in the principles of human dignity and the rights of indigenous peoples to choose their preferred religious, cultural, political, and economic governance. And, most importantly it has no faction whatsoever. 

And, obviously this report by SBM Intelligence is nothing but desperate attempts by the Nigerian NIA director and his ilks, to discredit and defame the forthcoming Biafra heroes commemoration and anniversary, because the violent sit-at-home enforcements in the South-East has so far died down since last year when its chief architect in Finland was apprehended by Finnish authorities for his terrorism against South-East residents.

Sadly, the only people buying and even marketing these state-sponsored preposterous narratives are those readily parade themselves as reputable, credible and the global go-to source for information. However, the truth shall prevail and be made known regardless of how deep the conspiracy to suppress it runs. 

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SBM Intelligence, Reuters And Nuhu Ribadu’s Hatchet Job Against IPOB: A Failed Propaganda War

SBM Intelligence, Reuters And Nuhu Ribadu’s Hatchet Job Against IPOB: A Failed Propaganda War

 

IPOB PRESS STATEMENT

DATE 26th MAY 2025

 

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the supreme leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu categorically and unequivocally condemns in the strongest terms possible the latest hatchet job disguised as a “report” released by a faceless, compromised, and government-sponsored propaganda arm called SBM Intelligence, and amplified by the neo-colonial media outfit, Reuters, all under the shameful direction of Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.

 

This laughable fabrication alleges that IPOB’s Sit-at-Home actions resulted in 776 deaths and trillions in economic losses. This is not just a lie—it is a desperate concoction by a drowning regime grasping at straws. SBM Intelligence is neither credible nor neutral; it is a mercenary outfit created to launder the image of failed regimes and discredit voices demanding justice and self-determination. Their so-called reports are fit only for the trash can of history, not the pages of reputable journalism.

 

We challenge SBM Intelligence, Reuters, and Nuhu Ribadu: if you possess an ounce of evidence linking IPOB to these baseless allegations, take it to court. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is in detention and ready to confront these lies with unassailable truth. Instead of sponsoring international smear campaigns, why not test your fantasy before a judge?

 

Let it be known and recorded that IPOB officially canceled Monday Sit-at-Home in 2021, and our leader publicly disowned any individual or group enforcing such orders. Therefore, any attack attributed to a “Sit-at-Home” cannot be logically or factually linked to IPOB. This makes the SBM/Reuters report not only false but criminally deceptive.

 

The timing of this publication is no coincidence. As 30th May Biafra Heroes Day approaches—a sacred day for Biafrans to honour our martyrs—this corrupt regime, through its rented outlets, seeks to deflect attention from its failures and sabotage our remembrance. This is the same Nigeria that could not stop genocidal attacks from Taraba to Zamfara but is fixated on demonizing IPOB, a peaceful movement seeking justice and freedom.

 

We are not ignorant of history. When Biafra stood alone against the might of the global powers—Communist East, Capitalist West, and Islamic Jihadists from Egypt and across the Arab world—we survived because our cause is righteous and ordained by God. This propaganda blitz is but a whimper compared to the bombs of the 1967–70 genocide. It shall fail too.

 

Let Reuters know that by allowing itself to be used by Nuhu Ribadu and his gang of discredited Abuja plotters, it has traded its journalistic integrity for blood money. Let SBM Intelligence know they will forever remain irrelevant outside the corridors of Nigerian state-sponsored deceit. Let the Nigerian government know this: No amount of lies, no amount of sponsored reports, no amount of colonial echo chambers will stop the march of Biafra.

 

On 30th May, the world will see a region stand still in honour of our fallen heroes. We are undeterred, unshaken, and unstoppable. Our allegiance is to the truth, and the truth is that Biafra must come.

 

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.