NNEWI——— THE Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB has dismissed as baseless the report allegedly sponsored by Anambra State Police Command that it has dismantled ESN and IPOB camp in Aguluezechukwu, Aguata Local Government Anambra State.
IPOB in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, described the report as fabricated propaganda associated with the Nigerian Police on issues concerning IPOB and ESN.
The pro-Biafra group said that the report was designed to smear the image of IPOB, and the Nigerian Police has been known for such unverified report against the Biafra agitating group.
IPOB’s statement read, “The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has noted with disgust the malicious falsehood published in a national daily on September 4, 2025, alleging that police and allied security forces dismantled an “ESN/IPOB camp” in Aguluezechukwu, Aguata LGA, Anambra State.
“We categorically state that the report was fabricated propaganda and the National daily the Police use has, once again, reduced itself to a mouthpiece of the Nigerian government by parroting unverified claims designed to smear IPOB.
“No evidence has been presented, no independent investigation carried out, and no attempt made to verify from the community or from IPOB. Instead, the national daily chose to peddle fiction as fact.
“If the Nigerian Police or their partners in the media have any credible evidence, they should tender it in a competent court of law. Instead of using the national daily to insult the intelligence of Nigerians and the global community with the disgraceful hatchet job.”
IPOB expressed surprise that the national daily could be reduced to serve as Police mouthpiece and abandoned investigative journalism, but engage in recycling government handouts, rather than visiting Anambra or Imo to confirm the truth.
“IPOB is prepared to sponsor investigative teams from the particular national daily and other outlets to travel to the South East to investigate Police claim if indeed they are interested in journalism and not propaganda.
“We state without equivocation that the said publication is a malicious falsehood. If the Nigerian Police or their media collaborators have any credible evidence of such a “camp,” they should present it in a court of law instead of insulting public intelligence with fiction.
“This lazy journalism and reckless peddling of propaganda is not good for Nigeria journalism and media houses. Some media outfits have abandoned the sacred duty of investigative reporting and instead act as mouthpieces for a regime bent on ethnic demonization.
“IPOB is prepared to sponsor investigative teams from those anti IPOB media outlets to travel to South East to see the truth for themselves, instead of regurgitating propaganda from security agencies.
The shameful report by this particular newspaper is not journalism. It is ethnic propaganda, it is dangerous, and it exposes the media house as complicit in the wider agenda of demonizing Biafra and IPOB.
“IPOB will henceforth call out, by name, every outlet and journalist that engages in this deliberate misinformation campaign. Let it be known: IPOB remains whiter than white. No amount of media propaganda can taint our cause, which is rooted in self-determination and justice.”
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