IPOB: CPC Restates Confidence in Military’s Ability to Protect Nigerians

Concerned Professionals’ Congress, (CPC) onTuesday said the recent military’s successful engagement of the now-proscribed Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has again raised hopes that the armed forces have the will and capacity to protect citizens against harassment.

 

The group in a statement jointly issued yesterday by the Chief Media Strategist, Mr. Emeka Nwankpa and the Regional Rapporteur (North), Mallam Baba Al-Kasim disclosed that the swift deployment of troops by the nation’s military command effectively arrested the recent IPOB-orchestrated mayhem in the South east and South south.

The group argued that following IPOB’s proscription and the near-fragile peace across the nation, the statement had become necessary to in order reassure citizens of the readiness of the military to ensure the safety of every Nigerians.

It lauded the military’s Operation Python Dance 11 which was successfully embarked to checkmate crimes in the South east, while also commending the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for deploying its officers to prevent possible reprisal as fallout of the violent activities of the now-proscribed militant group.

It further stated that the IPOB’s fall started as soon as it began to drive the Igbo marginalization message with frightening mayhem, hate rhetoric, intemperate language and militant secessionist posture.

CPC in the statement urged Nigerians to rise above primordial sentiments and ignore Kanu’s  ill-advised excesses to re-examine strident calls across the country for a major national reformation aimed at revisiting obvious conflicts areas and fault lines.

It warned that since IPOB has been outlawed because of its militant terrorist profile, anyone found to be associating or hobnobbing with it risked being declared as an enemy of the State.

Nwankpa commended the Defence Headquarters whose quick intervention and timely public notice of September 15, by the spokesman, Maj.Gen. John Enenche, literally pulled the nation from the jaws of danger and disaster triggered by IPOB’s monumental misadventure.

“We salute the pro-active and tireless Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, whose synergy- driven leadership and robust collaboration with the service chiefs and other security agencies has galvanized the nation’s entire security architecture to combat emerging national security threats effectively. Their efforts are visible and laudable.

“But for the strategic move by the DHQ, the nation could have been on fire by now. So we agree with Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu who said that God averted the world’s greatest bloodbath in the South East last week. We cannot thank God enough,” it said.