The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Sunday accused “politically disgruntled treasury looters” out to sabotage the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of sponsoring the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

Mohammed said the disgruntled looters are using IPOB to sabotage the current government under the guise of fighting for the rights of the people of the South-east.

This is contained in a statement signed by his media aide, Segun Adeyemi and sent to DAILY POST.

Mohammed said IPOB sponsors were trying to “destabilize the country and trigger chaos to realize their ambition of escaping justice and then be free to dip their hands into the nation’s treasury again.”

“Nigerians must understand that IPOB was not set up to fight for the right of anyone or group, but as a tool to destabilize the nation, divert attention from the efforts of the Buhari Administration and obliterate the laudable achievements of the Government.

”IPOB is being sponsored by those I will call the Coalition of the Politically Disgruntled and the Treasury Looters. They believe that by sponsoring this group to destabilize the country and trigger chaos, they will realize their ambition of escaping justice and then be free to dip their hands into the nation’s treasury again.”

Wondering why IPOB activities became heightened under Buhari’s government, Mohammed said, ”If this is coincidental, then that coincidence is uncanny, at the least. Remember that Nnamdi Kanu, who led a protest at the Nigeria House in London against Boko Haram insurgency and in support of Nigeria’s unity, under the Jonathan Administration, has suddenly metamorphosed into an IPOB monster who will rather set the nation ablaze.”

Mohammed said IPOB thrived on exploiting the nation’s fault lines, and that its modus operandi ”is to trigger conflagration nationwide through attacks and reprisals”.

”Thankfully, IPOB has failed in its evil machinations. The good people of Nigeria have seen beyond those cheap tactics and have avoided being incited against one another. We must remain vigilant and resolute. We must all say no to the incendiary and divisive tendencies of IPOB and its cohorts.”

Mohammed also commended the Nigerian military for labelling IPOB a terrorist organization and for checkmating the group, and the South-east Governors for proscribing the organization.

”But for the military’s quick and decisive intervention, IPOB could have set the nation on fire. Thanks to the decisiveness of the military, the Governors of the states in the South-east have wisely proscribed IPOB,” he said.

Alhaji Mohammed accused IPOB of harvesting gory videos from the distant past and from other lands to deceive the international community that the people of the South-east are victims of state-sponsored ethno-sectarian violence, describing such tactics as ”lies and propaganda”.

”Such videos, which have very high emotive quotient, are circulating on the Social Media. We call on all to subject such videos to the greatest scrutiny so as not to be misled. In particular, we urge the international community not to jump to any conclusion on the basis of such videos,” he said.

The Minister also appealed to the media to show greater restraint and avoid sensationalism in their reporting of the military exercise, Operation Python Dance II, in the South-east.

Mohammed added that the Nigerian media cannot afford to sit on the fence or engage in irresponsible journalism when the issue at stake is the very survival of the nation.

”The divisive and jaundiced opinions of some anarchists have been given a big play by a section of the media. This is wrong. Let me remind all of us of the role of the media, especially the radio, in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that left about 800,000 people dead,” he added.

Curled from dailypost

We are ruled by the worse among us,
That's why people like Lai Mohammed have a Ministerial Job.


Ipob is sponsored by disgruntled treasury looters my foot,
Name 'em or shut the hell up.

Why is the terrorist hiding? is he no longer Ohamadike anymore?

Choki

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hungryboy:
We are ruled by the worse among us,

That's why people like Lai Mohammed have a Ministerial Job.



Ipob is sponsored by disgruntled treasury looters my foot,

Name 'em or shut the hell up.

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They cant be worse than Jonathan and Deziani Mmadueke, who you defend with your blood!

Lols, funny man... Now I see ur level has not added value

Buhari body-language is the chief sponsor of this Kanu and Ipod movement.

Where is that coward Nnamdi kanu hiding?

IkpuMmiri:
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They cant be worse than Jonathan and Deziani Mmadueke, who you defend with your blood!

yeah, you are right,

Jonathan's is the worse leader we ever had,

A thousand Shittes were killed under his watch, hundreds of unarmed Ipob my members were murdered by Soldiers under his watch, he is the leader who said that he will favour the 95 percent whole voted for him , things became so hard when he ruled, that many Nigerians couldn't afford three square meals anymore

And not to forget, his greatest sin, militarising civilian spaces and lack of respect for human rights.

TonyeBarcanista:
Why is the terrorist hiding? is he no longer Ohamadike anymore?

trying so hard to seek attention of like like haters