GOVERNOR WIKE REINFORCES BAN ON ACTIVITIES OF IPOB IN RIVERS STATE

Rivers State government in line with the proscription order of the federal government, has reinforced a ban on activities of Indigenous Peoples Organization of Biafra (IPOB) in the State

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, in a state wide broadcast reinforcing the proscription of IPOB in the State on Friday, said no form of procession or agitation by the group or any of its affiliates is allowed to take place in the State hence forth.

He explained that State government reached this firm conclusion having observed that the activities of the banned IPOB are not just dangerous to lives and property, but also constitute clear and present threat to the existential interest and aspirations of Rivers State and all her people.

“Security agencies are hereby directed to stop any form of procession or agitation by IPOB in Rivers State or any part thereof and arrest and prosecute any person or group that identifies with the membership or activities of IPOB in the State; Government will issue an executive order to strengthen and ensure the effective enforcement of these measures” he said.

He disclosed that he will be meeting with all leaders of youth groups and community development committees in the State on Monday 26th October 2020 to take holistic measures to counter and stop all IPOB activities in Rivers State;

The governor stated one Mr. Stanley Mgbere is hereby declared wanted for leading members of the banned IPOB to cause the recent violence and destruction of lives and property in Oyigbo Local Government Area; and a ransom of N50,000,000.00 will be given to any person with useful information that would lead to his arrest and prosecution.

He recall that since IPOB was classified as a terrorist organisation by the Federal High Court and subsequently proscribed in September 2017 by the Federal Government, the group has carried out intermittent processions in parts of Rivers State, especially in Oyigbo and some notorious suburbs in Port Harcourt Local Government Areas. According to him, IPOB aim had been to disturb the peace of the State by unleashing violence and destruction on lives and property at will.

The Rivers State Government, according to the governor, had severally pleaded, warned and even advised IPOB and its members to discontinue its insurrectional actions in Rivers State to no avail. Instead, IPOB unleashed another orgy of violence and destruction inflicted at Oyigbo Local Government Area and some parts of Port Harcourt City Local Government Area on Tuesday 21st October 2020.

He said this evil, wicked and audacious action resulted in the unnecessary loss of scores of lives, including soldiers and police officers, and the destruction of both public and private properties, including police stations, court buildings and business premises.

Not done, members of the outlawed group also visited physical violence on members of some targeted community which, but, for the quick intervention of the State Government and the security agencies, would have resulted in some form of internecine bloodbath in the State.

“Today, IPOB continued with its devilish and destructive activities at Rumukwurushi, Iriebe and Oyigbo in open defiance of the State Government’s curfew on human movements. Security intelligence and surveillance have revealed that IPOB has continued to expand its membership drive, holding meetings regularly, and expanding its logistical base, including the maintenance of illegal detention cells in Emenike and other parts of Diobu, Port Harcourt.”

“As a matter of fact, Oyigbo town has practically become the group’s main operational base in Rivers State, from which they’ve become notorious for launching premeditated violence and terror on the State, businesses and innocent citizens. As a people, we have become very much unsettled by the terrorist acts and endured the continuing irritations, violence, destruction and provocations of IPOB in and against the people of Rivers State.”

The governor noted that as a stranger element with strange political ideology, IPOB has no legal or moral right to invade Rivers State or any part therefore at its behest; to disturb public peace; and subject lives and property to violence or threat of destruction under any guise.

He emphasised that Rivers State’s love, accommodation and hospitality towards all who reside in and do business in the state are being mistaken for weakness by the banned IPOB. To this end, he warned that enough is enough as the government can no longer tolerate the menace of IPOB.

“I wish to appeal to the people of Oyigbo Local Government Area to remain calm and not to take the laws into their hands despite the intense provocation as government has the capacity to deal with the challenge and ensure the safety of lives and property in the Local Government Area. We will soon carry out on the spot inspection and assessment of the destruction they have suffered and take appropriate measures to mitigate the loss and damage caused to lives and property” he said.

Governor Wike expressed his heartfelt sympathies to the families of all those that have either lost their loved ones or suffered damages to their properties from the destructive acts of IPOB in our State.


Signed:

Kelvin Ebiri

Special Assistant (media)to the Governor

23 October, 2020.

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Lalasticlala

Mynd44

lol........Igbos here will will soon descend on this thread and start chest-beating and start ranting with their comments to hide their sifia pains

God as i sleep this night, review to me where I can find Mr Stanley. I need the N50million

theophilusj31:
lol........Igbos here will will soon descend on this thread and start chest-beating and start ranting with their comments to hide their sifia pains

Lol..

alright.

I thought Igbos say they are a peaceful people

And to think some ipob on nairaland already tagged the attack as a Fulani herdsmen attack

IPOB In safia pains

their godfather don betray them

DebbieBianca:
God as i sleep this night, review to me where I can find Mr Stanley. I need the N50million

Review ??

Post his picture lets the bounty hunting begin ...

Let me go and gather my tools haha

50m gbam

No worry post the picture sir.

Ok

This thread will be abandoned....The Master has spoken

Wike you be mumu nnamdi kanu just dey one side dey observe ur foolishness if war start now where una wan shook head una no no say una follow for ipob

Shege nyamuri flat.heads have all abandoned this thread!! The master has spoken, second class citizens gata to keep quiet!!

They can't confront their God wike bcus this has nothing to do with fulani or afonja

Ipob don buy market

Wicked Wike go give them home training they lack


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lol.......nnamdi kanu eye go don day read by now....afterall all the chest-beating see wetin happen to them,chest go don day pain them by now because the chest beating don too much

anyway make buhari put chest medicine for Igbos for 2023 budget to help their life

Wike should pls post his pictures. I have said it overand over, Igbos are worse than boko Haram.

With this ban, i am sure, there activities is over in Rivers state.

I urge the president and wike to order a shot on sight of any person or persons seen as Igbos members.

Whether Igbos like it or not, biafra is dead and buries.

I hope UN, EU, TRUMP, PUTIN all are seeing.

Nnamdi kanu should be arrested now for genocide.

God and thunder will scatter Nnamdi kanu and his family .

Funny thing is that theres no evidence that Wike said any of these things besides someone saying "Wike Said"

Fake news everywhere , everything for naija now na fake news..

It's a fake news. There's no single evidence to prove that the governor said so.

Amotekun and boko haram terrorist with their propaganda.

Etinosa1234:
I thought Igbos say they are a peaceful people

And to think some ipob on nairaland already tagged the attack as a Fulani herdsmen attack

Not only nairaland,all over social media.
They made everyone believe it was Fulani herdsmen launching attacks meanwhile it was them.
These people are a nuisance

Wike doesn't have the power to stop or ban IPOB activities in Rivers because Igbo people occupy most of the place IPOB operates across SE/SS.

believe any news from a Yoruba man at your own peril we know the tribe too well and what they are known for

And people are really stupid enough to believe Wike will drop a whopping N50 million for anyone that just happens to find some "IPOB guy"... but then who am I kidding... only afonja Muslims and their daft Aboki comrades will believe some nonsense like this

Una no dey tire for divide and rule?

AniOmaa:
And people are really stupid enough to believe Wike will drop a whopping N50 million for anyone that just happens to find some "IPOB guy"... but then who am I kidding... only afonja Muslims and their daft Aboki comrades will believe some nonsense like this

See the way shameless 'one Nigerianists' are besides themselves with ecstasy....getting a stiff boner at the 'news' IPOB is banned in Rivers state! These scumbags are now hoping nothing will stand in the way of their jihad and bid to fulanise the entire country and dip that their book in the atlantic ocean!

Why do iboes fear Ikwerre people like this? They are all hiding from the thread. People have said it was the Ikwerre people who sold iboes into slavery those days hence the trepidation whenever Wike faces them

IPOB


This clowns never give up
More grease to them

fool.

How did you or your informant get through to the area considering how you have left the LG to rot?No single presence of a state govt project since your 1st tenure.

Those are thugs not Ipob. youths that are unemployed and suffering bad business cos of terrible roads .

They are the monsters you made.

fool.

How did you or your informant get through to the area considering how you have left the LG to rot?No single presence of a state govt presence.

Those are thugs not Ipob. youths that are unemployed and suffering bad business cos of terrible roads .

suddenly you have #50m but you are deaf to their pleas to remember their place.

They are the monsters you made.

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GOVERNOR WIKE REINFORCES BAN ON ACTIVITIES OF IPOB IN RIVERS STATE



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Lalasticlala

Mynd44

wike remember who your enemies are , ipob is igbo and any attack on ipob is a direct attack on Igbos