The Federal Government has blamed the pioneer for the prohibited Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, of utilizing Radio Biafra to incite viciousness that prompted the demise of no less than 175 security work force and a few different residents.
Head legal officer of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, made the charge at a news preparation in Abuja on Friday.
He asserted that Kanu additionally utilized the internet based station to affect individuals from the gathering to submit fierce assaults against common and majority rule establishments the nation over, particularly in the South East.
As indicated by Malami, such attacks remember assaults for security work force, police headquarters, security developments, and the obliteration of properties of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and private residents.
He said 175 security agents – 128 cops, 37 military work force, and 10 other security agents – were killed in the assaults.
The AGF likewise accused individuals from IPOB and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) for Tuesday’s assault on conventional rulers who were having a gathering in Imo. Two customary rulers were killed in that assault.
He added that Kanu likewise assumed a part in the brutality recorded during the EndSARS fights in 2020.
“The EndSARS fights of October 2020 played into the evil plans of Nnamdi Kanu, whereby he held onto the fights through rebellious and impelling web-based transmissions and effectively told and coordinated assaults on security faculty and offices,” Malami said.
“Because of these transmissions, individuals from IPOB assaulted and killed security staff and torched Police stations, Correctional focuses, INEC workplaces, transport terminals, the Palace of Oba of Lagos, Banks, clinics, shopping centers and vehicles, among others.”
A document photograph of Nnamdi Kanu.
Malami expressed that during the assaults, 19 workplaces, 18 strategic vehicles, a few political decision materials, hardware and ICT devices having a place with INEC were annihilated in Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Cross River, Enugu, Ebonyi, and Imo States.
He added that 164 police headquarters and arrangements, remembering the Police Headquarters for Owerri, Imo State, were assaulted by IPOB/ESN individuals.
Malami told columnists at the preparation that a Presidential Ad-hoc Committee, including 24 individuals, which he heads discovered connections among Kanu and the assaults during its examinations concerning his exercises.
Peruse the full text of the AGF’s informing underneath:
Text of question and answer session on Friday 22nd October 2021 by the Honorable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN, on examination covers demonstrations of psychological warfare and unified offenses executed by Nnamdi Kanu and report on the patrons and agents of Sunday Igboho and partners
Convention
Lovely people of the Press, I invite you to this vital question and answer session.
As you know Nnamdi Kanu, oneself acclaimed head of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been at the focal point of a rebellious mission against the Nigerian State. Therefore, Nnamdi Kanu was captured on fourteenth October 2015. He was charged to court for treacherous lawful offense, among different violations. He was conceded bail by the Federal High Court, Abuja on 25th April 2017. He, notwithstanding, penetrated the bail conditions and escaped abroad.
While in self-oust, Nnamdi Kanu increased his rebellious mission, utilizing on the web Radio Biafra to impel savagery and instigate individuals from IPOB to submit brutal assaults against common and popularity based organizations, especially the security faculty, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and regular citizens. He induced the obliteration of public and private properties the nation over.
Because of these crimes, IPOB was banished and assigned a fear monger association by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, in a request made on twentieth September 2017.
Notwithstanding the banishment of IPOB by the Federal Government, Nnamdi Kanu proceeded with the rebellious mission, actuating and affecting transmissions to coordinate individuals from the IPOB to dispatch assaults on the public authority.
The EndSARS fights of October 2020 played into the vile plans of Nnamdi Kanu, whereby he held onto the fights through incendiary and impelling web-based transmissions and effectively told and coordinated assaults on security work force and offices.
Because of these transmissions, individuals from IPOB assaulted and killed security staff and torched Police stations, Correctional focuses, INEC workplaces, transport terminals, the Palace of Oba of Lagos, Banks, medical clinics, shopping centers and vehicles, among others.
On twelfth December 2020, Eastern Security Network” (ESN) was framed by Nnamdi Kanu as an equipped wing of IPOB with the order to propel the accursed plan of the banned gathering. ESN kept on dispatching assaults on security staff, regular citizens saw as adversaries just as the annihilation of private and public properties.
The dangerous exercises of IPOB/ESN represent a genuine danger to Nigeria’s public safety and its corporate presence, which brought about the re-capture of Nnamdi Kanu and individuals from his gathering.
The inevitable re-capture of Nnamdi Kanu in June 2021, and a few individuals from his gathering prompted the initiation of a Presidential Ad-hoc Committee, including (24) individuals drawn from:
Government Ministry of Justice (MoJ),
Government Ministry of Information (MoI),
Nigeria Police Force (NPF),
Branch of State Services (DSS),
Public Intelligence Agency (NIA), and
Protection Intelligence Agency (DIA),
The Committee, initiated by the President, and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR), was going by the Honorable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
The Committee finds as a reality, that subsequent upon the inciting orders of Nnamdi Kanu, individuals from IPOB/ESN completed huge assaults on equitable organizations particularly INEC Facilities with the end goal of hampering the majority rule process in Nigeria. These assaults that were completed between October 2020 and June 2021 incorporate the accompanying:
That following up on the affecting mandates of Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB individuals and #EndSARS dissenters assaulted and killed numerous security specialists, obliterated a few public and private properties, including police headquarters, public vehicle transports and different offices the nation over.
That on 21st October 2020, Nnamdi Kanu through an internet based bring in radio program (Radio Biafra), further prompted IPOB individuals to torch all police headquarters and kill government security powers, which was done and a few security faculty (particularly cops) were killed, and public and private properties obliterated.
One hundred and 75 (175) security work force were killed by IPOB/ESN, involving one hundred and 28 (128) police officers, (37) military faculty and ten (10) other security agents;
The killing of unmistakable Nigerians, (as of late there were grim killings of customary pioneers: Obi 1 of Okwudor independent local area, Eze E. Anayochukwu Durueburuo and Eze Sampson Osunwa of Ihebineowerre independent local area just as the killings of Dr Chike Akunyili and eight others just as the killing of Alhaji Ahmed Gulak on 30th May. 2021);
That as an outcome of Nnamdi Kanu’s transmissions, there were nineteen (19) assaults on INEC offices that brought about the obliteration of workplaces just as consuming of eighteen (18) INEC calculated vehicles, a few political decision materials, gear and ICT devices in Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Cross River, Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo States;
That one hundred and 64 (164) police headquarters and developments, including Police Headquarters, Owerri, Imo State were assaulted by IPOB/ESN prompting the demise of one hundred and 28 (128) cops {as expressed in III above}; one hundred 44 (144) harmed while 600 28 (628) vehicles were annihilated.
That 300 and 96 (396) guns and seventeen thousand 700 and 38 (17,738) ammo were trucked away during the IPOB/ESN assaults;
That there were three (3) IPOB/ESN assaults on Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), including the Headquarters of NCoS, Owerri, Imo State where 1,000 800 and 41 (1,841) prisoners got away;
That the Headquarters of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Umuahia, Abia State was likewise assaulted by IPOB/ESN prompting the passing of one (1) official;
That there were a few IPOB/ESN assaults and obliteration (incendiarism) of public and private properties during the EndSARS and Biafra tumults the nation over, particularly in the South-East and South-South locales, strikingly the Palace of the Oba of Lagos where twelve (12) pads were totally plundered and vandalized, the ranch style house of the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, was scorched, more than one hundred and fifty (150) transports consumed at the Lagos Bus Terminal, Sen. Ndoma Egba’s home in Calabar Municipal, Cross River State, was totally plundered and vandalized, Lagos State DNA and Forensic Center, City Hall Race Course, First Bank Branch Lagos, Lagos State Public Works Commission, Nigeria Port Authority (NPA), Marina, Lagos, High Court Igbosere, Lagos, were completely scorched, among other intolerable violations submitted.
We have additionally settled that Kanu isn’t the only one in his rebellious exercises. He has assistants in Nigeria and abroad, people and gatherings just as state and non-state entertainers who are helping and working with his mission against individuals and territory of Nigeria. A portion of the state entertainers helped KANU, even as an outlaw, in his dangerous mission, disregarding the fear based oppressor nature of his exercises.