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IPOB Killed Dr. Chike, Akunyili’s Husband — Estranged Deputy Leader, Mefor

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IPOB Killed Akunyili

Uche Mefor, the estranged deputy chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB), has blamed the group for the killing of Dr. Chike Akunyili in Anambra State.

Dr. Chike was the widower of the late Dora Akunyili, the previous Minister of Data and Communications and Director-Basic of the Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management (NAFDAC).
He was shot lifeless by unknown gunmen on Tuesday whereas returning to Enugu from Onitsha, the place he had attended a memorial lecture organised in honour of his late wife.
Lately, there have been killings within the South-East area by unknown gunmen. The federal government and a few individuals have accused IPOB and its militia arm, Jap Safety Community (ESN) of being behind the violence, an allegation the pro-Biafra group has repeatedly denied.

On Monday, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have been additionally attacked by armed hoodlums suspected to be IPOB members within the South-East.

The killing of Akunyili has additionally been linked to the Biafra secessionists led by their detained chief, Nnamdi Kanu, however the group has described it as a political assassination.

Reacting to Akunyili’s grotesque homicide, Mefor through his recognized Facebook Page on Thursday accused IPOB of deviating from “freedom preventing” to the killing of harmless Nigerians.

He wrote, “CALL A SPADE A SPADE AND NAME THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ONGOING WANTON DESTRUCTION OF LIVES AND PROPERTIES IN IGBO PART OF BIAFRALAND

“If different elements of Nigeria are imploding, those that know higher should insulate, keep civility and never enable our land to additionally assume the standing of lawlessness and barbarism. However what an irony within the face of the unfolding, avoidable scenario right this moment!

“We’ve got mentioned and would emphatically proceed to say that: abomination stays abomination. What the Indigenous Folks of Nnamdi Kanu (IPONK) is doing of late is criminality, it’s a class of heinous crime known as CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY WITHIN THE ROME STATUTE AND THE JURISDICTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, ICC; AND NO MORE FREEDOM FIGHTING.

“It’s on file that on the inspiration of the violent utterances, threats, and incitements to horror by Nnamdi Kanu and his bumbling sycophantic legal gang members of the not-fit-for-purpose DOS, a collection of sponsored and blanket assassination/killing campaigns and extra-judicial extermination of the harmless unsuspecting Igbo Biafrans have been commissioned and ridiculously on an ongoing foundation—hailed and celebrated by a cross-section of the gullible as Unknown Gunmen/ESN, as preventing the Fulani herdsmen and within the identify of freedom preventing.

“The newest is the unlucky assassination of Dr. Akunyili.

“Shamelessly, the South East governors, the clergy, group leaders and opinion molders haven’t completed sufficient to name these criminals by their names and as such maintained a extremely disturbing ‘legal silence’, and rightly so as a result of official silence within the face of criminality by leaders quantities to tacit help or complicity. Those who tried to talk have didn’t name a spade a spade.

“However you recognize what? Like we now have warned since December 2020 of the hazard of leaving weapons of warfare within the palms and management of unregulated non-state actors as regards to Kanu’s intentions together with his misguided, ill-advised, and not-well-intended safety outfit, ESN, that it might result in the proliferation of armed militia teams, anarchy/lawlessness and our society turning into a gun-running one, penalties of this singular failure by the political class in Biafraland is now an apparent severe error of judgement and as such an unwell wind that may undoubtedly ruffle everybody in an unintended trend.

“There isn’t a means that the human rights compliant Biafra we’re searching for can be restored via acts of criminality. We reject armed battle exterior respectable self-defence, strict adherence to the dictates of worldwide human rights legislation, justice and accountability within the pursuit of Biafra’s rights to self-determination.”