A pan Igbo socio political group, Youths for New Igbo Agenda and Interest, YONIAI, has accused the Department of State Security, DSS, of shopping for evidence to nail the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, over its report of the killing of five Fulani herdsmen in a forest in Abia State.
The DSS had claimed thatits operatives discovered the bodies of five Hausa/Fulani herdsmen who were killed and buried in a shallow grave at a forest in Isuikwuato local government area of Abia state and accused members of Indigenous People of Biafra ,IPOB, of being behind the action.
The group lamented that Ndigbo having suffered a lot of killings in Nigeria since 1953 in the form of reprisal attacks, and urged the DSS which ought to provide security for the citizens of the country not to do anything that would put the security of the nation in jeopardy.
In a statement signed by its President, Comrade Kalu Igbe Ebem, the group said it was shocked that the DSS could descend to such level of insensitivity to the security of the nation by churning out such biased, false and unintelligent report capable of setting the nation of fire.
YONIAI insisted that the DSS was shopping for evidence to prosecute the IPOB leader, who is standing trial, which led the agency to resort to putting the lives of so many Nigerians on the line in a bid to nail just one man.
“DSS acted unintelligently by churning out the report the way it did. Just in its bid to give a dog bad name in order to hang it, the security agency never cared to know about the ripple effect of their report.”
The group wondered how IPOB which is a non violent organization could involve in such killings, stressing that if IPOB was a terrorist group as DSS tried to portray it, it would have retaliated when soldiers killed eight of her members in Aba.
