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THE ORAIFITE MAYHEM: ADF CONDEMNS POLICE BRUTALITY AND CALLS FOR JUDICIAL PANEL OF INQUIRY

                 The Ala-Igbo Development Foundation (ADF), after a careful and critical review of the police invasion of  the home of Barr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the IPOB lawyer in Ifite- Oraifite Community in Ekwusigo LGA of Anambra State, which led to arson and vandalization of property as well as the brutalization and killing of innocent citizens, wishes to state as follows: 1. That the police action executed on Monday, 2nd December, 2019 under the guise of looking for Barr. Ejiofor was an unnecessary act of impunity which only succeeded in visiting mayhem on the community instead of promoting law and order in the area, which should be the primary mandate of the police force. 2. The Federal Government  and the Inspector- General of Police should set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to investigate the immediate and remote causes of such a vicious act of carnage and violence in the ancestral home/ private residence of a legal practitioner and the entire community.

Nnamdi Kanu’s Father is Dead

              His Royal Majesty Eze Sir Israel Okwu Kanu the Egwu Ukwu II of Afaraukwu. We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to console the family our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the entire Kanu family and the community of Afaraukwu over the pasusing  of their father, uncle, brother and traditional ruler, His Royal Majesty Eze Sir Israel Okwu Kanu the Egwu Ukwu II of Afaraukwu who joined his ancestors as a result of health complications arising from the trauma of the invasion of his palace by Nigerian soldiers on September 14, 2017 and most recently over the  shock of the sudden death of his wife Ugoeze Sally Nmeme Okwu Kanu. We are left in no doubt the military attack on Isiama Afaraukwu and the Kanu family by the armed forces of the Federal Government of Nigeria is the principal cause of death of our leader's parents. We confidently state, without fear of contradiction, that our leader Ma

IPOB vs Police: Why Anambra CP, Abang should be dismissed – HURIWA Published

December 4, 2019     IPOB LAWYER, BARRISTER EJIOFOR The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Wednesday called for the “immediate dismissal” of the Anambra State Police Commissioner, John Abang. HURIWA, a prominent human rights group claimed that Abang’s “unguarded and irresponsible statement” warning Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, not to return to the country for his mother’s burial was responsible for the crisis between police and those it referred to as “street urchins” in Anambra State. The group also condemned the persistent physical violence by the police against Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor which had led to the razing down of his housing assets, killing of his relatives in Oraifite area of the state. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA sympathized with families of “all those killed in the riot that ensued including the two police operatives reportedly burnt to de