{"id":7220,"date":"2025-09-17T05:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:26:14","slug":"gentles-arrest-stop-your-lies-against-us-ipob-warns-dss-military-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/gentles-arrest-stop-your-lies-against-us-ipob-warns-dss-military-others\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gentle&#8217;s Arrest : Stop your lies against us &#8211; IPOB\u00a0 warns DSS, military, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Correspondent<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Following accusations and counter accusations on crimes against it by security agencies, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),\u00a0 Tuesday warned the Department of\u00a0 Security Service, DSS, to stop lying against it and attributing all crimes to it in a bid to drag its image to the mud<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Issuing this\u00a0 note of warning while reacting to the parade of a suspect, called &#8220;Gentle&#8221;, arrested by the military that\u00a0 claimed is IPOB Commander, IPOB denied the claim of the military stating that the suspect is not\u00a0 her member and had made it clear that he is not a member of IPOB.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reacting through its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the movement stated that, &#8220;Our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has once again noted with outrage the latest satanic propaganda churned out by the Nigerian security agencies and their rented media collaborators, falsely linking IPOB to yet another case of insecurity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;It has become the cheapest trick in Nigeria: any time the DSS, the Army, or the Police bungle in their duties, they quickly fabricate a headline \u2014 \u201cIPOB\/ESN commander arrested\u201d. Today it is kidnapping, tomorrow it will be armed robbery, and by next week they will blame IPOB for floods, for road accidents, or even for their inability to impregnate their wives. This is not only ridiculous, it is insane.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Let it be clear: IPOB is a peaceful, lawful self-determination movement recognized across the world. We are not kidnappers. We are not criminals. We are not terrorists. Our only \u201ccrime\u201d is saying NO to slavery, no to colonial injustice, no to the perpetual bondage of our people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The so-called \u201ccommander\u201d paraded by the Nigerian Army, one \u201cGentle\u201d or whatever his name may be, has publicly denied being a member of IPOB. His videos are everywhere online for all to see. Yet the Nigerian media, in their demonic haste to demonise IPOB and the Igbo people, insist on pasting our noble name on every criminal fabrication.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Journalists who refuse to lift their pen when unspeakable genocide is visited upon the Igbo race are the first to rush and publish unverified junk handed to them by the mortal enemies of the Igbo and Biafran people \u2014 namely the Nigerian Army and DSS. Such double standards and ethnic prejudice are not journalism; they are complicity in oppression.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;This is the same anti-Igbo prejudice that made it acceptable to kill Igbo people when they come out to vote during elections in Lagos. It is the same script: demonise IPOB, demonise the Igbo race, disparage Biafra and condition Nigerians to accept injustice against the chosen children of God. But let it be known \u2014 we will not fold our arms. Every defamatory publication against IPOB will be dragged to court. The era of slandering IPOB and getting away with it is over.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The truth is simple: Nigerian security agencies have failed. Instead of admitting their failure, they cook up lies and push them through corrupt journalists who trade their pens for blood money. These merchants of falsehood are lower than vermin. You cannot save yourselves with these lies, because history and truth will catch up with you.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;We remind the Nigerian press: journalism is supposed to be a noble calling, not an extension of DSS propaganda. When you join in staining IPOB with fabricated labels, you are not just injuring IPOB \u2014 you are participating in the destruction of truth itself. And God Almighty will not forgive you.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Let the world know once again: IPOB is not and will never be part of Nigeria\u2019s insecurity. Our demand for Biafra is rooted in justice, equity, and freedom. No amount of cheap propaganda will change that. Write all your junk until you are blue in the face, IPOB remains unshaken,&#8221; it maintained<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent Following accusations and counter accusations on crimes against it by security agencies, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),\u00a0 Tuesday warned the Department of\u00a0 Security Service, DSS, to stop lying against it and attributing all crimes to it in a bid to drag its image to the mud Issuing this\u00a0 note of warning while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4590,1654,4591,1885,1884,1746],"class_list":["post-7220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accusations","tag-cheap","tag-counter","tag-falsehood","tag-merchants","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7221,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/7221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}