FG, Britain snub IPOB’s threat to envoy
Catriona Laing, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, and the federal government seem to have brushed aside the threat by the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra against the former.
Neither the government nor the high commissioner has responded to the threat as at press time.
The secessionists, in their statement Thursday, asked Laing to halt her visit to the states of the southeast.
Emma Powerful, who claims to speak for the group, had claimed some unnamed persons were planning to kill the British envoy and blame IPOB for it.
The statement said Laing “must as a matter of life and death suspend all her planned activities involving travels” in the South East.
“Despite her hatred for Biafra and Igbos in particular, we have optimal respect and value for the sanctity of life, especially visitors to our land.
“Their aim is to quash the agitation for self-determination and to kill as many Indigenous Biafrans as possible and other residents in Biafra land.
“However, if she ignores this advice and walks into the trap already set by enemies of Biafra struggle that will be considered suicidal”.
