The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has exposed 27 secret detention facilities in Nigeria where innocent Biafrans are being held incommunicado, subjected to human rights abuses, torture, and illegal organ racketeering. According to a statement by Comrade Emma Powerful, Media and Publicity Secretary for IPOB, “Ndigbo are the highest ethnic group that are being detained with accusations of being either members of IPOB or ESN or framed as kidnappers by the notorious Nigerian Police, DSS, and Army.”
IPOB has called on human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Right Watch, Intersociety, and the UN Human Rights Council, to investigate the detention facilities and compel the Nigerian government to release the innocent civilians. “Prolonged illegal detention is torture, which is an abuse of fundamental human rights of those citizens. The Nigerian government is an embodiment of human rights violators, and it is time the government is called to order,” the statement read.
The detention facilities listed by IPOB include Wawa Military Base, Kanji Dam detention centre, Niger State barrack and prison, and the DSS headquarters in Abuja, among others. IPOB has urged Nigerians with missing relatives to visit these detention centers to investigate if their loved ones are still alive.
The statement reads in full…
The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wish to bring to the attention of the International Community and the general public some of the secret detention facilities in Nigeria where the murderous Nigeria Security Forces has been detaining some Biafrans whom they have been holding incommunicado for years now.
The DOS has deemed it apt to alert the world and the general public about these secret detention facilities because of the horrible human right abuses and maltreatment of innocent people, torture, illegal organ racketeering, and forceful disappearance that are happening at these detention centers. Some people whose relatives are missing should look for them at these secret detention centers. Ndigbo are the highest ethnic group that are being detained with accusations of being either members of IPOB or ESN or framed as kidnappers by the notorious Nigerian Police, DSS, and Army. Ndigbo has been profiled by reason of their ethnicity by the Nigerian government and hunted and detained across all the illegal detention centers in Nigeria. Not only the innocent Igbos are detained in these illegal detention facilities, but also innocent people from other ethnic groups are locked up in these gulags.
The following detention facilities in Nigeria are places to search for your missing relative if he or she hasn’t been tortured to death or butchered for organ black market by the notorious Nigerian Security Agencies.
1) Wawa Military Base
2) Kanji Dam detention centre
3) Niger State barrack and prison (Over 350 Igbo Biafrans, some Nigerians abducted during EndSars protest) are dumped there
4) The DSS headquarters, Abuja
5) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Abattoir, Abuja
6) Tiger base Police detention,
Owerri, Imo State
7) Goodluck Jonathan’s Army barrack Ohafia, Abia state
8) Zone 9, Umuahia, Abia state detention center
9) Zone 13 Ukpo, Anambra state
10) Onitsha Army Barracks, Anambra state
11) Navy base Ogbaru, Anambra state
12) SARS Awkuzu Ukpo, Anambra state
13) 82 division Enugu military barracks, Enugu State
14) Obinze Army Barracks Owerri, Imo State
15) Central police station headquarters Umuahia, Abia State
16) State CID headquarters Awka, Anambra state
17). Naval Base Asaba, Delta State
18) Enugu maximum prison, Enugu State
19) Port Harcourt maximum prison, River State
20) Aba prison, Abia state
21) Abakiliki prisons, Ebonyi state
22) Uyo prisons, Akwa Ibom
23) Owerri prison, Imo state
24) Kuje Prison, Abuja
25)Keffi Prison, Abuja
26) Suleja prison, Niger state
27) Nigeria military intelligence detention facility, Abuja
Until today, some of the IPOB members that the Nigerian Army and Police abducted during President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally in 2016 at Part Harcourt (Igweocha), Rivers State are still missing. IPOB is still searching for those men and women who were abducted during the peaceful rally, more than 8 years on. Nigerians with missing relatives should visit the aboved named detention centers for their loved ones to investigate to know if they are still alive. The public should also know that the notorious Nigerian Security Forces keep moving the detainees from one detention center to another for reasons best known to them.
The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra is calling on Human Rights Organisations, Amnesty International, Human Right Watch, Intersociety, and the UN Human Rights Council to initiate the move to find out how many of these detainees are still alive and compel the Nigerian Government and her murderous Security Agencies to release these innocent civilians from these dungeons. Prolonged illegal detention is torture, which is an abuse of fundamental human rights of those citizens. The Nigerian government is an embodiment of human rights violators, and it is time the government is called to order.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB
