The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has called on the United States government to deploy an impartial team of investigators to Nigeria’s Southeast region to conduct an on-the-spot assessment of the rising insecurity in the area.
In a statement issued on October 14, 2025, by its spokesperson, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB accused the Nigerian government of orchestrating a “campaign of calumny and disinformation” aimed at blaming the pro-Biafra movement for violence in the region. The group alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and certain compromised Igbo politicians were the true sponsors of insecurity, using the crisis for political and financial gain.
“The government has failed to secure the lives and property of citizens and is now scapegoating IPOB to cover its incompetence,” the statement read. “We are a peaceful self-determination movement, not the architects of chaos.”
IPOB also reiterated that its detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is being held illegally in violation of court orders and international law. It alleged that Kanu’s continued detention has been exploited to sustain unrest and justify massive security expenditures that “disappear into private pockets.”
The group maintained that an independent U.S.-led investigation would reveal the “real merchants of insecurity” in the Southeast. “If IPOB is found culpable, we will disband immediately. But if the investigation exposes the Nigerian government as the culprit—as we are confident it will—the world will see the truth,” the statement added.
Calling for global attention, IPOB said the crisis mirrors the wider persecution of Christians in Nigeria and urged the U.S. and international community to act swiftly “before more lives are lost.”
“Biafra will rise through truth, not tyranny,” Emma Powerful concluded.