04/26/2025
Canada Which Denied You Visa Recognises IPOB – Biafran Group Slams Defence Chief Chris Musa For Intimidating Members Using Social Media
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has issued a scathing statement condemning Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, accusing him and the Nigerian Army of attempting to intimidate Biafrans and suppress their rights to free speech and self-determination.
In a statement signed by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, and released on April 25, 2025, the group declared that even Canada which denied Musa visa recently, recognised the IPOB family.
IPOB said, "The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under the resolute leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, unequivocally condemns the brazen and provocative statements by Christopher Musa, Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, who has once again resorted to threatening and intimidating Biafrans for exercising their inalienable rights to free speech and self-determination through social media.
"Musa’s reckless call for Southeasterners to cease propagating IPOB’s activities is not only an affront to our fundamental freedoms but a desperate attempt to silence the awakening of Biafran consciousness. We will not be cowed, and we will not be silenced."
The statement went further to criticise the Nigerian Army’s human rights record. "Musa’s Nigerian Army, an institution soaked in the blood of innocent Igbo youths, has no moral standing to lecture Biafrans on what is good for us. This is the same army that has orchestrated relentless massacres of our people since 1966, from the pogroms that claimed over 5 million Igbo lives to the ongoing genocidal campaigns in Biafraland."
IPOB referenced several incidents, including the 2016 Nkpor and Aba killings, and the invasion of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s residence during Operation Python Dance, stating:
"We ask Musa: What was the crime of the Biafran youths slaughtered at Nkpor in 2016, a massacre acknowledged by Amnesty International and UN Special Rapporteurs as constituting crimes against humanity? What was the offence of the Igbo youths mowed down at National High School, Aba, or those killed during the Trump solidarity rally in Port Harcourt? What justified the murderous invasion of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s residence during Operation Python Dance, where 28 innocent Biafrans, including Kanu’s parents, were killed in cold blood by your forces, orchestrated by your Fulani overlords?"
The statement also criticised traditional rulers in the Southeast who hosted General Musa.