The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has written to US President Joe Biden to implore him to cease arms sales to Nigeria.
This followed President Muhammadu Buhari’s call on the US for assistance to combat insecurity in the West African nation.
According to Sunday Sun, Leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu wrote the letter alleging that Nigerian security forces were killing Christians with arms sold by the US for the purpose of combating Boko Haram.
“President Buhari has made Nigeria the most dangerous country in the world for Christians, Jews and Nigeria’s indigenous peoples, particularly those of the former Republic of Biafra.
“Hundreds of thousands are routinely plundered, tortured or killed with impunity by Nigerian security forces controlled and populated by Buhari’s Fulani Islamic tribesmen, often in collaboration with Fulani herdsmen (Islamist terrorist group that has been internationally branded the 4th deadliest terrorist grouping in the world).
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“The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has recommended listing Nigeria as a country of concern because of its religious oppressions. United States sales or transfers of weapons to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram are diverted to killing and terrorising Christians and Jews. The Nigerian Army, which leadership is Fulani and Islamist is complicit in these illicit transfers.
“President Buhari is promoting radical Islam in secular Nigeria. He has endorsed Sharia law in 12 northern Nigerian states. He has treated Boko Haram with kid gloves, releasing from detention hundreds arrested by the previous administration
“He recruited them into Nigerian Army and offered generous foreign scholarship to hundreds of them. He has appointed radical Muslims to head every security agency in Nigeria, including Sheik Isa Pantami whose profuse support for Al Qaeda and Taliban was widely published recently.
“Yet, Mr. Buhari has refused to sack him from his sensitive position as Minister of Communication overseeing the biometric data of Nigerians. By defending Sheik Pantami, Mr. Buhari is seemingly aligning with Mr. Pantami’s terrorist sympathies,” the letter was said to have read.
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