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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, has disclosed that the group has uncovered secret detention centres where Nigerian security forces have allegedly been detaining some Biafran activists.
The group said the public alert was key to explaining the infringement on their fundamental human rights.
It claimed abuses, maltreatment of innocent people, tortures, organs racketeering, among others, are some of the nefarious activities going on in those centres.
The disclosure was made in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Friday.
According to the statement, some of the alleged detention centres include: Wawa Military Base; Kanji Dam detention centre; Niger State barracks and prison; DSS headquarters, Abuja; Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Abattoir, Abuja; Tiger Base Police detention, Owerri, Imo State; Goodluck Jonathan’s Army Barracks, Ohafia, Abia State; Zone 9, Umuahia; Abia State detention centre; Zone 13 Ukpo, Anambra State; and Onitsha Army Barracks, Anambra State.
Otters are Navy Base, Ogbaru, Anambra State; SARS Awkuzu, Ukpo, Anambra State; 82 Division, Enugu; Military Barracks, Enugu State; Obinze Army Barracks, Owerri, Imo State; Central police station headquarters, Umuahia, Abia State; State CID headquarters Awka, Anambra State; Naval Base Asaba, Delta State; Enugu Maximum Prison, Enugu State; Port Harcourt Maximum Prison, River State; Aba Prison, Abia State; Abakiliki Prisons, Ebonyi State; Uyo Prisons, Akwa Ibom; Owerri Prisons, Imo State; Kuje Prisons, Abuja; Keffi Prisons; Suleja Prison, Niger State and Nigeria Military Intelligence Detention facility, Abuja.
It urged people whose relatives are missing to look for them at those secret detention centres.
IPOB said, “Ndigbo is the highest ethnic group that is being detained with accusations of being either members of IPOB or ESN or framed as kidnappers by the notorious Nigeria Police, the DSS, and the Army.
"Ndigbo has been profiled because of their ethnicity by the Nigerian government and hunted and detained across all the illegal detention centres in Nigeria. Not only the innocent Igbo are detained in these illegal detention facilities, but also innocent people from other ethnic groups are locked up in those gulags.
“The 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.
“Until today, some of the IPOB members that the Nigerian Army and Police abducted during President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally in 2016 at Port 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 eight years ago.”
