Former Deputy Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Uche Mefor, has linked the killing of Dr. Chike Akunyili and others’, to the pro-Biafra group.
Chike, who was a widower of the late Prof. Dora Akunyili, former Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) was, along with many others, gruesomely murdered in Anambra State, on Tuesday.
Amid widespread suspicion of its culpability, however, the separatist group had denied involvement in Chike and others’ killings, averring that it was a political assassination.
But Mefor insisted that the violence created by the IPOB in the southeast was responsible for the death of Chike.
A Facebook post by Mefor read in part: “What the Indigenous People of Nnamdi Kanu (IPONK) is doing of late is criminality; it is a category of heinous crime called crimes against humanity within the Rome statute and the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and no more freedom fighting.
“It is on record that the inspiration of the violent utterances, threats, and incitements to horror by Nnamdi Kanu and his bumbling sycophantic criminal gang members of the not-fit-for-purpose DOS, a series of sponsored and blanket assassination/killing campaigns and extra-judicial extermination of the innocent unsuspecting Igbo Biafrans, have been commissioned and ridiculously on an ongoing basis…hailed and celebrated by a cross-section of the gullible as UNKNOWNGUNMEN/ESN, as fighting the Fulani herdsmen and in the name of freedom fighting.
“The latest is the unfortunate assassination of Dr. Akunyili.”