The Department of State Services (DSS) has said insecurity in the Southeast, which is due to criminality, is wrapped around Biafra agitation.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that this was disclosed by the by the director of the Service in Imo State, Wilcox Idaminabo, during a one-day stakeholders roundtable organised by the Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) on the November 11 governorship election in the state.
Idaminabo said the destruction and killings were simply criminality and not Biafra agitations.
He urged traditional rulers, clergymen, and Igbo leaders to speak up against the evil of insecurity in the southeast.
“What is going on in the Southeast is criminality wrapped around the ideology of Biafra. Biafra is not to kill or destroy because some traditional rulers and religious leaders cannot even stay in their communities. There is no Biafra anywhere,” Idaminabo said.
He recalled his experience during operations in Orsu, Imo State, where he saw “gory, headless bodies, vehicles that had become abandoned. It was terrible.”
Idaminabo queried why threats of no elections arise during elections in the zone, saying it fuels allegations that insecurity is sponsored by political parties.
It should be noted that for some years, the Southeast has been a theatre of insecurity linked to the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and Biafra agitation.
