The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has issued a mobilization call to its members and allies in the United States, urging them to converge on Washington D.C. for a significant protest. The demonstration is specifically targeting a reported diplomatic mission by the Nigerian government to the US.
The protest is intended to vehemently counter the official narrative and draw global attention to what IPOB claims is a campaign of systematic ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, church burnings, and mass abductions of indigenous peoples across Nigeria.
The protest notice, issued by Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB USA’s Secretary of Media and Publicity, on behalf of leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, claims the action is urgent. According to Powerful, “A high-level Nigerian delegation is reportedly heading to the United States to polish Nigeria’s battered international image and deceive world leaders into believing that peace, justice, and religious freedom exist in that country.”
Honouring a Sacrifice, Demanding Truth
IPOB vowed it would “not allow the same government presiding over ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, church burnings, abductions, and mass burials of Indigenous Peoples to rewrite the narrative while the victims are still bleeding.” The separatist group declared that the time has come “to raise our voices with thunder in the capital of the free world.”
The group noted that the current events are sadly unsurprising, recalling that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu raised the alarm over a decade ago regarding a “jihadist expansion, land-grabbing agenda, and systematic extermination targeting Judeo-Christian populations.” They believe Kanu was arrested, tortured, and detained because he refused to remain silent while his people were marked for extinction.
“We will honour his sacrifice by taking the truth to Washington, D.C. — loudly,” the statement affirmed.
A Call for Peaceful Solidarity
The decision to mobilize members across the US comes from a deeply felt fear that indigenous nations across Nigeria are being “overrun one after another.” IPOB argues that failure to act now means, “If we don’t rise, we will be the next headline, the next mass grave, the next ‘never again’ story.”
IPOB stressed that the demonstration is strictly a “call for a mass, peaceful, unstoppable display of conscience” and not a call for violence or confrontation. They hope the protest will produce “a sea of Biafran and Judeo-Christian solidarity in the heart of Washington” that the world cannot ignore. The group has reached out to human rights defenders, civil liberty organizations, and all people of conscience to join their march for truth.
