{"id":7650,"date":"2016-02-15T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7650"},"modified":"2016-02-15T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:10:48","slug":"breaking-news-biafra-agitators-to-now-carry-arms-in-self-defence-ipob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7650","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS!!! Biafra Agitators to Now Carry Arms in Self Defence \u2013 IPOB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the pro-Biafra group, Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, have resolved to carry arms from Wednesday February 17, 2016, \u2018in self-defence\u2019.<br \/>\nThe group said in a release yesterday in Umuahia by its spokesperson, Emma Nmezu, that failure to carry arms had exposed its members to attacks and killings by security agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, we have come to the painful but irreversible conclusion and determination to take our fate and destiny in our own hands. Starting from Wednesday, February 17, 2016, \u201cBiafrans\u201d will now be in the mode of self defence as enshrined by the relevant acts and declarations of the United Nations.<br \/>\n\u201cLet no country or world leader attempt to tag us as terrorists because we are not terrorists, rather we are fighting for our survival and from being exterminated from the surface of the earth,\u201d the release said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe shall defend ourselves with everything and anything necessary to avoid the continual killing of our mothers, fathers, and children. This is the time for all Biafrans to rise and defend themselves. We cannot fold our arms and watch them kill us the second time after killing over two million of us in 1968\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Niger-Delta.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6308\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Niger-Delta.jpg\" alt=\"Niger Delta\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>The release added that in September last year, IPOB catalogued attacks on its members in a statement where it alerted the world on plans to provoke Biafrans into retaliation only for it to be tagged as a terrorist organization and Biafrans as terrorists<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.igberetvnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the pro-Biafra group, Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, have resolved to carry arms from Wednesday February 17, 2016, \u2018in self-defence\u2019. The group said in a release yesterday in Umuahia by its spokesperson, Emma Nmezu, that failure to carry arms had exposed its members to attacks and killings by security agents. \u201cNow, we have come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[358,1252],"class_list":["post-7650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-biafra","tag-people-of-biafra-ipob"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Niger-Delta.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1Zo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7651,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions\/7651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}