VIDEO: South East insecurity criminal activities done by locals, blamed on other tribe – Soludo

*Says so called IPOB not for any liberation but business

By KEMI KASUMU

A video has emerged in which Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, dismissed the claim of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as nothing to do with so called liberation of Igbo people but a means of criminal transaction to fill pocket of certain elements.

Although he did not mention IPOB but ‘gunmen’ in the comment delivered in code-mixing, Governor Soludo disclosed that crimes, particularly, kidnapping, and banditry in South Eastern Nigeria, championed by the so-called IPOB, is a criminal business transacted and blamed on another tribe (Fulani).

He revealed how his government raided one of the camps of perpetrators and recovered dozens of exotic cars and certain documents in which series of amounts of money paid by victims of kidnap and banditry are recorded.

He said in the first page of the account book recovered from the camp, it was stated the order of payments by kidnapped victims and how those that paid are ticked “paid, released”.

Second page, the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria said, had income account of those that made contributions while the third or other page had expenditure account stating a particular N18 million that went for weapons, ammunition and so on.

He noted that these were people, who were riding Okada bit would not want to go back riding Okada having gotten exposed to huge amount of money earned through the evil means.

“This has always been the problem,” Governor Soludo said, adding with a smile in his face that “Anambra will be great again.”

Governor Soludo concluded that IPOB is not for any liberation, as claimed through media propaganda, but a fraudulent means of making illegal money.