IPOB Claims Existence Of Hidden Detention Centers For Members In Nigeria

IPOB Claims Existence Of Hidden Detention Centers For Members In Nigeria

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has alleged the existence of secret detention centers where Nigerian security forces are reportedly holding Biafra activists. According to IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful, these facilities are reportedly sites of severe human rights abuses, including torture, organ trafficking, and enforced disappearances……CONTINUE READING

In a statement, IPOB listed several locations they claim are involved in these activities, including:

– Wawa Military Base
– Kanji Dam Detention Center
– Niger State Barracks and Prison
– DSS Headquarters, Abuja
– Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Abattoir, Abuja
– Tiger Base Police Detention, Owerri, Imo State
– Goodluck Jonathan’s Army Barracks, Ohafia, Abia State
– Zone 9, Umuahia, Abia State
– Zone 13, Ukpo, Anambra State
– Onitsha Army Barracks, Anambra State
– Navy Base, Ogbaru, Anambra State
– SARS Awkuzu, Ukpo, Anambra State
– 82 Division, Enugu
– Military Barracks, Enugu State
– Obinze Army Barracks, Owerri, Imo State
– Central Police Station Headquarters, Umuahia, Abia State
– State CID Headquarters, Awka, Anambra State
– Naval Base Asaba, Delta State
– Enugu Maximum Prison, Enugu State
– Port Harcourt Maximum Prison, Rivers State
– Aba Prison, Abia State
– Abakaliki Prisons, Ebonyi State
– Uyo Prisons, Akwa Ibom
– Owerri Prisons, Imo State
– Kuje Prisons, Abuja
– Keffi Prison
– Suleja Prison, Niger State
– Nigerian Military Intelligence Detention Facility, Abuja

IPOB has urged those with missing relatives to investigate these locations. The group claims that Igbo individuals, as well as others, are disproportionately targeted, detained, and abused by Nigerian security forces. They accuse these authorities of profiling and criminalizing the Igbo ethnic group, while also implicating other ethnic groups in similar abuses.

IPOB also highlighted the ongoing search for members abducted during a 2016 rally in Port Harcourt, emphasizing that many of those individuals are still missing after more than eight years.