A group known as Southeast Revival Group (SRG) has accused the Biafra Secret Service (BSS) of assassinations, kidnappings and other unlawful activities in Nigeria’s Southeast region.
It made the allegation in an open letter signed by its National Co-Ordinator, Charles Mbani, to President Muhammadu Buhari, on the detestable security threats of IPOB to the Southeast.
SRG claimed BSS is responsible for the “assassinations of kinsmen opposed to their fluid and dubious idea of a Biafran state.”
The group insisted that BSS, which is a militant arm of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB), is ”infested with all manner of hardened criminals and deviants” aimed at carrying out their devious activities.
The letter read in part: ”Our investigations into the activities of BSS have sadly revealed the stark reality that the unregistered and illegal ”security” organisation is an assemblage of hitherto scattered IPOB’s marksmen in isolated criminal gangs, who are now fused to congregate under a single umbrella.
”The organisation has been empowered by IPOB to launch the subsisting, pervasive and consistently dreadful and alarming threats to security in the Southeast region as currently experienced.
”We are perturbed and indeed, overwhelmed by the persistent violent aggressions and coercive exploits of IPOB, through its arms and militant wing, the BSS.
”We suspect strongly that since BSS is peopled by outlaws, they are responsible for the spate of assassinations of kinsmen opposed to their fluid and dubious idea of a Biafran state.
”its members are the masterminds of kidnappings/abductions for ransom; armed robbery; extortion of hapless people at gunpoint and other sundry acts of lawlessness and crimes against the state in Southeastern Nigeria.
“Your Excellency Sir, we have cause to worry over these developments in our nation. This is because reliable information at our disposal suggests that the proceeds from the unlawful operations of the BSS in crimes around the Southeast region is one of the prime sources of the funding of IPOB to execute its foreign-backed agenda of destabilisation of Nigeria, manifest in the palpable awesome insecurity, chaos and anarchy in the region.”
