The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has issued a warning to youths in the South-East region, urging them not to participate in the British Army recruitment.
The group in a statement on Saturday by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, said that it was a deceptive plot to exploit and discard them.
IPOB stated that the warning is necessary due to the historical mistreatment of African soldiers who fought on behalf of Britain during World War I.
British Carrier Corps.
“Thousands of these African soldiers who died in defence of Britain were never recognised. At the same time, those of them who survived the war were sent back to Africa without compensation, whereas their British and other counterparts were adequately compensated and recognised after the war,” the statement partly read.
According to the statement, during the 1939 – 1945 WWII, thousands of Africans were also recruited and sacrificed for Britain to become a superpower. “The ongoing plan to recruit Africans again, especially Biafrans, to be sacrificed for the colonial imperialist will not work,” the separatist group said.
“The people of Biafra will never be sacrificed for those who don’t recognise us as human beings. We can confidently understand that our fathers told us that they fought to save the United Kingdom during the Second World War but were abandoned by the British Government.
“IPOB is warning Biafrans to shun the ongoing British military recruitment. They don’t mind that they said it’s commonwealth countries. They are targeting the Biafrans, and we must be very careful. If Britain can have a very strict visa policy for African immigrants, why then do they have a very relaxed and easy application to join the British Army?
“If Africans do not find it easy to migrate to Britain with a work visa, there are no bases to give Africans a flexible visa to join the British Army. Biafrans should not allow themselves to be slaughtered for a nation that doesn’t care about their freedom or existence. The British Government contributed and spearheaded the Biafran genocide and the continuous subjugation of Biafrans in Nigeria.”
Insisting that Biafrans would not be allowed to be exploited again by Britain’s, IPOB said “IPOB will not allow Biafrans to be used again by Britain through the commonwealth channels to recruit soldiers to war against Russia or any other country.
“We, therefore, call on the Biafran parents to advise their children against joining the British military recruitment. Also, the Biafran youths should be wise not to join their oppressor’s Army for citizenship or monetary rewards. Do not be a sacrificial lamb for your oppressors.”
The Biafra group appealed to youths to support their cause of restoring Biafra than sacrificing their lives for imperialist globalist warmongers.
