The federal government and the British High Commission in Abuja were mum Thursday on the warning issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) asking the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing to halt planned travels in the South East warning that such trips could be “suicidal”.
In a statement issued by its spokesman,Emma Powerful, and made available to Daily Trust in Awka, Anambra State capital, on Thursday, the proscribed separatist movement alleged a plot by unnamed persons to kill the British envoy in the area and blame its members for it.
Powerful, who accused the high commissioner of “Hatred against the Igbos and Biafra” said the group would not want to harm Ms Laing but asked that she “Must as a matter of life and death suspend all her planned activities involving travels” in the South East.
In a statement issued on May 6, the British government said though it does not change its position against recognising IPOB as a terrorist organisation, as requested by the Nigerian government, they would however not grant asylum to anybody linked to the group’s violent activities.
