IPOB: POOR HANDLING BY GOVT RESULTED TO GROUP LABELLED AS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION....Says Rochas Okorocha

Owelle Rochas Okorocha

“There was no need to have handled the IPOB matter the way it was handled. Today they have turned out to be terrorists." Sen. Okorocha.

“But for me, I don’t see them as terrorists. I see them as children who have not been properly educated on the happenings.”

A two-term former Governor of Imo state and presidential aspirant for the 2023 election under the All Progressives Congress, APC, Owelle Rochas Aniele Okorocha has provided some possible reasons as to why members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, became terrorists.

Okorocha, a senator in the 9th Assembly representing Imo West Senatorial District of Imo state, explained that IPOB became a terrorist group because it was not properly handled by the government.

Senator Rochas Okorocha made this disclosure while addressing State House Correspondents after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday.

The APC presidential aspirant said no matter what, he, however, sees IPOB members as poorly educated children and not terrorists.

“There was no need to have handled the IPOB matter the way it was handled. Today they have turned out to be terrorists.

“But for me, I don’t see them as terrorists. I see them as children who have not been properly educated on the happenings.”

It is recalled that, the members of IPOB have been agitating for the actualization of Biafra in the Southeast.

Their agitation led to the arrest of the group’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu who  facing terrorism charges before an Abuja Federal High Court brought against him by the Nigerian Government.