Just in : IPOB urges Igbo outside South-East to return home for 2023 census

In a statement by IPOB’s Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, the group has called on Igbo people living outside the South-East region to return home for the 2023 census.

According to Powerful, this is to ensure that the actual population size of the Igbo is accurately ascertained and to prove that they are not an insignificant minority.
The National Population Commission has announced that citizens will be enumerated at their places of residence during the forthcoming population and housing census. However, IPOB sees this as an opportunity for the Igbo to determine the size of their population and the amenities required in their territory.
IPOB is urging well-meaning Igbo business people, politicians, and other stakeholders to contribute to the success of the project by engaging transport owners to facilitate the return of Igbo people for the census exercise. The group believes that the census will provide more evidence of the need for Biafra’s independence.
“The mass return of our people during this forthcoming population census will help us quantify the population of Biafrans in Nigeria. Therefore, we must seize the opportunity the Nigeria Government is offering to our benefit. They have always told the world that we are a dot with an insignificant population. Now is the time to let the world know the population of Biafrans in Nigeria as the Biafra agitation is gathering international attention and speed. Biafra is coming, and no one can stop it. IPOB is gradually dismantling all obstacles to our freedom, and this population census will provide another opportunity to collect more evidence to that effect.
“Should there be any reason why you can’t travel to Biafra land to be counted, make sure you and your family members are not counted outside Biafra land. We must prove them wrong once and for all.”
He added that it would engage transport owners to be part of this project so that those willing to travel to the East to be counted could do so.
“We are calling on all well-meaning Igbo business men and women, entrepreneurs, senators, ministers, commissioners, House of Assembly members from the Eastern states to contribute in one way or the other to ensure that our people come back home during this population census exercise.”