Reference

Readers are encouraged to review the April 2020 Report of the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which listed IPOB alongside Boko Haram as entities tormenting and terrorizing the church and Christians in Nigeria.

🔗 Read the report excerpts here

Amidst the worsening security situation in Nigeria, fueled mostly by the murderous Fulani conquest invasion of the country, and as communities across Igboland continue their efforts to rid their lands, forests, villages, and towns of widespread IPOB/ESN terror, killings, kidnapping, human organ harvesting, and cannibalism being orchestrated under the banner of Nnamdi Kanu’s “Biafra Restoration” scam, it has become necessary to issue this note of caution to the Igbo U.S. diaspora sponsors, financiers, and facilitators of the so-called “Biafra Restoration” campaign.

This campaign has collapsed miserably, leaving Igboland in a pool of its own blood. The reality is that terror is terror and will be fought everywhere it shows up.

That is why the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) listed IPOB along with Boko Haram in its April 2020 report. It recognized and adjudged the killings, destruction, and disruptions by IPOB and its enforcers in Igboland as acts of terror—no different from those being enacted by Boko Haram or Fulani herdsmen on the indigenous peoples of Nigeria.

This, however, does not absolve Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, or the government security forces of responsibility for their own acts of terror in Igboland and elsewhere.

The next logical action that should have followed that 2020 USCIRF report featuring IPOB is for the U.S. to designate IPOB as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), just like Boko Haram was designated.

However the wider implications of an FTO Designation on IPOB for the Igbo Diaspora in the US which contribute and channel finances and other support to IPOB and its enforcers, particularly the ESN would seriously endanger members of the Igbo Diaspora Community who ignorantly raise funds for the Terror being orchestrated by Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB and ESN as some of them may be genuinely ignorant of:

1. The terror and bloodletting being unleashed by IPOB and ESN in Igboland.
2. The laws on terrorism, which recognize, prohibit, and punish terror financing, procurement, incitement, and facilitation as acts of terror.

It was therefore in an effort to avert the disastrous consequences of an FTO designation of IPOB by the U.S. on the large Igbo diaspora community that the LNC Team in Washington, D.C. intervened to slow down that next logical step of designating IPOB as a Foreign Terrorist Organization—though its actions clearly qualify as such.

Over the past few years, the LNC-NINAS Outreach Team has been enlightening the Igbo diaspora community in the U.S. about these matters. Unfortunately, many continue to turn a deaf ears to the warnings.

In this regard, several U.S.-based Igbo diaspora organizations deserve special mention for their roles in facilitating the terror and bloodletting orchestrated by Nnamdi Kanu in Igboland. These include:

1. World Igbo Congress (WIC)
2. Association of Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID)
3. RisingSun Charities Organization
4. Ambassadors for Self-Determination

The last two are known affiliates and fundraising outlets for IPOB/ESN, among others.

These organizations continue to cling to Nnamdi Kanu’s “Biafra Restoration” scam, even when confronted with irrefutable evidence of bloodletting, kidnapping-for-ransom, organ harvesting, and even cannibalism being perpetrated by IPOB, ESN, the Unknown Gunmen, Autopilot, and other affiliates of the terror conglomerate ravaging Igboland in the name of “Biafra Restoration.”

They remain in unjustifiable denial while innocent blood continues to flow in Igboland.

Perhaps the time has come for the Igbo Caucus of the LNC to reconsider its earlier protective stance and formally request the U.S. government—through its agencies, particularly the Secretary of State, the State Department, the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and the Senate and House Committees on Foreign Relations—to revisit the subject of IPOB/ESN terror in Igboland.

This is especially important now, as urgent U.S. policy actions are being considered to halt widespread ethnoreligious killings in Nigeria. The terror and killings by IPOB in Igboland cannot be regarded as more tolerable to the Igbo than those by Fulani invaders or government security forces.

This “Biafra Restoration,” sold as freedom, has become the bloody mayhem currently ravaging Igboland. Genuine liberation and freedom are now within reach through the defeat and de-legitimization of the 1999 Constitution, by which the Igbo have been subjugated in Nigeria—without the bloodletting and destructive commotion of IPOB or ESN.

The time has also come for the global Igbo community to denounce and disown the entire “Biafra Restoration” misadventure along with its proponents and enforcers. This is the first step toward ending the unending blood festival being staged in Igboland by those claiming to be restoring Biafra.

The Igbo must now find the wisdom and courage to embrace the orderly union reconfiguration pathway to emancipation in Nigeria, which revolves around the ousting and decommissioning of the unitary 1999 Constitution.

Let it also be understood by the Igbo diaspora in the United States that supporting further national elections in Nigeria under the atrocious 1999 Constitution is tantamount to supporting the continuation of killings, mass impoverishment, and subjugation flowing from that same constitution.

With the October 31, 2025 redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by the United States, all acts of terror occurring in Nigeria—including those perpetrated by IPOB and ESN—will now fall under the purview of forthcoming U.S. policy actions.

• Tony Nnadi
• LNC-NINAS
• October 31, 2025