Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB on Monday reacted to a report released by SBM security Intelligence and Reuters International News Agency publication of the report which stated that over 776 people have been killed since August 9, 2021 when sit-at-home started every Monday in the Southeastern states of Nigeria, with the SBM attributing the killings and the 30 travellers allegedly killed earlier this month around Okigwe-Owerri highway and Umuna community in Onuimo local government area of Imo State to IPOB and ESN__Eastern Security Network, this, IPOB in a rebuttal issued by its Spokesperson, Emma Powerful on Monday, accused the the Nigeria National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu of allegedly plotting with the SBM and Reuters to give the Biafra group a bad name.

IPOB in a statement titled; “SBM Intelligence, Reuters And Nuhu Ribadu’s Hatchet Job Against IPOB: A Failed Propaganda War”, said the killing of 776 persons as alleged by the SBM was committed by kidnappers and other violent criminals allegedly sponsored by the government to carry out numerous atrocities in the Southeast geopolitical of the country with a view to discredit and cause public disaffection against IPOB.

According to the statement, “The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the supreme leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu categorically and unequivocally condemns in the strongest terms possible the latest hatchet job disguised as a “report” released by a faceless, compromised, and government-sponsored propaganda arm called SBM Intelligence, and amplified by the neo-colonial media outfit, Reuters, all under the shameful direction of Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.

This laughable fabrication alleges that IPOB’s Sit-at-Home actions resulted in 776 deaths and trillions in economic losses.

This is not just a lie—it is a desperate concoction by a drowning regime grasping at straws.

SBM Intelligence is neither credible nor neutral; it is a mercenary outfit created to launder the image of failed regimes and discredit voices demanding justice and self-determination. Their so-called reports are fit only for the trash can of history, not the pages of reputable journalism.

We challenge SBM Intelligence, Reuters, and Nuhu Ribadu: if you possess an ounce of evidence linking IPOB to these baseless allegations, take it to court.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is in detention and ready to confront these lies with unassailable truth. Instead of sponsoring international smear campaigns, why not test your fantasy before a judge?

Let it be known and recorded that IPOB officially canceled Monday Sit-at-Home in 2021, and our leader publicly disowned any individual or group enforcing such orders.

Therefore, any attack attributed to a “Sit-at-Home” cannot be logically or factually linked to IPOB. This makes the SBM/Reuters report not only false but criminally deceptive.

The timing of this publication is no coincidence. As 30th May Biafra Heroes Day approaches—a sacred day for Biafrans to honour our martyrs—this corrupt regime, through its rented outlets, seeks to deflect attention from its failures and sabotage our remembrance.

This is the same Nigeria that could not stop genocidal attacks from Taraba to Zamfara but is fixated on demonizing IPOB, a peaceful movement seeking justice and freedom.

We are not ignorant of history. When Biafra stood alone against the might of the global powers—Communist East, Capitalist West, and Islamic Jihadists from Egypt and across the Arab world—we survived because our cause is righteous and ordained by God.

This propaganda blitz is but a whimper compared to the bombs of the 1967–70 genocide. It shall fail too.

Let Reuters know that by allowing itself to be used by Nuhu Ribadu and his gang of discredited Abuja plotters, it has traded its journalistic integrity for blood money.

Let SBM Intelligence know they will forever remain irrelevant outside the corridors of Nigerian state-sponsored deceit.

Let the Nigerian government know this: No amount of lies, no amount of sponsored reports, no amount of colonial echo chambers will stop the march of Biafra.

On 30th May, the world will see a region stand still in honour of our fallen heroes. We are undeterred, unshaken, and unstoppable.

Our allegiance is to the truth, and the truth is that Biafra must come”, IPOB stated in a statement issued and made available by Emma Powerful, the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary on Monday May 26, 2025.