PRESS STATEMENT BY COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY OF IPOB
19 November 2025
FG DELEGATION IN WASHINGTON DC PLOTTING TO MISLEAD THE UNITED STATES ON CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE — 3,000 USD BRIBERY SCHEME TO BUY FALSE TESTIMONY UNCOVERED
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wishes to alert the international community, the Christian world, and the global human-rights community to a deeply alarming development unfolding in Washington DC.
A delegation of Nigerian Government officials has arrived in the United States ahead of the Congressional Hearing on Christian Genocide in Nigeria. Instead of addressing the well-documented killings of Christians from the Middle Belt to Southern Kaduna to the South-East, these officials have embarked on a disgraceful mission to deceive the U.S. Congress and relevant American agencies by falsely claiming that Christians are not being massacred in Nigeria.
This is a certified falsehood, and the world knows it.
A Disturbing Recruitment Scheme in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia
Even more troubling is credible intelligence reaching IPOB that these regime representatives have hired unconscionable middlemen in the DMV area (Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia) to scour the region in search of Igbo and Yoruba individuals—predominantly Christians—who are willing to:
testify in person, or
sign fraudulent petitions
denying the ongoing Christian persecution in Nigeria.
This devilish assignment is being carried out for a shameful fee of $3,000 USD per individual.
These soulless agents are being assembled to lend legitimacy to a blatant lie designed to whitewash genocide and deceive U.S. lawmakers.
A Warning to the Christian Community in the U.S.
At a time when Christians in Nigeria are being butchered in their homes, farms, churches, and villages on a near-daily basis, it is shocking that some individuals would accept financial inducements to betray the blood of the slain.
Let it be known that the names of these traitors to Christendom will be carefully documented. History will remember their betrayal.
IPOB Family Members in the DMV Area — Be Alert
All IPOB family members and well-meaning Nigerians in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia are hereby placed on high alert. Anyone who encounters individuals attempting to recruit people to sign false statements should:
document the encounter,
gather available information, and
report immediately to the appropriate U.S. authorities, and to the IPOB liaison offices in the area.
Do not engage them physically. Do not confront them. Simply expose their activities through lawful channels.
Public Warning
The general public is strongly warned not to allow themselves to be deceived, manipulated, or financially induced into providing false testimony to U.S. institutions.
No amount of money is worth lying against the victims whose blood cries out for justice.
IPOB will continue to defend truth, justice, and the lives of persecuted Christians across Nigeria. No amount of bribery, propaganda, or deceit can bury genocide. The world is watching, and the truth will prevail.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL
Media & Publicity Secretary
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
