Chapter 38: Questions for the Movement (The Strategy)

Timeframe: 2025
Location: Berlin, Enugu, Helsinki
Key Actors: IPOB Directorate of State, Autopilot faction, diaspora financiers, community leaders

Epigraph:

“It is not enough to ask the State about its crimes; the movement must answer for its own.”
— Citizen’s Dossier, Analyst Note [1]

The Narrative Opening

The Camera Lens

The dossier that interrogated the Nigerian state also turned inward. Ten questions challenge IPOB to explain who controls ESN, how sit-at-home enforcement spiraled, and where diaspora funds went. The movement’s credibility depends on honest answers.

Section 1: Accountability checklist — Questions 11–20

1. Who currently exercises operational control over ESN cells, and where is that chain of command documented?
2. What internal mechanism exists to discipline commanders who deviate from Kanu’s written directives?
3. Why did splinter broadcasters continue issuing sit-at-home orders after Kanu’s letters cancelling them?
4. Has the Directorate of State published audited accounts showing how diaspora levies were spent between 2015 and 2024?
5. What safeguards prevent Autopilot influencers from diverting donations for personal use?
6. How does IPOB intend to protect journalists and traders who resist sit-at-home enforcement?
7. What evidence can the movement provide to prove it does not sanction attacks on INEC facilities or public servants?
8. If ESN is purely defensive, why have some cells been linked to offensives outside forest reserves—and who authorised those missions?
9. What plan exists to hand over weapons and demobilise fighters if a referendum or dialogue process begins?
10. How will the movement guarantee minority rights inside a future Biafra, and who is documenting these guarantees now?

Section 2: Why these answers matter

Moderate voices inside the movement argue that moral authority is impossible without transparency. Every unanswered question feeds rival narratives that IPOB has lost control of the hydra it birthed. Diaspora donors now demand receipts; community leaders want assurances that future protests will not punish the same civilians the movement claims to defend.

The “Investigative Evidence” Box

Exhibit AL: Citizen’s Dossier Annex B

• Contains the ten internal questions reproduced above.
  
• Circulated to BRGIE departments and diaspora chapters for response.

The Verdict

Accountability cannot be a one-way demand. By interrogating itself, the movement signals maturity—if it follows through on reforms. Silence will only concede the moral high ground it seeks to occupy.

Chapter Endnotes / Citations

• [1] IPOB Legal Team. (2025, Dec 5). Citizen’s Dossier: Accountability Annex.