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By Madu Obi
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that it established the Eastern Security Network (ESN) as an armed vigilante group to dislodge the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen and not to confront the Nigerian Security forces.
IPOB publicity secretary, Emma Powerful said in a statement that the herdsmen are a major threat to the indigenous peoples and communities in Nigeria.
According to him, the marauding Fulani herdsmen are responsible for most of the mass murder of defenceless people in communities across Nigeria.
The IPOB spokesman's statement read: “They are responsible for the mass abductions and rape of women in Nigeria. They are behind the kidnapping for ransom and human organ trafficking.
Unfortunately, the Nigerian government and her security forces tacitly support the atrocities of the Fulani terrorists by refusing to arrest and prosecute them.
In order to defend the defenseless Biafrans, the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in collaboration with IPOB family worldwide, established the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in December 2020 as a child of necessity to checkmate the activities of Fulani terrorists nicknamed herdsmen.
The mandate given to ESN operatives was to curtail, dislodge, and remove terrorists maiming people and destroying Biafran farms.
The ESN operatives have never deviated from their mandate of protecting Biafra bushes, forests, and people. On the other hand, IPOB as a movement remains non-violent and peaceful in all our activities since its formation.
Any day, IPOB decides to move into armed struggle, the world will know, and the Nigerian government will know as well.
We know that the Nigerian government sponsors and use criminal elements and members of their security agencies to commit criminal actions in Biafraland for the purposes of blackmailing IPOB in the global arena, just like they did in the Owerri jail break.
The most recent being the killing of mainly Igbo military personnel in Aba, claiming that IPOB was responsible, but we know that the objective of the murder of those soldiers on the most revered day in Biafran calendar was to present IPOB in bad light in eyes of our people and the world as well as to destabilize the developmental work being carried out in Abia state by the governor of the state.
The Nigerian government knows those who take responsibility for crimes committed in Biafraland, and those people are neither IPOB nor ESN.
IPOB does not have an Army. We are simply a freedom fighting movement. Therefore, when a bunch of criminals address themselves as an Army, how does that relate to IPOB?"
He said that any Biafran group that is not under the command and control of IPOB’s leadership is not part of the IPOB global family.
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