By Seun Opejobi The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said fake operatives of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, are collecting...
By Seun Opejobi
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said fake
operatives of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, are collecting money from
people of the Southeast.
IPOB claimed that criminals parading themselves as ESN
operatives are asking pastors and reverend fathers to pay between N50 million
to N100 million or risk burning their churches.
Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, made the claim while
denying reports that ESN operates a recruitment camp in Enugu Ezike.
A statement by Powerful reads partly: “We the global family
and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great
leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU wish to reiterate once again to the general public,
especially the people of Enugu Ezike, that those in their community and other
parts terrorizing them are not IPOB volunteers or ESN operatives.
“The Eastern Security Network (ESN) stopped recruiting
personnel since two years ago. Therefore, anybody deceiving and parading
himself or herself as joined ESN recently is working with infiltrators and will
die in the hands of the Nigeria government and its security agencies.
“ESN operatives under IPOB-DOS knew from the time immemorial
that Nigeria Government and its security Agencies are our enemies and we have
mastered strategies of handling these enemies.
“We discovered that those responsible for the recent
insecurities going on in Enugu Ezike and other communities are hoodlums that
were recruited by auto-piloters who were driven out of Anambra and Imo States.
These hoodlums found their way to Enugu Ezike through their henchmen called
Chocho and Ejiofor.
“These guys relocated to Enugu to continue their
criminalities in these villages. Though they deceitfully recruited some of the
bad guys of those communities who thought they were joining ESN. But what they
don’t know is that IPOB is not an organization for criminals and we never
recruited criminals into ESN.
“But these criminals has ended up using the same youths for
criminalities instead of fighting insecurities and Fulani bandits masquerading
as herdsmen and terrorizing that Aguibeje bush and forests which has a border
with Akpanya Community in Kogi state which IPOB-ESN is protecting.
“They have recruited lots of criminals terrorizing their own
people, Innocent citizens and residents of the area by snatching of cars,
bikes, kidnapping for ransom and calling some notable clergymen on phone such
as Pastors and Rev Fathers, threatening them to pay some amount of cash to them
raging from #50M to 100M or risk their church auditorium burnt to ashes. Some
of these clergymen out of fear are complying and paying money to these
criminals.”
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