The Indigenous People of Biafra announced on Sunday that the Eastern Security Network did not engage in a gunfight with police officers in Ebonyi State.
IPOB dismissed claims of such a confrontation in the Ishinwke area of Ebonyi State as untrue.
IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, stated that no ESN operatives were killed in the alleged incident.
“The global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, led by the indomitable leader, Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu debunk the fallacious and fabricated claim by the notorious Nigerian Police Abakiliki Command of engaging in a gun battle when IPOB in Ishinwke came to their station there in Ebonyi State.
“We want the public to ignore the false claims by the Nigerian Police as IPOB-ESN did not engage the zoo Police in any gun battle, and no ESN Operative was killed by the Nigerian Police in Ebonyi State. The Nigerian police killed criminals they recruited and sponsored to demonise and destroy IPOB.
“The Nigeria Police and Nigerian Army are professional propagandists and agents of falsehood. IPOB is a disciplined non-violent movement. On the other hand, ESN Operatives are armed vigilantes doing a great job of securing Biafran farms and farmers from marauding Fulani terrorists.
“ESN Operatives do not engage neither the Nigerian Army nor their Police and never civilians except the Fulani terrorists masquerading as Herdsmen.
“But if the Nigerian Army and Police dare attack ESN unprovoked, they will carry their men back in body bags. The Nigerian Army and Police can do all their yeye blackmail and propaganda, but they will not dare to invade or attack ESN without counting their losses.
“This Biafra agitation championed by IPOB, led by Mazi Nnamdi KANU, will never succumb to intimidation, imprisonment, propaganda, blackmail or mass murder from the notorious Nigerian Security Agencies.
“Nigerian Police Command in Abakiliki should stop linking IPOB to the activities of their sponsored criminals. Also, the Nigerian Police should stop killing innocent civilians and tagging them ESN. If the Nigeria Police wants to test the wrath of ESN, they should go into the bush and attack them. The objective of ESN is to dislodge Fulani terrorists nicknamed herdsmen in our land not to engage the Nigeria Security Forces,” he explained.
Powerful emphasized that the Nigerian police and army are spreading falsehoods and that IPOB is a disciplined, non-violent organization.
He asserted that ESN operatives are focused on protecting Biafran farms and farmers from Fulani terrorists and do not engage with the Nigerian security forces unless provoked.
He warned that any unprovoked attack on ESN would result in significant losses for the attackers.
