We Have No Camp In Enugu

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) said that it has no camp in Enugu Ezike, in Enugu State.

It stated that those terrorizing the area are neither IPOB volunteers nor members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) operatives, adding that ESN stopped recruiting personnel two years ago.

The group’s Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, stated this in a statement on Tuesday.

Following an increase in banditry, kidnapping, and killings, a development linked to the activities of the ESN, the Enugu State government last month imposed a curfew in the area and drafted more security to contain the surge.

He said: “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 two years ago. Therefore, anybody deceiving and parading himself or herself as joining ESN recently is working with infiltrators and will die in the hands of security Agencies.

“ESN does not have any operational camp at Enugu-Ezike Igbo-Eze Enugu North. Those terrorizing men and women of God including traditional rulers are not ESN Operatives or IPOB volunteers.

“IPOB and ESN do not call our people to bring money to them. Anybody who wishes to support ESN Operatives does that willingly and voluntarily without any form of force or threat. The youths of the affected communities must come out and identify these criminals because IPOB is coming out to deal with them.

“Those claiming to be Autopilots without airplanes are not IPOB family members and we cannot allow them to destroy IPOB’s image. Autopilots are free to do anything in their name but not impersonate IPOB.

“We discovered that those responsible for the recent insecurity in Enugu-Ezike and other communities are hoodlums that were recruited by Autopilots who were driven out of Anambra and the 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 have ended up using same youths for criminalities instead of fighting insecurity 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.”