Insecurity: IPOB not responsible - Army commander confirms

 

October 8, 2022 | The Biafra Times

ARMY COMMANDER CONFIRMS IPOB NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR INSECURITY AND CHRIMINALTIES IN BIAFRALAND 

Following the incessant abductions, illegal arrests, killings, burning of homes and markets, going on in Biafraland by Nigeria Security Operatives, we the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great prophet and liberator *Mazi Nnamdi Kanu* has been vindicated by the recent statement that emanated from the GOC 82 Army Division Enugu, Musa Umar to the effect that those involved in the insecurity in the East are criminals hiding under Biafra Agitation to commit crimes and not IPOB Members.  

The Nigeria Army and it's sister Security Agencies especially DSS have committed so many atrocities in their claims of fighting insecurity in Biafra Land. These Security Agencies have killed uncountable number of innocent Biafrans, burnt their homes and destroyed their properties and means of livelihood because they believed they are all IPOB members or sympathizers. 

The new Army Commander who during his visit to Governor of Anambra State acknowledged that IPOB and ESN Operatives were not involved in the unwarranted insecurity going on in the region, said that the  criminals committing these obnoxious crimes are hiding under the cloak of Biafra agitation to perpetrate their evil in the Region.

What the GOC failed to state however is the fact that these criminal gangs were created in the first place by the Federal Government and some Eastern Region criminal politicians in collaboration with Security Agencies to demonize IPOB's Biafra struggle. For years, the Nigeria Government have used the media to cover-up their evil actions while blaming IPOB for the crimes they Mastermind. 

For instance, it was Hope Uzodima and the Federal Government that Masterminded the Owerri Correctional Center jailbreak in order to free the criminals they are using today. Can anyone believe that a prison in the heart of Owerri can be attacked for over 3 hours without any security intervention with the avalanche of police and military in Owerri and its environs?

If the Army Boss is not aware of this information, why then is the military colluding with Ebubeagu that was created by Dave Umahi and Hope Uzodinma in killing and burning down homes and properties of innocent citizens especially those of IPOB members?

Nigeria Government and her Security Agencies know without question that IPOB is  nonviolent in it's struggle for Biafra Independence. But for their fear of the outcome of a Referendum as demanded by IPOB and stipulated by the UN Self-Determination Principles, they resolved to sponsor criminals to create insecurity in order to blackmail IPOB. Today, the insecurity they have created have spiralled into a monster threatening their own safety in the Region.

IPOB and ESN never attacked any State Institution nor it's Security Agents. Nevertheless,  Nigeria Army, Police and DSS Agents were abducting, torturing, jailing, and even extra-judicially executing  anybody they suspected to be IPOB member. To them as long as you are from the former territory that was known as the Eastern Region, you automatically become their target otherwise how can one explain and justify the wholesale enforced disappearances of our youths daily. If they have their way, they would use Biological or Chemical substance to wipe us all out of existence that is if they are not contemplating that already. The Nigerian Army, Police, and DSS agents must leave IPOB members alone and focus on their duties. 

Their continuous effort to blackmail, harass, and extra judicially murder Biafrans and IPOB Family members will destroy them. 

Yes one of the main reason for setting up the ESN is to secure our land from Fulani foreign invaders masquerading as Fulani Herdsmen. It should also be unequivocally stated that  IPOB and ESN are meant to combat all forms of criminality in our land.

IPOB cannot allow criminals to run riot and operate unhindered in Biafraland because that will defeat the whole essence of our struggle for the liberation of Biafraland and our people from the clutches of this evil and luciferian enclave and union called the Zoological Republic of Nigeria.

The Sovereignty of Biafra and freedom of its people is an outcome that must come to pass and achieved by this very IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

ESN. is in full operation and will flourish without the support of the governors in our land --- Emma Powerful

 

December 31, 2020 | The Biafra Times

Now that the south east govs have distanced themselves from the eastern security network, how can it work successfully without their support?

We never expected the governors to support Eastern Security Network. The governors are part of our problem because of their selfish interests. They are the ones benefiting under the current one Nigeria slavery.

But the truth remains that their dissociation from the security outfit is of no significance or consequence. ESN is the people's movement. It doesn't revolve around any governor or misguided political criminal masquerading as an elite. There is a saying in Igbo parlance that "Ootu Onitsha does not know that one person did not come to market". So, we don't miss the involvement of traitors and saboteurs like Southeast governors who are only after the interest of their Fulani slave masters.

ESN is formidable, and can effectively operate without the involvement of any governor. The security outfit will flourish without the support of the governors in our land. I don't think we can trust them. IPOB is the largest mass movement on the face of the earth. What would make it possible for any sane mind to think that  a bunch of criminals numbering a total of 11 will stop such a global phenomenon even with the help of their Janjaweed masters in the Sahel.

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When will the network start working fully?

The Security formation has started full operation since the inauguration. They have shown their readiness in every forest and bush in Biafra territory. We do not operate in homes, cities or towns but in the bushes and forests where terrorists lurk to rape our mothers. After our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu inaugurated them on December 12, 2020 they have been active. Have you asked yourself what is responsible for the prevailing peace and security in the region this festive period despite the near absence of the corrupt Nigerian security agents on the road? This should be the first time in history when crime rate is at its lowest ebb in the region without Police and Army on the roads. The people can attest to this.

They need arms to fight kidnappers and other criminals with sophisticated weapons, which the FG won't approve for you, how are you solving the problem?

ESN Security operatives do not need  sophisticated weapons to defend Biafran land against terrorists although such are readily available should the need arise. Killer herdsmen, kidnappers and criminals who have been terrorizing our people understand that the game has changed for good. The will and determination of the people is all that is required. The morale of the men is very high, weapon or no weapon we are ready to die in defense of our ancestral lands. After all the Nigerian Army with its fabled sophisticated armory are today capitulating before a rag-tag Boko Haram insurgent army and Fulani homemade bandits.

How many men and women are in the security network?

I don't consider it appropriate to give details of the size of our security outfit until the appointed time. But we have enough volunteers to effectively defend every community in Biafra territory against invaders. I can authoritatively assure you that the days of Fulani herdsmen slaughtering Biafrans at will or destroying their crops with impunity are over. Such dastardly act is now a suicide mission! Our enemies understand this very clearly. Today ESN is ready to do that which the oppressive Nigerian government and our cowardly governors have failed to do.

What qualifications are needed to join?

Willingness to die in defence of Biafraland against local and foreign terrorists. It is a a volunteer force but it's not like the absurdity  that obtains in Nigeria security agencies. Many of our men are graduates, some relocated from North America, Asia and Europe to be part of ESN. We have people of all stations and academic backgrounds. But what is paramount is that our men are highly trained and disciplined. We make sure they get the best of training required for the defense of the land of their ancestors according to internationally accepted standards and practice.

Do you use or have plans to use drones for effective monitoring of the region?

We don't intend to publicly disclose our operational secrets but terrorists are no match to what is already on ground in Biafranland. We are always ahead of them and sponsors in Aso Rock. As I speak with you any movement by any of their so-called security agencies to look for or confront ESN will be identified before time and captured by our high resolution CCTV cameras scattered across the width and length of Biafraland.

How will the ESN personnel respond to the police or Nigerian Army when deployed to stop or confront them since the FG is against it?

First of all I want to correct the misconception about ESN in some quarters particularly among the enemy camp. ESN is not after Nigeria security agencies. ESN is not Biafran Army but a mere security outfit like Amotekun in the South West, and the Miyetti Allah National Security Network. The mandate of ESN is to protect Biafran land against terrorists, a responsibility which both the federal government and our governors have criminally failed to carry out. ESN is a child of necessity. 

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So, why should any sane security personnel come to look for the trouble of ESN? Let the Nigerian security operatives not make the mistake of engaging ESN in any confrontation because it will be deadly for all including the politicians instigating them. Somalia, Yemen and Syria are ready examples of government overreach. Those governors  calling for the Nigerian army to engage ESN will be the first casualities, them and their families. The Army, Police and DSS should face  Boko Haram, ISWAP and bandits terrorising the country. They should leave ESN alone to secure Biafra land against Invaders except they want to prove that the killings and rapes in our land have the approval of government.

 If ESN is for security agents they know where to engage them. They are only after criminals and terrorists. Therefore, they don't deserve any attack. If the security agents are not attacking Amotekun or the Miyetti Allah security network, why should they single out ESN for attack? The right to self defense is constitutional and inalienable. But should the federal government decide to go into confrontation with ESN, that will herald the end of civilization as we know it in our part of the world. 

 Are they collaborating in any way with Amotekun in the south west? And in what ways?

One of the nightmares of the Janjaweed Fulani dominated federal government of Nigeria today is the new unity, understanding and cooperation between the South West and old Eastern region. The old narrative peddled to divide and subjugate our various peoples are fast changing. The present crop of youths in both regions including the Middle Belt is not like some of their more treacherous fathers.

Again, don't forget that Afenifere was the first front line socio-cultural group to support ESN even before  Ohanaeze Ndigbo grudgingly offered theirs. South East governors and their likes are wretched cowards in the pocket of the caliphate. So, I can tell you that Amoteku and ESN can and will perfectly collaborate if and when the need arises. They have common agenda. Don't forget that when Amotekun was formed and inaugurated our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu assured them that he was ready to send them 1million men to support them if they needed such help. We are working together to free our peoples from the British bondage called Nigeria criminally skewed to favour the Fulani hegemony which has since metamorphosed into terrorism and daylight banditry. 

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB

Eastern Security Network, The antidote to Fulani Janjaweedism and insecurity in our land - Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

 

IPOB PRESS STATEMENT 

December 16, 2020 | The Biafra Times

Having waited for many years for our governors to secure our land as Yoruba governors did to no avail, we the people of the East comprising of South East and South South have resolved to defend our land from the ravages of Fulani terrorism and extra judicial killings by the Zoo armed forces. We can’t allow what happened in Obigbo to repeat itself. 

It has fallen on this generation to defend our land against the ravages of Fulani terrorism and the hegemonic tendencies of Janjaweedism. For years our mothers have not been able to visit their farms for fear of being raped and cut to pieces. Our invaders, some of them from Sene-Gambia according to El-Rufai are in our villages raping and killing at will. Our response to the endless cycle of insecurity mothers m

Delta State Government has inaugurated Operation Delta Hawk, a new security outfit in the classic fragmented approach of the East to issues of national importance. The West were united in their effort to combat Fulani terrorism in their territory, even Miyetti Allah, an open supporter of murderous Fulani herdsmen had the guts to float a vigilante outfit the spread to every nook and cranny of Nigeria with the support of the Presidency and Northern governors. But in our land, Ifeanyi Okowa and other governors in the East cowardly allowed themselves to become fragmented out of fear of displeasing their Janjaweed masters.

I recall what Chinedu Euranius Ibegbulem wrote, he said "the only way to eat an elephant is to cut it into pieces". The approach of eastern governors to the issue of insecurity and Fulani terrorism is indicative of the mindset of a divided and conquered people. The pathetic, cowardly and fragmented approach to this great threat to our existence is the result of years of cruel and deliberate partitioning of our land, cutting Igboland into 5 inconsequential states, dividing us and calling us alien names like Niger Delta, South South, South East and goodness knows what else. 

We have allowed ourselves to become willing tools of the caliphate in our own destruction. Some foolish Igbo people have been cajoled and intimidated to the point where they deny their own identity. For example Nwike who is now Wike decided to massacre his own people at Obigbo for the reward of being named vice presidential candidate to Tambuwal in 2023. Igbo people were fooled into adding "R" to their Igbo names thereby changing the sound and it's meaning.

Therefore, if you’re weeping for the bloodletting in Northern Nigeria, the East and the West......hear this 

First, I speak as a human being who is possessed of a compatriot spirit with suffering humans everywhere.

Second I speak as an witness to the sufferings of Biafrans at the hands of their Nigerian compatriots, all to the point that instead of waning, our resolve for a separate State has been strengthened and cast in stone.

Today I present to the world our first and last line of defense against Fulani Janjaweed inspired murderous anarchy and mayhem across the entire Middle Belt & South. The Eastern Security Network is here to bring to an end years of Fulani Miyetti Allah terrorism in our land. This security outfit, modeled along the lines of Amotekun in the West & Miyetti Allah vigilante group in the North, will provide the entire East (South South & South East) with the necessary assurance that crimes such as kidnapping, armed robbery, illegal occupation of our forests and river banks by marauding killers from the Sahel is brought to an end with immediate effect. 

Every ethnic group across Biafraland is well represented in this formation therefore I am confident that every city, town and village will be protected from the ravages of Fulani terrorism in whatever guise it manifests itself. 

Now, what's my story?

Just days ago, Fulani Muslims - yes, Fulanis, whether herdsmen or Miyetti Allah FUNAM, Boko Haram, ISWAP murdered almost 100 rice farmers (reportedly all Christians) in cold blood in Borno State. 

Am I upset? Yes. Am I grieving? You bet, I am. But am I feeling funny and a bit disconnected from it all?

Yes, I am feeling not only funny and disconnected but I am also feeling that this whole mourning, outrage and anger about these killings is insincere, duplicitous, and profoundly lacking in stark appreciation of history, ancient history and importantly recent history.

You might ask: What history? It is a very dark, hideous history banned by those who rose to power on the ashes of a genocide they themselves committed.

It is a history banned in schools out of a sense of denial; yet it is a history still accessible to anybody and everybody.

In substance, it's a history of blood, of massacres, of genocide, and of pogroms unpunished; and other evils untold.

It is a history of a Nigeria where Biafrans have largely borne the brunt of massacres and genocide since 1945 at the hands of Fulanis, assisted by some other Nigerian tribes, including the very Northern Christians that were just massacred just days ago.

On the other trajectory, it is a history of so-called confluence of ‘one North’ against the East. Now it is repeating itself but in new ways that have driven Fulani Islamists and their allies to turn on their "northern brothers".

It is also a history that is on a constant rollercoaster. Yes, a rollercoaster where - in 1966, 67, 68, and 69 to 70, you gleefully joined in the massacre of your Eastern brethren that did nothing to you.

You stupidly joined in committing genocide dishonestly called a civil war to "unite" Nigeria; to unite a Nigeria that is now massacring you that largely bore the brunt of the uniting that was executed in blood; needless blood ... of millions of children and innocents.

Now, that history is repeating itself before your very eyes. That history has been brought to your own side of the town.

Now, you weep. Did you weep for Eastern Nigeria; Did you weep for the Igbo, for the Efik, for the Anang, for the Ijaw and the other tribes that made up Eastern Nigeria? Did you weep for Biafra? If you didn't, your weeping now is a lie.

Weeping must come with some honesty; weeping must be well-deserved; otherwise it's called 'crocodile tears'.

You killed my father, my younger brother, my beautiful cousin (after raping her untold), thinking they're all Igbos; or you knew they were not but you killed them anyway because they came from the East, lived in Borno beside you and spoke Igbo. You didn't care that they also spoke Hausa or even Fulfude.

Now you weep for Borno; you weep lies and insincerity.

Then you pulled out a young, wailing, innocent Eastern woman out of the train in the North and slit her belly and brought out a budding embryo and 'killed' it.

Now, you're being killed all over the North and you want me to weep. Yes, I weep but I also wept for my people killed in times past by your people. That's what makes me different from you - your weeping is one-sided, and you have killed before; I haven't.

And yes - I wept for 1967, but my fathers took matters in hand, declared themselves free and fought back. Have you fought back?

Keep weeping whilst they keep killing. What’s stopping you from fighting back? Why don’t you constitute your own Amotekun? Your own ethnic security!

This whole saga of a failed Nigeria is a rollercoaster - now you're in front, next you're in the rear. They spill blood, you spill tears. They kill, you weep and then your tears dry, waiting for the next senseless slaughter that never ceases.

They come back and kill again - one head of cattle for two two heads of humans; then you weep. A rollercoaster, a vicious cycle of weepings and killings. That's your Nigeria, Buhari's Nigeria, Fulanized Nigeria, Islamized Nigeria. A damned Nigeria of blood and tears.

That's not the Nigeria my forefathers helped most to liberate from foreign occupation. That shouldn’t be your Nigeria, either. But while I’m pursuing Biafra, all you do is weep.

Why don't you weep first for Eastern Nigerians killed by your parents? Did you weep for young Eastern Nigerians (yes -Biafrans) cut down in their prime by Buhari's Python Dance? Or Nkpor, Head-bridge, and the likes?

Did you weep for Nnamdi Kanu. Did you weep for an IPOB that can't hurt a fly, yet you joined in declaring them terrorists so you can go for another kill like you did in 1967. If you didn't weep for these, you have no moral right to weep for Borno, for Kaduna and the blood that has reddened the North.

Are you a Gowon, a Danjuma, a Bissala, a Domkat, a Shelleng, an Useni, a Walbe, a Mark, an Ochefu, an Unongo, a Tsav, or worse? If you are, then search your soul; do some contrition; make an atonement and seek the face of God, and then seek your liberation. Only then can you weep honestly or weep no more.

What about you - the ‘One Nigerian’ proponent? I tell all of you this: If you weep for the North, ie Northern Christians, Northern minorities and you didn’t weep for the Nigerian youths cut down in EndSARS, you didn’t weep for Obigbo, your weeping is dishonest.

Danjuma, your former maestro has told you what to do; yet you do nothing but weep. What are you waiting for? Where are your balls? Did you lose your mojo? Why are you not taking matters in hand? Are you supposed to be dead in your One Nigeria?

Are you waiting for an Nnamdi Kanu & IPOB and some elements of the Oduduwa that have the guts to fight back (but only with strong words) but whom you joined in suppressing? Have you now seen the sense in our sermons of freedom from oppression that is as unrelenting as your never-drying tears?

So, please stop weeping; man up and take matters in hand. That's what gutsy men do. That’s what humans endowed by the Almighty do.

Self-defense is a constitutional right.

Self-determination is not a crime but a right under the laws of federation of Nigeria and customary international law.

Stop saying to them that you killed Biafrans or Easterners in the past for them. Stop saying you fought Biafra for them. Stop saying you killed Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio for them. Don't you get it? They don't care.

Late Buhari never cared. Didn’t he say an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North?

Even the Cabal that is ruling in his name and ruining your lives doesn’t care. 

Buratai, the boy-scout General is biased (Danjuma said it all). Is he not from Borno?

Your entire security chiefs are comprised of them; and they see you as a kafir, an infidel, a willing tool, a half-wit to be deployed at will against your own people, against Biafrans (and sometime all the South).

Then, when it suits them, they dispense with you, they turn their guns on you, either directly or by proxy. Then, they dishonestly call it farmers-herders clash. 

What was the clash in that Borno rice farm?

Stop weeping; demand Referendum. Demand your freedom. Form your own security. End Nigeria, NOW!

That's the ONLY way out.

You see, this is one of our major problems in this country, most of us don't wants to do the hard work, by speaking up, due to laziness and fear but everyone wants to reap the fruit of it. No one wants to speak up, but we are complaining and dieing secretly and gradually, and if someone does, some literate illiterate still has the guts to open their God forsaken mouth to say rubbish as if, it's the cause of your problem.

Young youth, the earlier we start making out real findings about our country and start fighting for it, the worse it becomes n  History will repeat itself.....no wonder the white man said, if you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a book.

So before you come online and disgrace yourself, family and generation at large, make sure you have something vital to say, if not, shut up!!!

ICC has belatedly decided to investigate atrocities by the Nigerian army, police and politicians. Sadly their intervention has come too late for some of us. The likes of Wike, Nwodo, Obiano, Ikpeazu and Umahi must not go free. They shed the blood of the innocent and must pay dearly for their crimes. Henceforth wherever any Biafran is killed, the governor of that state will be killed too. If the killings were ordered by the police or army, they too will also die. 

If anybody is arrested for any offence, we expect them to presented before a court of law for trial. Should they be convicted and death sentence passed, then the state can with every justification execute them. But for the likes of Wike, Ikpeazu and Obiano to order the Nigerian army to invade communities and kill innocent civilians will no longer be tolerated. If they order the killing of innocent people, they too will be killed.

Extra judicial killings will no longer be tolerated. Obigbo, Nkpor, Emene, Afaraukwu, Aba will no longer be tolerated. 

Our farmlands and forests must be cleared of all illegal Fulani terror settlements. There are enough towns and cities where those with legitimate business interest can reside and do their business. Our forests, bushes and farmlands are no go areas for marauding killer Fulani herdsmen and bandits from Mali as El-Rufai once claimed.

The ESN is not the Biafran Army and must not be regarded as such. If and when the need to float an army arises, we shall dutifully notify the world.

Signed

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

IPOB leader.

Eastern Governors Put Aside Regional Security to Avert Ridicule

March 15, 2020

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

Recently, the governor of Ebonyi state, Dave Umahi, stated clearly the outcome of the meeting the Southeast governors had over insecurity in the land. In his words Southeast is better secured than any other region. He made this claim while trying to convince the people that there is no need of establishing a regional security outfit like Amotekun in Southeast.

But if really there is security in the land, why then did the Southeast governors convene a meeting over insecurity in the first place?

The said governor went on to list some ghost names like Operation Kpochapu, Neighborhood Watch, Gate Keepers, Herdsmen Committee, and Forest guards, as security outfits already functioning in the land. But these names exist only in the pages of the newspapers. No one knows them, sees them, or knows the colour of their uniform.

It's hard to believe but it remains the truth that the only person that can establish a security outfit in the whole of Biafra land is the leader of the Biafran people, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The governors have lost the authority to protect the people. They know this and wouldn't like to disgrace themselves by trying to establish one.

In Nigeria, the governors are known as Eastern rulers but in Biafra-land we have only one leader with the mandate to lead the people. There is no governor in the Eastern region that can give order and the people obey. They really lack the mandate to call the youths to gather and form a security body.

We have a man who has lost his parents and sister for the well-being of his people; a man who has been incarcerated and now in exile for seeking freedom for his people. That man we know and will forever be indebted to. Only that man has the mandate to form a security outfit in the whole of Biafra land. His name is Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

Edited by Nelson Ofokar Yagazie

Published by Akubumma Princewill