The Eastern Security Network (ESN), a militant organisation that advocates for the creation of the Biafra Republic in Nigeria, has been maintained by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a separatist movement.
This was claimed by the group in a news release that its spokesperson, Mr. Emma Powerful, provided to the media on Monday.
The group was responding to charges made by Nigerian security services that IPOB had camps in the forest and that security forces had recently destroyed IPOB and ESN camps in forests in several of the states of Anambra and the southeast.
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Insisting that the claims of its presence in the aforementioned states’ forests were false, IPOB argued that any attempt to link the organisation to any purported criminal hideouts would be met with resistance.
He said that the establishment of ESN had prevented the Fulani herdsmen, who had seized control of Plateau and Benue States, from annexing the South East.
“ESN exists to keep the East safe from the ravages of killer herdsmen now plaguing the entire middle belt and people like them.
“Since the launch of ESN by our Supreme Leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU, the main objective of ensuring the safety of farmlands in the East has been accomplished. Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen have had no locus to operate in our farmlands and territory.
“The mischievous mischaracterisation of the activities of ESN that saved the entire south-east and south-south from the murderous onslaught of killer herdsmen now ravaging Benue State and Plateau axis should not be trivialised by attributing any alleged criminal hideout to ESN.
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“ESN Operatives have no criminal camps. We know there is a concerted effort by those seeking the weakening of ESN in order to launch a murderous invasion of the East under the guise of a farmer/herder clash.
“Had it not been for ESN, Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen would have taken Enugu, Anambra Ebonyi, Imo and Abia States.
“ESN has come to stay with Biafrans and nothing will change the objectives of the outfit,” Powerful stated.
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