IPOB has spoken on attacking Owerri Prison and Imo Police Headquarters.
NewsOne Nigeria reports that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied media reports claiming that it was responsible for the attack on Imo Police Headquarters and Owerri Prison (Correctional Centre).
This online news platform recalls that unknown gunmen attacked the two government facilities, razed their operational vehicles, and freed over 2,000 inmates.
However, IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement on Monday, said the attacks were not carried out by operatives of Eastern Security Network (ESN).
The IPOB spokesman warned those linking IPOB and ESN to the attacks to stop because the group was formed on the principle of peace.
Powerful added that it is not the mandate of the group to attack security personnel or prison facilities.
If Miyetti Allah terror herdsmen & other murderous #Fulani groups, including Boko Haram insurgents can be arrested, freed and rehabilitated by this neo-colonial Fulanised @NGRPresident, then no single soul deserves to be in any prison in Nigeria.
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— Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (@MaziNnamdiKanu) April 5, 2021
The IPOB spokesman said: “The attention of IPOB has been drawn again to the fallacious and fabricated news that IPOB and ESN are involved in the attack of prison and police headquarters in Owerri Imo State.
“IPOB and ESN are known groups, not unknown gunmen. ESN is in the bush chasing Fulani terrorists, why linking IPOB and ESN to this attack.
“IPOB and ESN were not involved in the attack in Owerri Imo State. and the recent attack on Onitsha Owerri road at Ukwuorji junction. It is not our mandate to attack security personnel or prison facilities.
“The Nigeria Government and her compromised media outfits should stop linking IPOB and ESN to the multiple attacks going on in Nigeria now. IPOB was formed on the principle of peace and we are still in it.
“Unknown gunmen are different people which we don’t know them and they are not IPOB or ESN security outfit.”
