The global, largest freedom mass movement of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, says there is enough resources to sustain and finance the security outfit known as the Eastern Security Network.
Recall that the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had on December 12, 2020, floated ESN to protect the lives and property of people living in the Eastern region, Nigeria from marauding Fulani Killer herdsmen.
In a press statement released by IPOB National Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Monday, it stated clearly that ESN was funded by IPOB family members resident in over 120 countries.
Powerful was reacting to a statement credited to the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, who allegedly said that IPOB had no capacity to fund a viable security outfit.
IPOB described Uzodimma’s claim as fallacious, amusing and shameful.
It said the governor resorted to what it called cheap blackmail following his failed attempt to infiltrate ESN.
The group said it was unnecessary convincing the public about those behind the setting up of ESN as it was in the public domain, insisting that it did not need any of the governors to sustain the outfit.
The statement read in part, "The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ably led by our great Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been drawn to the fallacious, amusing, and shameful claims by the Supreme Court Administrator in Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, that IPOB hijacked Eastern Security Network, ESN, from South East Governors.
"This blatant lie has only confirmed the dubious character of Uzodinma as an unrepentant fraudster.
"We don't need to belabour ourselves in convincing the public over who set up ESN because it is public knowledge. For five months, our Leader was begging South East and South South Governors to float a regional security outfit to protect and defend our people against genocidal attacks by terrorists masquerading as Fulani herdsmen.
"Our Leader even wrote a letter to the governors which was made public but they turned deaf ear to all the pleas including the clamour by the people for a regional security outfit.
"Every honest person in the zoo will attest to the fact that ESN was floated by IPOB in response to the yearnings of our people for self-defense against terrorists. It was a child of necessity borne as a result of the failure of the governors to rise to their responsibility of protecting lives and property of the people.
"Their inability to stand with the people was because of their usual tendency to please their caliphate slave masters even to the detriment of their people.
"Let somebody please remind Hope Uzodinma to stop disgracing himself further by claiming what does not exist. Anyway, we can understand his frustration. He had attempted but in vain, to infiltrate and possibly hijack ESN but was disappointed, hence his resort to cheap blackmail. But this too will not fly!
"We wish to remind Hope Uzodinma that IPOB does not need him nor his fellow traitor governors to sustain ESN. IPOB with presence in over 120 countries is resolutely committed to sustain and finance ESN to actualize its mandate. We don't need traitors and saboteurs in a crucial matter like the security of our people.
"Now we know the sponsor of the Owerri hotelier who vigorously campaigned for Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB to handover ESN to South East Governors. The other time it was
"Emeka Emekasiri who was disgracing himself with the claims that they formed IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu hijacked it from them.
"Treacherous Ralph Uwazuruike has also repeatedly claimed that Radio Biafra was formed by him but later hijacked by Nnamdi Kanu. These are bunch of envious traitors who have no limit to their lies in their desperation to blackmail our Leader but the Biafra agitation has gone beyond their distractions.
"Hope Uzodinma is only bitter knowing what awaits him. He knows that his days of reckoning are fast approaching. For colluding with the Janjaweed in military uniform to abduct IPOB members, Uzodinma knows he cannot escape justice.
"He should stop laying false claims to the formation of ESN because that too cannot save him.
"COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB"
Reviewed by Okenwa Chinedu
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March 16, 2021
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