The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the largest and global freedom mass movement under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu says a successor of late Eastern Security Network, ESN, Commander Ikonso, killed by Nigerian security operatives in Imo State has been appointed.
Comrade Emma Powerful, who is the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television on Sunday.
“They can say whatever they like, but we are intact. Another commander has taken over,” he said, adding, “I won’t tell you” when asked to name the successor of the new Commander that replaced late Commander Ikonso
The IPOB spokesman said that ESN late commander was killed because he refused to lead the Ebubeagu regional security outfit established by the South East Governors’ Forum.
He accused the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, of orchestrating the event that led to the killing of Ikonson.
Powerful decried that scores of IPOB and Eastern Security Network (ESN) members have been arrested across states in the region, stressing that the proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation was illegal.
“Yesterday (Saturday), our commander went to his village. They ambushed him with some politicians … they ordered the military to kill him. Imo State administrator knows very that he has committed a crime and we must follow him up.
“He ordered for the killing of this guy (the late commander) because he refused his offer to come and head the Ebubeagu which the South-East governors established,” he alleged.
The IPOB spokesman added, “He (the governor) sent some people to meet him (the late commander), but the guy refused that he cannot betray Biafra’s agitation and our leader – Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Since then, they have been threatening him.
“In Imo State, they arrested more than 50 people … they have been going to people’s houses to arrest them; in Anambra, they arrested so many people; in Abia, they arrested so many people.”
On Saturday, the Nigerian Army confirmed the death of Ikonson – a unit Commander of ESN, a security outfit floated to secure the Eastern region of Nigeria from Fulani killer herdsmen.
Although the Nigerian Army Headquarter had said Ikonso was killed during a shootout, reports has it that Ikonso was ambushed and killed by a combined team of security forces during a visit to his Awomama Village in Oru East local government area of Imo State.
"There was no shootout, Ikonso was killed in his house, he was killed while he was sleeping in the middle of the Night" Nnamdi Kanu, Founder of ESN, said
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April 26, 2021
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