We're Not Unknown Gunmen Responsible For The Attack On Owerri Correctional Centre, Police Headquarters - IPOB Warns

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The Indigenious People of Biafra (IPOB), under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has denied responsibility for Monday’s attacks on Imo Police Headquarters and Correctional Centre (Prison) where over 2,000 inmates were freed, warned that neither IPOB nor Eastern Security Network, ESN, should be linked in the said attacks.

The warning came following the press release by Headquarter Nigerian Police alleging that members of IPOB/ESN are behind the attacks.

"Preliminary investigations have revealed that the attackers, who came in their numbers with sophisticated weapons such as General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs), Sub-Machine Guns (SMGs), AK49 rifles, Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs), Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), are members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/Eastern Security Network (ESN)" Police Headquarter alleged

Speaking through it's National Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful in a press statement on Monday, the mass movement noted IPOB and ESN are known groups with identity, and as such activities of unidentified group should not be connected or linked with the them.

It also warned the media to stop attributing further attacks perpetrated by unknown gunmen to it's repute and that of ESN.

The statement reads: “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.

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“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 principle of peace and we are still in it. Unknown gunmen is a different people which we don’t know them and they not IPOB or ESN security outfit.”

Meanwhile, soldiers have taken over the Okigwe roundabout and road leading to the Correctional Centre diverting traffic flow.

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