The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has confirmed that one of its commanders has been killed by security forces.
This gives credence to an earlier report which says that police operatives and their sister agencies from the Nigerian Army and Department of State Services killed IPOB’s commander known as Ikonso and 6 other militia members in Imo State, South-East Nigeria.
The report also notes that the Biafran agitators were killed during an early morning raid on their hideout at Awomama village, in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State on Saturday.
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Reacting in a statement signed by its spokesman, Emma Powerful on Saturday, IPOB says “the killing of the heroic innocent Biafrans protecting our communities and towns from Fulani terrorists herdsmen masquerading as cattle herders in cold blood is very painful.”
The secessionist group alleges that Ikonso was killed because of his refusal to head the security outfit formed by the South-East Governors known as “Ebubeagu”.
“Fulani terrorists pretending as cattle sellers in Enugu destroyed Police van and attacked Government officials on lawful duty with AK-47 but no Army, police or DSS attacked them till now. But ESN operatives defending our communities against the terrorists are being hunted like games every day. The world has kept quiet over this atrocity until we begin our own madness.”
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
