The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused Nigerian security agencies of planting Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in different parts of the South-East to implicate the Eastern Security Network (ESN) the group’s military wing.
In a statement issued on Wednesday by IPOB’s Emma Powerful, the proscribed group claimed that their superior intelligence reports has revealed that the IEDs were planted by government security agencies to implicate its members and the ESN.
Powerful, who was reacting to earlier statements by the Nigerian Army and the Police that it had detonated some IEDs planted by IPOB and ESN in Awo-Mmamma, Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State, said nothing could be farther from the truth.
In the statement made available to Ripples Nigeria, Powerful debunked the claim by the Army and Police, labeling them as false because the “explosives are not from the separatist group.”
“The attention of the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ably led by our great liberator and prophet, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the fallacious and laughable statement from the Nigeria Army and Police, claiming that IPOB/ESN operatives planted IED in Awo-Mmamma and its nearby community, Mgbidi in Oru East of Imo State,” the statement reads.
