ESN/IPOB Was Never Involved In The Barbarism That Happened In Orsu And Other Communities In Imo And Anambra States---IPOB

 IPOB PRESS RELEASE  27/3/2025 ESN/IPOB Was Never Involved In The Barbarism That Happened In Orsu And Other Communities In Imo And  Anambra ...

 IPOB PRESS RELEASE 

27/3/2025

ESN/IPOB Was Never Involved In The Barbarism That Happened In Orsu And Other Communities In Imo And  Anambra States---IPOB

We the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide wish to categorically debunk the viral video being spread by the Odimma Orsu Initiative and the Nigerian Joint Security Taskforce associating the dislodged criminals in Orsu mother-valley to Eastern Security Network (ESN). Since 2021, IPOB has been disassociating ourselves from the Nigerian Government recruited criminals operating from a hideout called mother-valley in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State. 

After the kidnap and extraordinary rendition of the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in 2021, the Nigerian government recruited criminals to impersonate IPOB and ESN led by the buffoon in the Finnish prison. The principal agent and the leader of this criminal gang, Simon Ekpa, claimed to be a member of IPOB, which was a lie. The State sponsored criminals were coached to claim to be IPOB-ESN in their dirty operations. They held Orsu and her neighboring communities hostage for almost 4 years while some of the ignorant Orsu community people colluded with them in their kidnapping and murderous activities. These criminals used Biafra agitation and movement and the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as a conduit to kidnap, kill, destroy, and maim people.

The Nigerian Security Forces were all aware of their activities and their  hideouts. During these horrific days, the IPOB Publicity Secretary and other leaders of IPOB particularly Mazi Chinasa Nworu, a member of the Directorate of State of the  Indigenous People of Biafra  were always on the social media and on Radio Biafra respectively disassociating IPOB and mentioning some of the names of those criminals in Orsu to the public. 

As confused criminals and double Agents, they previously claimed to be ESN, later claimed to be Umuoma, and later claimed to be the Biafra Liberation Army. Their leader and chief recruiter, Simon Ekpa, currently under terrorism trial in Finland, cheered his criminals as they killed, maimed, and destroyed Ndigbo in the name of Biafra agitation. While these criminals wreaked havoc in some parts of Imo State and Anambra State, the Nigerian government was tagging their criminality on IPOB and ESN even when their chief criminal in Finland took responsibility for all their crimes. The Nigerian government refused to call them by their names because they were recruited to destabilize Alaigbo, IPOB agitation, and to blackmail IPOB members and the Eastern Security Network, ESN Operatives. However, their agenda to garner international outrage against IPOB and ESN leveraging on the violent criminals' activities failed because IPOB and ESN were innocent and kept distancing ourselves from their criminal activities. The Owerri jail break, recruitment of escaped prisoners, and other Igbo criminals were part of the covert operations of the Nigerian government aimed at blackmailing and demarketing IPOB before Biafrans and the international community. Fortunately, they failed because IPOB is innocent, and we constantly distanced ourselves from their State sponsored violent criminals' crimes.

IPOB is saddened with the horrible devastation and barbarism that those State sponsored criminals carried out in Orsu and other communities in Igbo Land. IPOB condols with the affected communities. Though, some people in those communities ignorantly cheered and colluded with those criminals even when IPOB leaders warned against harboring the criminals. Nevertheless, IPOB warns the Odimma Orsu Initiative and her cronies to stop being a tool in the hands of the Nigerian Government to peddle lies against the IPOB movement and ESN Operatives. IPOB is at the forefront of defending our people and can't be a party to any group or activity that will endanger the security and safety of our people. Communities that have encountered ESN Operatives will testify how caring and disciplined they are in providing security to our people. ESN Operatives do not lay siege on any community and will not force the community to desert their dwellings. Instead of the presence of ESN will cause undue pain to our people, ESN will leave that location and that is why Hope Uzodinma 's boys tried what they could to blackmail IPOB and ESN members. The government moles in Odimma Orsu Initiative and other DSS Agents using the horrific video of the aftermath of the Simon Ekpa's Liberation Army to malign ESN Operatives should stop their treachery. Indigens of Orsu Community and other Communities terrorized by the barbarians who claimed to be Biafra agitators can testify that those criminals were *not* ESN Operatives at all. We advise all Igbo man and woman to avoid being a tool of blackmail in the hands of the Nigerian Government against IPOB because the murderous government of Nigeria will use you, dump you and possibly eliminate you to cover up any trace of their impropriety. Do not forget that the Nigerian government does not care to protect you as much as IPOB cares about you and everything that concerns you. 

The violent criminals recruited by the Nigerian State via Simon Ekpa were there to kill innocent people, destroy properties, and destabilize the entire Alaigbo just to blackmail the agitation for freedom of Biafra by IPOB and ESN. Moreso, to make Alaigbo insecure to provide an opportunity for the invasion of Fulani terrorists which ESN was established to defeat. Why did the Nigerian Joint Security Taskforce allow the barbaric  government agents known as the Biafra Liberation Army to operate freely for almost 3 years only to start dislodging them after their chief criminal was arrested in Finland? Does it mean that the Nigerian Security Forces were not aware of their murderous activities? Why were the arrested criminals in Orsu mother-valley not arraigned in the courts? What is the government hiding? If the Nigerian government and her murderous Security Forces can unleash their arsenal to dislodge their sponsored criminals from the mother-valley camp in Orsu, why hasn't the same Government unleashed hell on the Fulani terrorists that are raping, killing and displacing communities in Alaigbo? IPOB and ESN remain the only obstacle to the State sponsored Fulani invasion and conquest of Alaigbo. Only the wise understands this. That's why the government in Aso Rock, in collaboration with their puppet Governors are bent on destroying IPOB and ESN so that Alaigbo will become vulnerable to Fulani terrorists invasion plans. Ndigbo, be wise! Support IPOB and ESN for your survival. Don't destroy your defense by yourself because of foolishness, ignorance, or greed for money. 

It is important that the public must understand that what these criminals did was to use the name of IPOB and our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu to terrorize Ndigbo because they were recruited to make IPOB agitation unattractive among our people and the international community. ESN Operatives were never involved in murderous and barbaric activities in Orsu, Lilu, Ihiala, Okigwe, and any other community terrorized by the government agents called Biafra Liberation Army. ESN since it's formation has focused on their objectives of dislodging Fulani terrorists nicknamed herdsmen out from our bushes and forests across Biafra Land. IPOB and ESN will not be handicapped by the Nigerian Government sponsored blackmail.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.