The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that no member of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) was shot or arrested by the army. This is coming on the heels of the army revelation that it arrested a top official of the ESN at Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, who made the denial in a statement made available to newsmen, said the allegation by the army was aimed at distracting IPOB from its vision.
He said: “We declare without equivocation that there is no iota of truth in the said fallacious statement. Mazi Udubuan Sage Chubueze is only a member of IPOB. He is not one of the ESN operatives let alone being a top commander of ESN. “What transpired was that he came to his home in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area to bury his dead mother and soldiers acting on a tip-off from a traitor stormed his house. Yes, he is an IPOB member but not an ESN commander. But those who sabotaged him shall reap the reward of treachery.
“The wicked Nigeria soldiers shot him in the leg and forced him to wear army camouflage and claimed it was what they got from him. They also lied that they recovered ammunition from him. “How can a man burying his mother be doing so with ammunition? This is another blackmail to hang an innocent man. “We want to make it categorically clear to all and sundry that ESN does not go with army uniforms or police because we are different people.
Again ESN has nothing to do with pump action rifles. The army forced all those items on him just to implicate him but God will vindicate the just. “The claims by the army that he has bullet wounds are all lies. We call for a forensic examination to deflate this lie. It was the army that shot him in his compound and claimed he had bullet wounds. “We once again call on the United Nations not to give a blind eye to the atrocities of the security agents against IPOB members. The world should hold Nigeria accountable for all the inhuman treatments and secret genocide against innocent people of the SouthEast.”