IPOB reacts to army’s reported arrest of group’s commander
“Such a man is too old to be recruited into ESN, let alone being Ikonso s Second in Command,” IPOB says.
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The Indigenous People of Biafra has dismissed reports of alleged arrest of the second in command of its security arm, Eastern Security Network (ESN) by the Nigerian Army.
The group said the man, Anwurum Eze, touted by the army as second in command to the late Ikonso “was too old to be recruited into ESN, let alone be its second in command”.
Mr Ikonso, a former commander of ESN, was killed recently by the army.
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Segun Adewole
Published 13 May 2021
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has faulted the Nigerian Army for claiming to have arrested a deputy commander of his Eastern Security Network.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima, had on May 12, 2021, announced that the force arrested one Awurum Eze, a native of Umoneke Nta, Isiala-Mbano LGA, Imo State.
Yerima described the 48-year-old suspect as the second in command to ESN leader, Ikonso, who was recently neutralised by the army.
In a statement, he said Eze “had on the 4th of May 2021 escaped when operatives of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) stormed his village house in Isiala Mbano where he was hiding.
The Nigeria Police Ban Personnel From Escorting VIPs In South-East, Rivers
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The Inspector- General of Police, Ag. IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered nationwide deployment of Police officers and other operational assets of the Force for water-tight security ahead of the 2021 Eid-el-Fitr celebration and beyond.
This is just as Police personnel have been suspended from escorting VIPs in the five South East states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers State. A wireless directed police commissioners in the states affected to suspend personnel that escort VIPs in the six eastern states until security situation improves in the affected states.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said Southern Governors may be wasting their time if they expect President Muhammadu Buhari to act on their resolution.
Falana, speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, commended the governors for banning open grazing in the 17 southern states of Nigeria.
He, however, urged them to back their ban with a legal instrument to enable the prosecution of offenders.
“I have read the resolutions. For me, the governors have done very well. They need to mobilise their northern colleagues. They need to walk their talk, because if you expect the presidency will act on this resolution, the governors may be wasting their precious time.
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Imo attacks: Special forces trailing Ikonso, Maputo’s boys
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By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri
9 days after he escaped and his house burnt, the Nigeria Army has arrested the late Ikonso’s second in command in Imo state, of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB/Eastern Security Network, ESN, a 48-year-old man, whose name was given as Anwurum Eze popularly known as “Maputo”.
Vanguard gathered yesterday in Owerri, that the joint security special forces are said to be trailing Maputo’s boys who are at large in and around the southeast zone.
Eze who hails from Umuneke-Nta in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State was arrested in Aba, Abia state.