[i]…As troops raid militants training camps in Anambra and Imo, arrest 5 members

Troops conducting operations to deter enforcement of the illegal sit at home order in the South East by IPOB and ESN, on Monday successfully raided hideouts and training camps belonging to IPOB/ESN in Orsomoghu Forest spanning Anambra and Imo States.

During the raids, the combined troops of 82 Division Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police and other security agencies arrested five fleeing members of the group and recovered one IPOB flag, one CCTV camera, 2 detonated IED bombs and a fabricated mortar tube.

A statement by Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public Relations said, “Sadly, five soldiers and two Nigeria Police operatives sustained varying degrees of injuries from the IED detonated by the criminals.

“The raid operation was carried out on Monday 31 July 2023, when troops were alerted to the violent activities of the irredentist group enforcing the illegal 2 weeks sit-at-home order in Onitsha, Nnewi and Iheme Obosi in Anambra State, as well as New Market in Enugu state.

“During the raid operations, the troops cleared IPOB camps in Ekeututu, Orsomoghu, Lilu and Mother Valley camps of the dissidents.

“Troops came in contact with the group’s armed fighters, who detonated Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) also known as Ogbunigwe and fired using locally fabricated mortar tube.

“The valiant troops however overpowered the irredentist group in the firefight, compelling them to abandon their position as they fled with gunshot wounds into nearby bushes.

“The Nigerian Army encourages all law abiding citizens of the South East to continue to support ongoing operations with actionable information and to disregard the unlawful 2 weeks sit-at-home order by going about their normal daily activities and businesses.

“The Nigerian Army in synergy with sister services and security agencies will undauntedly continue to protect and safeguard lives and property of the good and enterprising people of South East Nigeria, within the ambit of the law and the rules of engagement.”

Emergingnation:
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okeysoninv:
This ekperima your end is near . Ipob mumu boy

Emergingnation:
You already dying with tensions generating by sit at home in SE..

Chronic unity beggar !

Emergingnation:
You already dying with tensions generating by sit at home in SE..

Chronic unity beggar !

okeysoninv:
Ewu like you. Osuogbo is bubbling, Ibadon doesn't know what is sit at home, Ogun is bubbling, ondo and Ekiti too. Only foolish skull mining terrorist are pained with the ongoing sits at home in SE .

beerfraud:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/08/sit-at-home-ipob-esns-ogbunigwe-injures-5-soldiers-2-policemen/

001Lagos:
Propaganda

Not everything you read on this vanguard newspaper that's widely known as APC propaganda media wing is true.

Yes, there is sit at home in the east every Monday from 7am to 4pm because of Nnamdi kanu. But the news that some people used ogbunigwe on the men of the Nigerian armed forces in Anambra and Imo is lies.


Lagos was in June 2023 ranked as the 4th worst city to live in on earth by the european union council behind war torn Kyiv in Ukraine. That's what everyone should be worried about.

Emergingnation:


Chronic unity beggar !

Monsignor22:
I passed by that Ihiala/Orsu border axis yesterday and my soul almost left by body when our bus ran into an ESN roadblock, I thought they were soldiers initially from the military gears and Camo outfits they had on, and those guys were brandishing assault rifles... it was when they ordered us out of our vehicle and threatened to deal with us for flouting the sit-at-home order that I realised na one chance wey we enter...as God would have it they let us off after some roughing up and stern warnings to always be careful cause that area was a "war zone" between them and the "Zoo military" in their own words. Truth is I doubt the Nigerian military are serious about confronting these guys, because the caliber of weapons I saw on them are the types our DSS and special units carry and it scares me to think how well funded these boys are, it's embarrassing how our military resort to comic media stunts like displaying obsolete weapons and Biafran paraphernalia that they packaged just to mask their failures...the SE governors have really messed up and it might be too late right now to tame the monsters they enabled.

pineed:

NA should spare no criminals. We need peace in our nation

Ikpunnegi01:
They don cook another fake news for their gullible zombies.. You arrested innocent girls and a grandpa who was confused on how he got into the police pickup!