Unknown Gunmen remain Biafran separatists .

In the crime infested SE, disambiguation of criminals from crimes is no easy task as armed robbery , kidnapping and murder for hire have always plagued the region.

The advent of ESN terrorists into the cesspit made for a more turbulent society .

It is not however fair to rule all killings to the proscribed Afro Zionist group as criminals have used the fog of anarchy created by ESN to carry out their activities.

The jail breaks that occurred in Imo and Abakalaiki that was carried out by IPOB also saw to the region being flooded with the worst of the worst hardened criminals who had scores to settle and have returned fully to a life of crime. It is widely known that IPOB recruited a lot of these convicts into their terror squad and there are reports of factions and counter factions springing up among ESN camps that are fully under the control of hardened criminals and fleeing convicts so much so that the Anambra state govt had to reach out to ideological factions of IPOB to take out the prison brigade factions that had been terrorising the state with their armed robbery, extortion of communities, kidnapping and murder for hire activities.

The term "unknown gunmen " which now seems to be used to differentiate from ESN activities was accelerated into public lexington by a sympathetic press.

The usual police briefings followed the lines such as : on so and so date and time, a group of unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed ESN attacked a police station at....

The Press headlines the next day will read as such : UNKNOWN GUNMEN ATTACK POLICE STATION IN IMO.

UGM activities are mostly carried out by ESN or their now breakaway prison brigade .