Military fighter aircraft, Nigerian Army and police personnel are currently in the Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, engaging the operatives of the Eastern Security Network in a gun battle.


SaharaReporters learnt that there are ongoing gunshots and tension in the LGA as residents report attack helicopters hovering round their locations in obvious search of the ESN operatives.


Residents told SaharaReporters that the gunshots have been continuous leading to palpable tension in the LGA as some of them had not been able to go about their normal business since morning.

“The gunshots keep reverberating. Military and police personnel are trooping in large numbers and surveillance helicopters are flying in the air. I am still in my bedroom,” one of the residents told SaharaReporters.

Akwa Ibom, though in the South-South has had its fair share of attacks by gunmen on military and police personnel, stations and locations like rampant in the South-East states.

Only last Tuesday, unidentified gunmen killed a Chief Superintendent of Police, Benedict Okoh Ajide and other police officers in the Essien Udim LGA.

The gunmen also killed a yet-to-be-ascertained number of military officers while many others were injured.

The policemen and soldiers were said to be in the community for peacekeeping efforts.

“Unknown gunmen attacked some police officers and soldiers today. Their Hilux vans were also set ablaze,” a source had told SaharaReporters.

The Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, is from the local government area.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/04/06/breaking-military-aircraft-soldiers-engage-suspected-esn-operatives-gun-battle-akwa-ibom

Are ESN not in Anambra, Abia or Imo anymore?? or why shift focus from the hotspot

Nigerian military personnel and misplaced priorities sha

Ndigbo, let's beware of the mind games of the Fulanis. They have come with this unsolicited advice that we should be against UGM, because Boko haram started same way as them. Well, that is not true!! From the get go, Boko haram has always been a terrorist group. Imagine a group who's doctrine is that western education is evil, what other good thing can come out from them?. And again, the first Boko haram attack was a suicide bomb attack in 1st Oct 2010 thereby killing innocent civilian's.

Contrast BH with UGM, and you'd see that UGM is fighting a just cause for all Ndigbo. I'm not afraid of the sentiments by some well meaning Igbos that there is a tendency of UGM going into armed robbery in the future. Well, if you look at their modus operandi, you'd discover that if they wanted to go into armed robbery they would have gone into it, and nothing anybody can do about it. For a group to sack a whole State CID, is it ordinary police van that will stop them?

My people, let's not get this twisted, what we are seeing is a fulfilment of an age long prophecy, that the Igbos will very soon fight back against the injustices in Nigeria, and if anyone thinks he/she can stop it, best beleive the person is joking with his life.

Before I go, let me use this opportunity to warn the FG to immediately begin the process of dialoguing with Biafra. Just as the menace of UGM, it will seem like joke to say now, that sooner than later bombs will be going off in Abuja. But until then, let the stoopid one Nigerianists continue to assure the FG that it can muscle it's way through.

If true they'll return in bodybags.

They left the north where there is banditry, kidnapping, hoko haram, iswap etc to attack a group keeping the East peaceful from Fulani herdsmen attack in our bushes.

Rule justly and with fairness and the country will be cool.. Rule like a village brute, cornering everything for those you consider to be your people while leaving others empty handed and you will have to fight fires in all corners of the country..

heendrix:
Are ESN not in Anambra, Abia or Imo anymore?? or why shift focus from the hotspot

Abeg, help me ask them?

Esn is a terrorist group that must be crushed and seriously dealt with including the chief terrorist, lamidi cownu that is enjoying where he is, but sending the gullible and foolish ndi potopotorians to their early graves
Kudos to nigeria army

Every Gun man in the South is now ESN....Ndi Ara

The media just label them ESN.
Security forces are engaging some group of people in a gun battle in Akwa Ibom in the South South and the media is linking ESN that operates in the East to it.


Very soon cultist will kill and they will label them ESN

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With this is finish

Correction, Nigerian army is engaging unknown gunmen in gun battle not ESN. ESN are here to protect eastern Nigeria from Fulani terrorists.

at this rate there will be a civil war by the time buhari leaves office. haba, this is madness.

Madness leleyi sha.

Abascoh:
Correction, Nigerian army is engaging unknown gunmen in gun battle not ESN. ESN are here to protect eastern Nigeria from Fulani terrorists.

ESN is not only in the east, they are in the south too,even Benue.

They operate in every region that is considered as Biafra land.

Funny people

Biafra and Ambazonia will soon be alliance.
Let me see whether the UN will not order for a referendum.

fooolish Government that wants to use force to resolve everything rather than intelligent engagement

Do you need a bomber for this? Hell No.

Someone used to say Nigerian military among the top 3 in Africa, that is a big lie.

We have people who are trained to kill not to solve problem.

If this is how the army, police are trained to crush Boko Haram then it take more 40 years.

Let's see how long the military can fight on all fronts.

Buhari and all that supports him are all idiots and useless sadists.

Imagine a vegetable that can't protect its citizens but always sending his Fulani herdsmen to kill, destroy indigenous peoples properties and taken over their lands.

Bleep you Buhari the vegetable.

NyamiriSlayer:
Esn is a terrorist group that must be crushed and seriously dealt with including the chief terrorist, lamidi cownu that is enjoying where he is, but sending the gullible and foolish ndi potopotorians to their early graves
Kudos to nigeria army

Come and crush them.

Animals claiming to be humans.

Some of you yologbas are very foolish. You hail terrorist herdsmen, you support them and even buy arms for bokoharam to decimate the Christian South. Ain't you people shameless?

Disgusting people and sellouts.

ESN now exists in your backyard just like the terrorist herdsmen .

Hmmm. This is what Buhari has reduced Nigeria. Insecurities all over the places

If true, good for our nation's security. Harm no innocent soul.

NATIONALPASTOR:


Come and crush them.

Animals claiming to be humans.

Some of you yologbas are very foolish. You hail terrorist herdsmen, you support them and even buy arms for bokoharam to decimate the Christian South. Ain't you people shameless?

Disgusting people and sellouts.

ESN now exists in your backyard just like the terrorist herdsmen .

That boy's biggest nightmare is igbos, he will kill himself if we leave nigeria

heendrix:
Are ESN not in Anambra, Abia or Imo anymore?? or why shift focus from the hotspot

Nigerian military personnel and misplaced priorities sha

Don't believe anything from Nigerian government.

if the government doesn't manage this well oil facilities might be the next target

owobokiri:
Rule justly and with fairness and the country will be cool.. Rule like a village brute, cornering everything for those you consider to be your people while leaving others empty handed and you will have to fight fires in all corners of the country..

You're somehow right, but if we are to say the bitter truth, we gave "only five percent "of our support to this government, yet we want to burn down our own homeland with our hands because we feel we're getting less than others, while pretending as if the 2nd Niger Bridge and other road projects do not exist. Is that the right thing?

The wisest thing is to wait and make change peacefully through the ballot box in 2023, otherwise we will ONLY succeed in turning our land into a crisis zone to add to the marginalisation. Let us think biko nwanne.

Biafrannuke:
If true they'll return in bodybags.

They left the north where there is banditry, kidnapping, hoko haram, iswap etc to attack a group keeping the East peaceful from Fulani herdsmen attack in our bushes.

The Nigerian soldiers must shoot to kill any ESN or IPOB TERRORIST attacks sight.

I don't even understand this anymore

NATIONALPASTOR:


Come and crush them.

Animals claiming to be humans.

Some of you yologbas are very foolish. You hail terrorist herdsmen, you support them and even buy arms for bokoharam to decimate the Christian South. Ain't you people shameless?

Disgusting people and sellouts.

ESN now exists in your backyard just like the terrorist herdsmen .

nah wailing descendants of ape know how to do best, nyamiris and brain are like parallel line that can never meet.
Spits on bunch of senseless people

Na so craze dey take start o