Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former governor of Anambra state, says the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) are not behind the violent attacks in the south-east.

There have been several attacks on police stations, prisons and the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the south-east.

Security operatives and residents have been killed, and in a recent development, Ahmed Gulak, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was murdered in Imo on May 30.

Speaking when he featured on Arise TV on Wednesday, Ezeife said investigation carried out by elders in the south-east revealed that such attacks are designed to provoke Igbo people.

While noting that killing and destruction do not conform to the Igbo character, he said some of the attacks may have been carried out by people outside the region.

“Anybody who hears the story will be mad at the story. But who are the people who are burning INEC offices? Who are killing the police? There is the impression that some people, maybe even in the government, are guilty of organising such things and blaming it on IPOB and ESN. Efforts have been made by our elders of our people to find out the truth and the hands of IPOB and ESN are not there,” he said.

“I am sure you know that at Owerri prison, there was a lot of devastation and the IG of police blamed it immediately on IPOB and ESN. Even the governor of that state at the beginning thought it was the IPOB and ESN, but now we know that more than 80 percent of people caught by the CCTV footage are not from the south-east or even the east at all.

“Now, Gulak is dead. Was it a design again to blow it on IPOB and the ESN? We are learning more now that there is a design to provoke the east. Igbo do not have the tradition of shedding blood or burning down things.”

CatANDratTHEORY:
Ezeife is right and also wrong.
Let me explain, Ezeife cannot swear that IPOB/ESN have not carried out any attack on anybody (security operatives inclusive) in Igbo land. In this vein he is completely wrong.

He is right in the sense that he believes the certain people in high places are sponsoring these killings to the give the SE a bad name: a case of giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it

OnionBandit:
You will love to hate these people because of their hypocrisy aswearugad

CatANDratTHEORY:
Hypocrisy is when bandits are paid ransome, Boko Haram given scholarship and Fulani herdsmen given license to kill at will while unarmed protesters protesting for their sovereignty are slaughtered and termed 'terrorists'.
Hypocrisy is when a tribalist like BinHari appoints his kinsmen to head over 98% of all agencies and parastatals.This the height of hypocrisy.
While i don't support the shedding of blood, i must tell you that injustice breeds anarchy.

Jesuschristus:
Igbos want to get Biafra true lies, thats a trait of cowards

OnionBandit:
You will love to hate these people because of their hypocrisy, aswearugad

When this madness started, the so called elders in the East lost their voice, a subtle way of showing support. Buhari was mute as it went on for weeks..Now it has gotten out of control,,many indigenes have lost their lives through the arms these untrained children are wielding, they begin to blame FG, Fulani herdsmen and all of their "nightmares"...

Buhari being the responsible leader that he is, promised to speak the language these "herdsmen", "DSS" understands..the Igbos began to tag UN, Jack, ECOWAS etc...crying genocide, massacre, and every misused English word in that region...

Abeg, what can you ever do that please these people?

OnionBandit:
You will love to hate these people because of their hypocrisy, aswearugad

When this madness started, the so called elders in the East lost their voice, a subtle way of showing support. Buhari was mute as it went on for weeks..Now it has gotten out of control,,many indigenes have lost their lives through the arms these untrained children are wielding, they begin to blame FG, Fulani herdsmen and all of their "nightmares"...

Buhari being the responsible leader that he is, promised to speak the language these "herdsmen", "DSS" understands..the Igbos began to tag UN, Jack, ECOWAS etc...crying genocide, massacre, and every misused English word in that region...

Abeg, what can you ever do that please these people?

CatANDratTHEORY:
Hypocrisy is when bandits are paid ransom, Boko Haram given scholarship and Fulani herdsmen given license to kill at will while unarmed protesters protesting for their sovereignty are slaughtered and termed 'terrorists'.
Hypocrisy is when a tribalist like BinHari appoints his kinsmen to head over 98% of all agencies and parastatals.This the height of hypocrisy.
While i don't support the shedding of blood, i must tell you that injustice breeds anarchy.

plaindealer:



So, you ipob terrorists and unknown gunmen are massacring your own ibo people, burning up and destroying their homes and businesses, attacking onion trucks and stealing onions, destroying public institutions and oil installations all because you dey ealousy bandits collecting ransom?

OMG!!! You Igbos are a special breed, the crazy and evvil things you people do for money.

funkekemi:
are you this jobless ,from goatandyamtheory to pissfulprotesters now to onionbandits no wonder Nigeria is unproductive

Ezeife said investigation carried out by elders in the south-east revealed that such attacks are designed to provoke Igbo people.