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#Nnamdi Kanu ordered us to bury Ikonso with 2,000 human heads, but we got only 30— ESN Commander,
Emeoyiri Uzorma Benjamin(Onye Army)


Heads of 10 girls were used to prepare our charms

•Most of police officers I killed were also Igbo

•‘We are not paid; they said we are freedom fighter’

By Ifeanyi Okolie

A 28-year-old Commander of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, that has been arrested for killing security agents as well as destroying private and government properties in the South East region of the country has revealed how his group went on killing spree in the regions.

The suspect, identified as Emeoyiri Uzorma Benjamin, alias Onye Army, was arrested by operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Led by DCP Abba Kyari over his involvement in the attacks and killing of security operatives and the destruction of government and private

Here is what he said to Vanguard News:👇👇👇👇

“I also went to Lagos where I secured a job as a security guard with a company that deals in building materials. I did that job until 2017 when I relocated to my village where I engaged in carpentry jobs.

“While I was in the village one John, who is from my town met me and told me he knew I was trying to join the military but advised me to join IPOB in 2019 so I started attending IPOB meetings in Orlu Imo state every Sunday. We used to have the meetings in a building close to the Teaching Hospital.

“I attended the meeting until November 2020 when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, formed the ESN and said he didn’t want any security agents in the South East and that all he wanted was just ESN operatives providing Security in the South East.

“I volunteered to join the ESN and I was trained with about 4000 other members in a camp close to the Niger Bridge in Delta State, but I don’t know the name of the village. I spent two weeks in that camp with several other people who came for ESN training from several parts of the country.

“Some people had been in the camp before I joined them but I spent just two weeks in the camp. Before I went to the camp however, I was at a Sabbath Church in Orlu owned by one Alewa Nnwachuku, in Okporo area of Orlu.

“While at the camp, we were given military training and our phones were taken from us. We were not talking to Nnamdi Kanu directly but we were receiving his instructions on Voice notes from the leaders of our camp. After our training we were given boots and uniforms and were asked to go back to our state commanders.

“My state commander was late Ikonso, who was in charge of Imo State before his death. We were not given any money, we returned to our commanders with just the uniforms and the boots. When we got back to Imo State I reported back to the Sabbath Church which served as one of our camps at that time.

“Then Nnamdi Kanu ordered that he didn’t want to see any police or military check point and Police Stations in the South East. The order was given through radio and and WhatsApp Voice notes and all the ESN State Commanders asked their fighters to comply with the orders.

“Nnamdi Kanu said we should dismantle all checkpoints and even kill the security agents manning the checkpoints and attack and burn Police Stations and Army Formations because he said they were killing Igbo people. I believed him and obeyed the order because I had taken an oath to obey Nnamdi Kanu, who is the supreme leader of IPOB.

“During our first attack, Ikonso brought two AK47 rifles while two of our members brought two locally made guns which we used to attack a police check point in Orlu where we killed a police officer.

“Two of our members were also killed but the police officers ran away abandoning their vehicle which we burnt and took away one of the police rifles. After the operation, we all returned to the Sabbath church owned by Alewa but the police came and attacked the place.

“We then relocated to a farm belonging to one of our members in Eele area of Awidemili, Anambra State. From there we attacked several other police stations and checkpoints.

“Then Ikonso, Engineer Mike and Temple organized the attack at the Owerri Prison and Imo State Police Command Headquarters, where several inmates were freed and more than 50 police rifles were carted away on the instruction of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, because he said no body deserved to be in the prison

“We came with over 100 , hundred fighters, but on our way back to our base, some soldiers attacked us and many of our fighters were killed at Ukorji area of Imo State. We carried out other attacks on security formations in Imo and Anambra states before Ikonso was killed. I was in his residence on the night he was attacked by security agents. I fought with my own Ak47 rifle, but I abandoned it and escaped through the back gate when I expended all the bullets in the rifle.

“After the death of Ikonso we went and burnt the governor’s house and killed a security man in the house in retaliation. It was Engr Mike that led us. I was part of those that shot at the gate.

“We also burnt a house in Awomama, belonging to someone who was believed to have given the security agents information on Ikonso. Engr Mike then took us to his village in Awedemili where we attacked a house belonging to the Commisioner of Justice Imo state, The House of a Honorouble member state house of assembly, A house belonging to a Councillor and many others whom Engr Mike said were against our struggle and we killed 2 persons there.

“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu also directed us to bury Ikonso with 2,000 human heads but we have killed only 30 so far. I then relocated to Temple’s camp and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu ordered us to attack Orlu Police Division and free our fighters who were arrested and detained there.

“We went in 10 vehicles, over 50 fighters and we had over 30 rifles with us. I was in a white sienna and late Dragon was in a red colored car, but before we got to the police station we did a shooting display that was circulated on the social media on the day we went to attack Orlu police station.

“The white and red cloths we tied on our bodies in the video were charms which we call local bullet proof and we prepared charms with the heads of 10 young girls.

“Before we proceeded to attack the Orlu Police Station, Temple and Mike brought the suggestion that we should get the girls we used for the charms and we got them here in Imo State. But before we got to the Orlu police station, a police and Army armored vehicles attacked us and killed 12 of our fighters and injured four.

“After we escaped from that attack, we went to our camp at Idiato to relax waiting for further directives. They are not paying us any money, they said we are freedom fighters.

“Most of the police officers I killed were also Igbo people. I am happy that Nnamdi has been arrested. But I am begging for amnesty from the Federal Government.”

#Me: Kanu and all his members that committed atrocities in Igbo land should made to pay for sins against our people.

People calling for justice on Kanu have never care to call for justice for so many less profile individuals killed by Kanu group for nothing. I remember when he was calling for 2000 heads to be used for Iko Nso burial and I remember asking if he will also donate his own head or any of his relatives for that. You left your peaceful agitation and started with violence that nearly destroy our zone. Mugu

Igbos don’t celebrate does that shed their blood in Igbo land! Our ancestors never did and our generation won’t do that!
Those killed deserve Justice!

#NeverAgain #Igbo

- Ikechukwu Emeka Onyia II
October 17, 2025

Akuko ndi ngbu


10 girls used for protection? Who told them such is working. They just wasted 10 innocent life. That's if this is not fabricated

Pierocash:
are you that dumb to know it was just a statement of propaganda just to rubbish Nnamdi Kanu. No wonder VDM said most Nigeria youths are not intelligent

Nnamdi Kanu’s instructions are public knowledge and on record. Stop defending rubbish.

Pierocash:
are you that dumb to know it was just a statement of propaganda just to rubbish Nnamdi Kanu. No wonder VDM said most Nigeria youths are not intelligent

you're actually one of those who are not intelligent by this your comment.
You know you guys stay in Lagos or any other peaceful part of the region and be shouting propaganda whenever issues like this are discussed.
What part of this tale is propaganda. Were police stations not burnt? Were police officers of Igbo extracts not killed? Were market woman not shot at and their wares burnt and schools burnt because they didn't sit at home? Did people not desert their villages because of UGM?
Either you are one of those daft Igbos who sees nothing wrong so far Biafra is mentioned or you are just an unintelligent as you just said...

I am an Igbo man, I live in the east, and I can tell you all that was said actually happened. And it worsened when nnamdi kanu was detained.

If you think it is propaganda, drive through some places in aku ihube, awo, ihiala, orlu, lilu, arondizuogu, ozara, etc and see if your fellow Igbo brothers there won't rip you to pieces in the name of fighting for Biafra.

Before you stvpidly call me sabo like your fellow idiiots, I am an Igbo blood and I stand in the spirit of true Biafra, the Biafra our fathers fought for, the Biafra that will eventually come, but I don't support this Biafra of killing our brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers and telling our mothers not to go to markets to look for what to eat and telling our children not to go to school.

oz4real83:
When an igbo man is agree with non-Igbos or want to prove a point, he takes his anger on his fellow igbos just to prove his anger or his point, check the victims of the Monday sit at home, check the victims of unknown gunmen, also igbos, Christmas is coming, just check how igbo transport companies will inflate fares from other parts of Nigeria to the east, also check this story we are reading, imagine an igbo man, ordering 3000 igbo lives to bury somebody that was killed . In the words of Chinua Achebe, "when two brothers fight to death, a stranger takes over their inheritance"

Nnamdi Kanu is not the reason why you can't spell properly

Cashio:
you're actually one of those who are not intelligent by this your comment.
You know you guys stay in Lagos or any other peaceful part of the region and be shouting propaganda whenever issues like this are discussed.
What part of this tale is propaganda. Were police stations not burnt? Were police officers of Igbo extracts not killed? Were market woman not shot at and their wares burnt and schools burnt because they didn't sit at home? Did people not desert their villages because of UGM?
Either you are one of those daft Igbos who sees nothing wrong so far Biafra is mentioned or you are just an unintelligent as you just said...

I am an Igbo man, I live in the east, and I can tell you all that was said actually happened. And it worsened when nnamdi kanu was detained.

If you think it is propaganda, drive through some places in aku ihube, awo, ihiala, orlu, lilu, arondizuogu, ozara, etc and see if your fellow Igbo brothers there won't rip you to pieces in the name of fighting for Biafra.

Before you stvpidly call me sabo like your fellow idiiots, I am an Igbo blood and I stand in the spirit of true Biafra, the Biafra our fathers fought for, the Biafra that will eventually come, but I don't support this Biafra of killing our brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers and telling our mothers not to go to markets to look for what to eat and telling our children not to go to school.

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