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Wisetrue99:
While wrongly imprisoned, Nnamdi KANU is still well known than you and your entire...

Eight suspected members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militant wing of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have been arrested in Umuodeche, a community in Isiala-Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria’s South-east.

The suspects were arrested on 20 July inside a thick forest popularly known as “Ikeohia-Umuodeche.”

A vigilante group from the community and another vigilante group from a neighbouring community, Umuezeukwu, carried out the arrest when they raided the suspects’ camp in the forest.

Five of the suspects, including a lady, were arrested in their hideout.

Hours later, the vigilante group, with the help of the information from the arrested suspects, also arrested three more suspects.

Members of the community had not entered the forest for many years, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

The suspected IPOB members erected a makeshift tent inside the forest and had spent about two weeks there before they were arrested.

A team of police officers who visited the place reportedly razed the makeshift tent, hours after the vigilante arrested the suspects.
Some video clips and pictures, taken before the camp was razed, showed that the suspects had erected two shrines where they usually force their recruits to take oath before beginning their operations.


“This is where I stood and took the oath with this kola nut,” said a recruit, in yellow sportswear, pointing at a piece of kola nut on the ground.

In his confessional statement to the joint-vigilante group, Uchenna Otuocha, one of the arrested gang members, confirmed they were IPOB members.

“We are here as IPOB members, we are 11 in number, three indigenes of this village and eight of us, we got an information that you guys (vigilantes) are coming and this guy (pointing at the one in yellow sportswear) said we should leave here.

“That he will find us another forest inside and cook food for us. As we got that information, we don’t know here, so they led us to the other road while they followed the main road with the tools bag (containing guns and other weapons),” an IPOB member, who was shirtless in the clip, said.

While he was still speaking, the only lady among them, who identified herself as Chinenye Amaka, told the vigilante that some of her colleagues who had the gang’s arms and ammunition followed one of the indigenes to his house to pass the night.

“Those three guys with the bag followed this guy (pointing at another indigene of the place whose name is yet to be ascertained) to their house to pass the night,” she said.

Continuing, Ms Amaka, who claimed she is from Enugu State, said the gang members usually carry out attacks, although she denied ever taking part in the attacks.
“We were brought here for armed robbery, we also set police stations ablaze,” she said.

When asked what else they do, she said, “We also kidnap people. We are five – myself, Lampard, Hotwater, Reported and Young.”

She said Reported nickname of one of the suspects is the owner of the arms they used to carry out the attacks.

“Reported brought me from Owerri,” she said.

A suspect, Chinedu David, who had been implicated by other gang members before his arrest, however, denied his involvement in the robberies and other crimes.

“I didn’t commit any crime. I don’t know why they mentioned my name. Let the person that mentioned my name prove it,” he told our reporter.

Tracing of their camp
Many of the suspects confessed to the crime of kidnapping and armed robbery, including attacks on police stations, which have been on the increase across Nigeria’s South-east.

A source, who asked not to be named in this report because of the fear of being attacked, told this reporter that the suspects were traced to their camp when some members of the community became suspicious and uncomfortable due to strange faces they kept seeing around the community.

“We started noticing that this girl (Ms Amaka) will always come out from somewhere, buy something from our market and go towards the forest. So, we started monitoring her until we ascertained where she was coming from and then alerted our vigilante group,” the source said.

The arrest
A leader of the joint-vigilante group said the arrest of the suspects was in response to a distress call from another vigilante group in a neighbouring community.

“We planned and went into the bush at about 7:30 to 8:00 in the night and apprehended four boys and a girl. So, we brought them back to the community,” he said.

He said the vigilante handed over the suspects to the police.

No rifles
The leader of the joint-vigilante lamented that fighting crime in the area had been difficult because of the lack of arms.

“Had it been that those suspects came with guns that day, there was no way we could have faced them because we only went with machetes,” he said, as he displayed his machete.
“You don’t expect a vigilante member with a machete to arrest a suspected criminal with rifles.”

He appealed to the government to assist them with some rifles to enable them to fight crimes in their communities.

Meanwhile, some police officers from Abia State visited the community and picked up the arrested suspects.

The police paraded the suspects in the community before taking them away, but the officers denied our reporter access to interview or take photos of the suspects.

The police also denied a State Security Service official access to the suspects.

Three of the suspects who fled the scene were said to have left with their arms. They were yet to be arrested at the time of filing this report.

When contacted on 29 July, nine days after the arrest, the police spokesperson in Abia State, Geoffrey Ogbonna, said he was not aware of the incident.

“I don’t have that report,” Mr Ogbonna said.

Emergingnation3:
Lol !! Says marauding Fulani terrorist...

For your information , the UN has taking over his case, and they have ordered your Jihadist government release him unconditionally with compensation attached it..

He is coming out stronger with Biafran flag in his hand in no distance time..

Chronic unity beggar..

The Delta State Governor and Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said the PDP remains the only party capable of rescuing Nigeria from the dungeon which the All Progressives Congress has plunged it.

Okowa also stated that he was very optimistic that the PDP would not only win the election with an impressive margin, but also garner massive votes from the South-East in general.

He said his party would win Anambra State with wide margin, in spite of the fact that the state already has two presidential candidates in the Labour Party and the All Progressives Grand Alliance.

Okowa stated these at the Uche Ekwunife Campaign Office, Awka, on Sunday, after attending a special church service to mark the 60th birthday anniversary of the Anglican Archbishop of Niger Province and Bishop of Awka Diocese, Rt. Rev. Alexander Ibezim.

According to the governor, key appointments had eluded the South-East region for the past 12 years, a situation he said his party was all out to correct.
Okowa insisted that the major reason the PDP was seeking to win the presidential election in 2023 was to rescue the country from the current poor state which the APC had plunged it into.

He said, “The PDP is not unmindful of the fact that Ndigbo have never had their fair share of appointments in the country over the past 12 years and I stand here to promise that Ndigbo will play a major role in our government as from 2023 and beyond.
“We are aware that Anambra has two presidential candidates for the 2023 election, but we are going to win, not just a landslide, but an impressive margin. We will also garner massive votes from the South-East in general and Anambra State in particular, inspite of the fact that the state is parading two presidential candidates of Labour Party and All Progressives Grand Alliance.”

Okowa was flanked by a PDP Board of Trustees, BoT member, Chief Ben Obi; the state chairman of the PDP, Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu; the senatorial candidate of the PDP for Anambra Central, Senator Uche Ekwunife (Iyom), among other top executive members of the PDP in Anambra State.

In their separate remarks, Ben Obi, Nwobu and Ekwunife assured Okowa that Anambra State would vote massively for the PDP to give the party a resounding victory in 2023.

The Abia state government says it will not disband the Ebube Agu security outfit.

Sopuruchi Bekee, Abia commissioner for homeland security, said this on Tuesday amid protests demanding the disbandment of Ebube Agu.

The security outfit was set up in April 2021 by the south-east governors to tackle insecurity in the geo-political zone.

But in recent months, reports of arbitrary killings have been linked to personnel of the security outfit.

In July 2022, Amnesty International had called on the federal government to investigate allegations of extrajudicial killings involving Ebube Agu operatives.

The human rights advocacy group made the demand a few days after some persons, said to be wedding guests, were allegedly killed by Ebube Agu operatives in Otulu in Oru east LGA of Imo state.

In the past few days, protesters have taken to the streets in parts of the south-east, including Imo, seeking the disbandment of the security outfit.
According to NAN, on Tuesday in Abia, protesters converged on Ariaria international market, from which they moved through Faulks road, Aba-Owerri road, Brass road to Aba north LGA, chanting anti-Ebube Agu songs.

The protesters also accused Ebube Agu of being a “murderous outfit”.

ezechi242:
Useless man ...he wife and him children go ask am omasteye who send you ...messing with the wrongest stewpeed people in Africa..

NwaMamaIwota:
I'm watching you

athaboi:
Hahahaha
Tinubu uchins declaring no election in Biafra land....menh Tinubu is really scared of Obi's popularity

Some yet-to-be-identified armed men abducted two persons in Alor, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State on Sunday.

The victims, who were abducted along the Nnobi—Nnewi Road and taken to Alor were thrown from the bridge over the Obiaja River.

This was also corroborated by a video from the scene currently trending on social media, showing one of the abductees lamenting and narrating his experience, while being interviewed by some men of the Tiger Squad Local Vigilante, Alor.

One of the victims, who identified himself as Benjamin Okafor, said he was driving to his hometown, Amichi, in Nnewi South Local Government Area, with one other person, before they were abducted about 9:00 p.m.


He said the abductors, after driving halfway into the about 20 feet high bridge, threw them down from the bridge and he landed on a concrete base
However, the second victim did not survive the fall as his lifeless body was found in the drainage system, covered by flood and some huge pebbles.

The surviving victim also sustained various degrees of injuries all over his body.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the Anambra State Police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the incident and revealed that the victim had been rescued, and the body of the deceased deposited in a mortuary.

He said, “The man was rescued and he is currently receiving treatment in the hospital. He was later identified and reunited with the family members. Meanwhile, the second victim has been taken to the morgue and investigation has since commenced.”

Wisetrue99:

see your head! You don vow say you no go ever support the truth for your life!

You are coming to campaign for Emilokan wey don steal your brain, life, thinking, destiny, soul.

Even Fashola say make them retire for 60 but your papa won die there

I guess Fashola is also an Okoro nut head!

Wisetrue99:
Just like the muslim praying mat, this could also be the handiwork of the infiltrators!

Since they could get anything on Peter Obi, they just want to paint him a liar!

Nigerians Okoros now knows better! Peter Obi is the next president of Nigeria Beerfraud!

Emergingnation3:
Lol ! Cause we have handed it over to the UN and other global Charters that recognized the principles of self determination and of which Nigeria is signatory to.. they're now doing our bidding..

And to hell with Peter Obi's presidential ambition......

obiekunie01:
@op Ekpa did say kill them!

HE SAID ENGAGE THEM!

mumu op engage is NOT the same thing as KILL!

Emergingnation3:
Fixed !

The actualization of sovereign state of Biafra is a task that must be accomplished...

Afonja Muslims and their Fulani counterpart should continue their joint headslamming forever in their Muslim-Muslim ticket in Nijiara, for all we care..

OloYeOfEgbE:
Democracy and Islam doesn't match....

Period

BrownRoofRep:
East don't kill Northerners, something I can't say of Tinubu who killed many Hausa people with his NADECO in 1993 and OPC in later years.

Totilopussylick:
Both are birds of same feathers .