ESN warns armed herdsmen and vigilante groups in Southeast region

On the occasion of its third anniversary, the Eastern Security Network, or ESN, the militia wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra, or IPOB, has warned vigilante groups, thugs, and herders operating in the Southeast.

ESN pledged to halt Fulani herdsmen with guns from functioning in the area.

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The security team also issued a warning to the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG) to cease their purported kidnappings of individuals within the state.

The disbandment of all political thugs and vigilante groups, including the Ebubeagu militia founded by Southeast governors, was demanded in a statement released by IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful.

All accused government-sponsored criminals, car-snatching gangs, kidnappers, and rapists operating in the states of Imo and Anambra were asked to leave their camps by the group.

The statement says, in part, that it is necessary to put an end to the Fulani herdsmen and their Miyetti Allah sponsors parading around the axis of Abia, Akwa Ibom and Igweocha, Anambra, Delta, Enugu, and Ebonyi, especially in the Lokpanta area.

They are currently engaged in kidnapping and highway robberies. These Fulani bandits committed the majority of the highway robberies and kidnappings along the Enugu-Umuahia-Aba-Port Harcourt Motorway. These Fulani bandits primarily hide out at Lokpanta Cattle Market.

This is a warning to the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG), who abandoned their original mission of maintaining Anambra State’s security in favour of criminal activity, including the kidnapping and killing of IPOB members in the state. We shall be forced to confront you if you do not cease your violent deeds.

“With immediate effect, all illegal security groups and political thugs organised to target Biafrans must be disbanded. Imo State’s Ebubeagu militia needs to be abolished immediately. This Ebubeagu was in charge of massacring the deaths of innocent people and setting fire to their homes throughout Biafraland, particularly in Imo State.

This is a warning to the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG), who abandoned their original mission of maintaining Anambra State’s security in favour of criminal activity, including the kidnapping and killing of IPOB members in the state. We shall be forced to confront you if you do not cease your violent deeds.

“With immediate effect, all illegal security groups and political thugs organised to target Biafrans must be disbanded. Imo State’s Ebubeagu militia needs to be abolished immediately. This Ebubeagu was in charge of massacring the deaths of innocent people and setting fire to their homes throughout Biafraland, particularly in Imo State.