The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday dismissed reports that the Nigerian Army killed 27 Eastern Security Network (ESN) operatives in August.
IPOB accused the Nigerian Army of spreading falsehoods against the Biafran movement.
It was reported that the Nigerian Army’s “Operation Udo-Ka” in the Southeast killed 27 ESN operatives and arrested over 51 civilians in August.
Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, said one of those arrested, Sunday Afordimnze Asika aka Aboy Ekwensu, whom the Nigerian Army claimed to have arrested in Ezinifite in Aguata LGA of Anambra State, has never been an ESN member.
A statement by Powerful reads: “The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wishes to inform Biafrans and the general public, particularly Ndigbo, that the concocted propaganda being peddled by the murderous Nigerian Army Defence Headquarters—claiming that its ‘OPERATION UDO-KA’ in the Southeast Region killed 27 ESN operatives and arrested…