Kanunta Kanu, younger brother of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Monday said the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ‘has nothing to do with the mindless killings in Eastern region of Nigeria’.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the police in Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east, said two of their officers have been shot dead and their bodies burnt by their attackers.
One officer is still missing, according to the police.
The slain officers were traveling in a vehicle with five other officers and three civilian drivers when they were ambushed by gunmen last Thursday in a community in Anambra, the police spokesperson in the state, Ikenga Tochukwu, said in a statement on Saturday.
“In the attack two police officers were killed and their bodies were burnt while one of the officers is still missing,” said Tochukwu, a deputy superintendent of police.
A clip circulating on WhatsApp showed the armed men strutting around the corpses of two officers in the middle of a tarred road. Close to the corpses were some discarded car tires.
“ESN! ESN! ESN! We are going! We are going!” One of the armed men is heard saying in the clip, indicating that the attack may have been carried out by the pro-Biafra group, IPOB.
Tochukwu said that the other officers “fought their way out of the ambush” and were also able to rescue two out of the three civilian drivers.
According to him, the armed men attacked a rescue team, hurling improvised explosive devices at police vehicles.
But reacting to the latest attack on security operatives, Kanunta Kanu tried to absolve ESN or IPOB of committing any criminal act.
“The only crime #IPOB could be accused of is arousing the consciousness of the masses to see the danger before them. #ESN has nothing to do with the killing in #Biafraland ask @NGRPresident they’re sponsoring it.
Why is it difficult for them to label #Herdsmen a terrorists group?” Kanu wrote on his known Twitter handle.
Anambra, like other states in the South-east, has been plagued by violent killings over the agitation for an independent republic of Biafra which is championed by IPOB.
A soldier and four IPOB members were killed in October in the state during a deadly clash.
Anambra recently had a peaceful governorship election amidst the fear that IPOB was going to disrupt the poll.
