IPOB Refutes Reports Of Attacks On Police HQs In Owerri

• “The IPOB and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) are well-known organisations, not random gunmen. ESN is pursuing jihadists in the bush and has little to do with the alleged attacks.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied being behind Monday’s attacks on the Imo State Police and Correctional Service headquarters.

This was stated in a statement released by its Publicity Secretary, Emma Strong, in Owerri on Monday, April 5.

Powerful explained that the group was formed on the principle of peace and would not compromise its principles.

It would also not attack the government’s facilities, he stated.

“The attention of IPOB has been drawn to the fallacious and fabricated reports that it is involved in the attack of prison and police headquarters in Imo.

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“We were not involved in the attack in Owerri and the recent attack on Onitsha-Owerri road at Ukwuorji junction.

“It is not our mandate to attack security personnel or prison facilities,’’ he stated.

Ripples Nigeria had earlier reported that the Imo Police Command, as well as that of the Correctional Service, were attacked at about 2 a.m. on Monday by unknown gunmen.

They set hundreds of inmates free from the Correctional Centre and set many vehicles there ablaze.