Imo: Simon Ekpa funding criminals in Orsuihitukwa, ESN has no camp there – IPOB knocks Army, others

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday said criminals operating in the Orsuihitukwa, Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State, are funded and recruited by Finland-based self-styled Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa.

IPOB explained that the criminals are not members of its Eastern Security Network, ESN, but infiltrators recruited and funded by Ekpa.

Emma Powerful was reacting to a viral video of the Nigerian Joint Security Forces dancing at Eke Ubahi Eze market at Orsuihiteukwa, Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State.

Describing their action as an “unfortunate dance of shame,” Powerful insisted that ESN has no camp in Orsuihiteukwa, adding that the militia arm of IPOB is not a terrorist organization.

A statement by Powerful reads partly: “The global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great prophet and liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu sees the dance of shame by the Nigeria Joint Security Forces at Eke Ubahi Eze market at Orsuihiteukwa in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State as making a caricature of the Nigeria Security institutions. ESN does not have any camps at Orsuihitukwa, and all ESN camps are intact.

“And again, ESN is not a terrorist para-military but a group of self-defense, law-abiding volunteers that protect our communities from Islamic terrorists the Nigerian government does not wish to confront.

“On Monday 4th March, 2024, a combined forces of Nigeria Army, Navy, Air Force, DSS, Civil Defence Corps and Police on a combat mission at Orsuihitukwa were seen dancing around the village market like boys scouts on a crusade in a viral video. The supposed Forces were seen dancing with a megaphone and wufa speaker like unprofessional men as they claim to have defeated and dislodged ESN and IPOB from Orsuihitukwa The villagers were watching these men making caricatures of themselves in the market square unimpressed.

“The Nigerian government and her murderous Security Forces can go to any length to blackmail IPOB and ESN. This latest dance of shame at the market square in Imo State by the Nigerian security forces shows they are madmen in the security apparatus of Nigeria and this show is among the cheapest blackmail and propaganda against IPOB and ESN.

“Unfortunately for the Nigeria Security Forces, Ndigbo know that the criminals operating in the Orsuihitukwa are not ESN under IPOB but the infiltrators recruited, funded, sent by the Nigeria government through their Fulani double agent almajiri boy in Finland.

“The criminal camp leader called Butuzor (Temple) is their general commander for Simon Ekpa. There has been many leaked audios of their conversations all over social media. These criminals have not hidden their bitterness and anger against IPOB and IPOB leadership. Recently, these criminals have denounced IPOB and ESN.

“In some of the gruesome pictures of some of the criminals that these shameless and murderous Security Forces eliminated showed that they were wearing the so-called Liberation Army regalias. Even the items and insignia recovered from the invaded camps were that of the Liberation Army under the fraudulent Biafra government in exile that Simon Ekpa was deceptively scamming ignorant and gullible people with.”