IPOB to governors: South East cannot have two regional security outfits

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB says the plans by the Governors of the South East to set up a regional security outfit is a move to counter its Eastern Security Network.

IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement said the region would not have two security outfits; one from IPOB and the other from the governors at a time.

Chairman of the South East governors forum and Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, had on Tuesday hinted that the governors will jettison its earlier constabulary scheme it agreed with the police to set up a regional security outfit.

However, IPOB asked the governors to jettison the idea of setting up a parallel security outfit and accused the governors of trying to set up the outfit on the advice of “Fulani-controlled Federal Government of Nigeria.”

According to Emma Powerful: “We warn these clueless governors in our region not to heed the mischievous advice and attempt by Miyetti Allah and Sokoto caliphate intended to compromise the security of Biafrans.

“Any Miyetti Allah vigilante group under any nomenclature formed by Dave Umahi and his fellow governors as well as Ohanaeze will be resisted by the people of the old Eastern region.

“We, therefore, advise every Biafran father and mother to caution their children against joining Umahi’s vigilante group as such an outfit is already the enemy of the people. Their agenda is sinister and anti-Biafra.

“We declare without equivocation that any other group parading as South-East and South-South security outfit will not be allowed to operate on Biafra soil. Our people have already launched their own defence line – ESN – as our self-acclaimed leaders were nowhere to be found when it counted most.

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“The raping, killings and unprovoked attacks by these vampires must stop throughout Biafra territory. Anyone against this irreversible resolve of the people to defend themselves against foreign occupation will be crushed.”