IPOB: We Didn’t Attack Imo Police Headquaters, Correctional Centre

The proscribed Indigenious People of Biafra (IPOB) has
denied responsibility for Monday’s attacks on Imo Police
Headquarters and Correctional Centre where over 2,000
inmates were freed.
Its Media and Publicity Secretary Emma Powerful said the
attacks were not carried out by operatives of Eastern
Security Network (ESN).
He said: “The attention of IPOB has been drawn again to the
fallacious and fabricated news that IPOB and ESN are
involved in the attack of prison and police headquarters in
Owerri Imo State.
“IPOB and ESN are known groups not unknown gunmen.
ESN is in the bush chasing Fulani terrorists, why linking
IPOB and ESN to this attack. IPOB and ESN were not
involved in the attack in Owerri Imo State. and the recent
attack on Onitsha Owerri road at Ukwuorji junction. It is not
our mandate to attack security personnel or prison
facilities.
“The Nigeria Government and her compromised media
outfits should stop linking IPOB and ESN to the multiple
attacks going on in Nigeria now. IPOB was formed on
principle of peace and we are still in it. Unknown gunmen is
a different people which we don’t know them and they not
IPOB or ESN security outfit.”
Meanwhile, soldiers have taken over the Okigwe roundabout
and road leading to the Correctional Centre diverting traffic
flow.