S/EAST: We won’t hand over ESN to governors, IPOB tells Uwazurike

THE Indigenous People of Biafra has faulted the claim of the leader of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazurike, that the Eastern Security Network, a security outfit set up by IPOB, would be better managed by the governors of the South-East geopolitical zone under the aegis of South-East Governors’ Forum.

The proscribed group said the governors of the five states making up the South-East region are mere slaves of the northern oligarchies incapable of defending their people from attacks.

The group warned the governors to steer clear of the security outfit.

IPOB made its stance known in a statement issued, today, signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful.

The statement read in part, “Uwazuruike is not ashamed of himself by trying to use ESN to cover his atrocities in Biafraland. Uwazuruike was the man who boasted that he had more boys than Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, that should he unleash his boys, no place would contain them.

“We, therefore, challenge Uwazuruike to form his own security outfit and hand over to the South-East and South-South governors. IPOB and its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, are capable of managing ESN to pursue its mandate.

“Uwazuruike thought that IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu are like him that shamelessly sold the future of our unborn generations to the same oppressors he claims to be fighting against just because all he wanted in life was to escape poverty and live in style and opulence.

“At least, now he knows they can never be like us. Unlike him, IPOB is a noble family of liberators that cannot be bought or sold to the highest bidder. Neither will we allow earthly material considerations to move us to distraction. Our mission is a very simple one; Restore Biafra. Nothing more, nothing less!”

Uwazurike had advised youth in the southeast region not to allow IPOB leader Nnamdi Kalu to put them in ” harm’s way” adding that their weapons can not match those of the Federal troops.

He said this against the background of the confrontation between members of the ESN and a joint troop of military and policemen which happened in Orlu, Imo State recently.