By Chimaobi Nwaiwu

Following the inability of South-East governors, to float a security outfit like the Amotekun of the South-West, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, weekend, floated a security outfit named Eastern Security Network, ESN.

IPOB in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said that the security outfit is not Biafran Army neither is it for forceful declaration of Biafran Republic, but rather to guard the whole of south-east against the menace of killer herdsmen and other criminal groups.

IPOB added that the aim and objective of the new security outfit is to halt criminal activity and terrorists attack in Biafraland.

IPOB’s statement read, “We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, under the command and leadership of our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to announce with delight, that IPOB has floated a special security network to guard and protect the whole of Biafraland from the rampaging killer herdsmen terrorists activities and other criminal groups in our land.”

“The sole aim and objective of this newly formed Security outfit known as  Eastern Security Network,ESN, is to halt every criminal activity and terrorists attack in Biafraland.

“This outfit which is a vigilante group like the Amotekun in the South West and the Miyetti Allah security outfit in North will ensure the safety of our homes, forests and farm lands which terrorists have converted into slaughter grounds and raping fields.

Since the South East and South South governors have failed to float a regional security outfit unlike their counterparts in the South West despite the worsening insecurity in the country, we have decided not to wait endlessly while our mothers and sisters are continually raped and slaughtered like fowls by terrorists in our land.

“We can’t watch helplessly while those we are agitating to liberate from bondage are gradually being eliminated by terrorists.

“We therefore, advise every robber, kidnapper and other criminals to steer clear from Biafra land or brace up for the worst. We must defend Biafra land no matter the price.

“Biafra Security Network personnel will release special phone numbers for people to call whenever there is any case of criminality including kidnapping and robbery activities in the whole of Biafraland. Every resident in Biafraland should use the numbers to report any criminal activity anywhere in Biafraland for prompt response.

“Killer herdsmen attack on our mothers and sisters must stop in our land with immediate effect. Unnecessary police brutality on innocent citizens also must stop. Police and Army check points which have since been converted to extortion points should be dismantled.

“Security agencies should stop milking our people of their hard-earned resources. Let the check points be set up in the North East where criminal and kidnapping activities are in high demand.”


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“The sole aim and objective of this newly formed Security outfit known as  Eastern Security Network,ESN, is to halt every criminal activity and terrorists attack in Biafraland.

“This outfit which is a vigilante group like the Amotekun in the South West and the Miyetti Allah security outfit in North will ensure the safety of our homes, forests and farm lands which terrorists have converted into slaughter grounds and raping fields.

Since the South East and South South governors have failed to float a regional security outfit unlike their counterparts in the South West despite the worsening insecurity in the country, we have decided not to wait endlessly while our mothers and sisters are continually raped and slaughtered like fowls by terrorists in our land.

“We can’t watch helplessly while those we are agitating to liberate from bondage are gradually being eliminated by terrorists.

“We therefore, advise every robber, kidnapper and other criminals to steer clear from Biafra land or brace up for the worst. We must defend Biafra land no matter the price.

This is the natural progression of things, a predictable outcome.

Nigeria was formed by THREE nations in 1960. But since 2015, the Buhari regime has systematically excluded people from the Eastern region in the top security council of Nigeria. But more importantly, Northern region has Hisbah which they formed many years ago, and they've gone about enforcing Sharia law in a secular Nigeria.
Just last month, they destroyed millions of bottles of beer in the North, never mind that they owners of the beer pay VAT which the Northern states benefit from.

The Western region formed Amotekun, and the outfit has been working to secure their lands.

But in the East, the Fulani leaders in charge of the federal government threatened and intimidated Eastern governors such that they couldn't come together to form a security outfit that can secure the forests and farmlands in the Eastern region. And, at the slightest pretext, security forces kill youths in the region and go scotfree.

I've said it here in this forums that the Igbo are perhaps the last African to ever yield to suppression.
The ethnic group and their cousins in Eastern Nigeria would NEVER in a million years surrender their lands to systematic ethnic cleansing and normalization of Fulani brigandage in the forests of the East.
It would NEVER be allowed to happen.

If Nigeria were to have restructured, perhaps this security network would not have been formed. But Fulani-led government frustrated every effort to restructure Nigeria to decentralize policing.

An Igbo proverb says that it is only a tree that hears that it is about to be cut down and stayed put. A human being would do everything in his power to stop it.

Nature abhors vacuums, and the absence of LOCAL security network has given birth to this.
And it is a welcome development!

I watched the video of the outfit, and it is formed by peoples from all the South East and South South states.
Therefore it is NOT a "South East" alone outfit. It's stated areas of coverage is the whole south east and south south, or former Eastern and Midwestern regions of Nigeria; the region in blue according to attached map below.
Wishing them God's speed!