BREAKING!!! ‘We Are Only Defending Our People’, IPOB Replies Sheikh Gumi

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has responded to Sheikh Abubakar Gumi's accusations that the secessionists were murdering Nigerians.

The IPOB's Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said in a statement released on Thursday that the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the IPOB's militia arm, was established to protect the people of the South-East from killers and criminals.

“IPOB is attacking the police, the army, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and other government institutions; killing our men in service,” Gumi had said yesterday when he featured on AriseTV programme news.

“And the herdsmen are kidnapping children not to kill them but to get money; so how can you compare somebody who is killing our gallant men directly to somebody who is kidnapping children to make money and not to kill them. Look, we need some fairness in what we are doing.”

The statement read, “The attention of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the latest ranting and ridiculous claims by terrorist apologist, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, that IPOB, and Eastern Security Network, ESN, were killing Northerners. There is no iota of truth in such a mischievous and fallacious claim.

“In case the self-acclaimed Islamic cleric has forgotten, may we remind him that neither IPOB nor ESN is a terrorist organisation or killers like his bandit clients and allies. Spilling of blood is never part of our mandate.

“ESN is a child of necessity created for the defence of our ancestral land against terrorists and killer herdsmen wreaking havoc across our communities. ESN is only defending our hapless mothers and sisters who have been raped, maimed and attacked without any justification by Fulani herdsmen.

“Since December 2020 when ESN was set up by our leader, these vampires have been on the run because of the heat from our gallant operatives across Biafran forests. For Sheikh Gumi who never gave a hoot while killer herdsmen rampaged our communities to try to twist the fact now is not only.