Ebonyi state governor, Dave Umahi has described operatives of the Eastern Security Network established by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, as criminals.
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He disclosed this on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme on Wednesday, monitored by Hotmedia.ng correspondent.
Describing ESN operatives as bandits doing a lot of evil, Umahi said South-East governors won’t allow illegality to thrive in the region.
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He said, “Where there is conflict, it’s not resolved by conflict. If there are farmers/herders’ conflicts which we agree is in the South-East, but it’s not only in the South-East, it’s all over the country.
“And so, we won’t allow people to take the law into their hands by killing cows and killing people. But I have to tell you that herders/farmers’ conflicts are not the only security challenges we have in South-East, we have the issue of kidnappers. And of late, we have bandits that are now doing a lot of evil and and saying they are Eastern Security Network.
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“They commit a lot of crime and say they are IPOB, and later IPOB will come out and say we had no hand in this, we had no hand in that.”
