The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra’s Eastern Security Network (IPOB’s ESN) has been accused of abducting and murdering two policemen in South Eastern State.
The Federal Government through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday, November 29.
According to the Minister, the IPOB militant wing, ESN carried out the murder, adding that the culprits behind the “killings, who videotaped their heinous act and circulated such will be apprehended and brought to justice.”
Our correspondent gathered that a video circulating on social media shows a number of young men, communicating in the Igbo language, surrounded two decapitated heads and mocked the deceased while repeatedly mentioning that one looked like “Fulani” from the look of his nose.
Reacting to the viral video, Alhaji Mohammed described the abduction of three policemen and the killing of two of them, “in the most horrific, barbaric and cannibalistic manner, as an unacceptable attack against the state.”
The minister listed the victims as ASP Francis Idoko (AP No. 154945); Inspector Emmanuel Akubo (AP No. 222336) and Inspector Rufai Adamu (AP. No. 285009).
“They were abducted by members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), acting on the instructions of their leader, Chinonso Okafor, aka TEMPLE, on 27 November 2021.
”Inspectors Akubo and Adamu were killed, their decapitated bodies videotaped and circulated widely. The leader of the ESN team that killed the two officers is one ‘GENTLE.
“Okafor, the most influential commander of ESN in charge of Imo and the Anambra States, as well as ‘Gentle’ and all those who perpetrated the abhorrent act, will be made to face swift and sure justice,” he said.
Mohammed stressed that the targeting and killing of security agents, under any guise, is a direct attack on Nigeria and will not be accepted.
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