Youth wing of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Monday revealed why its organisation will not support the newly launched ‘Eastern Security Network’ (ESN).
The security outfit was lauched on Saturday during a live broadcast by thr leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Reacting over the security outfit, Media and Publicity Secretary of the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Osmond Nkeoma, speaking with DailySun said:
“Ohanaeze will not recognise the outfit because they were never consulted by IPOB before floating the ESN.”
He added that the mode of operation of the outfit is yet unknown to them, hence, Ohanaeze, he said, can never give their blessing for the operation of the outfit.
“We can’t support what we do not know the motive. They said it is a security outfit, but how do we know this is true; they undermined us and went ahead to float their security outfit, we can never be part of it,” Nkeoma said.
Meanwhile, IPOB has said that they can’t continue to wait for the governors of the southeast before deciding on using the services of their local security outfit to protect people in the areas.
In a statement by the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, he blamed the wanton killing of Ndigbo and activities of the herdsmen on the lack of courage of the governors to respond to the security challenges in their zones.
He said: “Having waited for many years for our governors to secure our land as Yoruba governors did to no avail, we the people of the East, comprising of South East and South South, have resolved to defend our land from the ravages of Fulani terrorism and extra judicial killings by the armed forces. We can’t allow what happened in Obigbo to repeat itself,” he vowed.
Powerful added: “For years, our mothers have not been able to visit their farms for fear of being raped and cut to pieces.
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