Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state has identified the Eastern Security Network, ESN, the security arm of the Independent People of Biafra, IPOB, as bandits causing mayhem in Southeast.
The Governor, who featured on ChannelsTV’s Sunrise Daily, accused the ESN of doing evil within the zone’s forests.
Umahi vowed that the activities of the Network would not be allowed in the state.
“And so, we won’t allow people to take the laws 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 kidnapping.
“And of late, we have bandits that are now doing a lot of evil and saying they are Eastern Security Network.
“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,” the governor declared.
