Indigenous People of Biafra says its members did not carry out Monday’s attacks on the Federal prison and police command headquarters in Owerri, Imo state.
IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, stated that it’s not part of the group’s “mandate” to perpetrate such crimes.
Early Monday morning, gunmen suspected to be IPOB members had attacked the two facilities, setting free about 1500 prisoners.
The gunmen also razes some police vehicles during the attacks.
Powerful said in a statement that information linking the group or its security outfit known as the Eastern Security Network to the two attacks are fallacious.
He said, “The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been drawn again to the fallacious and fabricated news that IPOB and ESN are involved in the attack of prison and police headquarters in Owerri Imo State. IPOB and ESN are known groups not unknown gunmen.
“IPOB and ESN were not involved in the attack in Owerri Imo State, and the recent attack on Onitsha Owerri road at Ukwuorji junction. It is not our mandate to attack security personnel or prison facilities.
He stressed that IPOB was “formed on the principle of peace and we are still in it.
“Unknown gunmen is a different people which we don’t know them and they are not IPOB or ESN security outfit.”