The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused the Katsina State Police Command of staging an Igbo boy to blackmail its militia arm, the Eastern Security Network, ESN.
IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, said claims by the Katsina State Police Command that it arrested an ESN member in the state was laughable.
A 19-year-old David Eric Uchenna, who also goes by the name Ibrahim Muhammed was arrested by the Katsina State Police Command.
He was picked up at Kofar Sauri Quarters in Katsina metropolis, following a tip-off from some of his associates.
This was disclosed while the state police Command spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, paraded Uchenna on Tuesday.
However, a statement by Powerful said the Nigerian Government can stage-manage a criminal to claim he’s an ESN member.
Powerful said the alleged arrest of an Igbo boy who claims to be an ESN member has shown that the Nigerian Government was afraid of IPOB’s global acceptance.
He lamented that the Nigerian Government might soon bribe Interpol to parade a criminal claiming he is an ESN member.
The statement reads partly: “The recent blackmail from the Katsina Police Command who claimed they arrested an ESN member in Katsina State is not only laughable but also demeaning of the Police Institution they represent, who have become a willing tool for subjugation and propaganda for the Government of Nigeria.
“Government blackmail against IPOB members and ESN Operatives in the East is no longer holding water, hence the need to seek other ways by exporting their blackmail to other States, thereby completely negating one of the ESN’s fundamental primary purposes of establishment. They have decided to take their usual stage-managed propaganda to the North.
“If it were to be possible, the Nigerian Government would bribe Interpol to stage one criminal or another to claim to be an ESN Operative even overseas.
“For the Kastina Police Commissioner himself and his Command to stage an Igbo boy in Katsina to claim he is an ESN operative shows the level of panic and desperation that has gripped the Nigeria Government as a result of the obvious progress IPOB is recorded around the globe in making our case for freedom of the Biafran people through an international supervised REFERENDUM.”
