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| Nigerian Police Arrest Four ESN Commanders Over Fatal Attack On US Embassy Convoy In Anambra |
| 2023-06-02 |
| [SAHARAREPORTERS] Acombined team of security operatives has arrested four Commanders of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) over alleged involvement in a recent attack by button men on a convoy of United States (US) embassy officials in Ogbaru, Anambra State. ESN is the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which was set up to flush out Lions of Islam herdsmen that have been ravaging the entire South East, destroying farm crops, raping women in their farms and killing others during the eight years of former President Muhammadu Buhari. The group had also been accused of carrying some attacks on security formations especially on checkpoints where coppers had turned into extortion point. SaharaReporters gathered that wife of one of the Commanders was also arrested, in the joint operation led by the Commander of the Naval base, Onitsha and the Anambra State Police Command. SaharaReporters had reported that no fewer than four staff of the United States Embassy in Nigeria and security agents were rubbed out and their bodies burnt while some were kidnapped in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State on May 17, 2023. Although the victims were said to be humanitarian workers both the police and the Anambra State government denied any prior knowledge of such visit but later recounted. Meanwhile the reason for the attack is yet to be ascertained. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... a security source confirmed to SaharaReporters on Thursday morning that the suspects were arrested during a raid of several criminal camps in Ogbaru local government area of the state. According to one of the sources, members of the joint task force where drawn from police, Navy, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with their commanders were involved in the operation. He said "Several camps of the button men were on Wednesday raided by the security operatives in Anambra State during a joint task force operation conducted in Ogbaru LGA of the state. "During the joint operation which was led by the Commander of naval base Onitsha in the company of the CP, Commandant of NSCDC and Commander NDLEA Anambra state, 4 notorious leaders/commanders of the IPOB/ESN in Ogbaru LGA were arrested. Related: Eastern Security Network: 2023-05-19 Two Arrested In Connection With Killing Of US Embassy Officials, Others In Anambra —Police Eastern Security Network: 2023-02-21 Nigerian Police Kill Three Suspected ESN Members, Lose Four Officers In Fresh Attacks In Anambra Eastern Security Network: 2023-01-16 Gunmen Kill One At Office Of Electoral Body, INEC In Imo, Southeast Nigeria |
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