IPOB Reacts To Made-up Miyetti Allah Allegation, Brags About Creating ESN In Northern Nigeria

The banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says its vigilante group, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), will be launched in the northern part of Nigeria soon.

This is as the pro-Biafra organization vowed that it would resist the rumoured deployment of 5,000 vigilantes to the South-East region by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN).

Recent social media reports had alleged that MACBAN vowed to deploy 5,000 of its vigilante to the South-East region to protect herders and their cattle - although AllNews cannot independently verify the news.

But proscribed IPOB, in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Publicity who goes by the pseudonym, Emma Powerful, on Sunday, said it was ready to resist the plan by Miyetti Allah, adding that such supposed threat was an insult on Igbo land.

According the group, the security outfit for the South-East geopolitical zone floated two weeks ago by governors of the region, was dead on arrival.

IPOB's statement read: “The attention of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has been drawn to a threat by Miyetti Allah to deploy 5,000 jihadists in Biafra land to protect their cows and herders, following the creation of Ebubeagu security outfit by Southeast governors.

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“We consider this utterance an insult to the entire Biafra and won’t tolerate it despite our grievances against the treacherous Southeast governors and the political elite.

“The Southeast governors must understand that the Federal Government sponsored Miyetti Allah to make this reckless utterance.

"The earlier they understand that IPOB is not their problem, the better.

"They should stop betraying us, but should appreciate our sacrifices in the defence of our ancestral land.

“The Miyetti Allah and their terrorists group should know that they shouldn’t play God for ever.

"They are trying to provoke ESN and IPOB to take a drastic action.

"IPOB and ESN are running out of patience with their insults.

"They should retrace their steps now. Let them come, we are waiting for them. Soon, they will see ESN in the North.

“Fulani terrorists are thinking that Biafra land is easy to penetrate the way they penetrated Hausa land and conquered them in 1804. If Miyetti Allah and their sponsors in Aso Rock attempt to do in Biafra land what they did in Hausa land, they will regret their actions. ESN and IPOB are prepared for them.

“They can intimidate Southeast governors but they can’t intimidate IPOB and ESN. No inch of Biafra land will be relinquished to Fulani jihadists.

“If Miyetti Allah jihadists step into our land, they will be like abandoned bodies in the bushes and forests in our territory. Nigerians can melt before Miyetti Allah, but not IPOB and ESN. Miyetti Allah must not try IPOB and ESN because they cannot withstand our venom.

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“We hereby declare an end to open grazing throughout Biafra territory. If we get any cow grazing openly on our farms again, both the cow and the murderous herder shall not live to tell their experience.”

IPOB's claim against us invented, says Miyetti Allah leader in South East

Reacting, the Miyetti Allah leader in the South-East, Alhaji Gidado Sidikki, refuted IPOB's allegation that it wants to deploy 5,000 jihadists in Biafra land to protect their cows and herders. Rather, Sidikki said his members were gradually fleeing South East and South South states following attacks on them and their cows.

He said according to The Nation: “We have no such plans. We’ve been suffering attacks in the Southeast. Many of my members have lost their cows, while some have lost their lives.

“These developments have compelled some of us to relocate temporarily to save our lives and cattle.”