IPOB disowns, disassociates self from activities of alleged fake ESN commanders

…. denies issuing statements through social media

By Cyprian Ebele, Onitsha

The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), weekend disowned and disassociated self from the alleged unholy activities of fake Eastern Security, Network, (ESN) using mostly social media.

The suspects who claimed to be genuine ESN commanders, however urged the public to be wary of such criminals.

The IPOB’s spokesperson Emma Powerful said:, “Our attention has been drawn to the activities of online impostors, infiltrators, and state-sponsored charlatans parading themselves on social media as commanders of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), issuing fake directives and attempting to mislead the public.

“Let it be made abundantly clear: ESN does not take orders online. ESN has never taken orders online. ESN will never take orders online.

“The Eastern Security Network was established by Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu under a disciplined and centralised chain of command with one sacred duty: to defend Biafraland from invasion, occupation, and the fate that has befallen other indigenous territories across Nigeria.

“ESN was not created for noise. It was not created for propaganda. It was not created for social media performance. It was created as a disciplined indigenous defence structure with a defined command system, a singular mission, and one source of authority.

“That command structure remains intact.Those issuing imaginary orders online in the name of ESN are not part of that structure. They do not speak for ESN. They do not speak for IPOB. 

They are enemies of Biafra restoration, opportunists feeding off confusion, and agents planted by the Nigerian state to fracture trust, create disorder, and weaken the only indigenous self-defence architecture that has successfully protected our people.

“The public is advised to disregard every social media audio, post, broadcast, and fabricated “directive” claiming to emanate from ESN. ESN operations are not conducted on Facebook, not on WhatsApp, not on TikTok, not on X, and not in the comment sections of political hustlers. ESN answers to command, not clout.

“When Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu established ESN, he did so because he understood the consequence of delay. He understood what happens to a people who wait too long to defend themselves. 

He understood what conquest looks like when it is ignored, excused, or politically accommodated.

“He saw what happened to the ancient Hausa Kingdoms. He saw what happened in Ilorin. He saw what has become of Kwara. He saw indigenous communities in the Middle Belt displaced, ancestral lands overtaken, identities eroded, and generations uprooted from their own soil.

“He saw towns emptied.He saw villages burned. He saw communities renamed by force. He saw the pattern.And he refused to allow Biafraland become the next chapter in that history. That is why ESN was created. And that is why Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is in detention today.

“From Southern Kaduna to Benue, from Plateau to parts of Yoruba land, the evidence is written in blood, in ash, and in abandoned homes. Whole communities have been uprooted.

“Farmers have been driven off ancestral lands.Villages have been erased. And governments issue press statements while the dead are counted. Biafraland was marked for the same fate.It did not happen because Mazi Nnamdi Kanu acted before the collapse reached our doorstep.