JUST IN: See the 3 Ex-Nigerian Army Officers Who Helped Nnamdi Kanu Train 4,400 ESN Soldiers
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JUST IN: See the 3 Ex-Nigerian Army Officers Who Helped Nnamdi Kanu Train 4,400 ESN Soldiers.
Operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team have arrested three dismissed soldiers, who allegedly partook in the training of 4,400 members of the Eastern Security Network for the Indigenous People of Biafra.
The suspects have been identified as Linus Owalo, Godswill Steven and Chinasa Orji.
They were arrested recently after operatives of the IRT, while following a tip-off from some members of IPOB, raided the group’s hideouts in Imo, Anambra and Delta States and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
ESN is the armed wing of the POB.
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IPOB and ESN have been accused by the police of being responsible for the attacks and killings of security operatives as well as burning of police stations and government infrastructure across the South East and South South regions of the country.
IPOB and ESN have repeatedly denied the allegation, causing conventional media, social media and security agencies to tag the perpetrators “unknown gunmen.”
One of the soldiers, Owalo, who enlisted into the Nigeria Army in 2013, was attached to 102 Guard Brigade Battalion until his dismissal.
He was dismissed in 2019 and the reason for his dismissal is yet unknown.
Police sources are alleging that Owalo, after his sack in 2019, left to start training the IPOB militias on combat operations such as ambush and use of firearms.
His colleagues, Orji and Steven, enlisted into the Nigeria Army in 2015 and 2017 respectively, and were trained at the 133 Special Force Battalion.
After their dismissal, they went to join forces with IPOB, playing active roles in the training department.
Police sources said: “The three men were promised double of their salaries in the army.
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“They joined the IPOB military camp in Abia State where they trained more than 4,000 IPOB volunteered fighters before moving to Asaba, Delta State, where they trained another 400 militias.”
According to the dismissed soldiers, IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, promised to move them overseas for more military trainings after the state of Biafra has been achieved and activated.
Each of them would become military General in the Republic.
Owalo, 32, married with two children, explained that he enlisted into the army in 2013 and was later posted to the Guards Brigade Headquarters, FCT, Abuja.
“They joined the IPOB military camp in Abia State where they trained more than 4,000 IPOB volunteered fighters before moving to Asaba, Delta State, where they trained another 400 militias.”
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