Troops Invade ‘IPOB Military HQ’ In Imo, K!ll Many

The Nigerian army claims that its forces, together with those of sister agencies, have demolished the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) headquarters in Mother Valley, Orsu council area, Imo state.

Force commander of Joint Task Force Southeast, Operation Udo Ka, Hassan Dada, said this in a statement on Friday in Eke Ututu, Orsu Local Government Area, Imo.

According to the commander, the forces freed and cleared the towns of Orsumoghu and Lilu in the Ihiala and Ekwusigo LGAs of Anambra state, as well as Ihiteukwa, Eke Ututu, and Ihittenansa in Imo.

He said that the headquarters, which was the final IPOB bastion, covered the Imo and Anambra local government areas of Orsu and Ihiala.

“It is about 5,000 feet below sea level,” Dada said.

The well-hidden forests provided the proscribed group with excellent protection from aerial monitoring, he said, and it also functioned as their military council headquarters and center of command.

He stated that the military exploded and retrieved several improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during the Thursday operation, along with a variety of impediments that were removed.

He said that the military also encountered IPOB members, killing and subduing several of them while sending others who had sustained varied degrees of bullet wounds running into the nearby bushes.

“In addition to many weapons, equipment, IEDs and stolen vehicles recovered over the last three weeks, items recovered in the Mother Valley include three G3 rifles, nine automatic pump action rifles, seven double barrel guns, two locally-made pistols, two rocket-propelled grenade bombs, two AK 47 magazine and one G3 magazine,” he said.

“Others were 26 rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition, 16 rounds of 7.62mm NATO ammunition, 72 pump action cartridges, one chainsaw, one laptop, one CCTV DVR, 26 CCTV cameras, 17 baofeng radios with batteries and 10 without batteries and their chargers.

“Also recovered were six handheld IEDs, 26 android phones, 25 ordinary phones, one inverter, one SIM card registration machine, four POS machines, three motorcycle batteries for igniting IEDs, two trumpets, two Biafra flags, 20 ESN certificates, two diaries containing details of ammunition and food supplies and two pairs of Biafra Liberation Army uniforms.

“The joint troops also destroyed about 50 tents in the valley housing the supreme headquarters, IPOB/ESN command and control center, Buteuzor’s hideout and residence, offices, their logistics base, temples and shrines used for occultic practices among many other items.” [CONTINUE READING HERE]