The Inspector-General of Police Muhammed Adamu, on Tuesday, ordered security operatives to embark on a brutal war against members of the Independent People of Biafra, IPOB.
Adamu gave the orders as he arrived at the burnt Imo Police Command headquarters and the Owerri Correctional Service on Tuesday in the Imo State capital.
The two facilities were savagely attacked on Monday by yet-to-be-identified gunmen, who released prisoners at the Correction Service and also freed suspects being held at the Police facilities.
Initial reports put the number of prisoners released at over 2,000, but the Correctional Services has said that those set free by the invaders were about 1,800 inmates.
Although IPOB on Monday issued a statement dissociating itself from the twin attacks, Adamu declared in Owerri that the organization was responsible.
IPOB and its military wing, the ESN, are fighting for the independence of the present South East, to be known as Biafra.
Urging his officers to use their rifles against the IPOB members, Adamu declared that “police will not allow these criminals to succeed”.
Adamu spoke in Owerri, where the state governor, Hope Uzodinma, has also urged the police officers to defend themselves with their service rifles, in the aftermath of the Monday attacks.
“If you can’t attack them, you can at least use your rifles to defend yourselves. Any attack on police formation is an insult to us as a government. It is also an attack on the integrity of the government. We must take charge, take control and ensure discipline,” the governor said during Adamu’s tour.
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