Controversial Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa claims responsibility for killing of four police operatives

The controversial Biafra agitator, and leader of Autopilot, a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa has claimed responsibility for the killing of four police operatives in Owerri, Imo State.

Penpushing reports that Ekpa, a Nigerian who is based in Finland In a post on his X handle shortly after the attack, announced that members of his Biafra Defence Forces had killed the operatives in Owerri

‘The Biafra Defence Forces Owerri Command has recovered weapons from the terrorists after neutralising them in numbers. If you think you will continue to use force and terrorism tactics to force us to remain in the union, this will continue to be your faith in Biafraland’, he wrote

The Biafra agitator on the microblogging platform emphasized that he and his group are demanding the withdrawal of all Nigerian security forces from the South-East and that they were committed to enforcing the demand

The Nigerian-Finnish citizen Biafra agitator who often refers to Nigerian security operatives as “terrorists is known to have founded Biafra Defence Forces and Biafra Liberation Army, which are armed militant wings of the Autopilot Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been linked to some deadly attacks in the region.

Penpushing further reports that it is recalled that gunmen attacked and killed four police operatives along the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway at about 6:30 p.m. on Monday, and aside from the operatives, the hoodlums also shot dead a woman, a Point on Sale (PoS) machine operator in the area.

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