blame.
It said both the governors and the community leaders would be held responsible for any form of attack on any of its personnel.
IPOB advised the Nigerian Army and other security agencies to stop dissipating energy towards stopping ESN, but rather channel it against Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits and other terrorists rampaging the North.
The pro-Biafran group maintained that ESN was not a Biafran Army but a mere vigilante group set up to defend the people of the Old Eastern region against terrorists and criminals responsible for the growing insecurity in the region.
The statement partly read, “Through Intelligence gathering, it has come to the knowledge of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, under the command of our Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, that the treacherous Governors of the Old Eastern Region, are now recruiting traditional rulers, President Generals and politicians to mobilise some local vigilantes to engage Eastern Security Network, ESN in their various localities.