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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, on Wednesday described the Eastern Security Network, ESN, as bandits and criminals.<\/p>\n

Umahi made the allegation while accusing the ESN of doing evil within the Southeast forests.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018Sunrise Daily\u2019 programme, Umahi stressed that the region\u2019s governors would not allow such illegality in the Southeast.<\/p>\n

Umahi insisted that individuals would not be allowed to take the laws into their hands.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cAnd so, we won\u2019t allow people to take the laws into their hands by killing cows and killing people. But I have to tell you that herders\/farmers\u2019 conflicts are not the only security challenges we have in South-East, we have the issue of kidnapping.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd of late, we have bandits that are now doing a lot of evil and saying they are Eastern Security Network.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey commit a lot of crime and say they are IPOB, and later IPOB will come out and say we had no hand in this, we had no hand in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu had in December 2020 established ESN to combat killer herdsmen and general insecurity in the Southeastern part of the country.<\/p>\n

Following the establishment of ESN, a lot of youths in the Southeast have been recruited into the security outfit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, on Wednesday described the Eastern Security Network, ESN, as bandits and criminals. Umahi made the allegation while accusing the ESN of doing evil within the Southeast forests. 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