{"id":51587,"date":"2021-10-11T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack"},"modified":"2021-10-11T17:45:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T16:45:28","slug":"alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack","title":{"rendered":"Alleged ESN operatives inform Anambra community of planned attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Persons alleged to be operatives of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militant arm of the separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have written to Ukwulu Community in Dunukofia LGA of Anambra State, warning them of plans to attack the community.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenes of the community, according to a source, woke up on Sunday morning to a notice pasted on a part of the community, warning them of not adhering to the sit-at-home exercise declared by the group.<\/p>\n<p>A notice pasted on a part of the community, by persons alleged to be ESN operatives, read: \u201cRespect yourself Ukwulu about sit-at-home, to avoid crying had I known. We are watching you since, and you people are disobeying us because of dead Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Monday upwards, disobey us again and have yourself (sic) blamed. ESN is coming for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our source said the notice has sent jitters up the spine of residents of the area, but the state police command has also responded by deploying huge security to the community.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Toochukwu Ikenganyia, the Anambra State Police Command\u2019s image maker said: \u201cThe Commissioner of Police, CP Encheng Eworo, has deployed police reinforcement team to Ukwulu Community, and urges the residents to help the police with credible information aimed at identifying the bad elements among them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CP calls for calm while thanking the members of the public and the community for prompt circulation and calling the attention of the Police and other security agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ikenga said the command has beamed its searchlight on the community and that the situation was being watched.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST is however not certain if the notice emanated from the ESN.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach the spokesperson of IPOB, Mr Emma Powerful, were not successful as at the time of writing this report.<\/p>\n<p>ESN after bandits, terrorists not security operatives \u2013 Nnamdi Kanu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Persons alleged to be operatives of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militant arm of the separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have written to Ukwulu Community in Dunukofia LGA of Anambra State, warning them of plans to attack the community. Indigenes of the community, according to a source, woke up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":51586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,35,1578,2451,254],"class_list":["post-51587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-anambra","tag-breaking","tag-esn","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alleged ESN operatives inform Anambra community of planned attack - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Persons alleged to be operatives of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militant arm of the separatist group, Indige ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alleged ESN operatives inform Anambra community of planned attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Persons alleged to be operatives of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militant arm of the separatist group, Indige ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-11T16:04:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-11T16:45:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/img-61646a09c3047.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Alleged ESN operatives inform Anambra community of planned attack\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-11T16:04:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-11T16:45:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack\"},\"wordCount\":316,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/img-61646a09c3047.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Anambra\",\"breaking\",\"ESN\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/alleged-esn-operatives-inform-anambra-community-of-planned-attack\",\"name\":\"Alleged ESN operatives inform Anambra community of planned attack - 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