Eastern Condors

DOS PUBLIC BRIEFING

22nd September 2026

The Continued "ESN/IPOB Camp Bust" is a Recycled Propaganda Script

The Imo State Police Command's statement on Friday 18th September 2026 that they busted an ESN camp in Ubah Agwa, Oguta LGA, does not stand up to any independent scrutiny. It is the same lie they have been recycling since 2022.

1. The IPOB leadership has maintained for years that there's no ESN camp in Agwa.
IPOB/ESN is not a terrorist organisation and does not own any terrorist camp anywhere in world.

2. Their fabricated evidence does Not stand the test of factual scrutiny.
They claim they recovered 1 AK-47 with no identification number and 2 magazines from the same location where they claim a fierce gun battle happened and hoodlums fled with gunshot injuries. If there was a fierce exchange, where are the bullet holes, the blood trail, the bodies, the video? One r***e for a whole camp?

Then came in their usual Nollywood props: 4 military uniforms, 5 police uniforms, 3 Biafra flags, 6 Biafra regalia, 4 ESN berets, ATM cards, foreign currencies, Biafran currency, a shrine, ritual materials, enlarged photographs. This is the exact same inventory list from 2022, 2023, 2024 raids in the same Ubah Agwa/Izombe forest. They have been announcing they "dislodged" the same camp for 4 years.

3. The Agwa Story is Contradictory.
They said a kingpin by name Chiemela aka "Disaster" was killed during the foiled attack on Agwa Divisional Headquarters on August 21, 2026. If he was killed then, why is the "investigation" of that attack leading to an arrest on September 15 of Jones Okechukwu Anyim and Happiness Uche, and then a raid where everyone escaped? If you killed the kingpin, who are you still fighting in an empty bungalow?

4. No Independent Verification, No Community Confirmation
The people of Ubah Agwa have repeatedly said there is no ESN camp in their community. What the police call a camp is known farmland and family houses. No community leader, no journalist, no independent monitor was taken to the site. No drone footage, no bodycam. Just a police press release by DSP Henry Okoye.

5. Pattern of Cover-Up.
Whenever police fail in their responsibility to protect both people and infrastructure in Imo, whether security/private infrastructure, their predictable next line of action is to regugitate stale stories of "we busted ESN camp." It is a pattern to justify extrajudicial killings and extort the communities. They arrest random youths in this case Jones Anyim, 29, and Happiness Uche, 32, both from Agwa and label them ESN/IPOB and then claim bursting a non existing camp to legitimize their illegality, harrasment and arrest of innocent villagers.

When will DSP Henry Okoye stop this disgraceful and shameful behaviour of criminalising innocent Imo youths? the world has had enough of your shame.
Are there no more men in Imo State who can speak and condemn how Hope Uzodimma is using the Nigeria police to destroy the lives of unarmed Imo youths and tag them terrorists?

We maintain that there was no ESN camp busted in Agwa, Oguta because none existed.

The Nigeria police in their usual way of falsehood and deceit could not disclose their true reason for going to Agwa from Owerri. And having failled in their mission decided that someone must pay for the fuel they used to travel to Agwa, then got two unfortunate villagers arrested as the only way they can recoup their fuel cost to Agwa. The recycled press statement by DSP Henry Okoye is meant to deceive the public because in their warped minds arrest of ESN and Biafra agitators will justify any attrocity the commit against innocent Imo youths

We have maintained and will continue to say it to the Nigeria government and her agents that the modus operandi of the ESN will remain a puzzle they can neither understand nor have the capacity to solve.

Signed
Dr C. Okadigbo
DOS Press Secretary.