Anthony Iwuoma
The now controversial sit-at-home order of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, took a new twist on Monday, as an angry mob lynched a suspected leader of the group’s armed wing, Eastern Security Network, ESN, on Monday while trying to enforce the order with some other members.
The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, confirmed the incident in a press statement signed by the police spokesman, CSP Mike Abattam.
He stated that before police patrol team could arrive at the scene, the ESN member had been lynched, while his gang members fled.
“Suddenly, one Obinwanne Iwu, 34 years, a native of Ahiara in the same local government area who is an escapee of Imo Correctional Centre, Owerri, went to the market with his gang trying to enforce a sit-at-home order of the proscribed IPOB/ESN terror group.
The people resisted the gang, overpowered Iwu and tied him up while his colleagues fled the scene, leaving him at the mercy of the mob, who beat him to death before the arrival of a police patrol team.
The statement added: “Efforts made by the police patrol team to arrest the perpetrators proved abortive as they all fled the scene on sighting the patrol team’’
