{"id":917613,"date":"2022-01-19T10:50:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/nigerian-army-raid-biafra-agitators-camp-display-arms-and-ammunition-recovered\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:50:30","slug":"nigerian-army-raid-biafra-agitators-camp-display-arms-and-ammunition-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/nigerian-army-raid-biafra-agitators-camp-display-arms-and-ammunition-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Army Raid Biafra Agitators&#8217; Camp, Display Arms and Ammunition Recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>As part of the effort to ensure security of lives and properties in South East geo-political zone, the Nigerian Army have raided Lilu forest in Ihiala\u00a0Government Area of Anambra State where Eastern Security Network (ESN) working as IPOB security group used as camp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2e72ae47dbe9429cad4a11acdf9fef29\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Army spokesperson, Onyema Nwachukwu in a statemenat signed and obtained by <strong>BBC News Pidgin<\/strong> said Lilu forest is a border town between Imo and Anambra states where ESN used as their base for operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nwachukwu narrated that the army carried out the operation in the early hours of Monday where gunmen were neutralised in the shoot out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/29ef74f3ed3640e7a77addf2028121db\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While displaying the arms and ammunition recovered from the operation, Nwachukwu said guns, cutlasses, cartridges, IPOB flag, bullets among others were recovered from ESN members.<\/p>\n<p>He urged people in the South East states to be more vigilant and expose criminals parading themselves as ESN in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photos Credit: BBC News Pidgin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: TeeMedia (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBiafra<br \/>\nESN<br \/>\nIPOB<br \/>\nLilu<br \/>\nNigerian Army<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the effort to ensure security of lives and properties in South East geo-political zone, the Nigerian Army have raided Lilu forest in Ihiala\u00a0Government Area of Anambra State where Eastern Security Network (ESN) working as IPOB security group used as camp. The Army spokesperson, Onyema Nwachukwu in a statemenat signed and obtained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}