Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have killed some members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and their Eastern Security Network (ESN), including many bandits in Niger State.
According to the police, “Collaborating with the DSS, we surgically dealt with IPOB and ESN leaders who were terrorising residents of the South-East. With the DSS, we were able to clear IPOB/ESN strongholds in Orsu, Oru East, Oru West and Orlu LGA in Imo state where several AK47 weapons and IED-making materials and shrines were destroyed.
“In Enugu, the DSS led the operation to clear the Imilike Agu Forest in Udenu LGA where several weapons of different calibres were destroyed, and a large number of IPOB /ESN commanders neutralised. Several of such operations also took place in Abia, Anambra and Ebonyi states”.
Other security sources said many of the AK-47-wielding bandits, who operate on motorcycles, terrorising and looting shops in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State were killed, just as their cache of weapons and motorcycles were seized by the DSS operatives.
This is the second major offensive by the DSS against bandits terrorising residents of the state in less than a week, having neutralised three bandits last Friday in Dogon Dawa, Mairiga LGA of the state.
Three weeks back, DSS operatives apprehended notorious bandits terrorising parts of the North-east and North-West in the Janyau Fulani area in Gusau, Gusau-Kaura Namoda Road, in Zamfara state, as well as in Dalori quarters, Maiduguri, Borno State.
