Nigeria Army Presents Gift Items, Including Bags Of Rice And Carton’s Of Noddles To Women, As Troops Destroy IPOB Supreme Headquarters In IMO.

…Rescue Ihiteukwa,Eke,Ututu And Ihitenansa Communities All In Imo State.

…Recover Ammunitions, CCTV Cameras Amidst IED Explosives.

Four POS Machines,26 android phones, One SIM Card registration Machine alongside incriminating possessions recovered.

In Cooperation with Sister Security Agencies, Troops of the Nigeria Army Have Raided And Destroyed The Supreme Headquarters Of the Outlawed Indigenous People Of Biafra,IPOB At Mother Valley,Orsu Local Government Area Of Imo State.

The Force Commander, Joint Task Force South East Operation Udo Ka ,Maj,Gen Hassan Dada Disclosed This While Addressing Newsmen at Eke Ututu. Orsu Local Government Area Of Imo On Friday. Operation Udo Ka Which Started On February 11,2024 Involved Troops Of The Nigeria Army, Navy, Sir Force, As Well As Personnel Of The Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps.

The Commander Said The Troops Cleared And liberated Ihiteukwa,Eke,Ututu, and Ihitenansa Towns, All In Imo, As Well As Orsumoghu And Lilu Towns In Ihiala And Ekwusigo Local Government Areas Of Anambra. He said that the headquarters, Which Served As the last IPOB Stronghold, is located in the Mother Valley And Spans Orsu And Ihiala local government Area Of Imo And Anambra Respectively. It is about 5,000 feet below sea level Dada Disclosed.

He added that the well Concealed Forest Location afforded The Terrorists good cover from air surveillance and Served as their command and control centre, and military council headquarters. He Also Said that during the raid,the last of which occurred on Thursday March 7, the gallant troops encountered, detonated and recovered Many Improvised Explosives Devices, IEDs , And Various Types of Obstacles Which Were Cleared by the determined Troops. He further said the troops also came in Contact with the terrorist, subdued them with superior Fire power, and neutralized Many Of Them While Others With Varying degrees of gunshot wounds fled into Surrounding bushes.

“In Addition To Many Weapons, Equipment, IEDs, and Stolen Vehicles Recovered Over The Last Three Weeks, Items recovered in the Mother Valley Include Three G3 Rifles,Nine Automatic Pump Action Rifles, Seven Double Barrel Guns, Two locally Made Pistols, Two Rocket Propelled Grenade Bombs, Two A-K 47 Magazine and One G3 Magazine.”

Others were 26 rounds of 7.62 mm Special Ammunition, 16 rounds of 7.62mm NATO Ammunition, 72 pump action Cartridges,One Chainsaw ,One Laptop, One CCTV DVR, 26 CCTV Cameras, 17 Baofeng radios, with batteries and 10 without batteries And Their Chargers.

Also recovered were six hand held IEDs,26 Android Phones, 25 Ordinary Phones, One Inverter, One SIM Card Registration Machine, Four POS Machines,Three Motorcycle Batteries For Igniting IEDs,Two Trumpets,Two Biafran Flags,20 ESN Certificates, Two Diaries Containing Details of Ammunition and Food Supplies and Two pairs of Biafra Liberation Army Uniforms.

The joint Troops Also Destroyed about 50 tents in the Valley housing the Supreme Headquarters,IPOB/ESN Command And Control Center, Buteuzor’s Hideout And Residence , Offices , their logistic base , temples and Shrines used for Occultic Practices among many other items He said. Dada Commended Imo And Anambra people for their Cooperation with Security Agencies While Requesting Them To Report Any Strange Faces In their Communities to the Operation Udo Ka by dialing the emergency line 193 and pressing Option 2 from their Mobile Phones. enjoined the leaders of all liberated Communities to Return To their ancestral homes and deploy Community efforts to ensure that all Criminal Elements not from the Communities were not allowed to return to desecrate their homelands.

He Thanked Governor Hope Uzodinma Of Imo ,The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, And The Chief Of Army Staff,LT-Gen . Taoreed Lagbaja,For Their Support, Advice And Guidance Throughout The Operation. He assured that The Troops Would Continue to provide all Security Support To The Affected Communities Within The Ambit Of The Law. In What Can best be described as a display of Civil-Military relations. The Force Commander Presented Gift Items, Including Bags Of Rice, And Carton’s Of Noddles To Women of Eke Ututu Market.