IPOB declares Kanu’s disciple, Ekpa, wanted over secret intel service

Outlawed Igbo separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has declared Simon Ekpa, the self-styled disciple of its leader Nnamdi Kanu, wanted over the purported launch of a secret intelligence service by a breakaway faction of the group run by Ekpa.

Ekpa, who was made the Director General of IPOB’s pirate Radio Biafra shortly after the arrest and extradition of Kanu from Kenya last year, formed a parallel group called ‘IPOB Auto-Pilot’ shortly after he was removed as the DG, and since then, has been having a running battle with the group.

In a statement declaring Ekpa wanted and issued by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful on Saturday, the group acknowledged that though the secret Intel service known as M-Branch was a brainchild of Kanu, it had not yet been approved for launch contrary to Ekpa’s alleged launch.

While disowning Ekpa and his version of the M-Branch, Powerful also claimed was never part of the IPOB family as his activities were rather suspicious.

“IPOB has been existing long before Simon Ekpa and Auto-Pilot group came on board. Simon Ekpa and his group are neither part of IPOB worldwide family neither do they subscribe to our operational methodology and people should therefore stop associating them with the revered IPOB under the command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,” Powerful said in the statement made available to Ripples Nigeria

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