The Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) has vowed to expose and destroy the Unknown Gunmen who have been terrorising the Southeast zone of Nigeria.

Denying responsibility for the killings in the Southeast and warning the criminals who have been perpetrating the act and pretending to be members of IPOB, the group said: “We cannot attack or kill anybody because it’s not our mandate.”

IPOB therefore says it has mapped out plans to destroy the sponsors and criminals terrorising the Southeast, including those using IPOB’s name to commit atrocities in the area.

In a statement by Emma Powerful, IPOB warned the criminal elements operating in the Southeast areas that their days are numbered.

The group also warned some people it claimed were funding the criminal activities in the area, including the financiers of what it described as “a fake Eastern Security Network (ESN).”

IPOB said anybody that knows such criminal elements “should advise them to retrace their steps because if they continue on this evil part, they shall regret their actions.”

Powerful added: “IPOB will not warn them or mention their names again. Soon these monsters they created will turn their attention to them.

“IPOB has embarked on uprooting all cultist members and hoodlums in Abia State and will extend this action against cultists in Anambra State and the entire region. It is unacceptable to us for people destroying our region and claiming they are IPOB or ESN operatives, while in reality they are not. We cannot attack or kill anybody because it’s not our mandate.”

“Anybody who is associating with and who knows these criminal groups in the region must inform them that IPOB is coming to visit them and their evil sponsors and they should therefore be prepared for what is coming after them soon. We will not allow that nonsense to continue anymore in our region. Those sponsors across the region, your days are numbered,” he said.