The controversial Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, has claimed responsibility for the killing of four policemen on Monday in Owerri, the Imo State, capital.
On Monday, gunmen had attacked and killed four policemen along the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway.
Also, the gunmen killed a Point on Sale (PoS) machine woman operator.
Ekpa, based in Finland, heads Autopilot, a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The Biafra agitator also founded Biafra Defence Forces and Biafra Liberation Army, which are armed militant wings of the Autopilot IPOB.
He has been linked to some deadly attacks in the region.
In a post on his X handle shortly after the attack, Ekpa announced that members of his Biafra Defence Forces had killed the operatives in Owerri.
“The Biafra Defence Forces Owerri Command has recovered weapons from the terrorists after neutralising them in numbers,” he wrote on the microblogging platform at 8:50 p.m. on Monday.
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Ekpa, a Nigerian-Finnish citizen, often refers to Nigerian security operatives as “terrorists.”
The Biafra agitator said he and his group are demanding the withdrawal of Nigerian security forces from the Southeast and that they were committed to enforcing the demand.
“If you think you will continue to use force and terrorism tactics to force us to remain in the union, this will continue to be your faith in Biafraland,” Mr Ekpa stated, referring to the latest attack on the police.
Although the word “faith” was used by the source, it is grammatically wrong and should, therefore, be changed to “fate.”
The Biafra agitator often shares on his X handle details of attacks in Nigeria’s south-east.
Like IPOB, which Nnamdi Kanu leads, Ekpa is seeking the secession of the south-east and some parts of the south-south from Nigeria to form an independent state known as Biafra.