Nigerian army arrests notorious IPOB, ESN kingpin, Calamity in Ebonyi

The Nigerian Army has said that its troops of Sector 2, Operation UDO KA, operating successful the ongoing Operation Eastern Sanity successful Ebonyi State, person successfully arrested a notorious Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network, ESN, kingpin, popularly known arsenic “Calamity,” and 4 others.

The apprehension was made during a raid connected the terrorists’ hideout successful Nwofe, Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, successful the aboriginal hours of today, April 21, 2026.

A connection signed by the Acting Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Lieutenant Colonel Olabisi Olalekan Ayeni, said the cognition was conducted pursuing credible quality linking the fishy and his cohort to the sidesplitting of a constabulary serviceman and the wounded of different during an onslaught astatine Okuku-Igbo successful Oshimili North LGA of Delta State connected February 26, 2026.

During that attack, the assailants carted distant 2 AK-47 rifles, the connection said.

It added that successful an effort to evade apprehension aft intensified information operations successful Delta State, “Calamity” and his men relocated to Ebonyi State successful hunt of a harmless haven, wherever they established a caller transgression campy to proceed their convulsive activities.

Acting connected actionable intelligence, the troops stormed the hideout and apprehended 5 suspects, including the commander, “Calamity,” and 4 others, who are besides cardinal members of IPOB/E...