Jasmine Daniels
The story was first Posted on Friday, August 2, 2022 it stated that
Over a year after escaping from attack by armed men in military uniform at his home town, Okposi, Mr. Michael Chijioke John, a native of Avu-Umuiwa, Okposi, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has been reported to be on the run from security agencies and Fulani bandits who tagged him as an informant for Eastern Security Network (ESN), an affiliate armed group of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB).
According to Udoka, Michael’s cousin residing in Okposi, Ohaozara Ebonyi State, Michael was forced to flee the country in January, 2023 after surviving an attack on his life by Military men at Court area, Okposi allegedly for being suspected as an informant to ESN. It is believed that the suspicion stemmed from an interview he earlier granted revealing the evil plan of rampant kidnapping for ransom by boko haram/ bandits in states of the South East, Nigeria.
It was revealed by Udoka that various unknown, strange faces have been spying and occasionally monitoring the residential compound of Mr. Michael in order to execute their evil agenda against him. This development has put Michael’s family members in great apprehension about his life and safety as well as that of other members of the family who may become targets if Michael is not found by these evil actors in view of the sad fate that have befallen other persons who have been gruesomely murdered after being tagged as informants to ESN/IPOB.
According to an earlier published report by Christian Ogbonna on 4th December, 2022, some armed men in military uniform on 4th December, 2023 opened gunfire on one Mr. Michael Chijioke John, a native of Avu/Umuiwa, Okposi, Ohaozara LGA Ebonyi State at court area, Okposi. Mr. Michael who recently survived a kidnap by book haram/ bandits was riding on a motorbike at the time of the attack but narrowly escaped death as the bullets missed the target.
The reason for the attack is still unknown but it has been rumoured in the area that Mr. Michael is suspected or accused of being an informant to members of Eastern Security Network (ESN) who contacted who reached out and contacted him following his harrowing kidnap experience and ordeal in the hands of Boko haram terrorists.