Alleged gunman Udubuan Sage Chubueze whom police caught with gunshot wounds and arrested on Saturday is a member of the outlawed group IPOB, according to the group.
In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, the group confirmed Chubueze is only a member in Ekwulobia Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.
But Powerful argued the suspect is not a commander of ESN as police said earlier.
“We declare without equivocations that there’s no iota of truth in the said fallacious statement,” the statement read in part.
“What transpired was that he came to his home in Ekwulobia, Aguata LGA to bury his dead mother and soldiers acting on a tip off from a traitor stormed his house.
“Yes he’s an IPOB member but not ESN Commander,” he said.
“But those who sabotaged him shall reap the reward of treachery!”
He said Nigerian soldiers allegedly shot him in the leg and forced him to wear army camouflage and claimed it was what they got from him.
“How can a man burying his mother be doing so with ammunition? This is another blackmail to hang an innocent man.
“We want to make it categorically clear to all and sundry that ESN does not go with army uniforms or police because we are different people.
“The Army forced all those items on him just to implicate him but God will vindicate them!
IPOB demanded that a forensic examination be carried out to deflate the lie that he had bullet wounds.
“It was the Army that shot him in his compound and claimed he had bullet wounds.
“We once again call on the United Nations not to give a blind eye to the atrocities of the Nigeria security agents against Biafrans.
“The world should hold Nigeria accountable for all the inhuman treatments and secret genocide against innocent people of Biafra.”