In Mother Valley, Orsu council area, Imo, the Nigerian Army and other security agencies raided and demolished the supreme headquarters of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Maj.-Gen. Hassan Dada, the Force Commander of Joint Task Force South-East, Operation Udo Ka, revealed this to reporters on Friday at Eke Ututu, Orsu Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo.
Beginning on February 11, 2024, Operation Udo Ka included soldiers from the Nigerian Police Force, Department of State Services, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Nigerian Army, Navy, and Air Force.
According to the commander, the forces liberated and cleared the towns of Orsumoghu and Lilu in the Ihiala and Ekwusigo LGAs of Anambra, as well as Ihiteukwa, Eke Ututu, and Ihittenansa in Imo.
According to him, the headquarters, which served as the final IPOB base, can be found throughout the Imo and Anambra local government areas of Orsu and Ihiala in the Mother Valley.
Dada disclosed, "It is around 5,000 feet below sea level."
He added to state that the terrorists' well-hidden forest site offered them with good cover from air observation and functioned as both their military council headquarters and command and control centre.
He said that many Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and other challenges were encountered, went off, and retrieved by the brave soldiers during the operation, the latest of which took place on Thursday, March 7. The forces overcame these challenges with determination.
He added that the terrorists were also encountered by the army, who neutralised many of them and overpowered them with more powerful weapons while others, suffering from a range of bullet wounds, fled into nearby bushes."Items recovered in the Mother Valley include three G3 rifles, nine automatic pump action rifles, seven double barrel guns, two locally made pistols, two rocket-propelled grenade bombs, two AK 47 magazines, and one G3 magazine, in addition to many weapons, equipment, IEDs, and stolen vehicles recovered over the last three weeks.
"Others included one chainsaw, one laptop, one CCTV DVR, sixteen rounds of 7.62mm NATO ammunition, twenty-seven rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition, eighty-two Pump Action Cartridges, seventeen Baofeng radios with batteries and ten without, together with their chargers.
Six handheld IEDs, twenty-six Android phones, twenty-five regular phones, an inverter, a SIM card registration machine, four point-of-sale machines, three motorcycle batteries for setting off IEDs, and two trumpets were also found.
