The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has denied involvement in the setting ablaze of a correctional facility and investigations department at the police headquarters in Owerri, Imo State.

The attack carried out by yet to be identified gunmen in the early hours of Easter Monday set hundreds of inmates free and suspects in police custody.

The attack is suspected to have been carried out by members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, of the proscribed IPOB group.

But IPOB in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, described reports linking the group to the attack as fallacious, insisting that their mandate is not to attack security personnel or prison facilities.

“The Nigerian Government and her compromised media outfits should stop linking IPOB and ESN to the multiple attacks going on in Nigeria now. IPOB was formed on principle of peace and we are still in it. Unknown gunmen is a different people which we don’t know them and they are not IPOB or ESN security outfit,” Powerful said.