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The leadership of the Orsu Community Security Committee in Imo State has appealed to the Federal Government, the Nigerian military, and other security outfits to sustain clearance operations by establishing a formidable permanent military base in Orsu Ihiteukwa, within the precincts of the notorious Murder Valley.
Chairman of the committee, Chief Ethel Odimegwu, made the appeal at a press briefing, in Abuja, yesterday, on the sidelines of efforts being made by some politicians to divert the military base to Ihiala, in Anambra State, as against the initial choice of Murder Valley, which is the epicentre of killing in Imo State.
The committee also appealed to members of the parliament of South East extraction to use their good offices and ensure that insecurity in the South East and Imo State in particular comes to an end.
Further highlighting its concerns, Chief Odimegwu said there is an overriding need to begin a “Marshall Plan” for Orsu, which must include rebuilding roads, schools, electricity, security buffer stations, and resettling displaced persons with security guarantees.
He said there is a need for the international community to recognise the humanitarian crisis in Orsu LGA that has lasted for six years and offer support.
“There is a need for the military to demine. The government should, as a matter of fact, rehabilitate the indigent people, offer trauma counseling, and reconstruct the villages”.
The Orsu community security committee further prayed that the IPOB and other outlaws should lay down their arms and quit banditry, emphasising that the ideology of self-determination cannot be pursued by turning Igbo land into a wasteland.
It also called on the media organisations to help inform the world of the dire situation in Southeastern Nigeria. “Please help us tell the Orsu story. The world must know that, for six years, an entire LGA has lived in exile in their own country. Orsu is not just a dot on the map. It is the ancestral home of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians who deserve to go home.
“Stop the IPOB/ESN terrorism in Orsu LGA by establishing the already designated military base now. The earlier and faster, the better”.
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Also speaking, a member of the committee, Casmire Ezeifedi, reminded that while the security forces have repeatedly dislodged the camps, regrouping and reprisals have prolonged the crisis. “As of 2025, many displaced persons from Orsu LGA remain unable to return home. The humanitarian cost is severe: broken families, out-of-school children, forested homes, continued exile, dead bodies in mortuaries left unburied, and destroyed livelihoods. The current improved situation must be sustained to completely defeat evil.
“Historically, it revealed the entire architecture and control of Nnamdi Kanu; IPOB, ESN terrorists syndicate started in Orsu Ihiteukwa, “Murder Valley in 2017 as BZM (Biafra Zionist Movement). Under Nnamdi Kanu’s watch, the BZM later metamorphosed and went full-blown in August 2020 as the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
“Mike Ahize, a die-hard IPOB general coordinator from Amaebu Ebenator, Orsu LGA, was able to carve out a large forest enclave known as “Murder Valley”, which is situated in ancient Udeke Valley, Uda village in Orsu Ihiteukwa, Orsu LGA, Imo State.
“Obviously, the topography of the valley must have necessitated their choice to domicile the ESN headquarters in the notorious Murder Valley, at Uda village, Orsu Ihiteukwa, Orsu LGA, Imo State.
Mr Bon Okwu Asoanya, said, “It is on record, after Nnamdi Kanu’s launch of ESN in 2020, Orsu LGA, a, hitherto, safety-conscious and peaceful popular Christian local government area, gradually became the operational base of the murderous ESN vermin commissioned by Nnamdi Kanu.
Chukwuka Odimegwu regretted that distraught people of Orsu LGA became witnesses to not just terror, but what should be best described as a deliberate, clandestine, and systematic genocidal pogrom.
“As of March 2021, Orsu had become both a large-scale bloodletting human abattoir and war zone.
ESN IPOB activities were both horrendous, ungodly, and the worst form of crude terror whose morphology ranged from wanton arson, rape, kidnapping, human organ harvesting, car snatching, castration, human head hunting and cutting, and full-blown cannibalism.
The committee, however, prayed for a serious government security confrontation and invasion of the notorious murder valley, which first happened on December 13, 2021, when a joint team of military, police, and DSS raided the enclave, rescuing a surviving abducted traditional ruler, HRH. Eze Acho Ndukwe (the other two traditional rulers from the Okigwe zone.
It noted that citing the military base at Ihiala would not solve the existing problem in the South East and, particularly, Imo State, where the IPOB and ESN use it as a base.
