Nigeria, March 29 -- A 31-year-old IPOB member, Raphael Idang, has narrated how he and other IPOB members attacked and killed Nigerian soldiers and police officers.

IPOB is a separatist group agitating for the independent state of Biafra in Nigeria.

Mr Idang,from Odukpani, Cross River State, said he joined IPOB on March 17, 2020 and was recruited into its security arm, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), and has participated in the killing of close to a dozen security operatives, including four soldiers.

He was among the 16 suspects arrested recently by the police over the spates of attack on officers and police facilities in Nigeria, especially in the country's South-east and South-south regions.

Mr Idang's confessional statement is ...