“Troops also came in contact with the terrorists who fled into the nearby bushes with gunshot wounds due to superior firepower.”
“This is an absolute disgrace,” Mr Powerful stressed.
“The combined team, in the morning hours of August 10 raided a suspected IPOB/ESN camp at Imufu in Igbo-Eze North local government area.”
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee says insecurity is threatening the existence of the South-East region.
“Sadly, five soldiers and two Nigeria Police operatives sustained varying degrees of injuries from the IED detonated by the criminals.”
Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed IPOB, said that protests from IPOB and various Igbo support groups forced the clarification by the Australian-based Institute.
The army says the exercise will check “the menace of IPOB” and Eastern Security Network.
On Monday, the South-South governors approved the establishment of a joint regional security outfit to address insecurity in their region.
The Nigerian Army says ESN and IPOB did not kill six of its soldiers and that its troops in Abia are not on a revenge mission.
“When we hear a gunshot, we will run and abandon the money we amassed.”
