The banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has named the Imo State Government House, Owerri, after Ikonso Don, the killed leader of the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
In an articulation by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Wednesday, IPOB said Douglas Road Owerri and Awomamma Junction would likewise be named after the late Commander.
It clarified the choice which was with quick impact, was one of the manners in which its individuals and Biafrans universally wished to deify the fallen pioneer and his men.
The assertion peruses: "We the worldwide group of the Indigenous People of Biafra and Biafrans around the world, wish to report to the world, our consistent choice to rename the Imo State Government House, Douglas Road Owerri, and Awomamma Junction after the late courageous Commander of the Eastern Security Network Ikonso, killed without a second thought by fainthearted Nigeria security agents.
"The influenced spots will from this time forward be called Ikonso Government House, Ikonso Way and Ikonso Junction individually.
"This is with prompt impact and consistence is expected of all services and parastatals starting from today, the 28th day of April 2021."
"This choice is one of the ways IPOB individuals and Biafrans everywhere on the world have consented to deify the name of our valiant Ikonso and his men executed by the unfeeling weak Nigeria security specialists that escape from psychological oppressors and outlaws yet determine joy in murdering unarmed Biafra instigators.
"Ikonso and other fallen saints with him never really warrant their synopsis extrajudicial execution. They made the preeminent penance with regards to our hereditary land against Fulani psychological militants, jihadists, and executioner herders. Biafra will always remember them.
"We, hence, anticipate greatest collaboration from pertinent Government offices, authorities, and the Imo State House of Assembly since we don't have the foggiest idea who this Douglas is that a street in Owerri was named yet we know who Ikonso was.
"He shielded Imo State with his life, for, without him, most Imo indigenes would be in IDP camps at this point graciousness of psychological militants."