In May 2022, militants reportedly associated with IPOB, a Biafran separatist group, murdered 14 civilians in a series of attacks in Anambra State.

However, IPOB fields an armed wing, the Eastern Security Network, and has been blamed for many attacks in southeastern Nigeria.

[1] One of the main strategies used by local separatist militants are pro-Biafra protest sit-ins which are enforced through violence and intimidation.

She had visited relatives and was on her way back to her home with a motorcycle taxi when the militants attacked at Isulo, Orumba North.

[7][8] On the same day, five commercial motorcycle riders were murdered in Onocha, possibly due to refusing to comply with IPOB's order for civilians to stay at home.

[9] The Anambra State governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo put up a 10 million naira ($24,000) reward for information on Okechukwu Okoye's killers[4] and pledged that the murderers of Harira Jibril's family would be captured.