“Buhari’s Government Standing Behind Onitsha Bloodbath”
The members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of standing behind the death of pro-Biafra supporters.
Thousands of members from the IPOB and other pro-Biafrans took to the streets of Onitsha on December 2 calling for the release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu.
At least nine people have supposedly been killed and 18 sustained different degrees of injuries by the Nigeria’s Joint Military Task Force during a pro-Biafra protest in Anambra state.
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Emma Powerful, the spokesperson of IPOB in the state, revealed this while speaking to the reporters in Onitsha.
He said that it was a calculated plan by the APC administration in the country which became anxious with their peaceful and non-violent protests in South East, and had been looking for a way to incite violence in their protests to justify the continued detention of their leader.
The IPOB’s spokesperson gave the names of some of its members that were shot dead, Wednesday, morning as Chima Onoh, from Enugu state, Kenneth Ogadinma from Abia state, Angus Chikwado and Felicia Egwuatu from Anambra state. He also said they got information that another protestor was killed in Idemili side of Anambra state late Wednesday evening.
An eye witness, who took some photographs, said that he was in his office watching as JTF operatives were shooting ocasionally at Obodoukwu Road by Nigerian Customs Service Onitsha.
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He spoke about one of the victims: “Nkiruka was coming from Nigerian Customs Service by Asaba Onitsha Enugu expressway towards Obodoukwu Road and on hearing gun-shots, she ran into a restaurant and one of the JTF members shot her dead and was about taking her corpse away when her family came with an ambulance and spoke with the JTF men who later released the corpse to them.”
Meanwhile, the police from Anambra state had rejected any killing by the JTF through the police public relations officer in the state Ali Okechukwu.
On its own part the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra distanced self from the violence being committed by IPOB, which had resulted in the killings and destruction of property.
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