How pro-Biafra agitators were shot—Police

Ohanaeze condemns killings

By Anayo Okoli, Chimaobi Nwaiwu & Eric Ugbor LAGOS—

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday warned against the careless killing of its members by security agents, lamenting that over 1,000 members of the group have been publicly and secretly killed since their leader was arrested and detained. Also yesterday, the Abia Police Command explained the death of the praying IPOB members in Aba.

The IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma Powerful gave the warning while addressing newsmen in Nnewi after their meeting to review their activities and to determine options that will be followed to check the incessant killing of the members for engaging in peaceful protests.

“We wonder what these soldiers and policemen who are killing our innocent members because they embarked on peaceful demonstration to demand the unconditional release of our leader and Director of Radio Biafra Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, are doing in the South East when their marksmanship is needed in the North East to check the activities of the Boko haram insurgents who are killing people on daily basis.

Kanu and emptiness of the APC government “The case of our leader has exposed the emptiness of APC government in Nigeria and some ex presidents of Nigeria who are supporting the extra judicial killing of harmless IPOB members who have not carried guns or any dangerous weapons for a day.

“If the present government of APC in Nigeria is responsible, law abiding, respectful to Nigerian constitution, and the orders of court of competent jurisdiction, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu has no business still being incarcerated. No IPOB member or anybody should be shot while engaging in peaceful protest but because this is a government of frustrated, confused and power hungry people who never thought that they will ever lead Nigeria for one day, they use intimidation to shoot people as if they are still in the military era.

“We know the activities of a former president of Nigeria who has been visiting and interacting with the Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, on how to deal with IPOB members in Abia state.The former President has been romancing with the APC and we are looking forward to seeing him declaring for APC.

Let him be bold enough to do that instead of working with Abia state Governor to push out IPOB members for their pay masters in APC. We know their role in the killing of our members and very soon we will ask them questions. “We must make sure that all the past and present Nigerian presidents who are killing our members extra judicially are tried for genocide. The international community is watching.

They should remember what happened to the former President of Liberia and his Ivorian counterpart who were killing people while in office, and now nemesis has caught up with them. They are answering questions on the people they killed and the same thing will happen to these heartless Nigerian leaders who are not anything better than the Boko Haram insurgents because of their approval and order to the security agencies to shoot at sight, IPOB and other Biafra agitators and people who embark on protest to air their grievances,” he said.

How pro-Biafra agitators were killed—Police

Explaining the killings in Aba yesterday, the Abia State Police Command said that security agents shot dead two members of a pro-Biafran group for allegedly disturbing students in their school just as the group claimed that 22 of its members have been confirmed dead after the Tuesday shooting.

The state Police PRO, DSP Udeviotu Onyeke said the groups involved were members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB. He said: “Some of our men that were on convoy patrol got information that the pro-Biafra groups were harassing students.

Then, the Aba Area Commander, Mr Peter Wabara ordered the policemen on ground to go there and make them to leave the place as the schools were in session and if they had wanted to hold their meeting, they should have found another place in order not to disturb anybody. “So when the police entered the place, they found that the pro-Biafra groups were relatively calm, so the police took positions to ensure that they did not do any harm.

Police was only there to ensure they did not come to cause break-down of law and order on the street. But just as the Police was trying to persuade them to leave the place, soldiers drove in and arrested five of their members and began to take them away but the group members blocked the way of the military personnel.

That was when they started shooting at them. “Before the police left the place, they picked two dead unidentified persons from the ground and arrested 20 others while one who was badly injured was taken to the hospital.” He admitted that some other persons might have been injured in the stampede which the police did not know of during the crisis.

However, the state Coordinator of, MASSOB, Mr Anayo Okpala told our correspondent that the police command was telling half truths, stressing that the group had been using the venue for prayers and meetings for many years now. He said the group met to pray for the release of the IPOB Radio Director, Mr Nnamdi Kanu when the police came and later the Army joined them and began to shoot at them. According to him, the prayers were held in all the states of the South-East and South-South at the few centres hosting the prayer meetings. Mr Okpala said: “From yesterday to this morning, we counted 22 dead persons and many had various degrees of injuries who had either been shot or killed in the stampede, while many are in hospitals.

Some died at the prayer ground but some others have died in the hospitals where they were taken to.” He said that he was sure at the last count on Wednesday morning that 22 members of the group comprising of MASSOB and IPOB members were dead. Okpala also claimed that the security agents arrested five leaders of the group including the Abia state, Rivers State and Imo state IPOB Coordinators and many other members. Condemning the killings Worried by the spate of these killings, the Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, has warned that it would drag the security operatives to the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

Also, an Igbo group, Igbo Information Network, has condemned the killings and accused Nigerian soldiers and police of committing genocide in the South East. The groups lamented the frequent killing of defenseless pro-Biafra groups, saying that the security operatives want to “put the nation on fire by the killing of innocent and unarmed citizens.” Reacting to the killing of IPOB members Tuesday in Aba, the groups urged the Nigerian Army and Police high command to call their men to order and warn them to stop killing innocent youths of the South East. Activating self-defence mode The directorate of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB said it has adopted self-defence mode as enshrined by the relevant acts and declarations of the United Nations, UN, with effect from Wednesday, February 10, this year.

In a press statement issued yesterday, entitled: “Persistent attacks on Biafrans by the Nigerian state: Our rights to self-defence is not activated”, IPOB explained that if Biafrans commence its self-defence, “let no country or world leader attempt to tag us as terrorists because we are not terrorists, rather we are fighting for our survival and from being exterminated from the surface of the earth.” In the statement jointly signed by their spokespersons, Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya, IPOB vowed that they will henceforth defend themselves with everything and anything necessary to avoid “the continuous killing of our mothers, fathers, and children.” According to the statement, “This is the time for all Biafrans to rise and defend themselves. We cannot fold our arms and watch anybody kill us the second time after killing over two million of us in 1968. We have fully and totally activated our rights to self defence.”

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Oh, I can see that IPOB is a political movement not about the realisation a biafra nation, it is a movement against APC government which indicate that if PDP has remained in government the IPOB agitation won't have surfaced. Kanu ape lewon, and more IPOB mumu youth should be ready to go to their early grave. Mtchew

Pls let's vote for peace .

danot1030:
[s]Oh, I can see that IPOB is a political movement not about the realisation a biafra nation, it is a movement against APC government which indicate that if PDP has remained in government the IPOB agitation won't have surfaced. Kanu ape lewon, and more IPOB mumu youth should be ready to go to their early grave. Mtchew[/s]

Are you this unfortunate? IPOB have been there way before APC was formed, they were holding meetings before APC won presidential election and during tenure of PDP, I didn't hear or read that GEJ ordered soldiers to go and kill them, because they are peaceful and have not committed any crime.
What APC government is doing is systematic genocide because these are part of the 5%. I know Buhari is trying to push these millions of young people to a situation he will call them Terrorists and militarize Biafra-land.
Why am I saying all these, one day chicken will come home to roost, and whatever Buhari like let him do, if he wants to commit another 3 million + genocide to keep Nigeria one, he can but what must be must be.
Even unwritten code of human life knows that spilling innocent blood backfires.

That is why they went to AU to talk on withdrawing from ICC, so they can kill as many as they want without anybody holding them to account.

As for the ones supporting military to go to scale fence and go shoot at people having prayers, who were not even protesting, it really shows that y'all value of sanctity of life. Support evil and one day it will surely return to you.

I know one day it will turn to free for all, then Aso Rock will know they are millions of us who aren't happy with everything called Nigeria, and would not mind coming home to defend our rights to live and self-determination.

I don't want to speak too much English over this so RIP to the dead.

Someone up there just have a problem of understanding.

You even have time to pay attention to that one..His brain is blocked,lacks understanding

Leopardd:


Are you this unfortunate? IPOB have been there way before APC was formed, they were holding meetings before APC won presidential election and during tenure of PDP, I didn't hear or read that GEJ ordered soldiers to go and kill them, because they are peaceful and have not committed any crime.
What APC government is doing is systematic genocide because these are part of the 5%. I know Buhari is trying to push these millions of young people to a situation he will call them Terrorists and militarize Biafra-land.
Why am I saying all these, one day chicken will come home to roost, and whatever Buhari like let him do, if he wants to commit another 3 million + genocide to keep Nigeria one, he can but what will be must be.

Hmmmm

Leopardd:


Are you this unfortunate? IPOB have been there way before APC was formed, they were holding meetings before APC won presidential election and during tenure of PDP, I didn't hear or read that GEJ ordered soldiers to go and kill them, because they are peaceful and have not committed any crime.
What APC government is doing is systematic genocide because these are part of the 5%. I know Buhari is trying to push these millions of young people to a situation he will call them Terrorists and militarize Biafra-land.
Why am I saying all these, one day chicken will come home to roost, and whatever Buhari like let him do, if he wants to commit another 3 million + genocide to keep Nigeria one, he can but what must be must be.
Even unwritten code of human life knows that spilling innocent blood backfires.

That is why they went to AU to talk on withdrawing from ICC, so they can kill as many as they want without anybody holding them to account.

As for the ones supporting military to go to scale fence and go shoot at people having prayers, who were not even protesting, it really shows that y'all value of sanctity of life. Support evil and one day it will surely return to you.

I know one day it will turn to free for all, then Aso Rock will know they are millions of us who aren't happy with everything called Nigeria, and would not mind coming home to defend our rights to live and self-determination.

if una like make una turn south east to another war zone like North East, Nigeria dey campe!

New day, new lie. Even the devil himself would envy these guys when it comes telling lies. It is simply all the leave on.

What a pity.

danot1030:
[s]if una like make una turn south east to another war zone like North East, Nigeria dey campe![/s]

Rubbish

danot1030:
if una like make una turn south east to another war zone like North East, Nigeria dey campe!

He said "they were holding meeting long before Buhari came". I bet it was when Buhari came in they realise they could also protest on the streets and chant Biafra.

When Jonathan arrested massob members in the past, how many of them wailed on the forum?? When dead bodies of massob members were discovered in a river in the SE during the Buffoon's era, how many of them took to the streets?? Soon as Buhari won elections, they printed banners and made placards, marching upandan, chanting war songs like remote controlled zombies.

There is no such thing as ipod, it is just saTAN rebranded, period!

Awon sore losers.

Over 1000 what?

You guys are liars in fact the lie is ashame of your lies.

Just like I keep saying - Any person who calls himself/herself a true-blood Igbo, and foolishly follows the words of that crook Nnamdi Kanu, is a gullible fool.
See morrons wasting their lives over a psycho who contributed NOTHING to their upbringing but just woke up one day in London and began to spread hate from the comfort of his home, calling on people he NEVER helped develop to pick up arms and waste their lives, render their mothers childless and endanger their communities.
Ask the fucccking twaaat how many Igbo people he helped train in any school or vocational skill program. Ask the immbecile how many primary clinics or ANYTHING resembling a helping hand he ever rendered to his people. The vagabond just crawled out of NOWHERE to start preaching trash, and frustrated, jobless people fooled themselves into thinking he gave one FUCCCK about their interests!

I have told the GULLIBLE people on this forum that IPOB is nothing but an assemblage of SCAMMERS desperately trying to manipulate the Igbos emotionally into putting their lives on the line for a foolish selfish group.
The fact that these people have no qualms in coming online to tell LIES with their misleading pictures, claiming to meet with David Cameron, US Army, British Airforce, UN Bigwigs and the rest, should have been the first red flag!
STEALING pictures of dead people from the Rivers State 2015 electoral violence and claiming they belong to IPOBians gunned down in the cause, is the height of FRAUD!!!

Let me ask you, all this while they've been killing IPOB members on the streets, what has IPOB done for the bereaved families besides taking their gory pictures of the victims and UPLOADING them as their Facebook avatars just to gain sympathy? THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS, SELFISH FRAUDSTERS, AND THE SOONER YOU FACE THAT REALITY, THE BETTER FOR YOU!
THEY ARE LOOKING FOR FOOT SOLDIERS, AND THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN GET THEM IS BY PLAYING ON PEOPLE'S SENTIMENTS AND SYMPATHY!

When Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, didn't the dumb IPOB iiddiots claim it was all part of his "grand plan" and that Buhari just played into his hands?
With the number of gullible IPOB miscreants killed so far, are you saying it was part of Nnamdi Kanu's plan to intentionally get captured SO HIS PEOPLE WOULD PROTEST AND GET KILLED IN THE STREETS?

Better check yourselves and open your eyes before you become another STATISTIC!
Use your lives for more important things like building our region, NOT constituting a nuisance and getting yourself killed over a fraudster who, at the very core, does NOT give a fuccck about you!

cc: Whynotthetruth

Why do people keep saying that the IPOB protests are because Buhari won elections?

The reason for the protest is the detention of Nnamdi Kanu or are you guys saying that Shiite Muslims also protested just in the wake of APC winning the presidency?

IPOB has been there long before 2014....in fact Nnamdi Kanu discouraged his followers from voting for either APC or PDP because he considered Nigeria's electoral process to be anti-Biafran.

Propaganda!

Kenai:
Just like I keep saying - Any person who calls himself/herself a true-blood Igbo, and foolishly follows the words of that crook Nnamdi Kanu, is a gullible fool.
See morrons wasting their lives over a psycho who contributed NOTHING to their upbringing but just woke up one day in London and began to spread hate from the comfort of his home, calling on people he NEVER helped develop to pick up arms and waste their lives, render their mothers childless and endanger their communities.
Ask the fucccking twaaat how many Igbo people he helped train in any school or vocational skill program. Ask the immbecile how many primary clinics or ANYTHING resembling a helping hand he ever rendered to his people. The vagabond just crawled out of NOWHERE to start preaching trash, and frustrated, jobless people fooled themselves into thinking he gave one FUCCCK about their interests!

I have told the GULLIBLE people on this forum that IPOB is nothing but an assemblage of SCAMMERS desperately trying to manipulate the Igbos emotionally into putting their lives on the line for a foolish selfish group.
The fact that these people have no qualms in coming online to tell LIES with their misleading pictures, claiming to meet with David Cameron, US Army, British Airforce, UN Bigwigs and the rest, should have been the first red flag!
STEALING pictures of dead people from the Rivers State 2015 electoral violence and claiming they belong to IPOBians gunned down in the cause, is the height of FRAUD!!!

Let me ask you, all this while they've been killing IPOB members on the streets, what has IPOB done for the bereaved families besides taking their gory pictures of the victims and UPLOADING them as their Facebook avatars just to gain sympathy? THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS, SELFISH FRAUDSTERS, AND THE SOONER YOU FACE THAT REALITY, THE BETTER FOR YOU!
THEY ARE LOOKING FOR FOOT SOLDIERS, AND THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN GET THEM IS BY PLAYING ON PEOPLE'S SENTIMENTS AND SYMPATHY!

When Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, didn't the dumb IPOB iiddiots claim it was all part of his "grand plan" and that Buhari just played into his hands?
With the number of gullible IPOB miscreants killed so far, are you saying it was part of Nnamdi Kanu's plan to intentionally get captured SO HIS PEOPLE WOULD PROTEST AND GET KILLED IN THE STREETS?

Better check yourselves and open your eyes before you become another STATISTIC!
Use your lives for more important things like building our region, NOT constituting a nuisance and getting yourself killed over a fraudster who, at the very core, does NOT give a fuccck about you!

cc: Whynotthetruth

you have said nothing but the truth

However why should ipob go into school premises when school was still on to do meeting?

this government and blood after bombing cross river and kills shites in thousands now killing ipob members it seem that this government kills more people that boko haram self

l have never for once believed in Uwazuruike's nor Nnamdi Kanu's ideologies as my mind is more useful to humanity being engaged in things outside them. For those who believe it is worth their blood, well they have every right to their convictions!

Can't FG and other political stakeholders profer a lasting solution to this Biafra issue? Why una (IPOB) no dey contented, now u have rivers state, akwa ibom state and others not under APC. what else

Hmmm. Gonna see that first.

And my IPOB brothers are till in Nigeria

good job at nigeria army and DSS they slaughtered the revolt like ram i like it die at least they will respect our soveriegnty

Small number.

Kielsss:
And my IPOB brothers are till in Nigeria

na one by one person dey remove leg for trousers na...

Have u forgotten that rhyme for nursery school?

"Ten green bottles, standing on the wall..."

Na small small e go reach zero!

IPOB deserves international recognition of Lying.
Kudos to nigerian forces even them hype the numbers like shiites own.

If they want to die or choose to die by standing in front of armed soldiers, saying they are brave after being told to leave, a lawful order by law enforcement authorized to use force, then we must all respect the decision of those that decided to use their legs to walk there. If the soldiers had done nothing, I am sure these same Igbos will call them cowards. Now they followed through with their rule of engagement, use deadly force in the circumstance, now they are still crying. It is their choice, so no further comment.

danot1030:
Oh, I can see that IPOB is a political movement not about the realisation a biafra nation, it is a movement against APC government which indicate that if PDP has remained in government the IPOB agitation won't have surfaced. Kanu ape lewon, and more IPOB mumu youth should be ready to go to their early grave. Mtchew

Nigeria should engage with main steam igbos and leave ipob touts to waste their time chanting like baboons.

danot1030:
if una like make una turn south east to another war zone like North East, Nigeria dey campe!

after a long explanation by leopardd. You still lack understanding. Na comprehension problems?

Kenai:
Just like I keep saying - Any person who calls himself/herself a true-blood Igbo, and foolishly follows the words of that crook Nnamdi Kanu, is a gullible fool.
See morrons wasting their lives over a psycho who contributed NOTHING to their upbringing but just woke up one day in London and began to spread hate from the comfort of his home, calling on people he NEVER helped develop to pick up arms and waste their lives, render their mothers childless and endanger their communities.
Ask the fucccking twaaat how many Igbo people he helped train in any school or vocational skill program. Ask the immbecile how many primary clinics or ANYTHING resembling a helping hand he ever rendered to his people. The vagabond just crawled out of NOWHERE to start preaching trash, and frustrated, jobless people fooled themselves into thinking he gave one FUCCCK about their interests!

I have told the GULLIBLE people on this forum that IPOB is nothing but an assemblage of SCAMMERS desperately trying to manipulate the Igbos emotionally into putting their lives on the line for a foolish selfish group.
The fact that these people have no qualms in coming online to tell LIES with their misleading pictures, claiming to meet with David Cameron, US Army, British Airforce, UN Bigwigs and the rest, should have been the first red flag!
STEALING pictures of dead people from the Rivers State 2015 electoral violence and claiming they belong to IPOBians gunned down in the cause, is the height of FRAUD!!!

Let me ask you, all this while they've been killing IPOB members on the streets, what has IPOB done for the bereaved families besides taking their gory pictures of the victims and UPLOADING them as their Facebook avatars just to gain sympathy? THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS, SELFISH FRAUDSTERS, AND THE SOONER YOU FACE THAT REALITY, THE BETTER FOR YOU!
THEY ARE LOOKING FOR FOOT SOLDIERS, AND THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN GET THEM IS BY PLAYING ON PEOPLE'S SENTIMENTS AND SYMPATHY!

When Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, didn't the dumb IPOB iiddiots claim it was all part of his "grand plan" and that Buhari just played into his hands?
With the number of gullible IPOB miscreants killed so far, are you saying it was part of Nnamdi Kanu's plan to intentionally get captured SO HIS PEOPLE WOULD PROTEST AND GET KILLED IN THE STREETS?

Better check yourselves and open your eyes before you become another STATISTIC!
Use your lives for more important things like building our region, NOT constituting a nuisance and getting yourself killed over a fraudster who, at the very core, does NOT give a fuccck about you!

cc: Whynotthetruth

Bros stop begging anybody, I've stopped that long ago and if they continue to believe the scam called Kanu, that's their problem. Let them go for another protest and more would be killed and no atom of sympathy from me. Bunch of phools.

Look at how my brothers were rounded up in a school field and shot.

It is well

Leopardd:


[s]Are you this unfortunate? IPOB have been there way before APC was formed, they were holding meetings before APC won presidential election and during tenure of PDP, I didn't hear or read that GEJ ordered soldiers to go and kill them, because they are peaceful and have not committed any crime.
What APC government is doing is systematic genocide because these are part of the 5%. I know Buhari is trying to push these millions of young people to a situation he will call them Terrorists and militarize Biafra-land.
Why am I saying all these, one day chicken will come home to roost, and whatever Buhari like let him do, if he wants to commit another 3 million + genocide to keep Nigeria one, he can but what must be must be.
Even unwritten code of human life knows that spilling innocent blood backfires.

That is why they went to AU to talk on withdrawing from ICC, so they can kill as many as they want without anybody holding them to account.

As for the ones supporting military to go to scale fence and go shoot at people having prayers, who were not even protesting, it really shows that y'all value of sanctity of life. Support evil and one day it will surely return to you.

I know one day it will turn to free for all, then Aso Rock will know they are millions of us who aren't happy with everything called Nigeria, and would not mind coming home to defend our rights to live and self-determination.

[/s]

You guys are nothing buy some sets of unemployed miscreants used as a tool by Kanu: peaceful agitators indeed

I see poverty

When will ordinary people get sense? to borrow Nigerian parlance. People getting themselves killed for half understood reasons, based on imagined persecution, for a half mad prophet probably stitched up in some foreign covert operations room. When will ordinary people such as these realize that given the current state of the world, it is impossible for everyone to be wealthy and that real wealth is relative. They wont be wealthy in Biafra but Kanu will be wealthy and most tragically of all those very Northerners and Westerners that they imagine oppress them would be able to buy land in that Biarafe and live a wealth life, because Biafra like every other nation will welcomes the wealthy. These very people sacrificing their blood - I'm not including Protesters for Hire probably bused in from Cameroon - will work as house boys and house girls in the homes of those Elite Northerner and Westerners who will have second homes in Biafra.