ABA—What would have been a major ethnic clash was averted yesterday in Aba, Abia State following protests over alleged killings of two Igbo butchers at the Waterside abattoir by soldiers.

Vanguard gathered that penultimate week, an unnamed soldier in mufti, reportedly went to the abattoir to smoke Indian hemp after which he refused to pay, claiming he was a soldier.

The situation led to a fracas with some boys in the area, who insisted he must pay, without knowing that the man was a soldier.

The said soldier reportedly came to the abattoir yesterday with four of his colleagues in a Hilux patrol van and started shooting indiscriminately.

There was commotion in the area as butchers and those who came to buy meat scampered to safety and when the shooting died down, a pig rearer, identified as Ojukwu, was found dead.

It was gathered that when some of the butchers, who saw what happened, sought to know from the soldiers what led to their action, that the trigger happy soldiers shot and killed another butcher.

The soldiers reportedly beat four others to pulp and forced them into their van and drove off to an unknown destination.

Their action angered the butchers as they were joined by other people in a protest that spread to all parts of the city.

Attempt by the protesters to dump one the dead bodies they took round the town in a wheel barrow at one of the military posts in the city was aborted by soldiers in full battle gear at the Ogbor Hill waterside bridge.

The protest which began at about 12.00noon later took an ethnic colouration, as the protesters marched towards the Mosque and the Hausa settlement on Hospital Road, but were quickly dispersed by soldiers who kept watch over the places.

As at the time of filing this report, some Hausas in the city had to take refuge at the Aba Police Area command.

When contacted, Commanding Officer, 14 Brigade, Ohafia, Brigadier General Lawrence Fejokwu, said investigations are ongoing to unravel the cause of the incident.

Source:-http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/protest-aba-soldiers-allegedly-kill-two-butchers/

Those army need to back to sambisa

A soldier shooting a civilian for no unlawful offenses,wat a funny country.

But they cant take down boko haram only to come and lie every day that they have killed a specified number

Some pple among us ar blood sucking demons. Wicked souls.

ORACLE1975:
Those army need to back to sambisa

shekau has a show for them.

And they said it was hausa

Wow. The way situation gets out of hand in this country is suprising.

Those soldiers deserves to be dismissed!

Y on earth will dey over ride a civilian after one of dem took a very wrong action?

If only dis country is a law abiding country, the military personnels should know dat smoking hemp is a very big offense talk more of smoking in public n claiming to be a soldier so as not to pay!

#R.I.P to d dead.....

RIP to the deceased.
I see the soldiers and those invading the hausa community as criminals. There is no correlation according to the report, soldier killed civilian, you dey seek for fellow civilian to avenge your anger on.

Is this the same issue of yesterday or is this a different case?.... Yesterday it was reported that an hausa man stabbed an igbo trader to death following a fracas and this led to a reprisals. Now the story says soldiers?

so because he is a solider he feels he should get everything he wants for free.

obailala:
Is this the same issue of yesterday or is this a different case?.... Yesterday it was reported that an hausa man stabbed an igbo trader to death following a fracas and this led to a reprisals. Now the story says soldiers?

My thoughts exactly.

Some people will go to any extent to distort facts, just so long as it results in a blame game. Wonder the kind of hatred that drives them.

God help some people, they really need helping!

God help Nigeria even more, some people just wanna see her dead, even if that means them slitting their own throats!

Bokoharm kills this, Fulani kill that, Even soldiers kukuman kill those...
Perhaps they wanna prove their guns still work... SMH

ArodeTsolaye:


nigeria has depended on the blood and resources of the innocent to survive. It is imperative that it dies, peacefully or violently. nigeria's death will bring blessings and good tidings to humanity.

One event, 5 different Narratives.

End result? Chaos and Confusion.

Winner? No one, cause reprisals and counter reprisals will ensue and lots of innocent will become collateral damage...

One fact however is that hate destroys the vessel that carries it!!

stup1d soldiers who are a disgrace to Africa

Under the divide and rule policy of this current administration, most especially Buhary's ethnic bigotry, Nigeria heading to full blown ethnic war.


Can Buhary presides over a United Nigeria? Time will tell.

So the truth is gradually coming out.

Our military needs serious reform. There should be a law that forbids Police and Soldiers from killing innocent civilian and also captured criminals unless they are sentenced to death

Where's the news coming from?