About 3 persons were feared dead and about twenty others wounded on Sunday when members of a new pro- Biafra group, the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and security operatives engaged in a shootout in Onitsha. It was not clear what caused the trouble, but one of the injured persons, Mr. Chinwendu Ikechukwu said the group was carrying out an evangelism programme on the need for people to embrace Biafra Republic in parts of Nkpor , Idemili North local government area after their routine meeting, adding that it was while they were on the street that security operatives opened fire on them. He said: “On reaching Okpoko junction, we were accosted by a detachment of policemen who fired tear gas on our members numbering about 5000, but they later allowed us to go since we were non violent. “However, on reaching Uga junction close to the Niger Bridge Head, the Naval men on duty there opened fire on us. In our defenseless state, three of our members were shot dead, while about twenty others sustained injuries. Even the police who initially allowed us to go later joined in shooting our members.” According to him, the injured persons were initially rushed to the nearby Paragon Hospital, Fegge before they were distributed to other hospitals. The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Okechukwu Ali however denied the involvement of police in the shooting, adding that the police were in a ‘Show of Force’ operation in Onitsha as at the time of the incident. “We never shot at the group, even though the law of the land has outlawed all pro - Biafran groups,” he said. Also, a naval officer who refused to give his name said the group was lying, insisting that nobody died. According to him, “if they claim that three of their members died, they should provide their bodies.
http://www.nigerianeye.com/2015/09/group-loyal-to-biafra-clash-with.html?m=1

This people should wake up from this delusion grandeur.

Even though I agree for Biafra to be allowed to exist if the igbos want it that way, I Wont forget in a hurry what Biafran soldiers did to Kalabari people during the civil war.

keep clashing with security operatives while Boko haram z still dia. dnt u think it'll b useful clashing with d insurgents instead?

Benswaggy:
keep clashing with security operatives while Boko haram z still dia. dnt u think it'll b useful clashing with d insurgents instead?

You aren't making any sense. Give it up and channel your energy towards the advancement of your people.

delishpot:


Even though I agree for Biafra to be allowed to exist if the igbos want it that way, I Wont forget in a hurry what Biafran soldiers did to Kalabari people during the civil war.

Do well to present your facts and figures for the benefit of your readership.

So is it also the Igbos that bombed and almost levelled the whole of Odi in Bayelsa, killing its inhabitants?
Is it the Igbos that bombed Calabar Creek recently?
Is it Igbos who slaughtered Ken Saro-wiwa?
Is it also the Igbos that killed Isaac Boro?

I look forward to reading your reply soonest.

If you cannot provide reasonable response, I would serious advise you stop peddling wicked lies and propaganda.

BTW, who are you?

Lessons of the Civil War appears not have been learnt. A group of Renegades are pushing an entire nation to a bloodbath yet they are too blind to see... Ojukwu had better reasons in comparison to this crop yet it was disaster. he brought Armagedon on his kit and kin. Now we are going round the circle once again. It may be most devastating. Let us all keep the peace and do the needful. The Ohanaze has a duty to perform let them do their job as fragmented as they are. Is Nnamdi Kanu with his goons the official representative of the Igbo Nation? Early answers will prevent a lot of tragedy.

delishpot:


Even though I agree for Biafra to be allowed to exist if the igbos want it that way, I Wont forget in a hurry what Biafran soldiers did to Kalabari people during the civil war.

U ar PATHETIC

I wonder why the police is working hard to extricate themselves from blame. It is as though they are expecting a bloody payback by ipob and are now working hard to remove themselves from the crosshairs.

The navy and police acted in the last place they should have considered for this action ANAMBRA
I know they expected that Ipob would have gone on the rampage immediately, for which I am sure they probably had a backup plan of going on a shooting rampage, targeting Igbo businesses in the ame of fighting terrorism in Onitsha.

I commend IPOB for not taking the bait. Only act when you are GOOD AND READY.
Even the wait will be a major worry to the criminal forces that carried out this crime, as they will be completely at your mercy, not knowing when you will strike back either in Onitsha or nationwide at the time of your choosing.

Personally, I will prefer the legal options and this matter being brought to the attention of international legal entities with teeth, but I know this is ONITSHA, and they will also prefer payment in blood.

Both camps of IPOB have to start cooperating because each needs certain leverages the other has

clash?

delishpot:


Even though I agree for Biafra to be allowed to exist if the igbos want it that way, I Wont forget in a hurry what Biafran soldiers did to Kalabari people during the civil war.

you are inhumane and devilish...

what point are you making with such lies and propaganda.

delishpot:


Even though I agree for Biafra to be allowed to exist if the igbos want it that way, I Wont forget in a hurry what Biafran soldiers did to Kalabari people during the civil war.

you are inhumane and devilish...

what point are you making with such lies and propaganda?

Let us tow the line of peace, and also address all forms of injustice in the land for the good of all.

Justice muct be done and the zoo must fall

What a lie. Shoot out ko, shoot out ni. Unarmed people were killed and all the media could do is to publish lies to justify the killings. I am against IPOB ideology but never will I support killing unarmed people.

Three down,thousands to follow,nnamudu kanu is really a great man.

omoelesa:
Three down,thousands to follow,nnamudu kanu is really a agreat man.

NK, is indeed a great man unlike your treacherous Awo who was used by Gowon and his greedy Northerners to champion their cause only for him to be disappointed and dumped like trash until he (Awo) chose to commit suicide by rat poisoning without achieving his aim of becoming the Nigerian president...

And of course, NK having shaken the very foundation of your lives to your utter confusion that you have become too restless to even sleep peacefully on your bed these days. So, even without a gun shot the thousands that will go down as your prophetically predicted are from your people and clan.
There's nothing you can do about it now. It's too late to make any appeal...

xtrorse:


Do well to present your facts and figures for the benefit of your readership.

So is it also the Igbos that bombed and almost levelled the whole of Odi in Bayelsa, killing its inhabitants?
Is it the Igbos that bombed Calabar Creek recently?
Is it Igbos who slaughtered Ken Saro-wiwa?
Is it also the Igbos that killed Isaac Boro?

I look forward to reading your reply soonest.

If you cannot provide reasonable response, I would serious advise you stop peddling wicked lies and propaganda.

BTW, who are you?

I also will not forget what the Nigerian army did to the kalabaris too. Does that make it feel better?.
BTW why do igbos believe their Biafran soldiers did not commit genocide or war atrocities during the war? Why are they in denial of what their soldiers did to the people of towns and villages they capture during that war?
Yes I ask because many igbo people seem not to realize that the other people their soldiers slaughtered were as helpless as the biafran people who were innocently caught in that blood bath.
Just as you have observed with the bombings of Odi, calabar creek, Saro wiwa et al are signs that those people from those parts were innocent and not the ones fighting Biafra yet Biafran soldiers had no mercy when they entered the land.
Yet no one hears about them. No one hears about the deaths of Non Biafrans. Just as the black man cries about slavery and blames the white man yet they ignore their brothers who captured fellow blacks and sold them for gin and mirrors to the white man.
Why do we like to blame only the other side and forget what we did to the other side?
I wish Biafra to be granted the igbos. But truth be told their soldiers also commited war crimes. Only hypocrites will deny that fact.


No side played the saint. I hate war and I will never forget what the Biafrans did and even what the Nigrrian soldiers did after the biafrans were captured. It was hell and sorrow for my Niger delta people.


3 people d3ad is a bad thing.

delishpot:



I also will not forget what the Nigerian army did to the kalabaris too. Does that make it feel better?.
BTW why do igbos believe their Biafran soldiers did not commit genocide or war atrocities during the war? Why are they in denial of what their soldiers did to the people of towns and villages they capture during that war?
Yes I ask because many igbo people seem not to realize that the other people their soldiers slaughtered were as helpless as the biafran people who were innocently caught in that blood bath.

No side played the saint. I hate war and I will never forget what the Biafrans did and even what the Nigrrian soldiers did after the biafrans were captured. It was hell and sorrow for my Niger delta people.

Mister, why should it be too difficult for you to simply present your facts and figures for the benefit of your readership

I look forward to reading your reply soonest.

If you cannot provide reasonable response, I would serious advise you stop peddling wicked lies and propaganda.

BTW, can you simply identify and be identified by your ethnic nationality?

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but this "love" for mother land is not evident in the way illustrious sons and daughter in power treated the land and the ones out of power deserted it for greener pasture

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delishpot:

https://lightcheerfuls./2014/02/21/the-saga-of-go-to-nigergaa-niger-in-nyemoni-abonnema/

delishpot:

I said Kalabari

delishpot the Kalabarian, can you simply provide the facts and figures of Biafran genocide on Kalabari people for the benefit of your readership here and now or forever remain silent?

I look forward to reading your reply soonest.

If you cannot provide reasonable response here and now, I would serious advise you stop peddling wicked lies and propaganda.

Why do you think your allegation should prevent a people from seeking self-determination?

BLOOD ON THE NIGER: THE FIRST BLACK ON BLACK OCTOBER 1967 GENOCIDE OF ASABA PEOPLE BY MURTALA, GOWON  AND AWOLOWO

...Like my father and elder brother that were part of the over 1000 youths that were killed on October 7, 1967, in Asaba, most of them were members of the Action Group (AG). The people that believed in the NCNC at that time left for the east. My father who worked in Enugu, Nsukka, Uzuakoli and Kafanchan as a civil servant could have gone to the east. But he believed in that war. He was an apostle of the Awo ideas-free education and free medical services. In fact, the Asaba General Hospital that is now a Specialist Hospital was brought to us by the AG led by Nduka Eze, another AG hardliner who left the Zikist Movement to join Awolowo. But Nduka Eze's wife was killed by the federal troop under the command of Murtala Mohammed because she refused to be touched because they were defiling women at random when they came in.

The genocide against the Igbos has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the apology made to Asaba people by General Gowon when he came there after the release of the Blood On The Niger. The genocide against the Igbos was proved beyond reasonable doubt at the Oputa panel which the federal government has up till now refused to publish the findings. Bishop Desmond Tutu chaired the Truth and Justice tribunal in South Africa to find out what happened in South Africa during the apartheid period. It was accepted by both sides and just look at the peace that has prevailed there since then. Why would Nigeria not publish the findings of the Oputa Panel where it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that pilots were throwing bombs at random into market places in Uzuakoli, Uzuitem and Nsukka, where bottles and implements were also used against women during the war.

History is an account of the actions of actors in a community or in a state recorded that made impacts during their time. Awolowo was a great leader; great politician and great performer in government but his activities during the civil war were negative. If you are a writer, you cannot defend his position that starvation is an instrument of warfare. Starvation cannot be an instrument of warfare when you are fighting a civil war. 

Nigeria was being supplied arms from all countries. For the first time there was an unholy alliance between the Soviet Union and the West. It had never happened before. Any place that there was a war of revolution, the USSR is always taking the place of the revolutionary. How come that the USSR for the first time allied with the West against Biafra? So, let somebody go and disprove Achebe; that is what we want to see not that somebody did not commit genocide. Genocide has been proved to be committed. If there were no genocide, the World Council of Churches, the Caritas wouldn't have come in droves. If genocide was not committed, why did Biafra lose two million casualties, most of them civilians and children? And if people are not apologising to Igbos, why should they now come out to talk because one man has been put to where he belongs in history. He was the principal protagonist of using starvation as an instrument of warfare against his fellow citizens. Remember that Nigeria was fighting a war of unity. They were not as desperate as the other camp that was fighting a war of secession. So, in international convention Geneva included, you don't use starvation against civilians, you don't use firearms against civilians and you don't use bombs. Are they saying they didn't bomb civilians during the war? The Nigerian Air Force was very pronounced in its use of bombs on civilians and their targets were churches, market places and hospitals. These were recorded by missionaries and foreign journalists. 

Awolowo was the Minister of Finance under Gowon. He was the de facto prime minister of Nigeria during the war and he performed. I don't grudge him for winning the war for Nigeria; for changing the currency. He can win the war by all means but the fact that he prevented massive aid from coming is genocidal.

There was an inhuman instance. There was an incident where a Red Cross plane coming with medication and food was blown off the sky for the beleaguered people of Biafra. Even after the war, what was the purpose of denying Igbos their primary source of protein-stockfish? How can you defend the policy of giving people who have lost everything only 20 Pounds? If there is anybody that should have been given more, the returning war battered people of Biafra should have received more.

The Igbos have always accepted Awolowo as a great leader but his activities during the civil war shocked them. BY THE OBJECTIVE OF THE JANUARY 15 COUP, as quoted by Odia Ofeimun, the poet, the boys believed he was the greatest leader. 

THE LEADERS OF THE COUP, WERE TO MAKE CHIEF AWOLOWO THE PRIME MINISTER OF NIGERIA. These coup leaders didn't go for Azikiwe or Balewa. They wanted Chief Awolowo as quoted by Odia in a 1999 edition of The Guardian. Awolowo was supposed to be released by the Nzeogwu coup, which didn't have its assumed ending; it was aborted half way. It was Nzeogwu's colleague, Major Nzegwu that was supposed to pick him from Calabar prison and release him. So, I'm proving to you that the Igbo literality have always accepted Awo as one of the best and great leaders the country has ever produced but his activities during the war did not only shock them but betrayed the trust they had in.

During the whole peace conferences from Niamey to Kinshasha, Awolowo, Enahoro and Alison Ayida, who was a permanent secretary, always took a hawkish stand. That was why in the Niamey conference of 1968 Alison Ayida quoted Awo exactly that starvation is an instrument of warfare. This was at a time when millions of Biafran children were dying off. And death by starvation is not an ordinary death. It is for you to experience it. It was horror and the photographs are there but Awolowo and his henchmen never batted an eyelid even after the war. That is why we glorify other great literality like Wole Soyinka who told us in his book A Man Died that extermination was committed in Asaba. He was the first courageous soul in Nigeria that told the world about the Asaba massacre.

http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/73341-most-those-murdered-asaba-muritala-gowon-awo-were-action-group-members-emma-okocha-author-blood-niger.html

These people were peaceful, only sharing flyers, it is just as if church people sharing their flyers while evangelizing.

What we want to tell people is that we are not afraid to die.
We will strike back, this is the excuse we are waiting for.

Only thing is that the papers and journalist will twist the story, but we have our own media platforms, evidences have been gathered and sent to world authorities.

Small small dem dey buy problem.

xtrorse:


NK, is indeed a great man unlike your the treacherous Awo who was used by Gowon and his greedy Northerners to champion on their cause only for him to be disappointed and dumped like trash until he (Awo) chose to commit suicide by rat poisoning without achieving his become the president...

And of course, NK having shaken the very foundation of your lives to your utter confusion that you have become too restless to even sleep peacefully on your bed these days. So, even without a gun shot the thousands that will go down as your prophetically predicted are from your people and clan.
There's nothing you can do about it now. It's too late to make any appeal...

Lol, why are u so pained?i thought nnamu kanu is preparing his 2 million soldiers,that will defeat the zoo.

omoelesa:
Lol, why are u so pained?i thought nnamu kanu is preparing his 2 million soldiers,that will defeat the zoo.

You scratched faces have never seen a riot b4,not to talk of war....but you have the loudest mouth when it comes to issues of war,always crying more than the berived.
How does that work for you guyz
Leave the worries of war to we biafrans,
Taunting and propagating lies will not lead you anywhere.

omoelesa:
Lol, why are u so pained?i thought nnamu kanu is preparing his 2 million soldiers,that will defeat the zoo.

Pained, for what - that you're having sleepless nights over Igbo affairs and you're almost running mad and losing your senses?

Òbó ni o para è!

C'mon, give me some other gist...

xtrorse:


Pained, for what - that you're having sleepless nights over Igbo affairs and you're almost running mad and losing your senses?

Òbó ni o para è!

C'mon, give me some other gist...

I am curious to watch some action films nah.