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.

Vanguard

God we pray for peace

Clap for yourself op

He he he... Am igbo but I won't believe this...



This thread can aggrevaiate already risen tribal tensions

Social media will instigate the next war in Nigeria..

Igboes are doing everything they can to scuttle the country by instigating crises so they can blab that fulanis are massacring them, and biafra must be free..blah blah.

Lemme just keep quiet

if this iis true, d soldiers must be found

Why our own soldiers go dey kill dem people? Dis 2 igbo boys too attack burataii for him dream abi?

ifex370:
He he he... Am igbo but I won't believe this...



This thread can aggrevaiate already risen tribal tensions

Can't you see the source as Vanguard or has Vanguard stopped being the ethnic Ipod newspaper that they are?

This is called misinformation. Lies!

ExInferis:
Igboes are doing everything they can to scuttle the country by instigating crises so they can blab that fulanis are massacring them, and biafra must be free..blah blah.

The soldiers that shot and killed two innocent men are they Igbos

IGBO AND LIES ARE PARALLEL

THEY CLAIMED YESTERDAY THAT ABA BOYS KILLED HAUSA MAN WHEREAS SOLDIERS LEVELLED THEM UP

ExInferis:
Igboes are doing everything they can to scuttle the country by instigating crises so they can blab that fulanis are massacring them, and biafra must be free..blah blah.

you are so shameless