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Biafra Day Massacre: Army Should Produce Weapons Seized From Agitators - IPOB by Stolen: 6:07pm On Jun 13, 2016 |
http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/06/Biafra-Day-Massacre--Army-should-produce-weapons-seized-from-agitators--IPOB Biafra Day Massacre: Army should produce weapons seized from agitators - IPOB As controversies continue to trail the killing of protesters on May 30, 2016 in the South East and South-South, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has challenged the Nigerian Army to produce weapons allegedly seized from the agitators. The group particularly asked the Army to publicly display the purported weapons it seized from the Biafra agitators who were killed in Onitsha on the said day. Its reaction was prompted by the claims of the Army that soldiers and other security operatives used maximum force against the agitators because they were armed. The Army was defending itself against the Amnesty International report that soldiers committed war crimes by killing unarmed Biafran agitators in Onitsha and Asaba during the Biafra Day celebration. In a statement by its spokespersons, Mr. Clifford Iroanya and Mr. Emma Nmezu, IPOB said that the claims by the Army that it killed the agitators because they were violent were only face-saving and lacked any proof. IPOB challenged the Army to produce the weapons seized from the agitators to prove its case. The statement read in part: “To justify the use of live ammunition on Biafrans, the Army spokesman, one Col. Gambo claimed that Biafrans ‘employed firearms, crude weapons as well as other volatile cocktails such as acid and dynamites.’ “Where are the arms and ammunition that the Army recovered from the ‘violent Biafrans’? “Is the Army actually referring to the acid which they poured on the bodies of dead Biafrans as they lay in mass graves which was dug at the cemetery inside Onitsha Army Barracks? “Is the Army aware that information leaked through somebody who supervised the burial of over 100 dead bodies of Biafrans in mass graves inside the Onitsha Army Barracks? “How can the Nigerian Army explain how people who were murdered in their sleep on the night of May 29th suddenly became violent? How can someone be sleeping and be protesting at the same time? “Col. Gambo, in reference to the damning report, averred that Amnesty ‘have decided to inundate the general public with an anecdote of unverified narratives in order to discredit the Nigerian Army in the course of carrying out its constitutional duties despite the inexplicable premeditated and unprovoked attacks in the hands of the violent pro-Biafran mob.’ “Also, in citing legal support for their heinous crime, Col. Gambo stated that: ‘The Nigerian Army, in synergy with other security agencies under its constitutional mandates for Military Aid to Civil Authority (MACA) and Military Aid to Civil Power (MACP) acted responsively in order to de-escalate the deteriorating security scenario in-situ.’ “IPOB wishes to state categorically that there is no place in the 320 sections and seven schedules of the constitution of Nigeria where the Army is empowered to shoot at unarmed peaceful civilians, especially those who are sleeping,” IPOB said. MASSOB demands conduct of Anambra, Imo Senatorial rerun polls Meanwhile, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has given a one-month ultimatum to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to fix a date for the conduct of the two senatorial elections in Anambra Central (Anambra State) and Okigwe Senatorial zones in Imo State. The group, in a statement issued in Onitsha by its leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, said that it is giving INEC till July 15, 2016 to fix dates for the two elections, stressing that it is wading into the matter as a major player in the affairs of the South East zone. Madu described the continued delay of the elections as a deliberate attempt to expand the widening marginalisation of the zone in Nigeria, adding that MASSOB has uncovered another plot to politically sideline Ndigbo in Nigerian politics by crookedly reducing the number of Igbo senators from 15 to 13. According to him, “this calculated and deliberate act of political abortion is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to sideline Ndigbo. One year after the 2015 general elections that produced complete number of senators from each geopolitical zones, two senatorial seats of Anambra central zone and Okigwe zone remain vacant in the upper legislative chamber.” The MASSOB leader declared that it is no longer acceptable to it as a pro-Igbo group that South East zone has the least number of senatorial representatives with only 15 while other zones like the North East zone has 21 senatorial representative, insisting that it is another gross political manipulation against the Ndigbo. 2 Likes
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Re: Biafra Day Massacre: Army Should Produce Weapons Seized From Agitators - IPOB by brunofarad(m): 6:21pm On Jun 13, 2016 |
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Re: Biafra Day Massacre: Army Should Produce Weapons Seized From Agitators - IPOB by Obaiyski(m): 6:22pm On Jun 13, 2016 |
Re: Biafra Day Massacre: Army Should Produce Weapons Seized From Agitators - IPOB by IRserveMyComent(f): 6:46pm On Jun 13, 2016 |
God will surely judge the Nigerian army,as the blood of the innocent they murdered would continue to cry out. |
Re: Biafra Day Massacre: Army Should Produce Weapons Seized From Agitators - IPOB by Nobody: 7:04pm On Jun 13, 2016 |
J'Accuse.... Nigeria Army Barrack Onitsha Commandant: [size=14pt]Col. ISSAH M. ABDULLAHI[/size] Nigeria Military Police Onitsha Commander: [size=14pt]Maj. C.O. IBRAHIM[/size] |
Re: Biafra Day Massacre: Army Should Produce Weapons Seized From Agitators - IPOB by ilovetheline: 7:27pm On Jun 13, 2016 |
Nofuckingway |
Re: Biafra Day Massacre: Army Should Produce Weapons Seized From Agitators - IPOB by Stolen: 8:01pm On Jun 13, 2016 |
The answer is simple. No Weapons! 1 Like |
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