Soldiers, Others Invade IPOB Lawyer's House At 2.30am, Take Him To Undisclosed Location
The lawyer was taken away to an undisclosed location following the invasion that happened in the early hours of Sunday.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKJUN 06, 2021

Men of the Nigerian Army and the police have invaded the residence of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the group has said. 

It said the lawyer was taken away to an undisclosed location following the invasion that happened in the early hours of Sunday.

A human rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, also confirmed to SaharaReporters that some soldiers and policemen laid siege to the lawyer's house.

The reason for this invasion could not ascertained at the time of filing this report but it might be connected with the lawyer's legal assistance to the separatist group, IPOB, whose leader is Nnamdi Kanu.

According to a statement sent to SaharaReporters by IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful on Sunday morning, the security forces shot sporadically before taking away the lawyer.

"Barrister Ejiofor's house been invaded by Fulani Jihadists soldiers now and they went to eliminate him, the world must hear the evil Nigeria and her security agencies are committing.

"This is 2.30am time they surrounded his country home. Is it an offense for someone to defend IPOB? Barrister Ejiofor is doing his job as a lawyer; where in the world would a legal practitioner be harassed because he represents an organisation?

"The Nigerian Army invaded and burnt his house on 2nd December 2019 and killed more than 10 people. After that, they were still trailing and harassing him. The whole world must hear because Nigerian government must get what they are looking for from IPOB," the statement said.

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law in a statement on Sunday said it had received distress calls from lawyers working in the Law Firm of Ejiofor (I.C. Ejiofor and Co), Abuja, "informing us that the combined team of armed soldiers, SSS (State Security Service) and police have surrounded the Oraifite nuclear and extended family houses of Barr ‘Onowu’ Ifeanyi Ejiofor and his siblings; and condoned off the entire exits and entries and placed the whole area under siege". 

The statement signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chair of the group, was titled 'Siege On Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor’s Family House: Nigerian Government Must Stop This Madness!' 

The statement said, "The latest armed violence from the government of Nigeria started some minutes before 3am early morning of today being Sunday, 6th June 2021 and Intersociety was alerted around some minutes before 4am, leading to issuance of this urgent statement.

"We also managed to reach Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor on phone and he confirmed the attack, saying that 'soldiers, joined by police and SSS operatives are shooting in different directions and are about breaking into his main compound'. 

"He also said that 'he heard the distress voices of his village neighbours panicking and crying, indicating that they must have been abducted and they are likely to include early morning neighbourhood sales attendants and those returning from church vigils, etc. 

"The activist lawyer also suspected that some members of his family including security and domestic aides might have been abducted and that he had returned home for the weekend yesterday evening and only informed the Oraifite Area Commander (ACP Afolabi) and a few others that he was around.

"It must be recalled that Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, his siblings and their family houses in Oraifite, Ekwusigo, Anambra State were ferociously attacked on 2nd Dec 2019. His heavily pregnant wife narrowly escaped having miscarriage and later delivered miraculously. The attacks had taken place on the said 2nd December, 2019 immediately after the family’s outing church service held for his late brother, a priest of the Anglican Church. 

"Barr Ejiofor also narrowly escaped being killed by soldiers and police. In the end, five persons including his domestic aides were shot and killed and scores of others injured. The irate youths of the community protested angrily near the Community’s Market Square leading to loss of two principal police officers. The Nigerian Government swiftly deployed troops and burnt down 22 properties including a dozen family houses and 10 sales stores.  Following the ferocious attacks, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor went underground for months and shut down his law offices in Abuja, Nnewi, etc.

"We therefore call on Nigerian Government and the country’s Muslim-dominated and controlled security forces to stop this madness and crudity. By these crudities, the Nigerian Government is setting the country on fire the more and this is what Intersociety, as an expert rights group, has kept telling the Nigerian Government since 2016. The crude method by Government of Nigeria including invasion of citizens’ homes at ungodly hours especially the dwelling homes of respected and legally recognisable persons and brazen violation of their rights to privacy and family is universally unheard of, despicable and condemnable. Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, as a respected member of the Nigerian Bar Association and licensed legal practitioner, is above board and beyond being treated as a duly investigated and indicted common criminal on the run.

"Also under Nigeria’s extant laws, applicable globally, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor and other licensed legal practitioners have right and duty to represent and defend any citizen or citizens or national or nationals irrespective of gravity of crime(s) alleged to have been committed. The security forces of Nigeria are hereby called upon to withdraw and discontinue their siege and follow due process. If Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor is legitimately wanted for any crime, due processes must be followed to the letter. This is more so when he called and informed the chief police officer in the area (ACP Afolabi) of his being around for a weekend rest. Therefore, if anything untoward happens to the lawyer and his family or properties including his family house and law offices, the world is being put on notice to hold the Nigerian Government responsible."   

http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/06/soldiers-others-invade-ipob-lawyers-house-230am-take-him-undisclosed-location

Unknown gun men please release him I beg

These awusa-fool ani savage parasitic animals are bitting more than they can chew.

Is it by force to live in one-NIGERIA?

Give us good governance, you say NO!
Restructure, you say NO!
Okay, Give us referendum, you still won't agree.

And your brothers are killing innocent people everyday.
You and your people occupied about 70% of all the juicy boss positions in every sectors of the country with nothing to show for it except misappropriation, corruption and misrule.

A very USELESS PARASITIC people that has nothing to offer.
It will never be well with buharî and all his supporers to their 10th generation.


Whether they like it or not, this country MUST SPLIT!

I can not continue to tolerate living in the same country with these nomadic parasitic savage animals.


I stand with ODUA REPUBLIC.

I'm speechless

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Tyranny on the front shelf.

R.I.P sir

Dem just dey start....they can't win with all these Gestapo acts.

Trouble dey sleep, yanga go wake am. We will see how it will end finally.

The man is doing his job as a lawyer, FG is wrong on this

DSS in disguise

If this guy has committed an offense, why not invite him or arrest him legally. Why this style of intimidation? Nigerian government is getting everything wrong.

You are making a case for IPOB

Over 80% of the kidnappings happening in this country are carried out by the men in uniform.

Elvictor:
R.I.P sir

They never said the kidnappers have killed him. The R.I.P is uncalled for at least for now.

Ikonso was killed, and his death cost Nigeria over 50 security personnels so far... And government wants to touch this one....his death might cost the head of sultan himself... Nigeria better thread with caution.

His wife works for DSS, they should be able to help

Kingosytex:

They never said the kidnappers have killed him. The R.I.P is uncalled for at least for now.

You don't know Nigeria soldiers, R.I.P sir

Baawaa:
The man is doing his job as a lawyer, FG is wrong on this

Buhari and his goons will always be wrong, those crooks can't get anything right.

As ipob/ESN is not killing police and army again e be like say Nigeria forces no like am

Until they resume

Same military that was on the run in borno, begging Nigerians on social media to pray for them, with pictures of their mutilated body parts all over the the place have now found succour arresting lawyers in the east

I don't think they want to harm him, the Nigerian Army is very professional and highly empathetic.
For them to bundle him from his house by that time shows that maybe they were rescuing him from the mosquitoes in his room.

Terrorists are running the country. The earlier the secession, the better.

Why will soldiers be kidnapping someone at 2:30 am from his own home when they haven't kidnapped sheikh gumi, pantami and all other Terrorist supporters?

supportnija:
Unknown gun men please release him I beg

Zom_Bee
DSS, Army and police are not unknown.

Noted

NwaAmaikpe:





I don't think they want to harm him, the Nigerian Army is very professional and highly empathetic.
For them to bundle him from his house by that time shows that maybe they were rescuing him from the mosquitoes in his room.

DId you know this bastard cloned nairaland and made his own website

Not soldiers it's ugm that take people like that

Cowards

Nigeria will not end well.

Buhari want to set this corn-tree on fire and his wish will be granted to him if he's not careful

November1857:
Soldiers, Others Invade IPOB Lawyer's House At 2.30am, Take Him To Undisclosed Location
The lawyer was taken away to an undisclosed location following the invasion that happened in the early hours of Sunday.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKJUN 06, 2021

Men of the Nigerian Army and the police have invaded the residence of Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the group has said. 

It said the lawyer was taken away to an undisclosed location following the invasion that happened in the early hours of Sunday.

A human rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, also confirmed to SaharaReporters that some soldiers and policemen laid siege to the lawyer's house.

The reason for this invasion could not ascertained at the time of filing this report but it might be connected with the lawyer's legal assistance to the separatist group, IPOB, whose leader is Nnamdi Kanu.

According to a statement sent to SaharaReporters by IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful on Sunday morning, the security forces shot sporadically before taking away the lawyer.

"Barrister Ejiofor's house been invaded by Fulani Jihadists soldiers now and they went to eliminate him, the world must hear the evil Nigeria and her security agencies are committing.

"This is 2.30am time they surrounded his country home. Is it an offense for someone to defend IPOB? Barrister Ejiofor is doing his job as a lawyer; where in the world would a legal practitioner be harassed because he represents an organisation?

"The Nigerian Army invaded and burnt his house on 2nd December 2019 and killed more than 10 people. After that, they were still trailing and harassing him. The whole world must hear because Nigerian government must get what they are looking for from IPOB," the statement said.

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law in a statement on Sunday said it had received distress calls from lawyers working in the Law Firm of Ejiofor (I.C. Ejiofor and Co), Abuja, "informing us that the combined team of armed soldiers, SSS (State Security Service) and police have surrounded the Oraifite nuclear and extended family houses of Barr ‘Onowu’ Ifeanyi Ejiofor and his siblings; and condoned off the entire exits and entries and placed the whole area under siege". 

The statement signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chair of the group, was titled 'Siege On Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor’s Family House: Nigerian Government Must Stop This Madness!' 

The statement said, "The latest armed violence from the government of Nigeria started some minutes before 3am early morning of today being Sunday, 6th June 2021 and Intersociety was alerted around some minutes before 4am, leading to issuance of this urgent statement.

"We also managed to reach Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor on phone and he confirmed the attack, saying that 'soldiers, joined by police and SSS operatives are shooting in different directions and are about breaking into his main compound'. 

"He also said that 'he heard the distress voices of his village neighbours panicking and crying, indicating that they must have been abducted and they are likely to include early morning neighbourhood sales attendants and those returning from church vigils, etc. 

"The activist lawyer also suspected that some members of his family including security and domestic aides might have been abducted and that he had returned home for the weekend yesterday evening and only informed the Oraifite Area Commander (ACP Afolabi) and a few others that he was around.

"It must be recalled that Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, his siblings and their family houses in Oraifite, Ekwusigo, Anambra State were ferociously attacked on 2nd Dec 2019. His heavily pregnant wife narrowly escaped having miscarriage and later delivered miraculously. The attacks had taken place on the said 2nd December, 2019 immediately after the family’s outing church service held for his late brother, a priest of the Anglican Church. 

"Barr Ejiofor also narrowly escaped being killed by soldiers and police. In the end, five persons including his domestic aides were shot and killed and scores of others injured. The irate youths of the community protested angrily near the Community’s Market Square leading to loss of two principal police officers. The Nigerian Government swiftly deployed troops and burnt down 22 properties including a dozen family houses and 10 sales stores.  Following the ferocious attacks, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor went underground for months and shut down his law offices in Abuja, Nnewi, etc.

"We therefore call on Nigerian Government and the country’s Muslim-dominated and controlled security forces to stop this madness and crudity. By these crudities, the Nigerian Government is setting the country on fire the more and this is what Intersociety, as an expert rights group, has kept telling the Nigerian Government since 2016. The crude method by Government of Nigeria including invasion of citizens’ homes at ungodly hours especially the dwelling homes of respected and legally recognisable persons and brazen violation of their rights to privacy and family is universally unheard of, despicable and condemnable. Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, as a respected member of the Nigerian Bar Association and licensed legal practitioner, is above board and beyond being treated as a duly investigated and indicted common criminal on the run.

"Also under Nigeria’s extant laws, applicable globally, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor and other licensed legal practitioners have right and duty to represent and defend any citizen or citizens or national or nationals irrespective of gravity of crime(s) alleged to have been committed. The security forces of Nigeria are hereby called upon to withdraw and discontinue their siege and follow due process. If Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor is legitimately wanted for any crime, due processes must be followed to the letter. This is more so when he called and informed the chief police officer in the area (ACP Afolabi) of his being around for a weekend rest. Therefore, if anything untoward happens to the lawyer and his family or properties including his family house and law offices, the world is being put on notice to hold the Nigerian Government responsible."   

http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/06/soldiers-others-invade-ipob-lawyers-house-230am-take-him-undisclosed-location

Violent repression has started! Nigeria is not a same country to live in.

Terrorist, sh**t him

Nigeria is a cursed country, this is the second time they are invading Ifeanyi Ejiofors house

His only crime is that he is Nnandi Kanu's Lawyer

Daveambition:
DSS in disguise

pawpaw don't suffer for memes