The husband of the pregnant woman killed along with her four children by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Jubril Ahmed, said he is still in trauma.

Jubril who works as a security guard in Anambra State told Daily Trust that his wife was nine months pregnant and the family was expecting a new baby within the week when they were killed.

He said, “They were coming back home after she visited her sister who was living in the nearby town. She and the four children were all wearing hijabs; that was why the gunmen targeted them.

“As I’m talking to you, I’m in the process of recovering their corpses. The police have given me some documents which I will use to collect the corpses. I’m in the mortuary now, they are demanding N30, 000 from me before they will release the corpses of my family.

“My hope is to take the corpses to Ganye Local Government Area in Adamawa State and bury them because the cemetery the Arewa community is using here is already filled.

Jibril gave the name of his late wife as Harira Jibril, 32, and those of the four children as Fatima, 9; Khadijah, 7; Hadiza, 5; and Zaituna, 2.

“I’m now left with nobody; they have wiped out my entire family. I am so worried and in trauma, there is a need for the government to do something,” Jibril said.

The leader of the Hausa Community in Orunba South, Sarki Kabiru Bakari, told Daily Trust that they later recovered the corpses of the victims Tuesday evening.

He, however, said the plans to take them to their hometown in Adamawa for burial had been cancelled because the corpses were not taken care of in the mortuary, and could not withstand the travel to the North.

“We have now decided to bury them in Awka Wednesday (today). The mortuary attendant did not treat the corpses, no preservation measure was done; hence we cannot travel with the corpses as they have already started decomposing. We have no other option than to take them to Awka and bury them there,” he said.

Bakari added that the security personnel had been deployed in the area and that the Anambra State police commissioner has visited them and assured them of swinging into action.

“But after we bury the victims, we will all relocate to our hometown in the North; we are no longer safe here. The husband of the woman will also relocate back to Adamawa as soon as he buried his family; he is working here as a security guard,” he said.

ACF, NEF condemns killings

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) have condemned the killing of northerners in the South East by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

While the NEF urged the government to take decisive actions to end the killings, the ACF called on the government to pay attention to security.

The NEF Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, said northerners and even easterners must be protected from the activities of IPOB.

He called on the government to take decisive steps to end the killings and the targeting of northerners.

“The events in the south East particularly the events in recent days are tragic and very dangerous. There is a lot of anger in the land as there appears to be an attempt to provoke some local communities as well as some parts of Nigeria. Our position is that those with the responsibility to stop this must stop it now.

“We are appealing to everybody to remain calm and not to take the laws into their hands but we are demanding that northerners must be protected same way that we are demanding that easterners must be protected from the activities of these people who are killing.

“There is no excuse for failure to stop what IPOB is doing and we hope that in the next day or two, we will see decisive action on the part of governments, on the part of governors, and on the part of northern leaders and the elite to speak up and stop what is going on there, the targeting of northerners in the southeast must stop. The killings of even south easterners by IPOB must stop; we cannot have a country like this.”

The Secretary-General of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Murtala Aliyu, said it was important for the government to bring issues of insecurity to the forefront, secure the country, secure the south East from IPOB and secure the North from bandits and all other threats.

He said, “It is important that government pay attention to security more than any other thing today. ACF is worried like every Nigerian over the killings in Anambra State. Our main worry is the general situation in the south East. Our people, the northerners are also victims, but even the other Nigerians that are living there are not safe, especially even the Igbo themselves.

“The important thing is to look at the whole issue holistically beyond regional or sectarian issues but look at the security of the country. It is quite unfortunate that today, in Nigeria, Nigerians are not safe wherever they are.

“Our own take is that government must take this seriously, a lot of energy is spent on the electioneering, yes, the election is necessary, bringing a new government is necessary but we think that before this government leaves, they must do something about the insecurity otherwise, even election will be impossible in some locations.”

CAN condemns killing

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State chapter, has condemned the murder of the pregnant woman and her children.

Describing it as barbaric, the association said it was unfortunate that people no longer value life in the country.

The CAN chairman in Kaduna State, Rev. Joseph John Hayap, in a statement titled, ‘The expansion of evil versus the silence of godly people in Nigeria,’ lamented how evil had taken over Nigeria on the ground of religion, region, ethnicity and other differences.

The association urged the federal government to go after the murderers and all others who have killed any Nigeria from any region or of any identity.

“Until our government and law enforcement agencies go after all criminals and murderers and justice is seen to have been done on all murderers, this evil will not stop and the murderers will not see their crime as evil but instead, they will smartly make us fight amongst ourselves and pay less attention to their crime.”

Arewa youths challenge Soludo to act

Also speaking on the issue, the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) in a statement by its National President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, yesterday said the killings of northerners in the South East presupposed an ethnic cleansing agenda.

It urged governors of the region to take urgent steps to “end the killing of innocent northerners or face the legal consequences of their inaction.”

Rising from its emergency meeting in Kaduna, the AYCF said the murder of northerners working or trading in the South East at the slightest opportunity was an unacceptable act of undue provocation.

The group said it had expected Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra to use his exposure in governance and management to tackle the killings, but seemed to have been a ‘disappointment’.

The statement said, “The fact that the governors of the South East are the chief security officers of their states but do nothing to stop the unprovoked killing of northerners presupposes an ethnic cleansing agenda and we condemn it, in whatever guise – IPOB attack or ESN.

“The killing of a mother and the baby she cuddled as well as the Christian Aircraft Engineer of northern extraction means the lives of our own people are no longer valued in the South East, where IPOB, ESN, and so-called unknown gunmen are doing as they please as non-state actors, unhindered.

“Silence of these governors, despite the brutal attacks on our sons and daughters in the South East must be stopped now and we want to sound our note of warning, that no Nigerian has the monopoly of violence and that northerners’ respect for the rule of law should never be taken as a weakness.”

Northerners not targeted for killings in Anambra, says Soludo

But reacting, Governor Soludo denied that the coordinated killings were targeted at northerners in the state, saying it is a general case of insecurity affecting everybody.

He said that the Anambra people had suffered more casualties in the ongoing killings in the state than any other.

The governor, in a statement released by his Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, said the story that northerners were the target was capable of inciting violence in the country.

Soludo said, “While it is true that there is general insecurity across the country, there is no targeted religious or ethnic killing in Anambra State. As a matter of fact, the Anambra indigenes have suffered more casualties as a result of the unfortunate killings.

He added, “The report, therefore, is totally unacceptable and inimical to the unity and progress of the nation. The government of Anambra State hereby states that the report is not only sensational but misleading and should be immediately retracted to reflect the real situation on the ground.”

The governor stressed that Anambra indigenes, the northerners and other people from other parts of the country had lived and done business together peacefully because of shared common values.

He assured of continuous efforts to work for the good and progress of all and sundry in the state.

Police reassure Hausa community of protection

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Echeng E. Echeng, yesterday visited the Hausa community in the state and reassured them of their safety.

The CP in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, said the investigation had begun, adding that policemen had been deployed in strategic places in the state.

https://dailytrust.com/im-now-left-with-nobody-husband-of-woman-killed-with-4-kids-by-ipob

War is not good. Don't even start a war you will not end. All we need right now is absolute peace in Nigeria ooo.

I condemn this killing

But is Fatima life more precious than the 100's bandits killed in katisna yesterday

If north is silent when bandits the non religious outlaw kills in the north why is it crying when their son buhari can't tame southern non religious outlaws

Niggas bleed just like Deborah.....

LeoDeKing:
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Stop typing nonsense, it has always been the North vs South East, stop dragging every region to the drum of war you have been beating so when it happens, you alone will face it.

Yorubas have been having series of fights and death with the same north

Shouldn't they retaliate too?

Or perhaps they did already with the Kano bomb blast where more yorubas were victims

Employ your sense

Why always north, vs IGBOS?
North vs Yorubas??
North vs other southern tribes??

Fulani will kill people, and when you kill back it turns you are killing northerners??

Just look at the politic the fulanis are playing in Nigeria, using the name northers to dominate Nigeria politic,
In Nigeria today we have
South East,
South west,
South south,

North East,
Middle belt,
North West,

But the fulanis have made every body to believe that there's nothing like middle belt,
North East or north west,
The are always (the north)

But fools down here in the south are making everything possibly to show the world that they deferent people,
It will always be South East vs (north),
South south vs (north)
South West vs (north

This is disheartening.

Ipob should treat with caution.

And 72 mosquitoes were killed by Arewa Bokoharam within 72 hours.
It's nothing really. Northern Arewanian lives don't matter.

Truthisunique2:
I condemn this killing

But is Fatima life more precious than the 100's bandits killed in katisna yesterday

If north is silent when bandits the non religious outlaw kills in the north why is it crying when their son buhari can't tame southern non religious outlaws

Okay.

Since Fatima's life is not more important than the 1 billion bandits killed in Katsina this morning, you can now go and organise for the killing of Aisha or Maryam today to show how less important they are.

Continue the killing of Northerners in the east, but when the day of reckoning come knocking, don't start tagging celestial bodies.

Even the Deborah that was killed for alleged blasphemy is a northerner, but northerners are being killed in the east as a pay back as if na only igbo be Christian for this country.

Just be doing anyhow and be running to social to start talking nonsense, that day of reckoning will soon come.

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LeoDeKing:

Okay.

Since Fatima's life is not more important than the 1 billion bandits killed in Katsina this morning, you can now go and organise for the killing of Aisha or Maryam today to show how less important they are.

Continue the killing of Northerners in the east, but when the day of reckoning come knocking, don't start tagging celestial bodies.

Even the Deborah that was killed for alleged blasphemy is a northerner, but northerners are being killed in the east as a pay back as if na only igbo be Christian for this country.

Just be doing anyhow and be running to social to start talking nonsense, that day of reckoning will soon come.

[/s]stop playing politics with Fatima, your epistle to incite is flawed

All lives are important, Fatima inclusive

As I speak I support bringing killers in the east to justice, the government is employing everything to tame killers in the east

But what is been done in the north to tame bandits, Islamic terrorist, freedom of speech killers who are aided by parallel constitution, cooperation from government, ransom, and series of release

There is big hypocrisy in the north

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Chimaraymond455:

Why always north, vs IGBOS?
North vs Yorubas??
North vs other southern tribes??

Fulani will kill people, and when you kill back it turns you are killing northerners??

Just look at the politic the fulanis are playing in Nigeria, using the name northers to dominate Nigeria politic,
In Nigeria today we have
South East,
South west,
South south,

North East,
Middle belt,
North West,

But the fulanis have made every body to believe that there's nothing like middle belt,
North East or north west,
The are always (the north)

But fools down here in the south are making everything possibly to show the world that they deferent people,
It will always be South East vs (north),
South south vs (north)
South West vs (north

[/s]
Stop typing nonsense, it has always been the North vs South East, stop dragging every region to the drum of war you have been beating so when it happens, you alone will face it.

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Truthisunique2:
stop playing politics with Fatima, your epistle to incite is flawed

All lives are important, Fatima inclusive

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Search for the nearest available northerner and do the needful, then come and blame fulani herdsmen and dss. But one thing is certain, the day of reckoning is just by the corner.

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LeoDeKing:

Search for the nearest available northerner and do the needful, then come and blame fulani herdsmen and dss. But one thing is certain, the day of reckoning is just by the corner.

[/s]Hate have finished you

I bet you even think am igbo so you can sell to your Fulani master's that you are the ones on their side as fake muslims

Deep down you are hoping for bloodshed by both sides in disguise of supporting north when they would also lose people

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Truthisunique2:
Hate have finished you

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We shall see how things unfold.

Tinubuadvocate:
They should take revenge this is ethnic cleansing.

This is exactly what I was just saying before this terrorists emerged

Yoruba Muslims are fanning retailation hoping to use their Fulani lords to do that which they wish but lack balls to execute

I believe you still remember the casualties in the Kano bomb blast was majority yorubas

Tinubuadvocate:
They should take revenge this is ethnic cleansing.

I can assure you, that gruesome killing can't just go like that. Let's wait and see. Even Deborah that was killed in Sokoto for alleged blasphemy is a Northerner, I don't know which one be igbo own. Abi who appointed igbos as religious police in Nigeria?

People are just outraged because the killers are from another tribe......if Fatima was living in core arewa land she'd have been long killed by bandits who are her kinsmen or Boko Haram.

LeoDeKing:

I can assure you, that gruesome killing can't just go like that. Let's wait and see. Even Deborah that was killed in Sokoto for alleged blasphemy is a Northerner, I don't know which one be igbo own. Abi who appointed igbos as religious police in Nigeria?

Who appointed you the spokesman for northerners?

I agree with Gov Soludo. Northerners are not targeted. There is insecurity and everyone is game. It is a case of been in wrong place at wrong time.

Southerners have been killed, kidnapped, beheaded in the course of insecurity in North West and North East. Can we call it targeted killings?

Northerners are just groping for excuse to single out SE for military siege.

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Truthisunique2:
Hate have finished you

I bet you even think am igbo so you can sell to your Fulani master's that you are the ones on their side as fake muslims

Where did all these get "Mr where are the cows"

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Continue jumping up and down celebrating the gruesome murder of a northern pregnant woman alongside her 4 kids in the east. We are spectators watching you actors.

WesternOligarch:
People are just outraged because the killers are from another tribe......if Fatima was living in core arewa land she'd have been long killed by bandits who are her kinsmen or Boko Haram.

True word.

Terrorists kill over 72 in Borno, Katsina in 72 hours

60 farmers, scavengers killed in Rann, Borno; 12 in Jibia, Katsina

*Victims had hands tied behind their backs, shot in Borno —Source

By Ndahi Marama & Ogalah Ibrahim

Terrorists suspected to be members of Boko Haram/Islamic State of West Africa, ISAWP, have killed no fewer than 72 persons at Rann in Kala-Balge Local Government Area of Borno State and Jibia in Katsina State in the last 72 hours.

Among those killed in Borno on Sunday were over 60 farmers and scavengers, while 12 were killed at Gakurdi village in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State, yesterday.

The Borno killings came as local hunters ambushed a hideout of terrorists in Wanori village of Konduga Local Government Area, also of Borno State, killing two of the terrorists, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries.

The hunters also recovered 11 wheelbarrows used by the terrorists to loot foodstuffs owned by vilagers.

Kala Balge is a border town with Cameroon, with poor telecommunications network, which delayed information on the latest massacre of farmers.

Sources said the insurgents, armed with sophisticated weapons, sneaked into the farms and started killing farmers one after the other.

“Over 50 people were buried in Rann on Monday. As at this morning (yesterday), more dead bodies had been found, the death toll is over 60 now,” said a farmer, Ali Isa, who escaped unhurt.

It would be recalled that Boko Haram had increasingly targeted farmers, herders and loggers, accusing them of spying and passing information to the military.

They have also been raiding herding communities, stealing cattle, a valuable commodity in the region, to fund their operations.

In 2020, the insurgents invaded a rice plantation in Zabarmari, a community in Jere Local Government Area, killing at least 43 farmers.

Victims had hands tied behind their back, shot in Borno— Source

Vanguard also gathered that among those killed were scavengers who left their internally displaced persons, IDPs, camps to scavenge outside the camps.

A source told Vanguard that most of the victims had their hands tied behind their backs and executed by the terroists.

When contacted for confirmation, the Police Commissioner, Abdu Umar, said he was yet to get details on the incident, even as he promised to furnish the media after getting in touch with the Divisional Police Officer, DPO of Kala Balge.

However, at press time, he was yet to do so.

But a member House of Representatives, representing Kala Balge, Bama and Ngala federal constituency, Zainab Gimba, confirmed the incident to BBC Hausa Service which was monitored by our correspondent in Maiduguri.

Hunters kill 2 terrorists, injure 20 others

In a related development, resilient hunters, led by their chairman, Mai Kyari, yesterday stormed Boko Haram hideouts in Wanori village of Konduga Local Government Area, killing two of the terrorists and injuring about 20 others, after recovering wheelbarrows used for looting foodstuffs and livestock.

It was gathered that the insurgents had been terrorizing the community for a long time, looting such fruits and crops as mangoes, cashew and cassava tubes.

It was learned that acting on intelligence, the leader of the hunters in Wanori, Mallam Kyari, notified the overall chairman of hunters in Borno, Mai Gana Mai Durma, who gave them the marching order to confront the terrorists.

Kyari said he mobilised his men to the hideouts of the terrorists and engaged them in a fierce battle, which led to the successes recorded against them.

Terrorists attack Gakurdi village, kill 12

Meanwhile, terrorists yesterday attacked Gakurdi village in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State, killing 12 residents in the process.

The hoodlums were also reported to have set farmlands belonging to members of the community ablaze during the attack.

According to a source, the gunmen, who stormed the community riding on four motorcycles, sent residents running helter-skelter when they began shooting sporadically.

After the havoc, Vanguard also gathered from a source that the terrorists further encroached into another community where they rustled several domestic animals before returning to their hideouts in the forest.

Confirming the report, police spokesman in the state, SP Gambo Isah, noted that some of the villagers were killed by the hoodlums while attempting to run into their farmlands for safety.

Consequently, the state Commissioner of Police, Idris Dabban, led a team of security operatives to the scene to see things for himself.



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/terrorists-kill-over-72-in-borno-katsina-in-72-hours/

Why must be igbo every time.

LeoDeKing:

I can assure you, that gruesome killing can't just go like that. Let's wait and see. Even Deborah that was killed in Sokoto for alleged blasphemy is a Northerner, I don't know which one be igbo own. Abi who appointed igbos as religious police in Nigeria?

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WesternOligarch:


Who appointed you the spokesman for northerners?

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Who appointed igbos religious police in Nigeria?

LeoDeKing:
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Continue jumping up and down celebrating the gruesome murder of a northern pregnant woman alongside her 4 kids in the east. We are spectators watching you actors.

Nobody buys your Taqiya, I guess you should point out where you saw me jumping thread to thread celebrating Fatima death

You Yoruba Muslims are poisonous vipers, you are shinning teeth and calling for retailation yet claim to love one side

The north is very aware of your cowardice scheme to fight the battle you can't fight

LeoDeKing:
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Who appointed igbos religious police in Nigeria?

the only religious police in Nigeria are hisbah in the north spreading their demonic coverage over christians in Kano

You haven't questioned that, igbo people matter go kill una

I hope the north can see it's true double face enemies now

Nobody have monopoly over violence, north have been provoking the south and christians for too long and getting away with it

Those urging them to war should know the highest they can do is to target southerners in the north upon which this marriage only them enjoy would be cut shut

You have started you this boy.

MetaPhysical:
I agree with Gov Soludo. Northerners are not targeted. There is insecurity and everyone is game. It is a case of been in wrong place at wrong time.

Southerners have been killed, kidnapped, beheaded in the course of insecurity in North West and North East. Can we call it targeted killings?

Northerners are just groping for excuse to single out SE for military siege.

LeoDeKing:
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Who appointed igbos religious police in Nigeria?

Last time I checked the only religious police that exists is the Sharia police in Northern nigeria. Direct your question also to them.

Yoruba Muslims are poisonous sha

See the polluted mind of terrorists most of them can no longer hide displaying

You celebrate the killing of Fatima a fellow Muslim all in bid that it would help north settle score with east