₦airaland Forum

Its a tragedy that someone on whose land there are mineral resources, has little or no say in how that mineral is tapped, and how the profits are shared. It is injustice

zoedew:
Just like Osama bin Laden was not the one that flew planes into the World Trade Towers .

Funny how Nigerians are comparing Bin laden to Kanu and IPOB who are only exercising their constitutional right to protest until the security forces come to shoot them for no reason

ojaysam25:
Why can't ipob forget this their aspiration....so that we all can have peace :"

What peace do you think you have in Nigeria where Boko haram, ISWAP, killer herdsmen, Gana militants, to mention a few, are all armed and killing people daily?

UdechiHD:
I want to believe that the runaway warrior Nnamdi Kanu is happy about this death. Using the blood of young boys for media propangada. Anyone who died foolishly for IPOB died in vain. Ndi uchu!

But Kanu is not the one doing the shooting is he?

tsspsolutions:
It's not greediness since we failed to have what we wanted.

Well you people will have to wait until others get what you already had, which is 8 year Presidency voted in by the majority, then we can start talking about what you want.

Edusouls:
People have died and they won’t come back, no matter what, frustrated and jobless young men all over the place hiding under the umbrella of ipob, well done security forces show them their level..

And far more Nigerians than IPOB have been killed, and will be killed in future by Boko haram, ISWAP and killer herdsmen. They wont be coming back either

Nigeria is just a killing field where everyone from Boko haram to the security forces are out there killing unarmed people. Who can blame IPOB for wanting to leave such a killing field?

omenka:
Interesting.


People of the world, know ye this day that "not bearing arms" doesn't cover GUNS ONLY. If you bear objects that could inflict futile injury on people, including bottles, sizable stones and "planks", as explained by this "eye witness", you are ARMED.

These were the same objects they used to KILL the officer and whether it was that was videoing them.

Just to make things clear.

So it is better for the boys to take up AK47 since sticks and AK47 are all the same thing?

The report clearly shows that they were peacefully having meeting and exercising untill your murderous DSS went there to open fire on them and they took different objects to defend themselves

I do not know why an area will be peaceful but the security forces will go there to bring unnecessary violence and death

tsspsolutions:
Relax, answer this question. Did the Southwest want Obasanjo in 1999? Some people said they wanted to compensate us for Abiola's saga, we presented two candidates yet the rest of you went ahead to vote for the particular candidate we didn't want. Please don't accuse the Southwest of greed.

What you just said shows the greediness of the South West. In 1999, Nigerians zoned the presidency to the South West, now you are here complaining that Nigerians did not vote your preferred South West candidate??

Some zones have not even had a shot at the Presidency for more than 50 years and you are complaining that you got the Presidency but not the right candidate?

Greediness

Area4Area:
Kanu, IPOB and supporters have been insulting Igbo leaders, any Igbo who doesn't support their ideology is insulted. It is now you want them to care about you.
Why not tell Senator Ekweremadu, SE governors, NASS members, religious and traditional leaders they've insulted before now to care about whatever happens to IPOB sympathizers.

Bunch of clowns

This Fulani man who is hoping that Biafran agitation will die away so that everyone can remain slaves of their caliphate, has come again.

As you rightly said, the star was even on the old Nigerian flag

Tinubu is not best for Southern Nigeria, he is best only for the South West may be

Only a greedy person will still be talking about the South West producing the President in 2023, when power is supposed to move to the South, when they know that it is only the South West that has had 8 complete years with Obasanjo

They are cowards. People who see their unarmed children being killed and they shut their mouths for political reasons.

Area4Area:
IPOB brainwashed miscreants will continue to be killed needlessly till they start using their God given brains.
The authorities had labeled IPOB and Boko Haram as terrorist groups and it remains so.

You should have more sympathy for Nigerians than IPOB. Boko haram, ISWAP and killer herdsmen are likely going to kill far more Nigerians than IPOB in the future.

Pity Nigerians not IPOB.

Anaerobi:
I also turn my blame and anger to south east representative at the federal level.... they are just wicked and heartless.. may their love once b a victim of such wicked killing... so that they will feel the pains.

All they care about is 2023 while their people are being massacred at home by everyone from killer herdsmen to the security agents

Miracle1991:
you can only decieve your ipob miscreants but people like me who have access to some intelligent information in this country we know that Ipob are stockpiling arms and there are some politicians from the East that are contributing for the purchase of those arms. You guys should not think that everybody is a fool while in reality you are the opposite of wise.

This is democracy not military rule. In democracy, there are ways things are done. If the authorities have information that anyone is stockpiling arms, what they should do is investigate, recorver the arms, arrest and charge whoever is involved to court.

We have seen not guns and no arrest in that regard. Information that cannot be substantiated is mere allegation. The law doesn't work on allegation

Eyewitness Account Of How Security Agents Killed Unarmed People In Enugu - PUNCH

Bloody Sunday in Enugu as security agents hunting for IPOB kill unarmed people

RAPHAEL EDE writes on how security agencies and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, on Sunday, turned their guns on the sleepy Emene community in Enugu State where no fewer than 10 persons were killed

The residents of Emene community in the Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State are still in consternation following the killing of some youths by security agents comprising the soldiers, air force personnel, the police and operatives of the Department of State Services on Sunday, August 23, 2020, during a clampdown on members of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

IPOB members were said to be having Jewish prayers and training in martial arts when the DSS attacked them.

It was gathered that when a dozen patrol vans loaded with security agents armed to the teeth arrived at the community, they turned their guns on the IPOB members, who reportedly took to their heels.

Eyewitnesses said that in the ensuing confrontation, gunshots and teargas fumes filled the air between the St. Patrick’s Secondary School and St. Joseph’s Catholic Church along the old Abakaliki Road and the premises of St. Patrick’s Secondary School flowed with blood as fleeing IPOB members were pursued into the streets

Sunny Okoroafor is a retired soldier, who witnessed the carnage. He said the day could best be described as a ‘Black Sunday’ and the events would be engraved in the history of the community for generations, stating, “What happened was an unjustifiable action by Nigerian security forces against the Igbo.”

“I saw six unarmed youths killed in cold blood in front of my house, other residents said more people were killed and that the military men took their corpses away before the police came and evacuated those I saw,” Okoroafor stated.

Narrating the incident, which he said was captured on camera, Okoroafor said the Emene Community High School was a major sporting arena in the entire community and different sets of people, including IPOB members, train and have their meetings there

“My children used to stay at the school to study and play. IPOB members also come to the school to have their meetings and train in martial arts every Sunday. They have been doing that for several months to the extent that other youths got interested and were coming to train with them in martial arts.

“The previous Sunday, there was a rumour that the military would come to disturb them, but at the end, nothing like that happened and they held their training and left. So, on Sunday, August 23, 2020, I was in my house around 7.05am when my daughter ran into the house shivering. She said policemen came into the place where those children were having their meeting and one of them pointed a gun at her head.

“She said that the man allowed her to go when she told him that she came to sell water to those engaged in physical exercise, which the IPOB guys were part of. Over 50 people were there engaged in various sporting activities.

“So, I came out to observe what was going on and I saw two Hilux vans blocking the entrance to the school. I saw operatives of the DSS and some of the IPOB guys they seized in their vehicle.

“About three minutes later, those DSS guys started shooting and that lasted more than five minutes. I don’t know whether it was the people inside the school that they were shooting at, but the next thing I saw was the IPOB boys pursuing the DSS guys with stones, woods and bottles, while some of them were bleeding as they were running. Some strong ones among them continued the chase and finally sized one of the operatives, while the others jumped into their vehicles and zoomed off.”

Okoroafor added, “Unfortunately, one of the DSS guys missed their vehicle and he ran across the road looking for an escape route. I learnt he was one of those, who started shooting at the unarmed IPOB boys. So, the IPOB boys pursued him with sticks, stones and planks and eventually caught him; they brought him to the main road and stoned him.

“Those IPOB boys were not bearing arms, but what I observed was that some of them had charms, because when those DSS operatives were shooting at them, the IPOB boys were pursuing them and when the situation got tense, the operatives jumped into their vehicles and ran away. I am not telling you a story. I was there as an eyewitness.

“I learnt that the one person, who was killed and burnt, was filming them when they were protesting and when they wanted to take his phone, he resisted; that was what I was told.”

Mr Chijioke Ezeh, who lives adjacent to the Community High School, corroborated Okoroafor’s account, saying, “I was preparing to go for the 7am Mass at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church when I started hearing rapid gunshots. This lasted close to five minutes and I looked through the window and saw men clad in black attire with the inscription, ‘DSS’.

“They were shooting at the people inside the school compound; some fell down and some did not. The next thing was that they were running and IPOB boys were pursuing them to the gate with sticks and stones they grabbed in the school.

“About 20 minutes later, I saw many people bleeding from bullet wounds being conveyed to hospital. Angered by the development, after those DSS guys had run away, the boys started making bonfires in the middle of the roads to prevent vehicular movement, but people were allowed to trek.

“The IPOB guys started protesting and chanting, ‘What did we do to the government that made the DSS to come and shoot us where we are playing in our community? What offence did we commit?’ They were chanting and going up and down, but none of them bore arms, except a few with sticks.”

Eze added that the IPOB men started telling people living along the road to go inside their houses and their members, who were not strong enough, to find their way and even passers-by to stay off the road, because the security agents would come for them.

He stated, “My daughter filmed everything from upper floor of our house. After some minutes, the DSS guys reinforced and came with the military and the police, all of them numbering over 50, with over 30 Hilux vans and started shooting at the protesting IPOB members from different directions. They blocked all the strategic roads with armoured personnel carriers and were shooting unarmed youths and carrying their corpses away. They killed people going to church and tricycle riders.

“Those bodies the soldiers did not carry away during the shooting that lasted more than 30 minutes were lying on the roads after the incident. The pictures of those ones are all over the social media.”

Another resident and an eyewitness, Mrs Onyekachi Asogwa, described the killings of unarmed Igbo youths by security forces as callous and unjustifiable.

She stated, “What those DSS guys did was wrong; you don’t come and kill unarmed citizens where they were holding a meeting. They had been having the meeting every Sunday for several months in the same venue and nothing happened. They had never attacked anybody nor has anybody complained against them. Every Sunday, if you come here this place, it is always filled up with vehicles and tricycles.

“The police have come here on several occasions to monitor what they were doing and after, they would go away. The boys don’t wear Biafra uniform or any insignia, so I wonder why the DSS men would come and start shooting unarmed civilians. I don’t know why they came when people are dying somewhere else, when herdsmen are killing people, kidnapping people for ransom everywhere in Enugu State and nothing was being done.

https://punchng.com/bloody-sunday-in-enugu-as-security-agents-hunting-for-ipob-kill-unarmed-people/

Miracle1991:
can you provide a link where US said that Ipob is not a terrorist organization? By the way, who is US to tell us who is or who is not a terrorist in our country. Ipob are terrorists.

The US will have to tell you who a terrorist organisation is since the Nigerian government declared an unarmed organisation that killed nobody, such as IPOB, a terrorist organisation in 2017 then turned around to offer armed Fulani herdsmen, who slaughtered thousands of people in Benue, Ruga settlement

Miracle1991:
They bear arms,we have evidence that Ipob are stockpiling arms,most Ipob apologists are contributing money for that albino to buy arms. Let me tell you, you cant decieve anybody with that useless statement of ipobs are harmless. A terrorist organization have no right to have a meeting in our country.
The federal government declared them as terrorists and they went to court to challenge that declaration, as expected the judgement went in favour of the federal government. Therefore, ipob remain a terrorist organization until proven order wise.

You think that people like America and the EU who all said that IPOB isnt a terror organisation are fools? You think you are wiser than them? The minimum requirement to be classed as terrorists group is that the organisation must be armed.

The authorities say IPOB are armed, yet nobody has ever seen IPOB with arms except the authorities

The authorities say IPOB is a terrorist group, yet nobody in the East is terrified of IPOB except the authorities

The authorities say IPOB are violent, yet the only violence attributed to IPOB started with the authorities being present.

A time comes when you have to ask, 'Is IPOB the problem or the authorities?'

Kuginzi:
Your leader Maazi Kanu has dumped u guys. I don't know where u guys will start from.

It never was about Nnamdi Kanu, its always been about those who are tired of one Nigeria

goodnessme1:
Shut up you hypocrite.


Didn't you people hate Uwazurike and his group,did he insult you.


You yoruba celebrated the killing of his Massob member,was it out of love?

Forget these people. They said that they hate Nnamdi Kanu because he insults people. Uwazurike was leading MASSOB and didnt insult anybody but they called for his head just as much as Kanu. Its not the insult of Kanu that is the problem. The real problem is that those who see Igbos as slaves want them to remain that way forever.

I congratulate PUNCH NEWSPAPER for standing by the truth.

AdebayoHOD:
And joining this ‘Cause’ will save you from being pursued

Its better than the rest of you who will do nothing except wait to be slaughtered

AdebayoHOD:
I keep pondering upon why some have chosen to be clueless, and aimlessly joined a “Cause” that could bring about sudden death, while those at the helm of affairs are less concerned and unaffected.
#Sense

You are still thinking like this because either of Boko haram, ISWAP or killer herdsmen are yet to pursue you with AK47

kollinzgee:
Yerubas should be recognised by guiness book of records as the only ethnic group that has 100% knowledge of the history and geographical structure of another ethnic group somewhere around the East of the Niger but knows very little about themselves .. .the average yeruba knows up to 30 towns but cannot list ten cities in oyo state.

It's was from a Yeruba thread I knew and heard the following for the first time .

1)Anioma Igbos
2)Igboland Is 41,000 km2
3) udi plateau is the highest point in igboland
4)wawa Igbos
4)igboland has no access to sea
5) oguta people
6)ika Igbos
7) igalas in Anambra
igboland is potor potor
9) igboland has red soil
10)Erosion



Infact an average Yeruba on NL can point every gully erosion site in igboland with precision without google map.. .An average Yeruba man on NL knows the dirtiest street in igboland... .

If all these energy was channelled towards the West it would have being Dubai by now.

lol

You are right. Since when Nigeria was created in 1914, Im not sure that up to five thousand Yorubas have ever been to Igbo land. But Yorubas will claim to know more about Igbo kand even more than Igbos themselves. They will tell who is Igbo and who is not, they will tell you where Igbo land starts and ends, they will tell you that Igbo land is the size of Oyo.

In reality, they actually know next to nothing about Igbos.

The Lagos/Ibadan expressway media are funny. When this same open letter from Nnamdi Kanu came out few days ago, not many of them said anything about it.

Now they have changed the headline to make it look like Nnamdi Kanu wants to backout of the struggle then cleverly ommited the last part where Kanu said he remains irrevocably commited to the struggle

They just created this thread to showcase their slave mentality

IPOB members in their thousands stage protest against the killings of its members in Enugu.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQw3Yx2ZnTc

OP, can you add "punch" to the end of you headline so that people will know that this report is from a well known mainstream media house

The security forces just went there to traumatise the Emene community. All the armed bandits in Nigeria from Boko haram to ISWAP to killer herdsmen who are killing people daily! But the DSS and Police have time to go to where unarmed people are peacefully having exercise and meetings to open fire. When they shoot people dead, they take the body away to hide evidence. IPOB was probably right, the probably killed up to 21 people and took their dead bodies away

The security forces are just terrorising and killing unarmed people for no just cause as if the killings of Boko haram and herdsmen is not enough

This is how you conduct investigative journalism, you go to the community where an incident happened and you ask the people what happened. Not just swallow whatever the lying Nigerian Police says.

From this, everyone can see that the violence was 100% caused by the security forces who went to where peaceful unarmed people were having meeting and exercising to open fire on them

Ikeast:
Igbos are Igbo

Ipobs and Igbos are One...........

When Boko haram, ISWAP and killer herdsmen come killing, they dont ask who is IPOB and who is Igbo

The struggle for freedom is bigger than any one man. Igbo land must become an independent country from the failed British colonial experiment called Nigeria