₦airaland Forum

wiseone28:
So Nigeria no fit buy Humvee cars for the military instead of hilux?

the done loot the money nah

Asquare84:
El-rufail is the best match for this bandit he foreclose any discussion with the bandit thereby making kaduna state a bad market for kidnapper's

and the parents of the kids nko....govt abandoning them just like that

gosh...this is I don't even know what to say

bcomputer101:
Exactly how Ojukwu pushed his people to war until he wasted over 3millions souls and later ran away to another country and hide inside well.


Oh yeah people from potopotor region, use your brain for once I beg una

in trying to be sarcastic u sound so daft....gosh

The5DME:
I'm a male.

but ur profile says female

The5DME:
Though I'm still a teenager, I believe I can chip in something. Mine ended when we left secondary school as I refused to do yahoo, she left me and called me a broke nigga.

ayam not following, she left u....but ur gender is female so how?

Omoslim26:
Asin do this police men even engage in combat training at all

abi na only roger dem dey teach them??

just imagine

someone will think with high incident cases the will be on alert always but mehn....this country eh

oga IG u have been fired oh...pack and go ur village

this country na cruise oh....IG dey official visit them fire am....nawa oh, na to waka from owerri dey go village nah

PoliteActivist:
My solution may be draconian but you must admit that it would WORK! If people stopped paying ransome, kidnappings will stop. Simple.

ur solution might...which is a very big might" if the people actually had confidence in the police... but then u and I know that is just not possible unless u don't value ur life sha

PoliteActivist:
Not at all. That's how you don't hear about kidnapping in countries like US with tons of millionaires. If you kidnap anyone there is a 95% chance they'd involve police.
You may negotiate but only with a view to having them fished out. Once your person is kidnapped assume them dead.

can u stop saying these things, is annoying....what is the response time of our security agents....someone is kidnapped and when the police will come will be hrs later...when time is of the essence, moreover we heard cases of police discreetly telling people to pay ransom...due u even think the police have the capacity for these hostage rescues... maybe if I was in America I might be tempted to trust them to bring me justice even if it goes bad but I can't in all sincerity do that in Nigeria... u will just be added to the statistics

Quaddafi29:
A BIG FAT RODENT IS SMELLING
There is something just doesn't jell, or fall in place, about the early Easter Monday morning attack on Owerri Prisons and the neighbouring Police headquarters.
Something about the attack does not smell right. The attack appears so contrived, so convenient.
From my bed a little less than two kilometres from the scene I began to hear gun shots and bangs( explosions) from at about 2am. The sounds did not stop until about two hours later after which I fell asleep.
After I woke up and saw posts which informed me that it was the prisons and the police headquarters that had been attacked, I concluded that it must have been a blood bath.
One in which both sides sustained huge casualties given the amount of gunfire I heard the night before.
It was indeed a big surprise to read a little later that the only casualty of all that firing was a policeman who was shot in the shoulder.
Even more surprising were the stories that the attackers were not challenged through out the operation and that they had time to muster and chant victory songs with the released prisoners after the attacks.
Anyone familiar with the location of both the prison and the police headquarters would be as surprised as I was.
The prison shares a fence with the police headquarters.
Beside the police headquarters is the former DSS headquarters which is still in use by DSS staff.
Beside the DSS office is Shell camp Police station and behind it is the biggest police barracks in the state where at least one hundred police men live with their families.
Across the road from the police headquarters is Government House where the state governor lives with a retinue of armed security men from various services.
Sharing a fence with Government House is the residence of the commander of the military formation at Obinze, the 322 Artillery brigade.
A few metres from his house is the residence of the state's commissioner of police.
It is indeed difficult to understand how some people could operate in that area for three hours, shooting, blasting, burning and singing and no move was made to stop, or counter, their attack.
Also, some of the people who got to the scene early yesterday said they were prevented from taking photographs.
They said they did not see bullet holes or pock marks on the walls of the buildings attacked or spent bullet shells littering the ground as should have been the case given the duration of the firing.
So what could have happened?
Another big surprise is that no reinforcement came from the military base at Obinze all through the the attack.
Many residents of Owerri will recall that several years ago a similar attack took place.
A band of criminals attacked the then Standard Trust Bank's branch on Wetheral road after midnight.
The shooting kept half of the town awake for hours, with everyone wondering what was happening.
Eventually, soldiers from Obinze barracks moved in to confront them.
The soldiers dislodged the criminals and chased them as they sought to escape.
The Billion Naira question is why didn't the soldiers appear this time around?
This is not the first time we would be witnessing a dubious jail break in Imo state.
A few years ago a notorious kidnapper escaped from the High Court premises.
Shots were fired and it was alleged that many people died and many more were wounded.
At the end of the day it turned out that no one died and that the only people who sustained injuries did so while they were running away and not from the shots fired.
However, the haste to rope in IPOB and ESN is not a surprise.
That has been the pattern.
Anything that goes wrong in any part of the country, even in places far removed from the South East, IPOB and ESN are named as the culprits. Meanwhile, ESN have said they had no hand in this attack, while insisting that their area of focus is the forests where the herdsmen hide.
Most of the vehicles set ablaze in the police station did not belong to the Police force or police men. They were vehicles belonging to ordinary Imo people which had found their way to the police headquarters for one reason or the other.
They were probably impounded until their owners could "settle".
Surely the attackers would have known this.
The question then would be why would a group that says it exists to protect the interests of the Igbo man, inflict so much hardship on some of those they say they are protecting?
For months now, some people have been going around attacking soldiers police men at checkpoints and burning stations in the South East.
The result is that the police men have retreated into their shells and criminals have taken over.
Again the question is why would IPOB/ ESN expose their people who interests are their priority, to such danger?
Attempts have been made to blame IPOB and ESN for the attacks and they continue to deny the allegations.
This weekend, a couple of days before the Owerri attack about seven Fulani men who were going about their business were attacked and killed.
Again it was blamed on IPOB/ ESN without any evidence or proof.
It would appear that some people somewhere are doing their best to give the IPOB/ ESN and by extension the Igbos a bad name.
We saw similar moves during the ENDSARS riots in Lagos.
It did not matter to the accusers that Igbo businesses and property in Abuja and Lagos bore the brunt of the looting and rioting.
When one recalls how efficiently a peaceful protest was infiltrated and turned on its head by hoodlums procured and dropped at various locations by people who appeared to be government officials, there is need for Igbos to keep their eyes open, come together and work to avoid the snares set by people who for reasons best known to them would want to set Igbo land ablaze. Clearly, it is not everyone who is pleased with the relative peace and calm which exists in the region.
Finally, not withstanding whatever the motives of those behind the attacks may be, the intelligence and security lapse which failed to nip this attack in the bud or counter it should be investigated thoroughly.
This is to ensure that this sort of thing doesn't happen again.
It is not enough to conclude immediately, without any investigation or evidence, that a particular group was responsible.
GEE

my brother truly u stay in owerri jaree.....honestly from the shots that night I was expecting casualties and the army to have been called in...but nah, this just shows how finished this country is....for someone to orchestrate something like this on a high value facility and people are finding it funny...well do u blame them?

finally people who know the terrain of the attacked place can now understand the movie that was acted out.....anyone who has lived in owerri including me knows that, that axis Is the nucleus of high profile security units, for it to have been attacked for hrs and no response common don't tell me that...nothing from obinze nor naze...I recall vividly the bank own of several years...the held the town hostage..with the police overpowered, reinforcements from obinze were called in...that night was bloody, early in the morning u could see shell cases of spent bullets on the road...and walls yet I passed that round about side and no bullet holes or damages from dynamite.... who is fooling who abeg

googlepikins:
False news. Mod should ban this goat ASAP

how do u know is fake news, me that lives there heard it and u are here shouting fake news, mtvhew

tit:
So what were the soldiers in Obinze doing?
Eating suya?
Or was it the soldiers in Obinze that staged the attack on Owerri?

this is the one billion dollar question, this stuff lasted for hrs yet no response and nobody finds it baffling....even if the soldiers from obinze trek..the will still reach on time

yes oh..I heard it loud and clear, wanted to look through my window but I resisted that urge abeg.....life no get duplicate

lmao....my guy jump fence, who one die for Nigeria

this one choke me wella....fire outbreak indeed

by now we should have seen heads rolling and more but nah....Nigeria never ceases to surprise us

taken by surprise, really...while on checkpoint duty

Agadinaagwuofe:
I swear the 3hrs it took them to sing around govt house, release criminals and burn down state command is enough for army men trekking from obinze to reach there fight it and trek back to obinze and continue sleeping..so why were they no struggles or defiance put up by security men?

my bro u had to add trekking so as to give them benefit of a doubt...for three hrs no response and u tell me this country is normal

asinh eh.....obinze is just a phone call away

boy na true oh....the attacked the f**king state command,my mom couldn't literally sleep due to the heavy gunshots...naija police useless oh...

but I can't hear anything... am at MCC, duo maybe later on I'll scroll down towards that govt house side sha
modified: I just comfirmed it oh, from 1am to almost 3....prisons,govt and police command...like wtf mehn, our security is useless....how can a place like that be attacked, gosh

EmekaBlue:
Who talk say Nigeria is not d most nasty place in the world now? Show this pic to someone in place like Denmark and see how they won't believe

bro our sensitivity sensors have become blunt....not a day goes by we don't see graphic images from one part of the country....is like a norm now

everyday this country finds new ways to be shameless �

fati2001:
love her more.

asinh...love her more jaree, because bomb dey ur head abi....oga no too carry ur mind for that girl, na there way...just cruise jhooor

justtoodark:
look,keep the youths busy....
if we dont have enough civilian jobs then make them to soldiers....

atleast as soldiers they can learn disciplin and some skills....

ah!!! bro which country are u talking about, is it not the army that has mounted countless checkpoints everywhere now...when u hear people say Nigeria is rotten and is not getting beta what do u think...!
China has over a billion well equipped and kitted military, Russia...the same, us here we not kitted these ones u are adding more....is it not the same people who embezzled the money that will still be there...

we never equip and kit these ones u one add more....checkpoints go multiple in hundreds

gosh....u people are just hilarious

observanc1:
u see that their normal police dont carry guns. When u see their armed police, who are only called upon during times of emergency, u will think that they are army commandos.

that is because there response time is very high....here in Nigeria the go rob u finish go house b4 police go even dey reason ur matter

the way these bandits have made killing our soldiers a norm and nobody talks about it....or the worth of the lives of our security personnel vary from location to location?