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Oyigbo: Nigerian soldiers on rampage in Rivers, kill dozens in troubled community
Nigerian soldiers chasing members of separatist IPOB have killed dozens of residents in an Igbo-dominated community.

ELFREDAH KEVIN-ALERECHI • NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Yusuf Buratai. [CREDIT: Thisday]
Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Yusuf Buratai. [CREDIT: Thisday]
Nigerian soldiers are currently on a violent operation that has led to the killing of dozens in Rivers Oyigbo community, residents and rights activists are telling Peoples Gazette, warning that a wilful massacre might be underway.

Dozens have been killed since last week in the community by Nigerian soldiers, residents estimated to the Gazette Sunday morning. Multimedia posted on social media also indicated widespread killing blamed on Nigerian soldiers.

Charles Ekeocha, a spokesman for Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, told the Gazette Sunday morning that he was tired of answering questions about the ongoing military violence in Oyigbo. Rivers police spokesman Nnamdi Omoni said he was not aware of the military violence, which residents said had been on for days.

It is believed that civilian fatalities might well be in hundreds as of Sunday morning, but details of ongoing military operation remained largely fluid because the soldiers blocked journalists and rights groups from accessing Oyigbo, an Igbo-dominated settlement about 30 kilometres east of Port Harcourt.

The community was shut down after a curfew was imposed by Governor Nyesom Wike last week. The governor cited a violence that broke out amongst suspected members of the outlawed Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB, for the 24-hour restriction of movement.

The military operation came days after Mr. Wike asked security forces to resolutely deal with suspected members of IPOB in Rivers. He has yet to condemn ongoing military siege to Oyigbo.

A spokesman for the governor did not return a request for comments about the ongoing military operation in Oyigbo.

The police in Rivers also give a directive asking IPOB members to relocate from the state. IPOB has been proscribed in Nigeria since October 2017.

It was unclear how the latest violence broke out, but Nigerian Army accused IPOB elements of killing at least five soldiers in Oyigbo about two weeks ago. Some police officers were also killed by suspected IPOB members last week. Mr. Wike provided succour to the families of the officers killed earlier this week.

But rather than allow an investigation into IPOB roles in the killings, Nigerian soldiers have since embarked on indiscriminate, extrajudicial violence against young people, most of whom residents said were not connected to IPOB.

“Soldiers are going home-to-home shooting people,” a resident Kelechi Francis told Peoples Gazette Sunday morning. “Most of them are not IPOB members and many bodies were left to decompose inside houses.”

Ken Henshaw, a rights activist in Port Harcourt, said Nigerian Army ordered “random and wholesale” executions across the community because it lacked the requisite intelligence to identify separatists.

“Every young man who is Igbo is seen as IPOB because they have no intelligence to identify those who are actually separatists,” Mr. Henshaw told the Gazette. “Journalists and civil societies have been banned from entering the community, which means we have a very deliberate massacre going on.”

https://peoplesgazette.com/oyigbo-nigerian-soldiers-on-rampage-in-rivers-kill-dozens-in-troubled-community/?utm_source=ReviveOldPost&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

Nigerians will be supporting extra-judicial killings of another tribe. The same Nigerians will be wondering why this blood-soaked country has not progressed while Africa and indeed the world has left it behind

Very spiritually dead type of people

RedPhoenix:
Smh. What did I say that isn't what's in what you posted said. You get sense atall?

There's nothing similar in what we wrote. Abi you smoke dry shit this afternoon?

Fayemi/El-Eufai 2023 don set

RedPhoenix:
And you had to put speculation at the bottom


Even as I type I'm speaking with someone within the axis about first hand occurences and spill over effects.

Bros you too are speculating. You have not provided anything to back up this your gist.

No news outlet of repute has confirmed this story that IPOB that has never been a violent group, suddenly killed soldiers. Who investigated the matter and discovered the truth?

This is screenshot is the most detailed piece of news and it's very inconclusive

https://peoplesgazette.com/oyigbo-nigerian-soldiers-on-rampage-in-rivers-kill-dozens-in-troubled-community/?utm_source=ReviveOldPost&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

RedPhoenix:
Smiles. How do I do this when I'm not idle bro?


Google up activities within the past 2/3 weeks. You'll get a thorough digest

Lol. E never reach like that

I've been seeing sketchy stories here and there but nothing authoritative or with any reasonable detail. IPOB has not claimed responsibility as far as I have read. Its like saying OPC was behind all the destruction in Lagos without evidence except the fact that they exist in Lagos. Rivers State has a cultism epidemic that sprang up during the militancy years so AK-47s are not scarce in that area. I've seen videos of police shooting at boys without the bullets penetrating and those guys didn't have anything linking them to IPOB.

I just think Wike wants to be seen as a "good boy" so as to actualise his ambition of being VP to his friend Tambuwal in 2023.

RedPhoenix:
I happened by chance to pick it at the very begining when the news broke out. It's all over the Web. Immediately some bits in ebonyi burnt down police stations and all, they picked it up. Nnamdi Kanu was then reported in a speech proclaiming " We now go to police officers homes to kill them "

In the past two weeks while the Lekki dust was settling, the storm was already rising in Oyigbo to which many were blindside because of Lekki. But these are the narratives I followed carefully from when it started to where it has gotten to.



There was a SE governors meeting in Enugu last week, by now, I was expecting Ohaneze, the entire SE governors to mediate and raise dust, but they didnt.


The difference between the north and the rest of the other southern block is those guys use their power

Tell me. How many traditional rulers in SE and governors and senators and ministers have raised their voices to appeal for a resolve? Not even one. The only person that attempted is the one being accused by people who don't understand tact.



I have nothing against Biafra. Infact. I'm in total support, but boys should do things strategically... The traditional rulers too should also raise their voices and use their power however small.

Please help me with a link if you have. I am very curious about this but I have never seen anything authoritative from any news outletabout this, just commentary so far on blogs, NL and whatsapp groups

RedPhoenix:
As the protest started to whine down, they became trigger happy and began [b]shooting [/b]around and destroying communities where house traders where. Unprovoked. Those ones petitioned their elders. All shouted in one voice, from the sultan to other Northern traditional rulers, then dust started to rise, army went to verify, boys and army began to Shoot. In the aftermath army came back, and the rest like they say is history. This was the whole thing that brokedown

Where did this info come from and who are the guys with the guns destroying the communities?

RedPhoenix:
1. When the boys brought out automatic guns and were firing at the army, what were they expecting ?

This whole story is very fluid and hazy to me. Who shot at the army and where did this information emanate from?

But does that place not have any traditional ruler or Rep? Why are they all silent?

I see two or three guys jumping around on a deserted street amidst gunfire sounds they aren't attacking anybody or being attacked

portplus:
I thought as much....he has already established an excellent relationship with the community before now.

There were Police Stations that we burnt just because one or two bad police officer.

For instance the culture of extortion and impunity perpetrated by the Police at Igando (Lagos).........I knew that station would not be spared.

Gbam! Like Langbasa Police Station, Ajah (Lagos) which was also burnt down

CSP Garba is part of the community. I knew his station would be untouched

The South West Governors are two years late. A reps member from Oyo state cried out in 2018 that insurgents/herdsmen have taken over the forests of over 200 villages in his constituency but nobody supported him or said a word in order not to offend Buhari.

Jokers are too scared to face the truth

https://www.nairaland.com/4421569/rep-oladele-insurgents-taken-over

kilonshele101:
just wait and see.

even tinubu and our oba were made to run for their life.

and you still believe you're untouchable on no man's land lol

I didn't even mention anyone and you're now shivering

Sanu mallam Yaya aiki?

The most edited, lifeless speech I have ever seen. He said nothing. Absolutely nothing

QueeenKKfire:
You see those warehouses that were opened in lagos today, it was the igbos that caused it, they gave the oba wrong advice they told him to hide those palliatives so that his next 10 generations will see food to eat.

Igbos are dangerous, avoid them.

I had to amend my post

AntiBalaka:
OP, you must be very new here.

Hammeed Ali's BSO took over NL since 2017, displacing the Alausa e-rodents of BMC. That's why you are not seeing the likes of e-gift, gbawe and arressa (Remi Tinubu paint sniffer) .

They have a strong alliance with the current mods to ban and censor at will.

And FYI, Seun leased NL out to APC since 2014 in a rugarized deal.

This forum has always been shitzen, but now it is nothing but a ruga.com.

Beaf?

BIAFRAisBURIED:
ALL IGBOS SHALL DIE A PAINFUL DEATH WORSE THAN THE CIVIL WARS

WHEN THIS HAPPENS, I WILL BE HERE ON NAIRALAND TO SPIT ON YOUR DEAD BODIES IN MILLIONS

SEE THIS FOR EVIDENCE: https://www.nairaland.com/6196110/endsars-nigeria-wont-fall-biafra

See wash APC has failed Nigeria and we are seeing the results of all the failure since 2015. It's almost all APC ruled states that have the most violence? See how Makinde has taken control of his State like a boss. It's leadership

Leave propaganda abeg

Haba mana! You are asking why empire builders don't want the people they are ruling to be divided?

When the British were handing the South to the North by 1960, they had already taught them the art of divide and rule nwanne

TheAviator2000:
My brothers from the West and East, more than ever, we have to stay united.
I am noticing the divide and rule tactics of the federal government is beginning to gain grounds all over social media!

Don't defend Tinubu or sanwo-olu! They knew the intentions of the federal government and enabled it by turning off the lights and cameras. They could've raised alarm to warn the people but they didn't!! The bullet at the toll gate couldn't distinguish igbos or yorubas or hausas.

On Igbo websites, sponsored agents are already sowing discord and saying the casualties in the North and West are mostly Igbos!!

THEY ARE PLAYING US!! PLEASE AND PLEASE AND PLEASE AND PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR IT!!!!!


I am a proud igbo man and I am united with my Yoruba brothers and sisters in this time.
We have a common enemy!! Maybe later we will continue our sibling rivalry but for now, we move as one!!!!

There are two groups of animals trying to play this Igbo vs Yoruba game. First category are northerners playing the usual divide and rule and Secondly the Tinubu touts who trying their best to deflect attention from Bola Tinubu's involvement in what happened at the Toll gate on Tuesday night by blaming all the violence on Igbos. There was a Hausa vs Yoruba fight yesterday at Iju- Fagba, Lagos but they will never have the guts to talk about it

MagicBishop:
You chose to align with Christ killers and as such you are no longer my brethren .

Repent from your Zionist path and maybe we can reconcile .

We want to leave the Islamist scorpions and now you transformed to vipers.

Abegi my brother , Jews are not welcome in my better South.

I follow Jesus. No start this your kolo yarn again

MagicBishop:
Bio-Leninism is a hallmark of communist take overs

Get the undesirables and degenerates on your side , give them a voice and later a position.

These are the staunchest loyalists to any movement because they know without the movement , they return to obscurity

So to remain relevant, they know the movement must be sustained .

Lenin recruited thugs, whores and lowly peasants in his revolution. Even Stalin was once a small time street thug and thief .

He became someone through the Bolsheviks .

The DNC does the same with their trannies, gays , niggers and dykess.

In Nigeria, MC Oluomo is a die hard APC member because it gave him relevance . Same thing with Kabaka and other APC thugs .

This is the ODB we know and love!

Though your anti-Igbo posts these days are very loony You nailed this post 120%. I don't agree with everything on this thread but you are on to something. I support protests against SARS but something is fishy. I'm seeing the same sai baba election energy at play. Anybody who asks questions is shouted down and smeared

OkoNDOoBo:
spare me that bullshit. Was it not peter obi that directed police to arrest el rufai.

Police never arrested el rufai it was DSS that kept him in his hotel

myBraine:
Typical Nigerian mentality.

Can't an accomplished politician prosper in peace again?

A man that singlehandedly built Lagos from scratch doesn't deserve to own a mansion. Now I know how backward people's reasoning are in this part of the world.

Tinubu built Lagos from scratch? chai

OP is claiming that Buhari built Enugu Airport

shoe get size...Edo no be Lagos

StaffofOrayan:
Nigerians leaders are useless, but SE leaders seem to the most uncaring bastards in the world, they just allow people get killed and never utter a single word, but you never seem to be able to blame them or call them out

The SE does not have leaders. What have is a brow beaten post-civil war political class of Igbo extraction are generally worthless animals except for one or two like Senator Abaribe. Its that leadership vacuum that has made Nnamdi Kanu some sort of demi-god and rallying point.