Rivers: Residents groan as military continues operation against IPOB in Oyigbo

*Residents beg Governor Wike to relax curfew

*Soldiers recovering looted items

Reports coming out from the ongoing military operation in Oyigbo, Oyigbo Local Government area of Rivers State indicate that there is serious humanitarian crisis due to lack of access to food, Medicare and other basic amenities for residents who have been shut in by the 24 hours curfew declared over the area since last Wednesday.

Most affected by the deprivations, according sources from the communities in Oyigbo, are women, pregnant women, children and the elderly.

The woes of the residents who were caught unawares by the sudden imposition of the curfew have been compounded by closure of major markets, pharmacies and hospitals.

While all the banks in the area are not operating, most operators of POS in the area have also ran out of cash. The very few POS operators still in operation do so secretly and charge as much as 20 percent and above as commission, it was gathered.

However sources also said that the military has been making “terrible discoveries in some hideouts with terrible names like ‘Waji Down Below,’ ‘kom-kom,’ ‘Mbano camp,’ and ‘Obeama.’

“Some of the looted items were recovered there. A number of arrests were made. But you cannot rule out intimidation and harassment of innocent residents when there is military engagement.

“The military aerial survey with Air force jets yesterday in Oyigbo sent jitters down their spines. I think they will be more scared tomorrow, (Saturday) because I learnt from military sources that there is going to be military show of force in Oyigbo,” said the source.

However, the sources who spoke to PM NEWS from Oyigbo, lamented the increasing hunger in the area as many of the residents have exhausted their stock of food.

They therefore advocated that humanitarian organizations like Rotary, Red Cross and National Emergency Management Agencies, NEMA and others should be allowed into Oyigbo to provide succor for the people.

They also appealed to Governor Nyesom Wike to relax the 24 hours curfew and allow residents to open the markets and shops for residents to have access to food and medicare.

The ongoing military launched following the events of Wednesday October 21 when hoodlums suspected to be members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, invaded Oyigbo and went on destruction and killing spree of security operatives and their outposts.

In the orgy of violence, the IPOB members allegedly killed six soldiers, and set four policemen ablaze.

They also allegedly burnt over 50 private and public vehicles, including an Armored Personnel Carrier, a State High Court building among others.

Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer for 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major Charles Ekeocha has insisted that the ongoing operation was not designed to inconvenience residents of Oyigbo.

“We are there to carry out operation to recover weapons carted away from our soldiers who were killed so that the criminals will not use the guns to kill innocent citizens in Rivers and outside the State. We carrying out our search professionally, said Ekeocha.

The very interesting thing is that when a thread was opened by Arrewa where he and some of us were lamenting about the attacks on innocent Northerners in Oyigbo & the deliberate media blackout, these same elements now screaming to the ceilings were trying to bury the incident & were screaming FAKE NEWS all over the thread, all in a futile bid to hide IPOB's true violent terrorist nature.

https://www.nairaland.com/6214916/how-northern-muslims-massacred-south

Now that the consequences are being felt, they are begging for worldwide attention. Karma is a b!tch.

Let me see how they will draw national & global attention to the Oyigbo massacre without exposing the IPOB killings of Hausa Fulani businessmen in Rivers to the world, effectively ending their "unarmed & nonviolent agitation" scam & establishing them globally as a proscribed terrorist group with a global network & sleeper cells.

omenka:


It is now obvious Igbos react to the death of Igbos depending on who is responsiblefor the killing.

We saw it with Peter Obi when he killed tens of Igbos in Akwuzu, and now Wike.

QuotaSystem:


So you noticed it too?

One was more concerned about the bandits in Zamfara than his fellow Igbos in the line of fire in Oyigbo.

The others would just be chanting Fulani as if Wike is from Kebbi State.

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https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/10/31/rivers-residents-groan-as-military-Wike has a readymade alibi when activists and the international community starts asking questions, his alibi is- "Oh..We are fighting the proscribed IPOB". But I dare to ask, are the raped young ladies, murdered women and children "IPOB fighters" he claims he is fighting?

Wike is hiding under the "IPOB alibi" to murder the people of Obigbo for their pro-Igbo ethnocultural stance.

Let it be known that Wike is not Igbo but an Ikwerre man with very strong anti-Igbo sentiments since his days as a local government chairman till this day.

I'll prove it to you, Wike renamed the Old Aba road (named after Aba, another Igbo city) after Yakubu Gowon who committed genocide by murdering millions of Igbo natives during the civil war, Gowon is currently on the list of the most murderous dictators of all time together with the likes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Pol Pot according

tunjion:
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this is suppose to be on FP, pregnant women, elderly with health problems, babies and children are dieing under this prolong curfew.

I dont know wat pleasure is derived from wickedness and murder of innocent vulnerable people.

I have been calling for this article to be FP since yesterday.

QuotaSystem:
Apparently, the weapon snatching ipob terrorists have a variety show of force scheduled for today to clear any doubts. I trust OyigboUpdate to deliver the highlights.

My concerns are with the innocent and I hope they aren't caught in the crossfire.

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