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Aufbauh:
In Nigeria, simple things can become more complex than rocket science. How can you be so authoritative in conjecture and speculation without a speck of evidence? People are just throwing emotions around on an issue that needs evidence.

Leaked viral report of the #EndSARS Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and Other Related Abuses, which was on Monday presented to the Lagos State government, yesterday, reopened the ‘sepulcher’ of the October 20, 2021 shooting incident at the Lekki toll gate.

Some findings in the leaked report indicted Nigerian soldiers for opening fire on the assembly of unarmed protesters without provocation while they were waving the Nigerian flag and singing the national anthem, which led to the killing of some persons and ensuring violence in the state.

The Federal Government had denied that unarmed protesters were killed at the tollgate on October 20. Minister of Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed, described the incident as a “massacre without bodies.” The Nigerian Army had also denied any wrongdoing.

While the damning Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel report is yet to be officially released to the public, reactions raged with many calling for appropriate actions over some of the report’s findings, adding that it should not be made to gather dust like several other government-enabled panel reports.


Already, the United Nations (UN) and United States of America (USA) have welcomed the report submitted by the judicial panel, urging government to implement the stated recommendations. In a statement signed by the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon, UN noted that the submission of the findings would accelerate the process of justice and accountability.

The statement reads: “I welcome the submission to the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, of the report of the judicial panel on claims of brutality and shooting in the Lekki area of Lagos during the 2020 #EndSARS protests. I urge the government to implement the recommendations of the judicial panel to rebuild trust and start the process of healing and reconciliation.”

On its part, the United States in a statement by U.S. Consulate signed by Temitayo Famutimi, said: “We look forward to the Lagos government’s response as part of a process that represents an important mechanism of accountability regarding the #EndSARS protests.
“Those events led to serious allegations against some members of the security forces, and we look forward to the Lagos State and Federal governments taking suitable measures to address those alleged abuses, as well as the grievances of the victims and their families.”
NIGERIAN disc jockey, Catherine Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch, who live-streamed the shooting as it occurred then, in her reaction on her verified Twitter page, wrote on Monday night: “Shattered so many lives, tried to destroy mine. Only for what you desperately tried to hide to be made public… by you! The truth needs no defence! #EndSARS.”

The DJ gained prominence last year when she took to her Instagram page to do a live coverage that showed protesters being shot at by personnel of the Nigerian Army. While most Nigerians praised her for her bravery, the DJ claimed she went into hiding because her life was threatened.

Hailing DJ Switch, popular activist and member of the judicial panel, Rinu, took to her verified Twitter page stating that the event of October 20, 2020, changed and halted the life of the disc jockey

She tweeted: “DJ Switch suffered for over a year on the Lekki massacre. Career and life halted, embarrassed, trolled, hounded out of her home, her country, everything she had going nicely, stopped. All because she was brave enough to stand, document the killings and say the truth.”

Chief Press Secretary to the Lagos governor, Mr Gboyega Akosile, said the governor was yet to read the final document of the judicial panel before it went viral.

According to Akosile, “the government will still release the report to the public after the four-man committee set up to develop a white paper on the findings submits its report in two weeks time. Nobody is trying to hide anything.

“As a matter of fact, the governor has not seen the document, he has not gone through it. The four-man committee already set up has the responsibility to go through the report in details and come up with a white paper. Nobody in government saw the panel report as it was immediately handed over to the committee to do its work. I am also surprised to see the document trending on social media.”


HOWEVER, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, has faulted the procedure adopted in the release of the panel’s report. The CDS explained that he could not, at the moment, comment on the content of the document because he has not seen the official report.

Irabor, who spoke after a courtesy visit to the Edo State governor in Benin-City, maintained that the Nigerian armed forces are committed to their constitutional mandate and do not engage in ignoble acts.

“I am sure those of you in the media must have seen a report that was released through, in my view, a wrong channel, that is making the rounds in the social media. Whether it is a true report, I can’t tell. But I’d like to indicate that the normal procedure is to have such a report submitted to the convening authority. And then there will be a white paper that will be presented, based on which one can make informed comments.

“But whatever it is currently, I’d like to indicate that the Armed Forces of Nigeria is a professional armed force. We are peopled by Nigerians and we remain committed to the constitutional mandate. So we will not at this point think that Nigerians should make disparaging remarks regarding the Armed Forces of Nigeria. If there are issues, of course, we address them within the ambit of the provisions.

“It would not be right to disparage men and women who have worked so hard to ensure that the territorial integrity of this nation is kept intact. So, in the meantime, until I see the full extent of the report, there would be no comment.”


REACTING, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the report confirming the gruesome killings of innocent youths at the Lekki tollgate during the 2020 #EndSARS protest has strengthened the fact that “the All Progressives Congress (APC) is running a murderous and oppressive regime that has no regard for life.”

The opposition party recalled how “security operatives attacked and massacred innocent youths and how the APC, its leaders and agents, in various agencies of APC-controlled government, vehemently denied the killings, tried to mop up evidence and provided official cover for the killers.

“It is now clear that no matter how much the wicked strives in denial, the truth will always prevail. Therefore, the blood of our innocent youths killed by agents of the APC and its administration must not be shed in vain. Those responsible for these callous acts must be made to face justice.”

Stressing that all those who had their hands soaked in blood must not be allowed to know peace, the PDP invited Nigerians to “stand for our slain compatriots by ensuring that those behind the massacre of our youths as well as their supporters in government have their days in the dock.”

The PDP in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said: “The nation must ensure that such individuals are brought to book for their act of wickedness to humanity.”

The party, however, commiserated with the families of the slain Nigerians, whose lives were cut in their prime for demanding for a just, equitable and secure nation governed by the rule of law.

ALSO, human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has urged the state government to implement the recommendations of the judicial panel.

Falana said members of the Okuwobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry deserve commendation for the thorough investigation of police brutality in Lagos, adding that a copy of the report should be sent to the President.

“In particular, the revelation that some of the 99 dead bodies dumped in the various mortuaries in Lagos by soldiers were traced to the Lekki Toll Gate has exposed the official lie that the report of the brutal killing was a figment of the imagination of the protesters.


“A certified copy of the Report of the Panel should be forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari in view of the recommendation that the soldiers and police personnel, who engaged in the torture and reckless murder of citizens be sanctioned.

“The policemen who were killed by criminal elements during the protests should be honoured, not withstanding that their family members have been compensated by the Lagos State Government.”

Falana went further to state that while commending the witnesses and their lawyers for exposing the official cover-up of the egregious human rights abuse perpetrated by the merchants of death, the Lagos State government should designate venues where aggrieved citizens can hold rallies in the exercise of their fundamental rights to freedom of assembly and expression.

He also added that the violent attack of unarmed protesters during peaceful rallies by police and military personnel should be completely outlawed since section 83 (4) of the Police Establishment Act, 2020 has imposed a duty on the police to provide adequate security for citizens who participate in peaceful meetings and rallies.

FORMER Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Bode George, warned the governor not to reopen the Lekki tollgate, just as he urged him to apologise to Lagos residents over the shooting.

George, a former Military Administrator of Ondo State, also charged the Nigerian Army to fish out soldiers responsible for the tollgate shooting and court martial them.

He said: “I want to congratulate members of the panel because what they have done has changed my mindset about the country. It is gladdening that we still have credible people. It was not just one person, it was a panel that sat and their names will be written in gold that they told the truth. They listened for months to testimonies and went through the evidence and wrote the report the way they saw it. The younger generation will read the report and judge the panel well.

“Sanwo-Olu should know that he has a family name behind him both from his mother and his father’s side and that the truth has already been told.

“He should be straight with himself and his government and take the appropriate actions. To err is human and to forgive is divine. If he reads the document from the panel and makes amends and apologises to the people of the state that would be great. Lives were lost. He should apologise to the people of the state.

“When you pass through the Lekki tollgate, you will see them doing some wiring and testing. If some people are pushing him to reopen the tollgate, he should go and have a rethink because from January 2022, politics will commence.”


THE Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has, equally, called on President Buhari to sack his Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, immediately. The group said Mohammed should be sacked for lying to Nigerians and the world.

Mohammed, in a series of press conferences, denied the massacre and even made the CNN to retract its report. Despite the Federal Government’s stance, the report showed obvious evidence that there was indeed a massacre at the Lekki tollgate, HURIWA said.

HURIWA, therefore, called for the dismissal, arrest and trial of Mohammed for falsehood, which has now been contradicted by a judicial panel of investigation in Lagos.

THE immediate past president of the Campaign for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Malachy Ugwummadu, in his reaction, said in this age and time of digital technology with active citizens’ participation in information dissemination, “there’s very little anyone can do to stop access to such a report that affects the entire nation and attracted the attention of the international community.

“I believe that the committee will not be weakened if, as announced, they’re merely constituted to produce a white paper on the report and develop strategies by which recommendations in the report are to be implemented. This is a routine administrative procedure of dealing with reports of this nature for record purposes.

“Where, however, they’re constituted to review the report already presented then, there will be some concerns because the state government testified before the panel and in some cases, was alleged to have perpetuated the violation complained about. To that extent, they cannot superintend over and review a panel report in which they were petitioned against.”

A judicial panel set up by the Lagos State Government in the wake of the #EndSARS protest that grounded the state in October 2020 said in a report it submitted to the government on Monday said that Nigerian troops massacred protesters.


Nigerian troops on the evening of October 20, 2020, arrived at the Lekki toll plaza to disperse unarmed protesters, largely young people, who were protesting against police brutality. Nigerian Army said it was invited to the location by the state.

But what followed, though disputed by the government, was described by witnesses and right organisations as a “massacre”.

“At the Lekki Toll Gate, officers of the Nigerian Army shot, injured and killed unarmed helpless and defenceless protesters, without provocation or justification, while they were waving the Nigerian Flag and singing the National Anthem and the manner of assault and killing could in context be described as a massacre,” the report said.

Amnesty International insisted that its investigations showed that officials of the Nigerian Army and police killed at least 12 people that evening at two locations – Lekki and Alausa – the same day.

Peaceful until ‘soldiers of death’ came
Lekki was the ground zero of the protests in Nigeria. Alausa, which is the seat of the Lagos State government, was also a major meeting point for the protesters in the state.

While security officials and protesters were attacked at different locations in the state, the protests at Lekki were peaceful, sometimes carnival-like. Eyewitnesses told the panel of how the grounds were swept every evening to keep the area clean when protesters left for their homes.


Muslims prayers were observed daily and food packs were donated to lift the spirit of the young people who were only requesting that they were treated with respect by the members of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

“The protest at Lekki Toll Gate according to eyewitnesses that testified and from the video footages submitted by witnesses and LCC was very peaceful on all the days including the 20th of October, 2020 until the arrival of men of the Nigerian Army,” the report said.

“Protesters had cleaners to clear the environment of debris, stones and any other dangerous object. The Panel finds that the modus of the protest was that they had tents, some brought their cars and some other slept on the bare grass.”

In fact, the panel countered the oft-repeated characterisation of the Lekki protesters by the senior government officials as a gathering of anti-government criminals who wanted to oust President Muhammadu Buhari from office.


But the panel noted that the ” gathering at the Lekki Toll Gate was not that of hoodlums and cultists. They were vigilant against petty thieves and miscreants who they apprehended and handed over to Policemen.”

“They had private security men and bodyguards, they also had ambulances to attend to health issues, they had welfare officers who took care of feeding the protesters and they had an effective sanitation team that cleared the protest ground daily through consistent sweeping with zero tolerance for dangerous items and weapons such as stones, sticks, guns, machetes, etc. They also had an effective crowd control mechanism.”


The protesters received global attention, with world leaders, celebrities, and sports stars from around the world showing their support.

The hashtag #EndSARS trended on Twitter for days and provided a rallying point for the protesters, and drew the attention of the world to the activities of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigerian police. The squad has since been disbanded.


Massacre and coverups
The Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses in Lagos State was set up initially to investigate cases of police brutality in the state and was inaugurated a day before the Lekki killings. Investigation of the Lekki massacre was later added to its remit.

The panel was headed by Doris Okuwobi, a retired judge. Majekodunmi. Babajide Boye was its secretary to the panel while Jonathan Ogunsanya was the legal counsel. Other members included Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, a senior lawyer, Fredrick Taiwo Olakanu, a retired deputy inspector general of police and Patience Udoh. Other members of the panel include Segun Awosanya, Oluwatoyin Odusanya, Lucas Koyejo, Temitope.

Justice Okuwobi said 235 petitions were received with only 14 of it being on the alleged Lekki Shooting incident.

The Lagos panel, perhaps the most high-profile among the several set up by states after the protests, indicted the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian police, and Lagos State Government-owned Lekki Concession Company and absolved protesters of any crime.

The panel said what Nigerian Army did at the Lekki Toll Gate on the evening of October 20 “could in context be described as a massacre”. It indicted the army for disregarding its own Rules of Engagement by denying those who were shot and wounded access to medical help.

“The Panel also found that the conduct of the Nigerian Army was exacerbated by its refusal to allow ambulances render medical assistance to victims who required such assistance. The Army was also found not to have adhered to its own Rules of Engagement,” it said.

The report also said police officials from the Maroko division participated in the “massacre” that happened that evening and tried to cover up the killings.


“The Panel found that the Nigerian Police Force deployed its officers to the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of the 20th October 2020 and between that night and the morning of the 21st of October, 2020, its officer shot at, assaulted and battered unarmed protesters, which led to injuries and deaths. The police officers also tried to cover up their actions by picking up bullets.”

Although the panel did not say the state-owned Lekki Concession Company (LCC) was complicit in the massacre, it, however, faulted it for its unwillingness to ” turn over some useful and vital information/evidence as requested by the Panel and the Forensic Expert engaged by the panel, even where such information and evidence was by the company’s admission, available.”

Festival of denials and injustice
The Nigerian government has a dubious history of denying its complicity in dastard crimes committed by its soldiers. The Lekki episode was treated the same way.

Despite video evidence, Nigerian Army initially denied being at the toll gate on the evening of October 20, 2020. It described the reports that its officials were even at the scene as “fake news”.

But that position changed days later. It claimed the military was invited by the state government because the “situation was fast degenerating into anarchy.” The army also claimed that the soldiers drawn from the 81 Division followed necessary protocols in dispersing the protesters.

“The intervention of the Military followed all laid down procedures for internal security operations. And all the soldiers involved acted within the confines of the Rules of Engagement, ROE for internal security operations,” the Acting Deputy Director, 81 Division Army Public Relations, Major Osoba Olaniyi said in a statement on October 26, 2020.

The army later claimed it officials fired only blank bullets at the protesters and live rounds.

As many young Nigerians marked the first anniversary of the attack last month, Nigeria’s minister for information and culture Lai Mohammed insisted that a massacre never happened.


“The only massacre recorded was in the social media, hence there were neither bodies nor blood,” Mohammed said last month.

“No bodies, no families, no convincing evidence, nothing. Where are the families of those who were reportedly killed at the toll gate? Did they show up at the Judicial Panel of Inquiry? If not, why?”

Mohammed has consistently accused foreign bodies such as Twitter, Amnesty International and CNN of using #EndSARS to damage the image of Nigeria.

Justice Okuwobi disclosed that the panel awarded a total of N410 million to 70 victims of Police brutality. But critics said the government must accept its complicity in the killings.
“It is unacceptable that despite overwhelming evidence, the government continues to deny the use of live ammunition on protesters at Lekki toll gate exactly a year ago,” Osai Ojigho, director of Amnesty International Nigeria said.

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AchalugoNwa:
even real omoluabis despises Tinubu

AchalugoNwa:
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trash
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SE/SS will never vote a Yoruba candidate

it's pay back time for the treatment GEJ got

johnmartus:
Ss people are not bitterness and envy like you people igbo was only tribe that benefit from Jonathan administration even his home country not benefit anything from his administration what about calabar and delta state benefit. You igbo brainwashed the man to the extent that he ignored his people.

yyba:
what consequence ? Is their anything like it is our turn in nigeria constitution ?

paltielx:
i don't understand your write up o

paltielx:
If a yoruba, hausa, ijaw, ibibio or fulani person should be arrested, i will still say the same thing, i can't support anyone defrauding others to get his money. What is bad is bad no matter the tribe of the person

paltielx:
I'm a nigerian and will, and will never support evil from any tribe including my own

Akwa Ibom State Government has flagged off the distribution of more educational materials to public secondary schools in the state.

The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Idongesit Etiebet who performed the ceremony, was full of praises for the Governor for his commitments towards improving the learning environment in the state.



“His Excellency has declared a state -of-Emergency in Education implying that Education is now receiving priority in Akwa Ibom state.

“In view of this and to boost quality education, recently His Excellency has also sponsored the production of thousands of copies of the mathematics text book (Principles of Mathematics for Secondary Schools and Colleges)authored by Nduenyi, A.E.

“This is to help students improve their performances in mathematics. Several copies of the book have so far been distributed to our secondary schools.

“Today marks another turning point in our education milestone. Before us are 60,000 copies of customized English and Mathematics textbooks for SS1 to SS111 respectively. The second batch of these books will be delivered next week,Etiebiet said.

The event which took place at the Ministry of Education Headquarters featured goodwill messages from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Chairman of the State Technical Schools Board Mr. Godwin Udom, Special Assistant to the Governor on Education monitoring, Akparawa Udeme Udofia, Nigerian Union of Teachers.

Speaking on behalf of all the Principals in the state the state chairman, All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools, (ANCOPSS), Mrs Roseline InyangIbom commended the Governor for his passion to ensure quality education to secure the future of Akwa Ibom children, stating that the education materials are of high quality.

Highpoint of the event was the presentation of the Educational materials to school principals to take to their schools.

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Say it can’t produce competent candidate
Tip Tambuwal to succeed Buhari
By Chris Ochayi – Abuja

A group of northern youths has rejected the zoning or power shift being clamoured for, saying it is not the best for the country.

The body which made this position known at a media briefing in Abuja said power has rotated from the South to the North since 1999 and that 2023 is an opportunity for Nigeria to get it right by voting a competent person that will move the country forward instead of selection.


According to the leader of the group, known as Tambuwal Volunteers, Comrade Bilal Sidi Abubakar, “There has been zoning since 1999 and both the North and the South have produced presidents but we are still lagging behind


“We want a competent person to emerge president in 2023 because the country is lagging behind.

He said that the Tambuwal
Volunteers which is a network of youth organizations across Nigeria also make a passionate plea to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State to join the 2023 presidential race to help pull Nigeria back from the brink and put it on the path of sustainable growth and development.

He said that Nigeria’s dire situation requires a visionary leader like Tambuwal to arrest it.
He said, “Our country is held hostage by terrorists, bandits and kidnappers.

There are massive self determination agitations across the country. Our economy has been badly hit by both internal and external factors.

“There is unprecedented hunger in the land. Nigerians are divided along ethnic, religious and geopolitical lines. The current administration’s inability to manage our diversity has worsened matters.

“Nigerians look to 2023 with fear. If we get it right in 2023, Nigeria can begin the process of recovery. A strategic mistake in 2023 will have dire consequences.”

“Our country urgently needs a President that will serve as the Father of all Nigerians. Nigeria needs a President who is development-minded.

“Nigeria needs a visionary leader who will take our country to a higher pedestal and reclaim our pride of place in Africa and the developing world.

“We need a leader who is angry at our apparent lack of sufficient progress and ready to spend sleepless nights addressing our development deficits.

‘”We need a pan-Nigerian who believes in Nigeria and prepared to make the necessary sacrifices to pull Nigerians together.”

He added that the poor state of affairs in Nigeria made them to make a contribution towards addressing Nigeria’s leadership problems

The apex Igbo sociocultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called on the traditional ruler of Onitcha Olona in the Aniocha North council area of Delta State, Obi Christopher Uzu Diji, and the kingmakers of the community, to talk to the Senior Special Assistant to President, Major General Muhammad Buhari (retd.) on new media, Lauretta Onochie.

It made the call in statement issued on Tuesday in responds to Onochie’s vituperation against Igbo traditional rulers and religious leaders for seeking the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra.

Onochie had in a statement last weekend gave reasons why the president would not heed the appeal, saying that the demand for the release of a “lunatic is as annoying as it is insulting to the memory of those who have lost their lives in a needless blood-letting in the South East of Nigeria. These are political neonates who are also, ignorant of the laws of our land. Where is their sense of decency? Where is their shame? Where is the truth that Christianity preaches? When will truth be released from jail?”

But, in the statement by its spokesman, Alex Ogbonnia, Ohanaeze also called on the women wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Umuada Igbo to “the nefarious activities of Lauretta Onochie with a view to whipping her back to normalcy.”

The Igbo group said for Onochie to descend on revered traditional rulers and Archbishops by using such words as “neonates, ignorant, lack of sense of decency, hide face in shame, stupidity, among others …is to say the least unreflective, odious, warped, despicable and sacrilegious.”

Ohanaeze pointed out that the letter of appeal to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) by the Council of Traditional Rulers and the Archbishops was strong enough to attract the attention of President Buhari for a discussion with Igbo leaders on the way forward about Nnamdi Kanu and other security challenges in the Southeast.

The organisation wondered why Onochie would make herself available for a hatchet job against the Igbo and assume the role of denigrating her kinsmen.

The statement read in part, “Lauretta Onochie is from Onitcha Olona in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. The traditional ruler of her community is HRM Obi Christopher Diji. Onochie knows the reverence and honour that go with the titled men and traditional rulers in all the Igbo communities. Also, as a Christian, Onochie knows that the clergy men are the representatives of God here on earth. Therefore a letter jointly signed by the Igbo traditional rulers and the Archbishops should command the respect of even the most unscrupulous.

It added, “The obnoxious role of denigrating one’s kinsmen to be fully ingratiated and assimilated in the other group is as old as mankind. However the entrepreneurs of betrayal have never ended well.”

Pro-Biafra group led by Nnamdi Kanu, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said the military operatives and other security agents were behind the killings of harmless citizens, as well as the destruction of public institutions in the South East.

This was IPOB’s reaction to Nigerian Army’s statement that the group had been killing and maiming people it claimed to protect.


The army, on Monday, through its spokesman, Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu had said, “This unimaginable level of violence is oiled with propaganda and disinformation to whip up sentiments and draw sympathy from unsuspecting citizens in the region. For the records, the proscribed organisation has in recent times foisted a sit-at-home order to show sympathy for their self-acclaimed leader.

“This was greeted with violence, orchestrated destruction of public installations and facilities, arson, as well as looting of shops and malls in the region, to demonstrate their criminal potency. They defiled the sanctity of the highly revered traditional institution of Ndigbos by recklessly murdering their own traditional leaders.”


Reacting to Nwachukwu’s allegations, IPOB through its spokesman, Emma Powerful, said Nigerian soldiers were “vampires cleverly pointing accusing fingers at IPOB just to cover their flanks and deceive the gullible.”

The copy of the statement titled, “Nigeria Army, Other Security Agencies, Not ESN Responsible For The Destruction In South East” was made available to SaharaReporters on Tuesday.

The statement read, “Following the frustration of the Nigeria military deployed to the South East, and their ranting claiming that IPOB and ESN are responsible for the numerous attacks, killings and burning down of people's properties worth billions in the region, we the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), wish to tell the world that there is no iota of truth in such fabricated allegation.

“It is rather the Nigeria military and their sister security agencies that are masterminding the ongoing secret genocide and mayhem in South East. It's quite unfortunate that after committing these atrocities, these vampires cleverly point accusing fingers at IPOB just to cover their flanks and deceive the gullible.

“Nigeria Army is afraid of facing Boko Haram and other terrorists in the North but down here in the South, they have taken over the work of the police in their desperation to kill more Biafrans. No matter how much they want to twist facts the public is already aware of their pranks.

“[b]The serial killings going on now in the land of Biafra are masterminded by the military and they cannot deny it. There are viral videos where the Nigeria Army is demonstrating its might against innocent and hapless people of Awgu in Enugu State. Will they say those burning down houses in the said video are IPOB and ESN? [/b]We challenge them for a forensic audit of the viral video. The UN should investigate this to establish the real identity of those behind the ongoing destruction in South East.

“We wonder how Nigeria army and its security counterparts would derive joy in killing Biafrans but Boko Haram and bandits sacked them in their barracks in the North. The world will one day hold them accountable for these atrocities and crimes against humanity. The truth will one day refuse to be buried.”

FORWARDEVERLY:
Election must hold whether Ipob members like it or not.. anyone that tries to disrupt it should be shot on the spot..

Sebastine1994:
Nigerian think abroad is paradise

Sergio101:
The heat is everywhere.

Yoruba should enjoy their one Nigeria.

BTW .... since Saturday??
is it that the east has more media coverage or far more developed than the West and north., that any event that happened in the east are reported immediately in about say 1hr.
But west...... 3 days.
North......... 6 days
mind you this is not the first time am noticing this, such poor news reportage was also seen when Gunmen attacked the West.

But in East....... fiammmm..... you Will see it nairaland already.

I don't understand ooh

paltielx:
What bring Abba Kyari to this topic, a suspect is arrested which we're all talking about you now mention another suspected cop

silvoclaira:
Killers of all innocent people within Nigeria will be brought to book

RIP

paltielx:
Nice move by EFCC, because of people like him Nigerian youth thinks of nothing than Yahoo Yahoo. If found guilty he should be dealt with seriously

Tissaia:
Good one. The child factory lowlife drug Barron, IPOB sponsoring deadbeat terrorists thought he is above the law. He thought IPOB will give him Culiacán, Sinaloa.. surely he will rot in prison.


Igbos Chai....