Police Opened Fire at IPOB Members Coming Back From The Burial of Their Colleague In Anambra

• 40 IPOB members were abducted by police during the unprovoked attack and scores sustained various degrees of injury from gunshots.

Published by The Biafra Times | April 6, 2018

The global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it’s leadership worldwide once again wish to draw the attention of the general public and the world at large to the dangerous attacks and arrest of IPOB members in Anambra State last night, who went for burial of an IPOB member who were among those killed last year during the operation python dance 2 in Umuahia Abia State. It is so wicked and barbaric that Nigerian Government through her security operatives killed most of IPOB members during Operation Python Dance 2 in Umuahia last year and refused to allow IPOB to bury the bodies of those they killed.

This barbaric attack by a combined team of Fulani dominated Nigerian Army and Nigerian Police happened at Nnewi when IPOB family members who went for a burial for one of our IPOB family members by name Odika Esieme  Chukwuma, from Igbo Ukwu in Anambra State. He belonged to IPOB Obosi Zone.  After the burial as our people were returning from the village of the deceased around 5: 30 pm and on reaching St Mary’s Catholic Church, where they were supposed to disperse to their various homes, they were accosted by a team of Nigeria security agents and without any provocation, they began shooting at our people. In the ensuing chaos some people fell down and the buses they were traveling in climbed over some of them. Many were injured resulting from gunshots from the army and police. Many more were taken away by the army and police to unknown destinations. Some people had their cars seized, others with motorcycles had it taken away from them too.

Once again Nigerian Government, through Gov. Willie Obiano have instructed their combined security forces Army, Police, SARS, and DSS to commence their shoot to kill policy on unarmed peaceful IPOB and to arrest anybody suspected to be an IPOB member anywhere in Biafraland. It came to us as a surprise today being 5th of April 2018 when Nigerian Army and police with DSS opened fire and started arresting innocent members of IPOB whose crime was only to attend a funeral of a colleague killed by the same Nigerian Army and police.

This is the same Nigerian security agencies that are collaborating with killer Fulani herdsmen, granting amnesty to  Boko Haram terrorists but in Biafraland they are busy killing and massacring innocent men, women, and children at random in every community in Southern and Middle Belt Region of Nigeria.

We are putting the world on notice that since this unwarranted and unprovoked attack and abduction of IPOB members coming back from a burial ceremony from Igbo Ugwu, our legal team have not located or ascertained the whereabouts of about 40 of our members who were among those attacked along Nnewi Ichii Road in Nnewi North LGA of Anambra state.

It is appalling that Ohaneze Ndigbo led by Nnia Nwodo and South East governors particularly Governors of Anambra and Abia States respectively Chief Willie Obiano and Chief Okezie Ikpeazu are being used by the Fulani north and other Islamists to execute the plans of the Jihadi slave masters in Arewa core North. Major General Muhammad Buhari’s agenda of depopulating Biafraland through Fulani herdsmen and Nigerian Army is gathering momentum, thanks to South East governors and Ohaneze Ndigbo.

We wonder why Nigerian Army and Police including the DSS would not stand to fight or stop Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen who are busy slaughtering and maiming non-Muslims throughout Nigeria since the taking over to power of this APC Government dominated and led by a Fulani man. It is also clear to all that no matter how much and the level of attack on us, we are not retreating an inch from our agitation for the absolute sovereignty of the Republic of Biafra.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

THE BIAFRA TIMES 2018