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Nigeria Security Operatives Clash With Biafra Campaigner


According to report some members of the Biafra Group Campaigners lost their lives as they clashed with the men of the Onitsha naval out-post in Anambra State.
The clash according to LEADERSHIP took place on Sunday evening also led to the hospitalization of other 20 members of the group following various degrees of injuries they sustained during the clash.
The self- determination agitators according to the source, were operating as “Independent People of Biafra.”
A member of the group, who identified himself as Chinwendu Ikechukwu, told newsmen that they were attacked by the naval men at Okpoko junction in Ogbaru local government area where they had gone to spread their message.
He said they decided to embark on the evangelism after holding their meeting at Nkpor , Idemili north local government area of the state.
“On reaching Okpoko junction, we were accosted by a detachment of policemen who fired tear gas on our members numbering about 5000. They later allowed us to go since we were non- violent but on reaching Uga junction before the Niger Bridge head, the naval men on duty there opened fire on us.In our defenseless state, three of our members were shot dead while about twenty others sustained injuries.
“Even the police who initially allowed us to go later joined in shooting our members.The injured were initially rushed to Paragon Hospital Fegge before we separated some of them to other hospitals.”
Anambra State police public relations officer , DSP Okechukwu Ali, confirmed the incident, but denied the involvement of police in the saga. He said that the police were in a Show of Force operation in Onitsha at the time of the incident, but never shot at the group. He , however, restated that the laws of the land had outlawed all pro Biafran groups.
Meanwhile, every effort to get the reaction of the commander naval outpost, Ogbaru on the issue was unsuccessful as his telephone line could not be reached.
A source in the naval outpost, however denied the claims of the Biafran group.
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