Following Monday’s clash that claimed the lives of two policemen and three members of the Indigenous People of Biafra at the home Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a lawyer and counsel to the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, a team of rampaging policemen have allegedly destroyed and torched the home of the lawyer.
Following the attack yesterday Ejiofor’s family members told newsmen that they have been unable to reach their brother whose safety and whereabout is still unknown.
crimefacts.news reports that Ejiofor had on the 27th of November buried his elder brother, Rev. Louis Ejiofor and on the 2nd of December, less than one week after, while the family was still in mourning, the Nigerian security forces stormed his house over allegations incidented with the police in Anambra.
The confrontations left two policemen and three IPOB members dead, with a lot of people injured and hospitalized in the process.
According to an earlier statement by the Anambra State Police spokesman, Haruna Mohammed which was also made available to crimefacts.news, “as soon as Police arrived the house, armed men suspected to be IPOB members descended on the Police, set ablaze one Patrol vehicle and attacked them with rifles and machetes. As a result of the attack, two Police officers whose identities are being withheld were killed by the suspected IPOB members while others were inflicted with machete cuts.”
Though the Anambra State Police spokesman maintain that the attack on the policemen were unprovoked, local sources claim that the policemen were attacked and killed only after they shot and killed unarmed members of IPOB who had come to Ejiofor’s home to sympathize with him on the demise and burial of his elder brother.
A community source who simply identified himself as Ifemesia, told crimefacts.news that it was the action of the policemen that triggered the spontaneous reprisal.
He condemned the burning of Ejiofor’s home as braze lawlessness and outside the rules of engagement in professional policing.
Hear him: “Why should they take laws into their hands. They are killing Nigerians everyday across the country, why haven’t Nigerian’s taken laws into their hands. there is no law that empowers the police to resort to self help in cases like this. there should be an end to impunity in this country. sadly those who wield supervisory powers over the police are also complicit in this evil. whether it is a policeman or an IPOB member, the arbitrary killing of Nigerians should be condemned by all.”
The Anambra police command is yet to issue any official statement on a trending video of the alleged burning of Ifeanyi Ejiofor’s home by Policemen, but Haruna Mohammed had unofficially in a chat group, distanced the police from the act saying: “Did you see any policeman in the video?”
