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Following the clash between members
of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Nigerian Police Force in
Oraifite, Anambra state which led to the killing of two members of the
separatist group and two policemen, there seems to be conflicting accounts to
the story emanating both camps in the crisis.
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the
Indigenous people of Biafra had first raised the alarm that his lawyer’s home
in Oraifite was attacked by a combined team of the Police and the Army for the
sole purpose of assassinating the IPOB counsel.
In a statement signed by Kanu
himself and obtained by crimefacts.news, the IPOB leader said that though his lawyer, Ifeanyi
Ejiofor escaped, two other members of IPOB were killed by the invading security
forces.
He noted that the Monday morning
killing came on the heel of another killing of two IPOB members who were
peacefully gathered in Arondizuogu on Sunday,1st December. Their bodies, he
said, were still in the morgue.
Replying few hours later, the Police
spokesman in Anambra SP Haruna Mohammed said Police officers were attacked in
Oraifite by armed men suspected to be members of the proscribed IPOB.
Police said that earlier on the same
day, around 11:30 am, that there was a formal complaint against One Barrister
Ifeanyi Ejiofor in Oraifite on alleged case of abduction, assault occasioning
harm and malicious damage to property.
That following the report, Police patrol
teams led by the Area Commander, Oraifite ACP Oliver Abbey mobilized and rushed
to the scene in order to arrest the suspect who declined Police
invitation.
According the statement by 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. The
injured personnel were rushed to the Hospital for medical attention and are
presently receiving treatment.
“Consequently, the Command
deployed reinforcements from the State Headquarters comprising of PMF, SARS and
Special Anti Cult Units in conjunction with the Army and other sister agencies
who cordoned off the area in order to fish out the culprits, while Joint patrol
are still ongoing in the town to prevent further breakdown of law and
order.
There is yet a third angle to the
story in which some locals maintain that the police had attacked Ejiofor’s
house and killed two persons before a reprisal attack by youths of the
community who were enraged by the impunity of the policemen.
crimefacts.news
reports that following the killing of the two IPOB members
in Ejiofor’s home, the angry youths had mobilized and attacked the Police. Two
policemen were reportedly killed and burnt alongside a Police patrol van in an area
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