Awka— ONE person was feared dead, yesterday, at Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State during a clash between security operatives and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
The heavy presence of security operatives, including the police, the army and the navy, made the people wonder what was amiss, until they learned that the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was scheduled to visit the area.
Several truck loads of security operatives were sighted at Upper Iweka in Onitsha and were said to be heading to Ekwulobia for reinforcement.
Despite the heavy presence of security operatives, the IPOB members were still seen parading major roads in the area, singing and waving Biafra flags.
An eye witness said security men appropriated the Biafran banners, tops, shirts and different things being sold by the young people, which clearly infuriated the IPOB individuals, who purportedly endeavored to assault the security agents.
It was now, the observer stated, the police utilized teargas to scatter them, including that it was the rush that prompted the demise of one individual.
Despite the fact that the State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mrs. Nkeiru Nwode, precluded the passing from claiming any IPOB part, she affirmed that there was nearness of security in the zone, which was to maintain a strategic distance from rupture of peace.
She stated: "The nearness of the security men was to secure the place from being assaulted by criminals. Individuals ought not take laws into their hands; the security agents in Anambra are working day and night to secure nature and are not prepared to permit frauds assume control over the general public."
While asking the general population to approach their typical organizations as Anambra was secure, she demanded that security agents would not falter to manage anyone or gathering that attempted to cause inconvenience.
Clearly because of the issue, Kanu was not found in the region as at 4.00 pm, even as the security men were all the while watching the region.
Vanguard reviews that it was at the same Ekwulobia that speculated IPOB individuals endeavored to upset church benefit while Governor Willie Obiano was venerating at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in the territory.
Kanu'll profit to Ekwulobia for Sunday — IPOB
Responding to the conflict at Ekwulobia, IPOB portrayed the activity as a merciless murder.
An announcement by the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, said the cops in Anambra State were following up on the requests of the Inspector General of Police.
It said in spite of the terrorizing, IPOB pioneer, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, would be at Ekwulobia on Sunday to mourn with the group of yesterday's casualty.
He stated: "The now apparently normal sending of a specific sort of Nigeria Police in Biafranland, particularly in Anambra State since the declaration of decision blacklist in Biafranland beginning from the gubernatorial race come November 18 this year is getting to be noticeably disturbing.
"IPOB knowledge unit found that those presented on Nigerian Army and Police developments all finished Biafranland were requested to slaughter whatever number regular people as could be expected under the circumstances in the expectation of causing disarray in the nation.
"We need to alarm Biafrans, men and ladies of good heart over the globe that the Federal Government of Nigeria has chosen to murder yet another pure individual in Anambra State, for the sake of heavenly war against IPOB.
"It has been dependably assembled likewise that Hausa-Fulani settlements in Biafraland are inundated with police and armed force garbs, which makes it workable for Fulani herders and different fear mongers to execute with exemption.
"There is an unbalanced number of Hausa-Fulani police and armed force officers in Anambra State and different parts of Biafranland who were presented on a mission on execute blameless Biafrans.
"The request to shoot at pure Biafrans in Ekwulobia today (yesterday) originated from experts in Abuja in light of the fact that there is no defense for the boorish brutality habitually showed by the armed force and police in Nigeria against the Ekwulobia episode.
"The whole police and armed force faculty in Anambra State today are currently staffed and kept an eye on by only handpicked by Inspector General of Police and Chief of Army staff.
"We are likewise mindful that the new fear mongers gather presented on Anambra State with the Police and Army regalia by Nigeria Government is sent to threaten Biafran populace in the expectation of scaring us into quiet.
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