Abia: IPOB Members, Soldiers Engage In Bloody Clash In Umuahia
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A reported clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and some soldiers has thrown Umuahia, the Abia state capital, in a state of confusion.
The Nation reports that the clash which occurred on Monday night, September 4 at the popular Isi Gate area shut down the city as business owners were forced to close their shops over fear of arrest or being caught up in the crisis.
Though details about what sparked the clash between the soldiers and the IPOB remains unclear, some sources claim the clash began after soldiers at a checkpoint around Isi Gate stopped a commercial tricycle operator and demanded that the driver should hand over to them the Biafra and IPOB insigma in his tricycle but the driver allegedly refused.
It was reported that the soldiers slapped the commercial tricyclist for refusing to give them money and this situation degenerated into a fight when members of the union in solidarity with their member engaged the soldiers in a brawl.
Speaking on the incident, a member of IPOB who did not want his identity revealed, said the soldiers shot at and injured some of the people who had remained peaceful and were appealing to the soldiers to release the tricyclist to go about his business since they couldn’t find anything incriminating on him.
But the public relations officer of 14 Brigade Ohafia, Major Oyegoke Gbadamosi, denied that the soldiers fueled the crisis.
He alleged that the operational vehicle of the soldiers was damaged by the crowd and that some of the soldiers injured in the incident were in an undisclosed hospital where they are receiving medical attention.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that a Muhammadu Buhari look alike is the one currently parading himself as the president. Kanu also ordered IPOB members to burn Nigeria to the ground if he is ever arrested by the Nigerian government.
He claimed that the government hired a look-alike Sudanese man named Jubril to come and stand in for Buhari. The IPOB leader made the allegation in a video footage which surfaced online on Sunday, September 03, 2017.
In the footage, Kanu, when addressing some IPOB supporters alleged that the man posing to be President Buhari was brought to the country after extensive surgery. In the video below; NAIJ.com TV takes a critical look at Nnamdi Kanu and the struggle for the actualisation of the Republic of Biafra.
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on Sep 5 2017. Filed under State.
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