MASSOB Accuses Police of Killing 2 Defenseless Members

www.odogwublog.com reports exclusively that the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday accused the Nigerian Police of brutally murdering two of her members Soronna Oke and Chukwuma Nwafor.

MASSOB said three others are still in hospital over injuries sustained during a clash with police along Oguta Road, Onitsha, Anambra State.

MASSOB remarked further that four members who sustained bullet wounds included, Uchechukwu Eze, Chinecherem Oganga, Raphael Ani, and Stephen Anene . They are being treated by MASSOB while the police had taken the corpses of the MASSOB members to General Hospital, Onitsha.

It was gathered that a detachment of the Nigerian Police from Inland Town Police Station reportedly clashed with some of the members of MASSOB in which one MASSOB member allegedly died on the spot from police bullet, while another died later at an undisclosed hospital.

According to MASSOB Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha, a team of policemen drafted from Central Police Station and Inland Town last Friday said that “on sighting the convoy of members of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) the police opened fire on the MASSOB members and killed two persons, Soronna Oke and Chukwuma Nwafor.

The MASSOB spokesman said that the incident occurred near the Queen of the Rosary College (QRC) along Oguta Road as their members were returning from a meeting.

He condemned the killing of defenceless citizens who had no intention of attacking security agents nor breach of public peace and urged the State Commissioner of Police to rid the force of bad elements that derive pleasure in wasting the lives of innocent Nigerians.