Breaking News: Onitsha Boils as Soldiers Kill 5 IPOB Members …

www.odogwublog.com reports that it was a black Thursday in Onitsha, Anambra State when soldiers said to be attached to the Onitsha  Military cantonment shot at Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB members who were jubilating over the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of Radio Biafra based in London killing five on the spot while 20 sustained various degrees of injuries.

The incident which occurred at the Onitsha end of the Niger Bridge reportedly caused panic among motorists and commuters as they scampered.

It would be recalled that IPOB members had on hearing about the court’s favourable verdict on Kanu yesterday morning, converged at the statue of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in large number for a  procession in jubilation but were frustrated by the presence of the armed soldiers and policemen.

An eyewitness, and a timber trader at Bridge-Head Market, Onitsha who did not want his name in print told our correspondent that trouble started when the jubilating IPOB members were asked to stop their match towards the Niger Bridge, but the group bluntly refused, and this triggered off disagreement between the traders and IPOB members and later degenerated to violence.

According to the source it was at this juncture that the soldiers started shooting sporadically probably in a bid to scare the intimidating crowd of IPOB members away that the five IPOB members were shot dead by stray bullets.

As blood and corpses littered the road, motorists and commuters who could not bear the heavy gunshots jumped out of their vehicles and ran for safety as the jubilation turned soar.

The courageous IPOB members reportedly threw pebbles at the rampaging soldiers who retaliated by continuous shooting. 
Reacting to the incident, the Chairman of Fundamental Rights League International, FRLI, Comrade Mike Umezulike said that the protest of the IPOB members was peaceful and wondered why the soldiers should shoot at the IPOB members without committing any offence.
He regretted that the Military that are disciplined sometimes behave as if they are untrained in the way they go about with the civil populace.
According to him, “do you know that the Naval officers at the Uga Junction always order civilians to jump like frog whenever they commit any minor offence like crossing the express way without using the pedestrian bridge”.
“Sometimes they will order the offenders to knee down and carry tyres up and also to climb the electric pole there. This is inhuman and an act of wickedness and I believe that their commander may not know the atrocities these officers commit at Ugo junction on daily basis, Comrade Umezulike disclosed further.
When contacted, Divisional Police Officer in-charge of the area Rabiu Garba said he was not in town though he was told of the protest.