Corpses Of IPOB
Members Discovered Inside A Bush In Abia State


Corpses of slain IPOB members
The
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared 21 days mourning for its
members killed during the military invasion of the home of its leader, Nnamdi
Kanu at Afara Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State.
This
is even as the Biafra agitation group says it has discovered more corpses of
her slain members in a bush within the precincts of the home of its leader.
A
senior member of the group, Mark Eze Ofuonye, informed it is burying the slain
members, numbering more than over 28 who were killed during the invasion, in
piecemeal with 11 of such bodies already interred.
He
equally disclosed how some of their members were shot dead by the invading
soldiers, and their corpses dumped in a bush near the home of the IPOB leader,
said: “Some of our members,
numbering over 28, were murdered in cold blood by the military during the
invasion of our leader’s home at Afara Ukwu.
“The soldiers were doing a sort of mop up
operation; whenever they killed any of our members, they carried away the
corpse to conceal their horrendous act but it was not possible.
“So, they filled up their trucks with our members’
corpses. The corpses we retrieved and which we are burying at present are those
the soldiers could not carry. They just came out with the intention of killing
any human being or living thing that was found in the compound of our leader.
“The people they met were not armed still they shot
them, even people just standing nearby and those passing through the area were
caught in the attack.”
Continuing,
Ofuonye said: “The corpses we are
burying now (referring to the day of the interview) were found inside the bush.
They were shot by soldiers and they ran into the bush with bullet wounds
thinking that they could receive help there but no help came their way and they
died inside the bush.
“Some of the dead bodies were discovered last week
inside the bush at the back of Nnamdi Kanu’s house. The 28 were those ones that
were killed within the axis of the house of our leader. But the total number
killed within this range is 305 persons.”
The
IPOB chieftain who said there was no need for the operation by the Nigerian
army as members of the group did not carry arms neither were they violent,
added that the leadership of the group declared the 21-day mourning for their
slain members.
Disclosing
that those killed were from the Eastern heartland, Ofuonye said that in
addition to burying the dead, the group is also treating the injured and taking
care of the imprisoned ones.
“We lost very vibrant and lovely youths who were
just peacefully asking for their rights, but the Nigerian government chose to
use brute force on them. Some of our members, who were forced to drink poisoned
water, have been defecating blood and we are also treating them. About 76 of
our members were dumped in Aba prisons under the most inhuman condition and
many of them are ill.
A lot of things are being done against our members,
but the most beautiful thing about all these things is that the horrible
experience we are passing through is giving us strength.
The spirit has risen, the enthusiasm has come
because when you look back and see you’ve lost a lovely one, a colleague, going
back becomes a very big problem; you can’t go so that it will not look as
betrayal. As I speak, we are establishing more zones and new members are coming
in, we are winning the war of battle of hearts and minds,” he assured.
He
said the 21-days of mourning began October 26. He was emphatic that the
struggle would continue, stating:“Because
in any struggle, people die, but the only painful aspect of it is that we lost
young boys, youths who had bright future. In the civilized world, you don’t
touch people like that, no matter what they did, at worst you take them to
court; but we have drawn strength from their death and we are not going back.”
He
advised the United Nations to send its representatives to the home of their
leader at Afara Ukwu to be able to see how soldiers invaded the house of a core
civilian with heavy armoury and none of the soldiers sustained any scratch
which he said was an indication that despite the propaganda mounted by the
Nigerian army, the IPOB members were not armed.
Corpses Of IPOB Members Discovered Inside A Bush In Abia State
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