The 19th anniversary celebration of the Chief Ralph Uwazuruike-led
Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) yesterday, in Onitsha and environs
according to reports reaching Igbere Tv turned bloody as two BIM members
were shot dead by the Police.
Multiple sources reliably confirmed to Igbere Tv that not
less 10 members of the movement were arrest during the celebration and
about 15 of them sustained various degrees of bullet wounds.
Amadi
Ifeanyi, aka Ochiagha, the Ogbaru Regional Administrator of BIM, while
reacting to the incident, told newsmen they were hoisting their flag at
about 2a.m. yesterday morning at Upper Iweka axis in preparation for the
anniversary when the Police stormed the place in three Hilux vans and
opened fire on them which resulted in the instant death of two of their
members.
According to the Regional Administrator, “they arrested
10 of us and over 15 got bullet wounds, even when they knew that we are
a non-violent organisation struggling for a Biafran state.”
Amadi,
who spoke through his Director of Finance in Ogbaru, Ezeaka Martins,
demanded the release of the corpses of their members, even as he
identified those killed as Innocent Okoye and Uche Ezinwanne.
Also
speaking, Chuks Nnaedozie, the Ogbaru Director of Security, gave the
names of those injured and hospitalised as Clifford Nwankwo, Ndubuisi
Ikpeazu, Aloy Ibeh, and others yet to be identified.
In his
reaction, the Regional administrator for Onitsha North, Christian
Umeaka, added that one of his members has not been seen since he was
arrested by the Police when he went to hoist the flag, adding that no
amount of intimidation would stop them from struggling for a Biafran
state.
Attempt to get the police to react to the allegation proved abortive as the DPO incharge of the area could not be reached.
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