The slain gunmen were reportedly being treated by the nurse identified simply as Chichi in a hidden area of Oyigbo when the squad surrounded the building and opened fire on them.
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This was contained in a release signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Orlando Ikeokwu, and made available to newsmen in Owerri on Saturday.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The groups said since the police already claim to be in possession of what appears to be confidential information, the proper thing would have been to discreetly go after the IPOB members to arrest them, if they are sure of their information.
When contacted, the Commissioner of Police in Imo, Abutu Yaro, confirmed the arrest but added that the operatives were not from his command.
The hoodlums also reportedly killed twelve cows in a coordinated attack that took place around 5pm on Sunday.
Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, the Acting Director-General of the commission, announced this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
He warned that military actions or even foreign help alone would not bring permanent solutions to the conflicts and agitations currently rocking the nation, but for the president to create a platform to hear Nigerians out.
The unveiling was part of events at Wednesday’s state Security Council meeting presided by Governor David Umahi in his office at the new Government House, Centenary City, Abakaliki.
He also spoke highly of Kanu whose group has been proscribed and labelled a terrorist organisation by the Federal Government.
The council also gave the governors of the region a 90-day ultimatum to pass into law the anti-open grazing bill in their respective states.
In a statement on Tuesday, the national president of the union, Chris Isuguzo, called on the commission to exercise more restraint in dealing with perceived infringements by broadcast stations in the country.
This was after the PDP faulted the caution issued by the National Broadcasting Commission to Channels TV for interviewing the spokesman of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Emma Powerful.
Powerful had featured on Channels programme ‘Politics Today’ on Sunday April 25, 2021, where he allegedly made inciting statements.
The commission said it took the decision following a live interview the station had with the spokesperson for the Indigenous People of Biafra, Emma Powerful.
Adebanjo made the remarks at the funeral of the late spokesman of the pan-Yoruba organization, Yinka Odumakin.
Whenever the west cites the 64 AD example of Nero fiddling while Rome was burning, Nigeria goes into historical kitty to flaunt hers. The fiddling Nero is a classical example of governmental neglect of duty and focus on frivolities. Or trivialities. Nigeria’s own Nero is the story of the first and only Prime Minister in the history of Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
The insurgents are responsible for the attack on the Imo State Police Headquarters and the headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Service on 5th April, 2021. They have also carried out series of calculated, violent attacks on security personnel and formations in the South-East and South-South of the country.
Mohammed, who spoke on Sunday in Lagos when he appeared on Bond FM radio programme, “Ibi Abasede”, urged Nigerians not to listen to promoters of secession.
This is one of the most shameful, insulting, specious, irresponsible, pernicious, perfidious and disrespectful statements that I have heard in years. It is also reflective of the author’s debilitating, deafening, gut-wrenching and mind-blowing ignorance.