THE three-week-long pro-Biafra protests turned bloody, yesterday, as
the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) killed nine of the protesters and
injured 18 in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State.
Pro-Biafra
protesters mount road blocks and bonfires at Onitsha Head Bridge in
Anambra State, yesterday. Photos: Vincent Ujumadu.
Irked by the stubborn disposition of the pro- Biafra agitators, who
blocked the Niger Bridge Head and refused to give way to motorists, the
JTF comprising Army, Navy, Police and Civil Defence troops, yesterday
afternoon, opened fire at protesting members of Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, and Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State
of Biafra, MASSOB, killing nine people and injuring 18. Five people
were killed at Niger Bridge Head while three were killed at Obodoukwu
Road. A
suya (barbecue meat) seller said to have been hit by a
stray bullet died instantly. The protesters were having a peaceful
procession across South East states and had vowed to continue their
blockage of the bridge for three days until detained Director of Radio
Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is released.
Miscreants, on hearing that some people had been shot dead by the
JTF, started another protest, marched to the Central mosque near Onitsha
Main Market and set it ablaze. A Hilux pick-up van with Federal
Government number plate was also burnt when the JTF held motorists and
commuters hostage at Upper Iweka with sporadic shootings that had never
been witnessed before in Onitsha.
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