The
clash at Emene Community Secondary School in Enugu on Sunday led to many
deaths.
Ahmed Abdulrahman,
the Police Commissioner in Enugu state has given an official account of the
bloody clash between security agents and members of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB).
But
it is not all the truth as IPOB offered a different version.
The
police gave an official death toll of four. But IPOB claimed 20 of their
members were killed.
Abdurahman
said his command also arrested five IPOB members.
One
of the arrested IPOB members, Ebube Agu told journalists that they were having a
martial art training for self-defence when they were attacked by the security
agents.
Agu
said that they were not armed as claimed by the police.
Abdulrahman,
in his own account said trouble started when operatives of the Department of
State Services (DSS) went on a covert operation in Emene early Sunday morning.
But
they were overwhelmed and two of their officials allegedly abducted by IPOB
members.
Abdurahman
said that the DSS operatives called in the police and the army for
reinforcement.
He
noted that the police were able to rescue one of the DSS officials in a
building where he was held hostage. The DSS later claimed it lost two of its
men.
”However,
four persons lost their lives; two were hacked to death with machetes and one
passerby set ablaze.
“Many
of the IPOB members also escaped with bullet wound and police have started
tracing them,” he said. Abdurrahman urged health facilities to treat anyone
with bullet wounds but should report such cases to the police.
In
a statement, the DSS confirmed that said two of its men died during the clash.
The
service said a comprehensive investigation had commenced into the incident,
according to its.
Public
Relations Officer, Dr Peter Afunanya.
“The
DSS wishes to inform the public that its patrol team was, today (Sunday),
attacked in Emene, Enugu State by members of the outlawed Indigenous People of
Biafra.
“The
service lost two personnel in what was clearly an unprovoked violent attack
launched by IPOB on the team.”
The
secret police condoled with the families of the departed officers and also
prayed for the repose of their souls.
On
Sunday evening, Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State appealed to people of the
state to remain calm as normalcy has returned to the state after the clash.
Ugwuanyi
made the appeal when he visited the Emene school, the scene of the clash on Sunday
in Enugu.
But
it appears that peace may be elusive in the state, as the leader of IPOB,
Nnamdi Kanu has issued an order, suspending all meetings in the state, but also
asking members to kill many securitymen, in retaliation, for every IPOB member
killed.
He
stated: “This evening, Sunday 23rd August 2020, I am giving the order that
wherever a Biafran is killed, I want 100 police and army officers that
perpetrated the crime, to be killed. We are no longer going to allow that
impunity to continue.
“They
are going to bury their own soon and that is, if they will find their dead
bodies. I will make sure that they will never find them. You see these Fulani
idiots in our land, in eight weeks, we are not going to give them a dime. They
think that we are going to keep quiet because we value life”.
“I
am suspending all IPOB family meetings in Enugu and we are going to deal with
this people. We own our land, you people (Fulanis) are visitors including the
idiot who calls himself, a police commissioner.
“You
came to our land to kill our people. The day we will come out armed, you will
be crawling on the ground. Anywhere the police or the army kills a Biafran
henceforth, we will retaliate”, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said.
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