BREAKING NEWS: Two Die As IPOB Sit-At-Home Order Turns Bloody In Nnewi community, Residents Remain Indoor

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The ghost town sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday (today) got bloody in Nnewi as two people have reportedly died in an alleged confrontation between the Army and suspected members of the IPOB.

According to an eyewitness account, the confrontation occurred at the Izuchukwu junction area of the roundabout in the industrial town and the two people who are reported to have died include a leader of Eastern Security Network (ESN) and a commercial motorcyclist.

THE AUTHORITY, an online news platform, claimed that the incident started around 7.00 am in the morning when some members of IPOB came out to enforce the sit-at-home order and in the process barricaded the major roads in Nnewi, an industrial town in Anambra State.

The eyewitness stated that some unidentified soldiers, however, showed up to clear the roadblock items leading to an altercation between them and the IPOB members.

Sources mentioned that the two victims were actually killed by gunshots by the unidentified soldiers.

In the same vein, the eve-busy industrial town of Nnewi has been reduced to a ghost town as the people who initially came out for their daily business had to rush back home as a result of the sit-at-home order.

Some vehicles were also vandalized by aggrieved persons over the attack on the civilians by the unidentified armed soldiers. Meanwhile, a combined team of security operatives at the time of filing this report later stormed the town to disperse the protesters. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Anambra State Command is yet to be reached for the police angle of the story.

The Citizens’ Summit for National Integration, Peace and Security group has said on Friday in Abuja that Nigeria and its citizens are too strongly united to be disintegrated.

The group which is under the umbrella of the National Institute for Public Relations (NIPR), after its National Planning Committee meeting, said going by a National survey it conducted, a vast majority of Nigerians want Nigeria to remain united.

In a chat with reporters, the Committee chairman, Dr Ike Neliaku, said that since July 12 when it was inaugurated, it has visited parts of the country to meet, consult, dialogue and brainstorm with different sections of Nigerians on the “heated issues of our nationhood.

“The outcome of our consultations and deliberations appears very clearly that a greater percentage of Nigerians believe in preserving the integrity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The question that we have to ask ourselves is: ‘if Nigerians want to stay together, if Nigerians love Nigeria, if Nigerians will want Nigeria to remain, what then is the problem?’

“Our findings revealed that if certain issues that have formed the fundamentals of agitations across the country are resolved, Nigerians will prefer to live together as Nigerians.

“If matters that have caused certain misconceptions, misunderstanding and distrust, are taken care of by leadership across board, Nigerians will prefer the option of staying together and building a strong, viral and formidable nation in Africa.

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