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Nnewi – The peaceful protest embarked upon on Tuesday by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, against the continued incarceration of Mr. Nnamdi Kalu the Radio Biafra Director, turned bloody at about 1.30 am early hours of Wednesday, after an alleged encounter by the t Military Taskforce comprising, Army, Navy, Police and Civil Defense, who clashed at Niger Bridge Head with some of the IPOB who vowed to continue their blockage of the bridge for three days until Kanu is released.

The encounter left about nine people dead, five at Niger Bridge Head, three at Obodoukwu Road, a Suya meat seller said to have been hit by stray bullet who died instantly.

Miscreants on hearing that some people have been shot dead by the t Military taskforce went into another protest, marched to the Central mosque at near Onitsha Main Market and set it, a Hilux Pick Up van with federal Government number was also burnt when the t Military Taskforce held motorist and commuters hostage at Upper Iweka with sporadic shooting that has never been witnessed before in Onitsha.

The protesting IPOB had blocked the Niger Bridge early Tuesday morning there by grounded vehicular movement in and outside Onitsha, and people who knew alternative through the river Niger boarded Flying and Speed boat through Marine Police station to cross in and out of Onitsha to Asaba, but incidentally the protest was aggravated with Wednesday early hours shooting to death of five IPOB seen at about .30 am observing their three days protest at the Niger Bridge Head agaisng the continued detention of their leader, Mr. Kanu.

As at the time filing this report all the markets in Onitsha have been shut down around 12.30 pm, as millions of traders in all the markets in Onitsha and its environs were seen tscampering for safety and rekking to their homes, looking tired and worried, as gun shut were sporadically shot almost every corner in Onitsha.

The protest had their peaceful protest on Tuesday without any casualty but the situation was aggravated when the t Military Taskforce who could not disperse them on Tuesday invaded the Niger Bridge at about 1.30 am and opened fire on the thousands of the IPOB who refused to leave the Niger Bridge, the entry to South East, killing six people including the Suya seller said to have been hit by stray bullet.

The alleged killing of the IPOB was said to have sparked off another protest by IPOB who were ed by MASSOB who made born fires along Onitsha Owerri Road and Onitsha Enugu Express way, forcing motorists coming in and out of Onitsha from both Enugu, Asaba, Owerri difficult to enter or exit.

One of our reporters who went to Oba for an assignment was trapped at Oba Junction, where had to pay N3,000 from Oba Junction to Tazan junction Onitsha, as over 2000 vehicles coming into Onitsha were seen parked at the Oba junction and refused to come into Onitsha.

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why will a country kill it's own citizens when others are protecting theirs at all cost.
you have no right to take any soul for whatever reason

who is now the threat to humanity ....... is this different from terrorism??

instead of addressing the problem in the country, I our president is junketing..


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ok Endtime protest

proper diplomacy should be ensured before this stuff escalates.

Meanwhile where is our Presido?

So this story is TRUE...e be like say I go pack leave this jos ohh...because if any national unrest start...biafran war will be a joke...i only pray for peace.

I don't shooting of unarmed protesters.

Pls don't call dis protest a peaceful one ever again!!! Is it a peaceful protest when protesters start to destroy northerners' kiosks and loot people's shops, etc...

and I was even thinking that it was the protesters that killed people.....

this t task force should go and fight Boko Haram, instead of killing unarmed civilians

Vivian gist god will give you fortitude to bear ur loss

Lalasticlala come oh...
I never expected what I witnessed today...
Tommorow's own might be worse...
Peace is priceless..

useless taskforce, na 4 civillians body una dey get power.....nemesis wil soon catch up wit u guyz...boko haram stil bombin ....i blame IPOB 4 refusing 2 pick up arms....we 9ja deltans go them and make sure u guys pay 4 any soul u kill...nonsense

This situation is getting out of hand.

Na wa o...... If this is how they've been killing Boko haram, those virgins hunters would have been history by now.

Anyway..

RIP to those that lost their live. So sad that they died through ignorance. Whereas Nnamdi Adamu Kanu is enjoying federal government tea, sardines and egg at DSS villa.

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"Millions of traders scampeering"

Journalists

All this paid media to destabilise the country will not succeed.

What can u not do with 2.1 billion naira ?

Damn it.

I think it is time Igbo elders caution the jobless miscreants causing all these mayhem

The SE governors should also have a meeting on how they can start creating an environment for gainful employment

The sight of the jobless IPOB youths roaming the streets during the protest was very saddening

I can really see why they are so angry, there is joblessness, poverty, dirt, frustration everywhere

I will even suggest they set up a charity for the SE. People are suffering there.

[size=13pt]Nine people died today. Their only crime was to be born in country that regards an entire zone as a den of second-class citizens
Those who swore to protect them have blessed them with bullets

The FG keeps begging Shekau to accept amnesty yet they will not even send a cabinet minister to see IPOB. Heck, even Garba Shehu/Femi Adesina will calm some frayed nerves. However, who do we see? NOBODY! Because they are Igbos, they must be met with bullets at first .

People think IPOB wants war. That is not true. Nobody sane ever wants war. War kills children and destroys livelihoods. Just ask those in IDP camps.
All they want is a chance to be heard. Just one freaking chance! One of the numerous emissaries sent to beg BH should come and hear them out

Gowon promised Nigeria will develop as a whole after 1970. However, this development started in Lagos, moved upwards, vanished towards Niger Bridge and then re-appeared up North.

I'm not surprised. After all, we are the 5%

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what is wrong with Nigerian Army...you have the capacity to kill armless civilian yet you cant even defeat armed civilians in Boko haram and Niger Delta..maybe these people will only understnad violence



RIP to the death

Austindark:
why will a country kill it's own citizens when others are protecting theirs at all cost.
you have no right to take any soul for whatever reason

who is now the threat to humanity ....... is this different from terrorism??

instead of addressing the problem in the country, I our president is junketing..


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/nine-shot-dead-over-8-injured-as-taskforce-open-fire-on-protesting-ipob--in-onitsha/

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Buhari wnts to divide nigeria by keeping quite

What is all dis rubbish? ehnn boko matter too still dey ground!!

why are they killing eachother? There are better ways of handling this protest...........

Hmmmn.

it's only in Nigeria that you cannot differentiate the work of the police and that of the military! A situation like this does not even warrant the presence of the military be it a combination of both forces or whatsoever....
Cameroon soldiers 'Killed 100 Boko Haram Fighters And Frees 900 Hostages' while our Nigerian soldiers are here firing live ammunition at armless civilians..

You are using live ammunition on peaceful protesters while you claim that there is not enough ammunition to fight Boko Haram.
Who is deceiving who

Great

Moments like this make we wish boko haram would kill more of these blood suckers

Onitsha has turned to Borno. Ipob Haram everywhere.


The markets at Onitsha have been closed.

Lives have been lost.

Human and vehicular movement have been halted.

Most Ndigbo would refuse to come down for Xmas thereby reducing the glamour of the celebrations.

Properties of non indigenes have been burnt.

There would be reprisal killings of Ndigbo in other parts of the Country.

There would soon be a curfew delared in Anambra followed by a state of Emergency.


Wisdom is profitable to direct in all situations, violence is never an answer.

See what that nnamdi idiot cause, i hope he is happy now.
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Those people just died for nothing

The protesters definitely have a point, but the manner of expression is faulty. However, a government that has no problems killing its own people is also faulty.
Given it's an open secret that Nigeria is a failed state, who can blame Biafrans for wanting a way out- after all, it may not be as bad as it already is in Nigeria.
The coming days are very crucial. How Buhari handles this matter may be one of the yardsticks for judging his government. Violence is certainly not the way. Pretending also that the problem is a minor issue could also be a terrible miscalculation.
Violence is not an option!!!
Buhari, the world is watching!