It is no longer news that Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu was released yesterday by an Abuja High Court. However, the jubilation of his release has claimed lives of five members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB).
The men were yesterday allegedly shot dead by securitymen in Onitsha, Anambra State. The IPOB members who were jubilating at the Bridge Head in Onitsha clashed with the security operatives resulting in the death of five persons.
The supporters, who on hearing about the court’s favourable verdict on Kanu converged at the statue of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu in a large procession from Bridge Head to the town when they were intercepted by the security operatives.
An eyewitness said trouble started when the IPOB members were asked to stop their march towards the River Niger Bridge, but the group insisted and continued, an action that led to the fracas and shootings.
He said the security agents shot sporadically probably to disperse the crowd, and the men were hit by stray bullets.
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