MASSOB Accuses Delta Police Of Killing Seven Members

Movement for the Actualization of
Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB,
yesterday, accused Delta State Police
Command of killing seven of its members
in two separate raids allegedly carried out
by an anti-riot policemen and local vigilante operatives in Delta State. According to MASSOB, the raid, which
started at Upper Iweka area of Onitsha,
Anambra State, led to arrest and detention
of one Ndubuisi Nwosu, a MASSOB chieftain
now believed to be held in Cell 4 at the
Anambra State Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, headquarters, Awkuzu. The group said the raid spread to Delta
State where the latest onslaught allegedly
took place. The accusation was contained in statement
signed by Mazi Chris Mocha, Media
Assistant to Chief Ralph Uwazuruike. Mocha alleged that after the raid at
MASSOB regional office at Omelugboma in
Oshimili local government area of the state,
during which the seven members were shot
dead on the spot, a similar operation was
repeated on Wednesday. He said: “Seven persons were shot dead on
the spot, while over 96 others sustained
various degrees of injuries arising from
bullet wounds.” He listed those who died on the spot to
include Luke Okonta, Nathaniel Okosieme,
Ephraim Okocha, Okey Innocent, Akaliese
Aniemena, Joseph Oroni and Miss Blessing
Uwechue. Mocha also identified those arrested as Mr.
Emeka Okafor, Regional Administrator of
MASSOB for Oshimili North; Francis
Onuigbo, Chukwuemeka Izogo, Ndubuisi
Ezeocha, Andrew Nwifuru, Ikechukwu Okpe,
Ifeanyi Ugwu, Samuel Uyo, Chinedu | Ekwunife, Philip Chukwu, Odinaka Nkwuda,
Sanuel Okoha and 91 others. He said the police team also removed
property from the MASSOB office, including
a computer set, Biafran currency (pounds)
and a generating set, before vandalizing 45
plastic chairs in the office and making away
with the sum of N50,000 which would have been used to settle the MASSOB office
rent. Mocha alleged that after the police team
had left the scene, the local vigilante
operatives took their own turn in the looting
exercise as they embarked on a house-to-
house search and looting of personal
property belonging to MASSOB members in the area, claiming that they were acting on
the instruction of the police commissioner.
[Vanguard]