The Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, IPOB, has insisted that youths of Okuama group in Delta State by no means killed troopers on a peacekeeping mission.
Some youths had killed 16 troopers on a mission to halt clashes between two communities within the State.
The troops from the 181 Amphibious Battalion deployed within the Bomadi area had responded to the battle within the Okuoma group after they had been killed final week Thursday.
These killed embrace a Commanding Officer, two majors, one captain, and 12 troopers.
Reacting, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Highly effective, in an announcement mentioned: “The worldwide household and motion of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the nice liberator Mazi Nnamdi Kanu condemn the Nigerian Army invasion and genocide towards the peaceable riverine group of Okuama of Urhobo in Ughelli south LGA of Delta State.
“In line with the stories, Nigerian troopers went to Okuama group for a supposed peace discuss in a minor however extended dispute between them and the Okoloba, an Ijaw group in Bomadi LGA Bayelsa State. When the army arrived at Okuama, the villagers welcomed and entertained them.
“The supposed peace discuss took a dramatic flip when the troopers mentioned they might take among the group leaders for additional questioning and the refusal of the group to permit the kidnapping of their leaders. The refusal of the group to let army males take the leaders away infuriated the troopers who began taking pictures dwell bullets on the individuals on the group City corridor, killing scores of males, girls and kids on the spot.
“Later within the day, extra strengthened troopers entered the group with gunboats and killed extra individuals. Once more, on fifteenth March the irate troopers went again to Okuama group and razed down your entire group. Your complete Group has been displaced with nobody to bury the murdered individuals.
“For file functions, these Nigerian Military personnel they claimed had been killed in Delta State weren’t killed by Okuama youths. NO Nigerian Soldier was murdered by the Okuama group.
“There have been stories that recommend that the troopers had been murdered by Sea pirates, and their our bodies had been recovered alongside the Forcados River. If so, why then did Troopers invade peaceable and defenceless communities to mass homicide individuals and raze down their homes?
“Why not go after the militants that killed their personnel? The Nigerian army derives a lot pleasure in falsehood and propaganda relating to the Biafran Nation’s issues?
“The Nigerian authorities should represent a panel of inquiries to unravel the reality behind the army genocide towards the Okuama Group in Ughelli South LGA of Delta State.”
