Gunman Enforcing Sit-At-Home Shot Dead In Ebonyi
EkoHotBlog reports that a suspected member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), trying to enforce the sit-at-home order has been shot dead in Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, spokesperson to the Nigeria Police disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abakaliki.
According to him, on July 10 at about 1350hrs, some armed men, suspected to be IPOB members, went to Okposi and started shooting sporadically.
“On receiving the information, the operatives of the command immediately swung into action by giving the hoodlums a hot chase.
“The hoodlums engaged them in a gun duel, which resulted in one of them being neutralised, while the others escaped with varying degrees of bullet wounds,” Onovwakpoyeya stated.
She explained that the operatives recovered some exhibits, including one blue Highlander jeep, riddled with bullets.
She added that other exhibits were one pump action gun, five cartridges, four cellphones, one Sumec Firman generator and charms. Also recovered, she said, were assorted kinds of provisions robbed from shops, one red and one black face mask.
The rest included 10 expended pump action gun cartridges and nine expended shells of AK 47 rifle ammunition.
Meanwhile, the self-acclaimed leader of a splinter group of IPOB, Simon Ekpa, has declared 14 days of sit-at-home in the entire South-East.
He his declaration came barely 24 hours after the expiration of a seven-day lockdown declared by the same group, which led to killings and destruction of property across South-East.
In a statement on Tuesday, Ekpa said the imminent sit-at-home order, billed to commence from July 31 through August 14, 2023, was a consequence of the ‘earnest demand’ by southeasterners for a frequent lockdown in the zone.
According to him, the sit-at-home order was to draw the authorities’ attention to Kanu’s continued detention.
Ekpa further ordered oil and gas companies operating in the South-South zone to shut down their operations, within the period.
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