By Chimaobi Nwaiwu
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 Joint
Military Taskforce
comprising, Army, Navy,
Police and Civil Defense, who
clashed at Niger Bridge Head
with some members 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.
Biafra-protester
Miscreants on hearing that
some people have been shot
dead by the joint 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
Joint Military Taskforce held
motorist and commuters
hostage at Upper Iweka with
sporadic shooting that has
never been witnessed
before in Onitsha.
The protesting IPOB members
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 members 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 Joint 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 members 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 members was said to
have sparked off another
protest by IPOB members
who were joined by MASSOB
members 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.

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu
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 Joint
Military Taskforce
comprising, Army, Navy,
Police and Civil Defense, who
clashed at Niger Bridge Head
with some members 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.
Biafra-protester
Miscreants on hearing that
some people have been shot
dead by the joint 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
Joint Military Taskforce held
motorist and commuters
hostage at Upper Iweka with
sporadic shooting that has
never been witnessed
before in Onitsha.
The protesting IPOB members
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 members 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 Joint 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 members 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 members was said to
have sparked off another
protest by IPOB members
who were joined by MASSOB
members 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.