IGNATIUS OKPARA, Onitsha

Members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) on Friday clashed with the Police in Onitsha, leaving one of their members dead, while eleven others sustained various degrees of injuries.


Police, MASSOB Clash in Onitsha Leaves One Person Dead, Several Injured

An eye witness told our correspondent that trouble started when a police team on surveillance flagged down a motorist along the ever busy Onitsha/Owerri road and started maltreating him, probably for allegedly refusing to give them money an action, which drew the attention of MASSOB members that were controlling the traffic in the area since the yuletide, as they confronted the security men.
However, the intervention of the MASS0B members in the matter angered the police men, resulting to a heated argument which later led to assault between the MASSOB members and the police.

while the argument was raging, one of the policemen, according to the source, pulled out his rifle and shot at a MASSOB member who died instantly, just as the police men disappeared from the scene immediately for fear of uncertainty.

Watching one of their members lying in the pool of his blood, the MASSOB members in anger barricaded the -busy Onitsha / Owerri road for over two hours, just as they made bonfire with fairly used tyres, a situation that compelled traffic flow to divert to the Obosi by-pass.

However, the corpse of the late MASS0B member was said to have been taken to the Awada Police Station.

When contacted, the Onitsha Police Area commander, Mr. Benjamin Wordu, confirmed the incident but said trouble stated when MASSOB and a rival group had a bloody clash, a statement, the militia group swiftly dismissed.

Wordu, said immediately he got information about, the incident, he dispatched a team of policemen to the troubled area, adding that normalcy has since returned to the commercial city.

Source: http://www.africanexaminer.com/police-massob-clash-in-onitsha-leaves-one-person-dead-several-injured/

Mouth sealed!

But there are more than ten dead people in that picture and the background is obviously not upper Iweka

More than one look dead from the pix o

When I keep my people that the best for Ndigbo is to collaborate with the rest on Nigerians to develop the South East - some will want us to believe that separation is their answer.

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Na true oooo

@OP U r a mad man u tink u can deceive us abi

why are there so few people to mourn na?

egift: When I keep my people that the best for Ndigbo is to collaborate with the rest on Nigerians to develop the South East - some will want us to believe that separation is their answer.

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What has your comment got to do with the topic now?
RIP to the dead

Good news. I hope Nigerian Police eventually kills all this terrorist masquerading as MASSOB

seanet02: Good news. I hope Nigerian Police eventually kills all this terrorist masquerading as MASSOB

Lol.. Why evils na?

Registering Death is always painful no matter who died...Rip to the dead.

If Na boko boys eeeh police for hear am

Ordinary police, Massob cannot face and they are gearing up to face OPC in 2015.

Atlantic Ocean will turn to red sea.

superstar1: Ordinary police, Massob cannot face and they are gearing up to face OPC in 2015.

Atlantic Ocean will turn to red sea.

coming frm a loud mouthed e-warrior.i hope u wil be among d opc members wen it wil start

MASSOB need to be cut to size.....they are becoming a nuisance to road travelers passing through the East.

RIP to the dead.
Massob pls don't retailiate like u did in 2006 during the Danish Anti-islam cartoon brouhaha that caused the death of their kinsmen up north.

I saw death for the first time in my life that year.
I said 'thank God i'm Igbo' for the first time that year in Onitsha.

Na God save my Yoruba friend wey we dey the same bus say him get tribal marks. The guy almost shit in his panties
as the blood-hungry Massob boys asked him- You be muslim?, Oya recite our Father.....and so on.

We need peace in Nigeria

Those nuisances again

Kill them all.

seanet02: Good news. I hope Nigerian Police eventually kills all this terrorist masquerading as MASSOB

ur very stupid for making such comment RIP to d death

Mcpadosky: ur very stupid for making such comment RIP to d death

Why?

The East will be better off without these criminals that disturbs road travelers.

seanet02: Good news. I hope Nigerian Police eventually kills all this terrorist masquerading as MASSOB

Good news indeed.

What those guys are doing down here is cumbersome.

Booked *inside church*

i hope dt d massob guys wont retaliate.i dont wont dis tin to escalate into sumtin else

This massob nitwits are making ibos look like a joke.

cashkid18: i hope dt d massob guys wont retaliate.i dont wont dis tin to escalate into sumtin else

its nitwits like dat you guys would live it in Biafra

cashkid18: i hope dt d massob guys wont retaliate.i dont wont dis tin to escalate into sumtin else

Why are you afraid?....bloody coward!

Segeggs: its nitwits like dat you guys would live it in Biafra

Hey boy you're joking with a ban.... Excercise restraint

Segeggs: This massob nitwits are making ibos look like a joke.

They are actually a Joke

BTW, who ran...the police or Massobians?

ilugunboy:


Why are you afraid?....bloody coward!

boko boys hv reduced d no of policemen in d north,so i dont wnt d massob to reduce d no of policemen here in d east.we stil nid them.

I thought they've banned police check points on Federal roads.