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Soldiers kill IPOB lawyer’s aide, escape with corpse, abduct four relatives

TNT Newsline June 6, 2021 3 minutes read

… After combined security ream invaded his house with 15 Hilux vans and native doctor

A combined team of invading Government security operatives don the trail of Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, “did not spare the life of the Lawyer’s Personal Assistant, Samuel Uzo Okoro (Biggy) who was shot and killed inside the compound.”

This is according to the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) which earlier alerted ion the siege on Ejiofor’s country home in Oraifite, Anambra State.

“The late Samuel Okoro had woken up as a result of noises and gunshots to find out what was going on when soldiers shot and killed him instantly. Unable to locate the Lawyer and having shot and killed his PA, Samuel Okoro, the soldiers and others carried his corpse and dumped same in the boot of a Camry car belonging to Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor and ordered his chief driver (fondly called ‘Papa’ or ‘Elder’) to drive the car and follow them with the corpse. They invading Government security operatives also abducted Barr Ejiofor’s elder brother, Joel Ejiofor and the Lawyer’s two domestic, named Ugochukwu and Chikezie and bundled them away. The Lawyer’s elder brother, Joel was later pushed out of one of the hilux vans at Ojoto en route Awka, Anambra State and he has since returned alive and unhurt,” Intersociety said in a statement signed by two of its principal officers, Emeka Umeagbalasi and Barr Chidimma Udegbunam.

According to the statement issued on Sunday afternoon in Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria, “The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law has again called Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor and received updates on the wee hour of this morning’s invasion of his family house at Oraifite by armed soldiers, joined by Police, DSS and Civil Defense operatives. They had invaded and laid siege on same at about 2.30am and left around past 4am. The invading security operatives had jumped the perimeter fence of the compound after cutting its security cable and shot in different directions. The named security operatives had also in their jihadist Fulani Herdsmen-like invasion, stormed the scene with fifteen Hilux vans and a native doctor whose body was dotted with charms. These were disclosed by Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor’s elder brother, Joel Ejiofor, who witnessed the attack. The respected Human Rights Lawyer who is also the principal attorney to the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Maazi Nnamdi Kanu and several other groups and individuals, was unable to be tracked and abducted or instantly shot dead because he was hiding somewhere in his house.”

Intersociety said that “the invading soldiers and other security operatives were also discovered to have been mobilized from Abuja and Anambra State including soldiers of the 302 Artillery Regiment, Onitsha and Police, DSS and Civil Defense operatives from Anambra State and their Abuja counterparts.”