Militants of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have killed a pregnant woman, her four children, and six others Northerners in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that the pregnant woman and her children were killed at Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area of the state on Sunday.
The recent attack marked a new low in the heightened attacks on non-indigenes by IPOB terrorists who have been attacking the symbol of authority including the police and the military.
Meanwhile, Natives of Anambra State and other Southeastern states have not also been spared by the IPOB terrorists who have been wreaking havoc for a long time amid agitation for secession.
The killing of the northerners was perpetrated by the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of the outlawed IPOB a few days after the discovery of the head of an Anambra State lawmaker who was abducted by the terrorists.
The Sarkin Hausawa of Orunba North LGA, Sa’id Muhammad has decried that northerners in Anambra State have made up their minds to leave the state because of the constant killing of their relatives IPOB militants.
In an interview with Daily Trust, Muhammad said the killing of the pregnant woman together with her four children by gunmen was not new to them as many of his people were killed in such a callous manner.
“The woman was from Adamawa State. Before her death, she lived in Orumba South, and on Sunday, she visited her friends with her four children.
“It was on her way back home in Orumba South that she was killed. She was being conveyed by a commercial motorcyclist when they were ambushed by the gunmen. They murdered her and her four children but the motorcyclist escaped,” Muhammad said.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Echeng E. Echeng, has accused communities in the state of shielding criminals in their midst.
Echeng stated this while briefing journalists on the murder of the Anambra State lawmaker, Okechukwu Okoye, and his aide, Cyril Chiegboka.
The IPOB militants have vowed to kill more lawmakers in the State, as the threat was allegedly found in a note where the head of the lawmaker was dumped.
The commissioner said, “Some of us have come out to tag these people ‘unknown gunmen’ while in actual sense they are known. We are trying to mystify something that is not just there.
“It is high time we went into demystifying the tag ‘unknown gunmen’. They are not spirits; they are our brothers and they live with us in our communities. That is the obvious truth. We know who these people are.
“The problem the state security has is a total conspiracy of silence when nobody sees something, nobody says something and nobody hears something.
“Security is collective; everybody has a battle. The crimes are committed in our communities and we should be able to say this is what is happening in our communities.
“We are glorifying people that we know and tag them as unknown gunmen,” he said.
The CP has also debunked insinuations that the Fulanis were behind the attacks and killings in the state.
