Soldiers Raid IPOB Women In Abia

Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, alleged yesterday that soldiers from the military cantonment at Ohafia, Abia State swooped on its women at a meeting at Abiriba to identify with IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

IPOB media and publicity secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful alleged that the Nigeria Police alsojoined the soldiers in the manhandling, humiliation and molestation of the women, whose only crime was to identify with the cause of IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

However, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Colonel Sagir Musa told Saturday Vanguard that he was not aware of such an incident.

Powerful said in the statement that the soldiers stormed the venue of the meeting with 20 Hilux vans, alleging that without provocation, the soldiers started beating, arresting and tearing the women’s clothes off their bodies. According to him, some of the women were stripped naked before they were taken to the army barracks at Ohafia.

The statement by Powerful read: “The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leadership worldwide condemn the unprofessional conduct of the Nigerian Army located at Ohafia against the Biafran and IPOB women’s general meeting holding in Abiriba, Abia State.

“Food, clothes and accessories belonging to the women were seized by the soldiers and taken to the Ohafia barracks.