NIGERIAN ARMY REACTS TO CLAIM THAT THEY KILLED OVER 150 IPOB MEMBERS

The Nigerian Army has responded to the report by Amnesty International that they murdered 150 Indigenous People of Biafra dissidents between August 2015 to August 2016. As indicated by an announcement by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, the report is unwarranted and an inside and out endeavor to discolor the notoriety of the security constrains when all is said in done and the Nigerian Army specifically. Perused the announcement beneath... 

The consideration of the Nigerian Army has been attracted to an arranged arrival of a report by Amnesty International on an unwarranted storyline of mass killings of MASSOB/IPOB dissidents by the military between August 2015 and August 2016. We wish to expose the hint that our troops executed the murdering of vulnerable instigators.

This is an out and out endeavor to discolor the notoriety of the security compels all in all and the Nigerian Army specifically, for whatever illogical parochial reasons. For umpteenth times, the Nigerian Army has educated people in general about the horrifying aim of this Non-Governmental Organization which is never yielding in dallying into our national security in behavior that demolish objectivity, decency and basic rationale. The confirmation of MASSOB/IPOB savage secessionist disturbances is broadly known over the national and global areas. Their usual way of doing things has kept on savoring brutality that undermines national security. In reality between August 2015 and August 2016, the gatherings' brutal challenges have showed inconceivable barbarities to unhinge the rule of peace, security and dependability in a few sections of the South East Nigeria. Various people from the pilgrim groups that hailed from different parts of the Country were chosen for assault, executed and blazed. Such rule of abhor, dread and ethno-religious discussions that predict grave outcomes for national security have been turned away severally through the responsiveness of the Nigerian Army and individuals from the security organizations. These security organizations are constantly focused for assault by the MASSOB/IPOB instruments of brutality and remorselessness. For example, in the challenges of 30 – 31 May 2016, more than 5 staff of the Nigeria Police were murdered, while a few fighters were injured, Nigeria Police vehicles were torched same as a few others of the Nigerian Army that were vandalized. The vital Niger Bridge at Onitsha went under risk in this manner prompting to disturbance of financial exercises. In the consequence of the experience that resulted between security organizations and MASSOB/IPOB activists huge numbers of possess troops managed fluctuating degrees of harm. Furthermore, the MASSOB/IPOB repetitive utilization of guns, rough weapons and in addition different mixed drinks, for example, corrosive and dynamites to bring about disorder remain an enormous security risk over the Region. In these conditions, the Nigerian Army under its sacred commands for Military Aid to Civil Authority (MACA) and Military Aid to Civil Powers (MACP) has kept on acting responsively in collaboration with other security organizations to de-heighten the arrangement of MASSOB/IPOB rough dissents. Educationally, the military and other security organizations practiced greatest limitations regardless of the whirlwind of provocative and baseless savagery, which MASSOB/IPOB executed. The adherence to Rules of Engagement by the military has been holy in these occurrences. Thusly, it is somewhat lamentable for the Amnesty International to permit itself to be attracted into this shoddy and disliked wander that plans to dishonor the verifiable polished methodology and in addition responsiveness of the Nigerian Army in the release of its protected parts. Much thanks to you for your standard participation. Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman Acting Director Army Public Relations