Press Release
Igbo Mandate Congress (IMC) after full discreet investigations into the events of May 29th and 30th Biafran Heroes Day Celebrations do hereby condemn the murder of innocent persons by officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Navy and Police.
Igbo Mandate Congress (IMC) after full discreet investigations into the events of May 29th and 30th Biafran Heroes Day Celebrations do hereby condemn the murder of innocent persons by officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Navy and Police.
Igbo Mandate Congress though has
divergent views over the Biafran agitations from IPOB and MASSOB, do
hereby condemn the massive use of force on unarmed civilians
commemorating the annual Biafra Day Celebrations at St Francis Catholic
Church, Nkpor and Onitsha environs in the early hours of May 30th.
In the event, even passer bye and those going about normal businesses were gummed down.
Igbo Mandate Congress inquires and
investigations suggest that over seventy persons are either dead or
missing since the event occurred.
Other persons, numbering over hundred
sustained various degrees of injuries while hundreds are still being
held at SARS Awkuzu, State CID Onitsha and Army Barracks.
IMC views it improper that even some wounded were abducted from hospitals and abandoned to die.
IMC wishes to state that these events
are exactly what aggravated the security situation in the North East,
and drew sympathizers for Boko Haram especially when gross human rights
abuses followed the fight against terror.
