IPOB Reacts To The Murder Of Pregnant woman,her 4 Kids & Other Hausa People in Anambra State

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On Sunday, some gunmen believed to be IPOB members launched an attack in Anambra state in broadday light k!lling a pregnant woman identified as Harira , along side her four kids. Also ,2 dangote truck drivers, 6 Okada riders and 1 man who was selling earrings all believed to be from northern Nigeria were also m*rdered. 

Harira,was 9 months pregnant walking her four daughters Fatima 9 ,Aisha 7, Hadiza 5 and Zaituna 2, unfortunately, all 5 of them were gunned down by the operatives of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State. 

This attack is coming weeks after a Christian girl, Deborah Samuel was Beaten , Stoned and set ablaze in Sokoto state over blasphemy.

The reasons behind the murder of Fatima,her kids and others were not stated but there are insinuations that it could be as a result of the continues attack on the Igbo traders in the northern part of Nigeria which has become the norm of the day.

Even though IPOB have distant themselves from the attack, that hasn't stopped the outraged on twitter about the murder.

Apart from Fatima's m*rder,last week, a group of k!llers beheaded a lawmaker representing Aguata Constituency 1 in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Okechukwu Okoye.

Also a couple, just newlywed Nigerian Army officers were murdered while on a trip in Imo state. The killers filmed the gory details of their death and sent it to their relatives. The father of the groom and his youngest son who travelled from Kaduna to the South East for the wedding were among the slaughtered.

It is unclear if IPOB were behind these killings as its spokesman, Emma Powerful, repeatedly dissociated the group from any act of violence. 

 “Despicable act murdering the woman and her four kids by IPOB terrorists. You see these infidels you guys support, let them not push us into another ill-prepared war o. The risk of collateral damage to our people will be gargantuan. We are the only tribe exposed all over Nigeria.”- @RealOlaudah wrote

 Adamu Garba, reacting to the news tweeted:

 “In the whole world, there’s never a terrorist organization that is as cowardly as IPOB. More so, there are no ones given unto self-destruction than their silent supporters The gruesomely murdered Fatima & her kids are from my state, Adamawa. I mean are we really in the same country? The double standard is unimaginable. It seems like lives in Nigeria have two grades The whole media went silent, and the whole online so-called hypocritical agitation and fake-minded Human rights fighters were nowhere to be found. Worst is, the govt can’t & won’t do anything about it.”

@manuabba said: 

“Sadly, our scholars chose what to condemn and what not to. Deborah was lynched for blasphemy, you were quick to condemn it by quoting hadiths. Now, Fatima and her 4 kids were gruesomely murdered by IPOB/Christian terrorists, but you’re very silent about it. Hypocrisy is a virus.”

Journalist, Jafar Jafar wrote:

 “It’s time we stopped sugar-coating. IPOB is a terrorist group and it’s no different from Boko Haram and bandit terrorists.”

IPOB reacting to the recent killing in a statement signed by Emma Powerful, warned criminals attacking the Hausa community in the South East to desist from doing so,Vanguard Newspaper reported.

The statement reads:

 “We reiterate once again that Hausas have suffered much in the hands of Fulani like Biafrans and we will not allow any criminal to touch them again, they are free to do their business anywhere they like in our land and those who killed mother and children of Hausa extraction to be ready and wait for us we are coming for them,”.