Police Kill Two MASSOB Members in Onitsha

          Two members of the Movement for
the Actualization of the Sovereign state of
Biafra, MASSOB, were reportedly killed by
two policemen attached to Okpoko Police
Division, Onitsha suburb, Anambra State,
while others sustained injuries while a shop
was razed yesterday.
Trouble was said to have started for the
MASSOB members when a woman reported
a case of assault against one of them, but
he allegedly put up a
fight when the Police
tried to arrest him.
The deceased was said to have called his
members numbering about 20 on phones
and on arrival at the scene, Udeaja/Ibe
Street, they reportedly attacked the
policemen, who gripped the suspect.
The policemen in self-defence used the
suspect as shield while the attack was on
and in the process a team of policemen
arrived on a tip-off, which made the
members to run away, while the suspect
was arrested.

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At the Police station, the deceased was said
to have complained of severe pains as a
result of the attack on the policemen that
used him as a shield during the assault from
MASSOB members. He allegedly gave up the
spirit minutes later.
Another MASSOB member died when a rival
group reportedly beat him to coma at Edeh
Road . It was gathered that trouble started
for the deceased when a woman complained
to a MASSOB member that a rival member
assaulted her and immediately the member
mobilized his colleagues and they beat him
unconscious and he died minutes after.
In anger and in solidarity with the deceased,
residents of Okpoko mobilized and razed the
shop of the woman while she fled.
Confirming the incident, the Okpoko DPO,
Mr. Olabanji Kayode, said the investigation
is on-going.