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DSS says Kanu’s group, killed, buried 55 people in Abia forest

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The Directorate of State Security (DSS) has condoned off the Umuanyi Forest area in Abia State where it said the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) buried 55 people who were killed extra-judicially.

IPOB is led by Nnamdi Kanu who is currently under detention and prosecution by the DSS.

The DSS also alleged that five Hausa-Fulani men, resident in that community were also killed and buried in the same forest, by the Biafra agitators.

The agency in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said that it has “uncovered the heinous role played by members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra in the abduction/kidnap of five Hausa-Fulani residents, namely Mohammed Gainako, Ibrahim Mohammed, Idris Yakubu, and Isa Mohammed Rago at Isuikwuato LGA in Abia State.

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“The abducted men were later discovered at the Umuanyi Forest, Abia State, where they were suspected to have been killed by their abductors and buried in shallow graves, amidst 50 other shallow graves of unidentified persons.

“Arrests and investigation conducted so far revealed that elements within the IPOB carried out this dastardly action.”

According to him, the IPOB by its actions are set to ignite ethnic terrorism and mistrust amongst non-indigenes in the South-East region and other parts of the country, adding, that tension is currently rife among communal stakeholders in the state, with possibilities of spillover to other parts of country.

 

 

 

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