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Buhari military offensive against the militants in Eastern Nigeria has been escalated to a new level; a day after the US secretary of state visited him in ASO ROCK. The chief of defence staff Air commodore Sadique Abubakar told reporters, “the bombing and killings of Niger Delta Avangers, will continue until we are satisfied that the militants have been eliminated”. He issued warning to the journalists to refrain from reporting the ongoing war on the region (Eastern Nigeria). He warns, “Reporting anything about this war is punishable by death”. Those of you who come from Western region (Yoruba) and those you from the North, you will be sacked from your job and you will never be journalists again”. Did you hear me? He asked.
After the instruction was given to the journalists, gun fire resumed from all directions, cluster bombs were dropping on the villagers like a heavy rain, killing women and children.
In Calabar, the fighting began in the early hour of today, when soldiers from the JTF which was a specialist unit set up to tackle the menace of Boko Haram, landed by sea, land and air, surrounding the entire village. Within munities, they set on the people, gunfire could be heard “from far and wide”, and from every angle; soldiers shooting indiscriminately, shattering windows and damaging house contents.
Around lunch time when the gun battle seems to have gone down, a community leader, met with the chief of defence staff Air Commodore Sadique Abubakar and his commanders and pleaded with them to stop the killings of innocent people. He asked the Army Chief, “why are your boys killing innocent people while you are busy stealing the oil?” Are these men not your boys? He asked. Do these tankers not belong to you? He added. He then went on, “You steal the oil that you meant to protect, bomb the pipeline, destroying our environment and yet you are killing us as Niger Delta Avangers”. “Do you want to wipe us out so you can occupy our oil field? Is that the primary motive behind this war against the Niger Delta Avengers?
That was the last question he asked before he was taken away by the commanders, tied to a stake. His mouth forced open and a bottle inserted into it – suspending his upper Jaw from the lower one before blowing his brain off from its socket.
From a far distance, a woman was yelling and crying, begging the Nigerian soldiers not to kill their victim but it was too late. She cursed the soldiers and called them “black imperialists”, occupying armies and thieves. Immediately, she was apprehended and stripped naked, suspended with her two legs up in the air, holding each leg with a string, and her head facing downward. A young soldier known as Mohammed, was called out by one of his commanders, he came out saluted the commander, before taking few steps forward in a military swagger and put revolver into her private part and shot her dead instantly.
When we caught up with the wife of the community leader killed by firing squad we put it to her that the army said her husband was a Niger Delta Avanger and an oil thief. She replied, “Won’t they say so to justify their crime?”, she continued, “my husband was not an NDA nor an oil thief, how is it possible? Is he stealing the oil with his bare hands? He hasn’t got a tanker we cannot afford one; we can hardly eat three square meals a day.
My husband is not on the Forbe list of richest people in the World and no one from this region is. Those who are on the list come from Western Region (Yoruba) and Northern Region (Hausa). This is how they made it, stealing our oil, destroying our land; at the same time killing us to maintain their lifestyles”. These criminals will go abroad preaching black lives matters. Are we not blacks like them why is it that our lives do not matter to Yorubas and Hausa-Fulani’s?
She added, “Britain plunged us together and left in a hurry since then we have been living under the Islamic repression. They have turned us (Jews) into their slaves and they have assumed the role of slave masters”.
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