Abia state governor, Okezie
Ikpeazu, yesterday declared a three-day curfew in the state capital, Aba,
following a clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB and
some soldiers.
Ada Nweke was briefly separated
from her parents, especially her mother who has a shop at the market the
violent showdown happened, and she took to Facebook to narrate a compelling
eyewitness account.
Aba has been on fire since this Afternoon,
right now we are under a curfew that started by 6pm this Evening. I was in my
room this afternoon when I heard people shouting, I ran out of the balcony to
know what was wrong and saw people running in fear. I had to put on something
and rush downstairs to know what was wrong, when I heard gunshots and more screams,
I asked a stranger what was wrong, she said that Ariaria market had been shut
down and they were killing any Hausa person in sight.
I was scared and started dialing
my mum's number, she wasn't picking so I was frantic, my only family (my
parents) were not home yet. I made up my mind to run to her shop to make sure
she was safe. I hadn't gone far when I saw some army officials shooting
sporadically and people were running back to the direction I was coming from. I
had to join in the race to head back home. I sighted he Hausa man who had
helped me sew my slippers yesterday begging for his life as my Igbo brothers
tried to set him on fire, He ran into someone's car still begging, they started
pouring fuel on the car and tried to light it up. The car owner refused to give
up the Hausa man so he too was going to be burnt alive for trying to save a life,
he drove off speedily and almost knocked one of the predators down. I sighed,
at least another human with a conscience.
My street is like a ghost town,
shops owners have closed and gone home. Today I knew what real fear felt like,
today I saw a human beg his fellow humans not to kill him. My fellow
igbos,please we don't want war. This whole Biafra thing is turning into
something else,if a war begins,Nnamdi Kanu has enough money and resources to
fly himself and his family abroad. While most of you fighting for him are
struggling to even afford one square meal in a day.
Today I cried cos I felt what it
would be like if a war begins, my family wouldn't be with me and we might not
return to each other cos we ran separate ways. Bikonu,agha adighi Mma. Maka ndi
nwuru anwu n'agha gara aga,anyi na asi Ozoemena.
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ReplyDeleteGod. Take control.
ReplyDeleteGod save us.
ReplyDeleteStory teller! 'r u done with ur cock and bull stories???????????? nonsense.....!! You should have taken the HAUSA man to ur house, cos those innocent BIAFRA'S that they (FULANI/HAUSA) Soldiers are killing were not humans..... big foollllllllll
ReplyDeleteU are a waste products.
DeleteLet them start the war, his blind followers will not be alive to tell tha sad story, wait till the Hausas start to retaliate , then we will start hearing bed time stories, the dumb Kanu should do this the right way, there is a legal way of asking for a secession , except if this movement is political. This was how BH started. This barbaric act must stop.
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