{"id":1020,"date":"2024-06-01T07:16:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T07:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2024-06-01T07:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T07:16:33","slug":"biafra-day-remembrance-turns-bloody-soldiers-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/06\/01\/biafra-day-remembrance-turns-bloody-soldiers-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Biafra Day Remembrance Turns Bloody, Soldiers killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n<article class=\"single-article\">\n<div class=\"ob-smartfeed-wrapper feedIdx-2\">\n<div id=\"outbrain_widget_2\" class=\"OUTBRAIN\" data-src=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/sit-at-home-residents-panic-as-army-vows-crackdown-on-soldiers-killers\/\" data-widget-id=\"AR_1\" data-ob-mark=\"true\" data-browser=\"chrome\" data-os=\"win32\" data-dynload=\"\" data-idx=\"2\">\n<div class=\"ob-widget ob-feed-layout AR_1\">\n<div class=\"ob-cards\">\n<div id=\"outbrain_widget_3001\" class=\"OUTBRAIN\" data-src=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/sit-at-home-residents-panic-as-army-vows-crackdown-on-soldiers-killers\/\" data-widget-id=\"FMS_CP_1\" data-card-idx=\"1\" data-feed-father-idx=\"2\" data-ob-mark=\"true\" data-browser=\"chrome\" data-os=\"win32\" data-dynload=\"\" data-idx=\"3001\">\n<div class=\"ob-widget ob-grid-layout FMS_CP_1 ob-feed-idx-2-11984-83708\" data-dynamic-truncate=\"true\">\n<div class=\"ob-widget-items-container\">\n<div class=\"ob-dynamic-rec-container ob-recIdx-1 ob-p\" data-pos=\"1\">\n<section class=\"ob-sub-units\"><span class=\"ob-unit ob-rec-text\" title=\"[Story] Wife Keeps Locking Herself In Bathroom With Dog Until Husband Notices Mark On Leg\" data-type=\"Title\">At least four solders were killed yesterday\u00a0 in a counter attack in aba Abia state by gunmen. it was gathered that hoodlums numbering to 15 attacked the solders\u00a0 at about 8am at\u00a0 a military checkpoint in obikabia\u00a0 junction in the commercial city of the state\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/section>\n<section class=\"ob-sub-units\"><b>THE military has vowed to \u2018fiercely\u2019 retaliate against the attacks on its troops, which he claim was perpetrated by IPOBS members, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Abia State while enforcing a sit-at-home order.<\/b><strong>Meanwhile, The President of Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has distanced himself and the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from the killing of soldiers in Abia state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He described the incident as saddening, stating that Kanu was not behind the order for the sit-at-home.<\/p>\n<p>Iwuanyanwu appealed to President Bola Tinubu to use his political power to free Kanu.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, May 31, the Director, Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, confirmed that the attack, which occurred on Thursday, May 30, led to the killing of five personnel.<\/p>\n<p>According to Buba, who issued the statement on behalf of the Defence Headquarters, the deceased soldiers were personnel of the military attached to \u201cOperation Udo Ka\u201d who were on guard at Obikabia Junction Checkpoint in Aba metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Headquarters vowed that it was imperative that it \u201cretaliate against this dastardly act against troops. The military would be fierce in its response. We would bring overwhelming military pressure on the group to ensure their total defeat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The military challenged the people of the South-East to dissociate from the group and identify anyone affiliating with them, stressing that otherwise, winning the war against the group would be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"icirn-f2fa5cb68a3968233cc0b20c6822a198\" class=\"icirn-f2fa5cb68a3968233cc0b20c6822a198 icirn-content_2\">\n<div id=\"icirn-1764600594\" class=\"icirn-content_2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least four solders were killed yesterday\u00a0 in a counter attack in aba Abia state by gunmen. it was gathered that hoodlums numbering to 15 attacked the solders\u00a0 at about 8am at\u00a0 a military&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}