By
A Correspondent, Aba, 1146HRS, September 22, 2017
HARD
NUMBERS on the victims of the on-going military crackdown ordered by Nigeria’s
genocidist president Muhammadu Buhari have started to trickle in.
Pieces
of information made available to this correspondent on the casualties of
victims of the September 14, 2017 massacre of unarmed Igbo youth in just the
Abia state administrative areas alone are staggering.
The
numbers that are still being compiled by field investigators who are nowhere
close to the middle of their painful forensic undertaking indicate that more
than 800 (eight hundred) casualties of the massacre that took place in the
Afara Ibeku, Umuahia country residence of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and its
environs include “over 400 dead, 400 terminally wounded and thousands arrested
and detained indefinitely in undisclosed locations without charge”.
According
to the source, “investigators have recovered over 88 corpses of Igbo youths
from in and around Mr. Nnamdi Kanu’s residence in Afara, Umuahia … executed by
Nigerian security agencies in the night of 14 September, 2017 alone”.
Eye
witnesses report that “35 dead bodies” were removed by the soldiers from the
scene following their brazen massacre.
The tactic of quickly removing the bodies of their victims is indicative
of the systematic and premeditated orders that soldiers who were deployed to carry
out this massacre were handed by their superiors ahead of and preparatory for
their deployment.
This
correspondent learned that field investigators, who are still busy at work, are
compiling the list of casualties in the September 14, 2017 massacre that took
place in the nearby city of Aba and the other locations in the Abia state
administrative area.
IT
IS ON record that the governor of Abia state, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, is already
implicated in the previous acts of extrajudicial executions and massacre of
unarmed, non-violent agitators for a Referendum for self-determination by Igbo
youth carried out by Muhammadu Buhari’s forces, known to have taken place in
the Abia state area since 2015. Dr
Ikpeazu’s name is on the list of 16 individuals who have been named in the Tort
suit filed in a Washington, DC, US federal court on behalf of victims by
Attorney Bruce Fein’s law firm. Also
named in that suit is General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, who is also Buhari’s army
chief, and 14 others.
The
sources that interfaced with this correspondent cautioned that these numbers of
victims of the massacre are best taken as estimates because the field
investigations that are still underway are also in their early stages.
