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Nnamdi Kanu fingers security agents as IPOB lawyer escapes assassination attempt in Abuja
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By Steve Oko, Aba
Lawyer to the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mr Chukwuemeka Okoroafor, Friday, escaped an assassination attempt in Abuja, according to IPOB source.
IPOB Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who disclosed this in a press statement he personally signed, condemned the attack, describing it as “war on Biafra”.
The incident according to Kanu, occurred after the lawyer had visited a security facility where some IPOB members arrested at Obigbo Rivers State during the #EndSARS protest were detained in Abuja.
Kanu fingered security agents for the attack alleging that it was a ploy to scare lawyers from taking briefs from IPOB.
Kanu, in a statement on Saturday, condemned the attack and described it as “war on Biafra”.
The IPOB leader further explained that the incident happened after Okoroafor had visited a security facility in Abuja where some IPOB members arrested at Obigbo Rivers State during the #EndSARS protest were kept.
Nnamdi Kanu accused Nigerian security agents of attempting to murder the lawyer.
“Following the assassination attempt made in Abuja today on Barrister Chukwuemeka Richard Okoroafor, the IPOB lawyer who has been making frantic efforts to secure freedom for our ladies abducted from Obigbo at the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest and taken to Abuja, I, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, want to put the world on notice that the Nigeria Government has declared war on Biafra.
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by Saharareporters, New York
Feb 25, 2021
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has accused the Nigerian Army of attempting to assassinate one Barrister Chukwuemeka Okoroafor.
Kanu disclosed that Okoroafor was ambushed by men who came out of a white Hilux truck on Suleja-Bida highway on Thursday and opened fire on his car.
The IPOB leader revealed this in a press release he signed and made available to SaharaReporters through the group s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful.