Unknown gunmen suspected to be enforcers of the five-day sit-at-home declared by Simon Ekpa, on Wednesday shot several people at Nwakpu market in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
NigeriaCrime.com learned that the rampaging hoodlums also set ablaze vehicles and motorcycles of people at the market for allegedly defying the purported sit-at-home order.
According to an eyewitness, pandemonium started when the assailants started shooting indiscriminately at people forcing people to run in different directions in the ensuing
One of the victims, who identified himself as Henry, revealed that his vehicle was among the ones burnt by the unknown gunmen.
He said that he was also shot in the leg and cut on the head with an axe by the assailants who left him in a pool of his blood.
Confirming the incident, the Sector Crime Officer in charge of the area, Kingsley Okorie said that when police got information about the attack at the market, they stormed the market, however on sighting the security agencies, the hoodlums fled.
“We gave them a hot chase but they escaped on a motorcycle through narrow paths to the bush”, police said.
The officer said that one of the victims, Henry had been taken to the hospital where efforts were on to extract the bullets lodged in his thigh.
Recall that IPOB and its Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have since disowned Ekpa over the five-day sit-at-home order, saying it’s inflicting hardship on the people.
The pro-Biafra movement had vowed to confront enforcers of the purported order.
There has also been outrage from across the South East against the sit-at-home order which has been generally ignored by the people.