February 15 2025 | State Media Executive Summary Of “Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East” The “Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In Ea...
February 15 2025 | State Media
Executive Summary Of “Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In The East”
The “Ocean Of Innocent Blood Flowing In Eastern Nigeria” is a catalogue of how officers And personnel of the Armed Forces (Army, Air Force And Navy), the Police and the DSS, joined by the Paramilitaries and Killer-Vigilantes used “IPOB/ESN/BIAFRA Terrorism” as a pretext to secretly massacre 22, 500 unarmed civilians and openly killed 9,800 others (totalling over 32,300).
In the past nine years and four months (August 2015 – December 2024) of military siege and terror in the East; during which tens of thousands were unlawfully detained and tortured, over 6000 blindfolded or face-bagged and bundled at late night from the East and dumped uninvestigated and untried in secret military locations and prisons in seven northern states of Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa, Benue, Kaduna, Zamfara and FCT (Abuja) inclusive of thousands dumped to die or subjected to kangaroo “trials” inside Wawa Army Cantonment in Niger state and dozens of weekly custodial deaths thereto.
During which over 300 Igbo communities were raided, 6000 civilian houses razed, 180,000 displaced, 1 million frightened and forced to abandon their homes and flee, N450 billion defenceless civilian properties lost to military burnings and destructions, N3 trillion (presently about $2 billion or previously about $5 billion) corruptly seized and illicitly pocketed at roadblocks and other gun-points and estimated 2.7million illicit small arms and light weapons and their ammunitions aided to be proliferated including estimated 400,000 in the hands of about 20,000 Fulani jihadists and allied others occupying estimated 1000 secret locations in the east including forests, bushes and farmlands.
…Also during which (August 2015 - December 2024) government-linked and non-government-linked armed criminal entities including counterfeit Biafra agitators, recruited Niger Delta jihadist mercenaries, jihadist Fulani herdsmen, jihadist Fulani bandits, South-East/Igbo land-born-and-bred Hausa-Fulani jihadist recruits, Fulani cattle owners’ criminal vigilantes and other jihadist mercenaries from black and Maghreb African countries; improperly disarmed and demobilized Niger Delta militants, camouflaged “Biafra freedom agitators”, subversive elements within security forces or security forces-linked “unknown gunmen”, government-linked hit squads, criminal vigilantes and “street criminal entities” such as hundreds of “kidnappers-for-ransom” squads, etc., killed over 14,500 defenceless citizens…
…Seized estimated 65,000 at gunpoint and forced 55,000 to pay ransoms estimated at n500billion and additional N50 billion arising from estimated 10,000 millennium automobiles seized from kidnap-for-ransom victims (totalling N550 billion); during which estimated 6,500 (10%) of the seized 65,000 victims who could not pay the ransoms demanded were killed and 3,500 others pardoned and set free under “ill-health and humanitarian conditions”; during which 55,000 others were tortured and set free after paying the ransoms demanded and agreed at gunpoint.
The Special International Report further catalogued and exposed massive arbitrary arrests, perpetual detentions arising from uninvestigated and un-triable phantom allegations, kangaroo arraignments, late night abduction and face-bagging of unarmed Igbo civilians to secret military detention facilities in northern Nigeria.
Torture and bodily lacerations, open killings and secret executions, enforced disappearances, dead body persons’ disappearances and criminal interments; perpetual concealment of arrested and abducted citizens’ whereabouts and denial of access to their families, lawyers and physicians; invasion and wanton destruction of civilian dwelling houses, false labelling, mass and class criminalization and stigmatization, ethnoreligious profiling, prosecutorial vindictiveness, hearsay conclusions, military and police roadblock and barrack-extortions and selective law enforcement operations, etc.; all arising from the ongoing military siege and terror in Eastern Nigeria, using “IPOB/ESN/Biafra Terrorism” as a pretext.
Serialized by:
Obi Nna
For: Lagos State Media
Edited by:
Obiageli Mboma
For: Lagos State Media
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: Lagos State Media
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