{"id":34993,"date":"2024-05-31T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/sit-at-home-politicians-behind-killing-of-soldiers-ipob\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:04:13","slug":"sit-at-home-politicians-behind-killing-of-soldiers-ipob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/sit-at-home-politicians-behind-killing-of-soldiers-ipob\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit-at-home: Politicians behind killing of soldiers \u2013 IPOB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said on Friday that politicians trying to create \u201cproblems in peaceful Enyimba city\u201d are behind the killing of the soldiers in Aba, Abia State.<\/p>\n<p>While distancing its members from the killing of soldiers in Aba, IPOB said politicians used criminals to carry out the attack.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement he signed, Powerful said IPOB was preoccupied with the sit-at-home order.<\/p>\n<p>According to Powerful, IPOB condemned the killing of the soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe condemn the attack on military on duty in Aba, we are not involved because sit-at-home was because of our fallen heroes and heroines and time of mourning and not to attack anybody in respect of that; therefore, anybody mentioning IPOB as responsible for the attack in Aba is under the control of something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIPOB has no chance to attack anyone; those responsible for this attack are politicians; they are planning to create problems in peaceful Enyimba City, so the governor of Abia State must be careful; they are coming to create a crisis in Aba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who were used to attack military on duty are criminals, not IPOB; we are much more engaged with sit-at-home to remember our fallen heroes and heroines who died during the genocidal war against Biafrans and Ndigbo. IPOB condemns the criminal activities of yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, some unknown gunmen killed five soldiers in Aba, Abia State, during the sit-at-home declared by IPOB to remember those killed during the Biafra civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was said to have taken place at Obikabia Junction Checkpoint in Obingwa Local Government Area, adjourning Aba metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>Sit-at-home: Politicians behind killing of soldiers \u2013 IPOB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said on Friday that politicians trying to create \u201cproblems in peaceful Enyimba city\u201d are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4326,10312,15,14819],"tags":[8,1914,12,2368,180,2003,2711,126],"class_list":["post-34993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipob","category-killing","category-news","category-sit-at-home","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-behind","tag-ipob","tag-killing","tag-news","tag-politicians","tag-sit-at-home","tag-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}