Anambra Community Bans IPOB Members & Masquerades Over Murder Of Police Officers

Posted by Thandiubani on Thu 05th Dec, 2019 - tori.ng

IPOB members have been banned from entering a community in Anambra following the murder of police officers.

IPOB members

The Oraifite Community in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State has banned the activities of members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra in the area, according to Punch.

Also banned in the community were six masquerade groups .

This followed the fracas that claimed the lives of two police officers in the community on Monday.

Our correspondent gathered that the Monday feud was allegedly ignited by rival masquerade cults in the area before some people suspected to be members of IPOB infiltrated them.

An Assistant Commissioner of Police and Assistant Superintendent of Police were killed in the violence

The Oraifite Improvement Union in a statement on Wednesday in Awka, the Anambra State capital described the action as lawless and avoidable.

As a consequence, it banned six masquerade groups whose activities allegedly caused the problem in the community.

The masquerade groups are Otu-Eke, Otu-Afor, Otu-wo, Otu-Orie, Otu-Ube, and Otu Ayaka and all other forms of night masqueraders.

The President General of Oraifite Improvement Union, Offor Uche, and the traditional ruler of the Oraifite, Igwe Daniel Udeoji, signed the statement on behalf of the community.

They said, “The leadership of Oraifite town cannot keep quiet and allow criminal gangs, cultists and miscreants take over the town and tarnish the image of the good people of Oraifite.

“What happened on December 2nd 2019, leading to the killing of some men of the Nigerian Police Force was uncharacteristic of Oraifite culture and tradition.

“The acts are condemned without equivocation in its totality. The good and peace-loving people of Oraifite totally dissociate themselves from the acts of the criminals responsible for the abomination."