We reports that the shooting was carried out as the suspects forced people to abide by the order issued by the Proscribed IPOB, stopping all residents from coming out of their homes for seven days, from July 3 to 10.
Parading the suspects at the command headquarters in Abakaliki, the state capital, the commissioner of Police, Faleye Olaleye, explained that his men apprehended 15 suspects including a herbalist who prepares charms for the gunmen.
Some of the gunmen were also said to have invaded parts of Abakaliki shooting sporadically to enforce the sit-at-home order by pro-Biafra agitators.
