There has been turmoil in Oyigbo since mid-October. The state government blames the pro-Biafra group for the attacks.
There has been turmoil in Oyigbo for weeks, and a military deployment appears to have worsened the crisis.
The Rivers governor justifies ongoing military siege to an Igbo-dominated community of over 300,000 inhabitants.
The community with its over 300,000 people has seen dozens killed by soldiers since last week, even as residents run out of food and water.
Nigerian soldiers chasing members of separatist IPOB have killed dozens of residents in an Igbo-dominated community.
![Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Yusuf Buratai. [CREDIT: Thisday]](https://gazettengr.com/wp-content/uploads/Buratai-1.jpg)
Despite recent widespread protests against police brutality, raids in Lagos this week suggest that little has changed about the way police treat people.
The police and the Rivers government have produced no evidence that IPOB is complicit in the recent attacks or that locals killed were IPOB members.
The officers flogged civilians for defying a curfew in Ilesha.
The information minister listed many reasons to justify his unending quest to regulate social media before a House committee on Tuesday.
There has been civil unrest in many parts of the country since the army fatally put down #EndSARS protests in Lagos on October 20.
