Anambra – Mrs Harira Jibril, the pregnant woman killed by gunmen in Anambra State on Sunday, May 22 was due to deliver her baby this week, her husband, Jibril Ahmad has said.
Ahmad who spoke during an interview with BBC said his wife was heavily pregnant and was due to deliver her fifth child this week when she was brutally murdered .
He said Harira , 32 years was returning home from a visit to a relation when the gunmen killed her and her four children.
Ahmad gave the names of his four children killed as Fatima, 9years, Khadija, 7 years, Hadiza, 5years and Zaituna, 2 years.
The woman, who hailed from Adamawa State and her four children were killed by gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Six other Nigerians of Northern origin were also killed same day Harira and her four children were killed.
They were all killed at Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The state has been a centre of absurd killings of non-indigenes and federal security agents for sometime now .
Even, their fellow Ibos, including traditional rulers and politicians are not being spared in the senseless killings.
Only recently, a state lawmaker was abducted and later beheaded by the terrorists.
Meanwhile, the Sarkin Hausawa of Orunba North LGA, Sa’id Muhammad has said that he and other Northerners have decided to quit Anambra State.
He said it is no longer safe for them to remain in the state due
to constant killing of Northerners and their relations by the IPOB militants.
Muhammad, who spoke during an interview with Daily Trust said the killing of the pregnant woman together with her four children by gunmen was not new to them as many of his people have been similarly killed in such a callous manner.
“The woman was from Adamawa State. Before her death, she lived in Orumba South, and on Sunday, she visited her friends with her four children.
“It was on her way back home in Orumba South that she was killed. She was being conveyed by a commercial motorcyclist when they were ambushed by the gunmen.
“They murdered her and
her four children but the motorcyclist escaped,” Muhammad said.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Echeng E. Echeng, has accused communities in the state of shielding criminals in their midst.
Echeng stated this while briefing journalists on the murder of the Anambra State lawmaker, Okechukwu Okoye, and his aide, Cyril Chiegboka.
The IPOB militants have vowed to kill more lawmakers in the State, as the threat was allegedly found in a note where the head of the lawmaker was dumped.
The commissioner said, “Some of us have come out to tag these people ‘unknown gunmen’ while in actual sense they are known. We are trying to mystify something that is not just there.
“It is high time we go into demystifying the tag ‘unknown gunmen’. They are not spirits; they are our brothers and they live with us in our communities. That is the obvious truth. We know who these people are.
“The problem the state security has is a total conspiracy of silence when nobody sees something, nobody says something and nobody hears something.
“Security is collective; everybody has a battle. The crimes are committed in our communities and we should be able to say this is what is happening in our communities.
“We are glorifying people that we know and tag them as unknown gunmen,” he said.
The Commissioner also debunked claim that Fulanis are behind the rampant attacks and killings in the state. (vitalnews)
