Go after those calling for sit-at-home in the South-East - Tinubu tells soldiers

Tinubu warned killers of soldiers that the fact that security forces are exercising necessary restraints shouldn’t be mistaken for weakness.

Go after those calling for sit-at-home in the South-East - Tinubu tells soldiers

President Bola Tinubu has ordered security forces to go after masterminds of the attack that led to the killing of five soldiers in Aba in Abia State and enforcers of the sit-at-home order in the South-East.

The President's directive came on the heels of the Thursday, May 30, 2024 incident at a military checkpoint located at Obikabia junction, Ogbor Hill, Aba.

Gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) attacked the checkpoint while enforcing a sit-at-home order in commemoration of Biafra Day and killed the soldiers as well as burning two patrol vehicles.

Reacting to the incident in a strongly-worded statement he specifically signed on Saturday, June 1, 2024, Tinubu said that on no account should anyone, under any guise, have the audacity to kill agents of the state.

The President vowed that the Federal Government will come down heavily against those who have made it a habit to needlessly attack officers and men of the armed forces.

“I have received yet another disheartening news of the killing of five soldiers by suspected militants of the proscribed terrorist organization, IPOB.

“The slain soldiers were on peacekeeping duty in Aba, Abia State on Thursday when they were murdered, just two months after a similar tragic incident happened in Okuama in Delta state.

“These unwarranted barbaric and evil acts stand condemned and should never be condoned and tolerated in our country.