The army and the police – have arrested hundreds of young men and taken them away from these communities and their relatives do not know their whereabouts.
There has been a rising wave of attacks on police stations and police officers in some southern states in Nigeria.
At the last count, 127 cops had been killed and 25 stations razed in the past five months. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade asked sociologist Lanre Ikuteyijo for his view on why this is happening and how the country can stop the attacks.
What do you think is responsible for these attacks?
Judging by indicators from the media over the past five months, my view is that the attackers have risen on the wings of the call for secession by separatists in the south east.
Why IPOB is dismantling security facilities in S-East, S-South
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The increased attacks by members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on security facilities and personnel in the South-East and South-South regions is for sinister motives, a top security circle source has revealed.
The top source, which has been deeply involved in events in the two regions in recent months, revealed that the renewed onslaughts being unleashed by Eastern Security Network, the militant wing of IPOB, was clearly to clear the way for members of Ambazonian republic to ship arms to the South-East for the purpose of prosecuting the secession plot by IPOB.
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