My Neighborhood Watch #50 - Reporting Events Around us

Hello friends! I am to share with us my diary or probably my neighborhood watch activities for today. It was a day that came with its uniqueness and I must say that it was not an easy pass for some of us that reside within this neighborhood.

Today the 30th day of May was declared a public holiday by the region predominately settled by the Igbo race known as the easterners. It is supposedly a day marked with the remembrance of their fallen heroes during the Nigerian Civil War. Though illegal public holidays because of the institutional status of those behind them.

The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) has declared this compulsory public holiday against the Nigeria government orders, mandating no activity whatsoever by traders, business owners, and public/private organizations within the eastern region. This difference in instituting orders came with a lot of tension and chaos.

In the early hours of today, just around 8 am (WAT) my family and I were home, we already started hearing gunshots from a distance. Even though we don't subscribe to this tight-fisted order, we cannot go out because we no longer trust the security agencies to defend us when it matters. Justcas it happened today. The defender of the masses were the attached and theyvloat their lives. So unfortunate, and a sad day for their families.

	Burning Military Van

When we inquired about these unguarded gunshots, we realized that it was an attack on shop owners who still went ahead to open for business jn flagrant abuse of this compulsory sit-at-home holidays and especially a military checkpoint within wherethese commercial activities were ongoing. It was a fierce gun battle that ensured between this gunman and the military men.

Due to the overwhelming number of gunmen who came for this operation, about 5 military men at this checkpoint were overwhelmed and mostly killed during the exchange of gunfire. It was learned that only one of the military men who escaped survived this onslaught today.

	Rescuing a civilian shot on the arm

This mounted tension in the entire city of Aba and its environs. No sooner than later, we saw reinforcements of security personnel through air patrols and ground troops. The immediate environment where this happened became a war zone as these ground troops continued to patrol and comb all corners in search of these men of the underworld.

I never knew the situation was going to be like this as we did not have fuel in the generating set and we had to look for alternatives to gain power supply. Since we had contact with the gas station manager, we made a call to him and he confirmed they are partially open to customers who want to buy these petroleum products. And I quickly moved to get some liters of this fuel.

	Deserted Street

The fuel station is just a few poles away from the home. On my way out, the street was deserted as the number of persons on the street could be counted. It got me worried but my goal was just to get my PMS immediately and head back home. This was accomplishost immediately without a waste of time.

On my way, I made a call to a friend who also confirmed another location of chaos. That the true cause of the gunshots is unknown but it seems it was still these enforcers of the illegal sit-at-home cum public holidays.

This is a representation of my neighbourhood activities for today being the 30th day of May 2024.

_{Horoable Experience of today}