Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari says he’s shocked to learn that a military officer and his female partner were shot dead and then beheaded in the south-east of the country.
Mr Buhari has ordered that the perpetrators of the barbaric crime be brought to justice.
The authorities have accused a separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, of killing the couple as they travelled for their wedding last weekend.
The group has denied their involvement.
Gunmen in southeast Nigeria have recently stepped up their attacks mostly targeting the security forces.
A separatist group from south-eastern Nigeria has dismissed as “laughable” the accusation that it beheaded two soldiers – a couple – who were attacked on their way to their traditional wedding.
The army blamed the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) for the killings which happened in Imo state over the weekend.
Ipob wants a group of states in the southeast, mainly populated by people from the Igbo ethnic group, to break away and form an independent nation called Biafra.
“Ipob has no hands in the said atrocity which is an abominable act in Igbo tradition,” a statement issued by the secessionists’ spokesperson Emma Powerful said.
“Before the army jumped into their jaundiced conclusion that such an abominable act was masterminded by Ipob, what investigations did they carry out to substantiate their claims?
“The latest allegation is part of their propaganda to stain our global reputation.”
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