“The Police officer, who was killed by the hoodlums was on routine patrol duty with his colleagues on Umuanyogu Street, Iheorji Ohanku Road, Aba when the hoodlums, who were over 200 chanting war-like songs blocked their Patrol van singing about Biafra.

Source: https://www.informationng.com/2023/01/police-inspector-two-others-killed-in-clash-with-suspected-cultists-in-abia.html

Yet that changed in the years following the Breaking as they became the war-like people Rand meets.

Source: https://collider.com/the-wheel-of-time-season-3-rhuidean/