Pro-Biafra secessionists disrupt activities in Owerri
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) and a faction of the Movement for the
Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB), as well as other pro-Brafra
groups, at last penetrated Owerri, the Imo
State capital, crippling economic activities and
vehicular movements as they protested the
continued detention of the Radio Biafra
Director, Nnamdi Kanu.
It would be recalled that the Imo State
Governor, Rochas Okorocha, at the wake of
the protests, absolved the Southeast
Governors and Igbo leaders of any complicity,
adding that the separatists does not enjoy the
support of majority of the Igbo. Also the
Governor had stepped up security in the state
to prevent the pro-Biafra groups from holding
the protest in the state.
However, as early as 6am Friday, IPOB
members who reportedly trekked from Aba in
neighbouring Abia state and Port Harcourt,
apparently to beat security checks, were
converged at strategic positions in the state
capital from where they linked up with their
members on ground to begin the protest.
group clash with security operatives in
Anambra
Although there was heavy security presence,
including battle ready soldiers and heavily
armed mobile Policemen who drove behind
the protesters in their vehicles, there was
obvious anxiety among the residents as shop
owners hurriedly locked up their shops, while
motorists parked out of the road to make way
for the long procession.
Meanwhile the protesters numbering over 10
thousand, marched through major streets in
the state capital, displaying the Biafra flag and
placards with various inscriptions such as,
‘FG free Nnamdi Kanu now’, ‘Kanu is Biafra
and we are Kanu’, ‘we need Biafra now’ ,
among others and chanting war songs.
One of the protesters, Emmanuel Onyema,
said that the protests will spread to other
parts of the country and sustained untill Kanu
is unconditionally released by the Federal
Government.
The factional MASSOB Director of Information,
Uchenna Madu, said that they were in
solidarity with IPOB because Kanu is a true
BIafran
He said that “the protest will continue as a
platform to send the message across that we
need Biafra, we are not secured in Nigeria,
and we are feeling that our future is secured
not in Nigeria. Our demonstrations shall
remain non violent, today we are in Owerri
and by the time we finish in the Southeast
and Kanu is not released we will match to
Abuja so that we can all be detained because
we are ready to die for what beljeve in.”
According to him, “we are tired of being
slaves in Nigeria, what is happening now
shows that Biafra is ready to go so let them
give us Biafra and release our leader
immediately.”
At the Government House, there was equally
heavy security presence apparently to forestall
any attempt to invade the Government House.
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) and a faction of the Movement for the
Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB), as well as other pro-Brafra
groups, at last penetrated Owerri, the Imo
State capital, crippling economic activities and
vehicular movements as they protested the
continued detention of the Radio Biafra
Director, Nnamdi Kanu.
It would be recalled that the Imo State
Governor, Rochas Okorocha, at the wake of
the protests, absolved the Southeast
Governors and Igbo leaders of any complicity,
adding that the separatists does not enjoy the
support of majority of the Igbo. Also the
Governor had stepped up security in the state
to prevent the pro-Biafra groups from holding
the protest in the state.
However, as early as 6am Friday, IPOB
members who reportedly trekked from Aba in
neighbouring Abia state and Port Harcourt,
apparently to beat security checks, were
converged at strategic positions in the state
capital from where they linked up with their
members on ground to begin the protest.
group clash with security operatives in
Anambra
Although there was heavy security presence,
including battle ready soldiers and heavily
armed mobile Policemen who drove behind
the protesters in their vehicles, there was
obvious anxiety among the residents as shop
owners hurriedly locked up their shops, while
motorists parked out of the road to make way
for the long procession.
Meanwhile the protesters numbering over 10
thousand, marched through major streets in
the state capital, displaying the Biafra flag and
placards with various inscriptions such as,
‘FG free Nnamdi Kanu now’, ‘Kanu is Biafra
and we are Kanu’, ‘we need Biafra now’ ,
among others and chanting war songs.
One of the protesters, Emmanuel Onyema,
said that the protests will spread to other
parts of the country and sustained untill Kanu
is unconditionally released by the Federal
Government.
The factional MASSOB Director of Information,
Uchenna Madu, said that they were in
solidarity with IPOB because Kanu is a true
BIafran
He said that “the protest will continue as a
platform to send the message across that we
need Biafra, we are not secured in Nigeria,
and we are feeling that our future is secured
not in Nigeria. Our demonstrations shall
remain non violent, today we are in Owerri
and by the time we finish in the Southeast
and Kanu is not released we will match to
Abuja so that we can all be detained because
we are ready to die for what beljeve in.”
According to him, “we are tired of being
slaves in Nigeria, what is happening now
shows that Biafra is ready to go so let them
give us Biafra and release our leader
immediately.”
At the Government House, there was equally
heavy security presence apparently to forestall
any attempt to invade the Government House.
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