Police arrest supporters of Radio Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu Supporters of the Director of Radio Biafra

Police arrest supporters of Radio
Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu
Supporters of the Director of Radio Biafra,



Mr.Nnamdi Kanu were on Tuesday arrested by the
Anambra State police command at various parts
in Awka as they protested the arrest of Mr.
Kanu.
The protesters, including women, carried
placards with various inscriptions, marched from
Amawbia to the Government House, demanding
that Kanu be left alone.
However, as they approached Government
House, the police men stationed at the place
fired into the air and threw teargas canisters to
disperse the crowd.
Another group protesting at the Arroma junction
was also arrested by the police.
Anambra State coordinator of Indigenous People
of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Ikechukwu Okoye said their
protest was not meant to cause any trouble,
adding that they were only on the streets to ask
DSS to release Kanu.
According to him, the protesters were marching
to the Government House to plead with Anambra
State governor, Chief Willie Obiano to prevail on
President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene on
the matter.
He said:
“We are only agitators who obey the laws
of the land. This is democracy and there is
freedom of speech and freedom of
movement.
“Why would anybody detain our leader and
in the process be demanding bail fee of
N2million. We have not come to fight
anybody because we are peace makers”
Anmabra State Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Hosea Karma, confirmed the arrest of the
protesters, saying it was because they were
parading along the Enugu-Onitsha expressway
thereby causing breach of peace.
According to the CP:
“There is nothing like Indigenous People of
Biafra. Those people constituted nuisance
on the high way and that was why they
were picked.
“Right now, I do not know the number of
people that were picked, but I want to
assure the people that anybody who
disturbs the peace that exists in this state
will not go unpunished.”
Meanwhile, the factional leadership of the
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign
State of Biafra, MASSOB, has lent support to the
Radio Biafra director.
In a press statement made available to reporters
in Awka yesterday, the national director of
information of the breakaway MASSOB, Mr
Uchenna Madu said it was identifying with Kanu
in the spirit of brotherhood pursuing one strong
force for self determination.
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