The Anambra state police
command on Tuesday arrested scores of pro- Radio Biafra director, Nnamdi Kanu protesters
at various points in Awka, the state capital.
The protesters numbering in their
scores, mostly women carried placards with various inscriptions matched from
Amawbia to the Government House.
When the protesters were
approaching the Agu Awka government house, the police men stationed at the
place opened fire in the air to scare them.
Dared by the protesters, the police
threw some carnisters of tear gas on them, which forced them to retreat.
But at the Arroma junction, scores
of the Pro Kanu demonstrators were picked by the police.
Anambra state coordinator for IPOB, Ikechukwu
Okoye, told our correspondents that they were not protesting to cause any form
of nuisance, saying the protest was for the release of their leader, Nnamdi
kanu.
He said they were marching to the
state government house to plead with Anambra state Governor, Chief Willie
Obiano to prevail on President Mohammadu Buhari to intervene on the matter.
According to him, “we are only
freedom agitators who obey the laws of the land; this is democracy and there is
freedom of speech, freedom of movement and so on”
“Why would anybody detain our leader
and in the process demand bail of N2million. We have not come to fight anybody
because we are peace makers”
Anambra state Police Commissioner,
Hosea Karma, confirmed the arrest of some persons who according to him were
parading along the Enugu-Onitsha express way.
According to him, “there is nothing
like Indigenous People of Biafra. Those people constituted nuisance on the high
way and they were picked.
“Right now, I do not know the
numbers that were picked, but I want to assure you that anybody who wants to
disturb the peace that exists here will not go unpunished.
We do not have any group that goes
by such name, they were causing obstruction on the federal high way” Karma
said.
Meanwhile, the factional leadership
of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra had
given solidarity to the cause of Nnamdi Kanu.
In a press statement made
available to newsmen in Awka on Tuesday the National Director of
Information of MASSOB, Mr Uchenna Madu said “In the brotherhood spirit of
Biafra and coalition of one stronger force of self determination, MASSOB hails
Radio Biafra Director and his executives.
It said “Nnamdi kanu was not
suspended by Ralph Uwazuruike or MASSOB. He left MASSOB in 2009 on his own.
“Uwazuruike should close his mouth
in shame in any matter concerning Biafra because Biafrans are no longer happy
with him or celebrating him. “
The Uwazuruike led MASSOB had
disowned Kanu recently in a press statement.
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