Pressure is high in Anambra State as persons associated to
be individuals with the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State
of Biafra, MASSOB, mounted barricades and set campfire in Nkpor and Onitsha
creating the streets to be forsaken.
As indicated by Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr
Hassan Karma, the associated individuals with MASSOB accumulated at a school in
Nkpor with recognizing banners decorated with the rising sun images and charms
yet with mission obscure.
He said that the Joint Security Operation, on moving into
find out their central goal, the gathering opened flame on them yet the
circumstance was later brought under control as the gathering fled and two
individuals were captured among them.
The Commissioner revealed that those captured were not from
the state and cautioned one and all who felt they could cover up under any
pretense to incite inconvenience in the state to cease as it would not go on
without serious consequences.
While guaranteeing the general population of Anambra state
to resist the urge to panic as proactive measures were on cause to bring the
circumstance under control, he exhorted that all inhabitants ought to grasp
peace and not encroach on other individuals' flexibility while disturbing for
their own opportunity.
Nonetheless, an onlooker who talked off camera said that it
was the security offices that initially disturbed the quiet challenge of the gathering
at Nkpor when they were walking to recognize the one year in memoriam of the
casualties of the battle for opportunity.
Fracas In Asaba
Additionally, in Asaba, the Delta State capital, a few
people were harmed as an arranged challenge by individuals from the Movement
for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) declined into a
battle.
The MASSOB individuals had arranged quiet dissents crosswise
over south eastern states to stamp 49 years of the tumult for Biafra Republic
(1967 to 2016), on Monday.
The battle allegedly broke out when Police attempted to
scatter the nonconformists by terminating teargas at them.
This activity irritated the dissenters who supposedly
responded furiously and this worsened into a bigger fracas.
As indicated by observers, those harmed in the fracas,
including policemen, were taken to the Federal Medical Center, Asaba for
treatment.
Captures in Owerri
In the mean time, the Imo State Police Command has captured
more than 20 individuals from MASSOB for what they termed unsettling influence
of open peace.
While parading the individuals from the gathering at the
charge home office in Owerri, the summon's Public Relations Officer, Andrew
Enwerem, said that the gathering were gathered together around Tetlow Street by
Okigwe street at around 11AM where they were said to accumulate to storm the
city.
Mr Enwerem said that the activity by the gathering was
inadmissible and an unsettling influence of open peace that is fit for creating
breakdown of lawfulness in the state.
He said that the Imo State Police Commissioner, Taiwo
Lakanu, would not excuse any demonstration of terrorism, thuggery or unholy
affiliation that is proficient bringing about breakdown of peace in the state
as all such demonstrations would be dealt with as a high criminal offense.
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