Police Name Total Number Of Arrested Pro-Baifra Supporters
Solomon Arase, the Inspector-General of Police, has revealed the total number of arrested pro-Biafra supporters that currently undergoing prosecution.
Arase while speaking during his visit to the Ministry of Interior said that the 137 suspects are all members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The police boss who also defined Nigerians as lawless, meanwhile said as long as the government respects the right of residents to free expression, the pro-Biafra supporters must stop threatening public peace or face the full wrath of the law.
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He said: “What I can assure you is that we will not allow any group to disturb the peace of this country. We will clamp down on them, we will deal with them, we will prosecute them. Already, we have about 137 of them who are undergoing prosecution across the length and breadth of the South East and we will continue to do that.
“The latest manifestation of this threat is the attempt to block the Onitsha end of Niger Bridge on 1st December, 2015, an action that caused major hardship to innocent and law abiding motorists, and citizens. The act also occasioned serious dislocation of business activities”, he noted.
Arase equally debunked insinuation of an attempted murder of the ex-president Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in Bayelsa state.
“From what I heard from the [State] Commissioner of Police, somebody veered into their [the ex-President’s] convoy but I don’t think it was intended to hurt him. We have crazy drivers all over the place; Nigerians don’t like obeying the law,” IGP stated.
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The recent arrest and continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the pro-Biafran activist, by the Nigerian government has sparked protests.
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