The suspected MASSOB leaders arrested on August 6 according to Delta Police are: Ndubisi Ezeocha, 20, Francis Onuigbo, 28, Emeka Izigbo, 28 and Andrew Nwufulu, 26
Delta Police spokesman Lucky Uyabeme who gave the names added: “On August 7, one Emeka Okafor ‘m’ aged 52 years, a native of Nkanu in Enugu State and the acclaimed leader of the group was arrested with five other suspects.”
Uyabeme, an ASP, said the suspects would be charged to court at the end of investigation.
He listed the items recovered from them to include, 114 Biafran flags, two boots, 129 Biafran pounds and ten shillings.
Others things recovered from them he said, include: 32 membership forms and other documents, ten pairs of complete Biafran uniforms with name tags, three cutlasses, seven hard cover notebooks for minutes of meeting, two military belts and one expended cartridge.
He said the police would not allow any part of the state to be used as breeding ground for any criminal activity, insisting that acts of the suspects were “treasonable and the government will not condone such lawlessness.”
Okafor, who is the Coordinator of MASSOB in Anioma/Ndokwa East region, said he was arrested last week and has been in police detention. in police detention.
Police accused the suspects of attacking vigilance men at Powerline and Ominigboma areas of Asaba.
Okofor insisted that they were arrested because of the growing popularity of MASSOB.
His words: “This is a sector, how can we go and attack them. They are afraid that if MASSOB continues to be visible, they would not continue to harass people. They are street people.
“Nothing much happened, there were people that came there and wanted to sympathise with flood victims and three of my members went there. Unfortunately one of them, who has not been given proper MASSOB training, went with them.
“And while there, they were pushing each other trying to get space and in the process the vigilance people slapped one of my boys and he retaliated. And then the vigilante people called policemen from ‘B’ Division. Instead of coming to settle the matter, the police started arresting our members, nothing again.”
He said MASSOB remained a peaceful association that is going about its activities without intimidating, harassing or attacking members of the public, adding that they were attacked by crooks who removed everything that the police paraded as exhibits.
“We did not go on road block neither did we go on demonstration. We were at a place and they went there to search everything. Those boys are crooks, they searched everywhere and brought out these moneys. The money is for me, we keep the money knowing that it is a legal tender to the Biafran people, so we hide it because we know the quality of it,” he said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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