Traders in Abana on Friday scampered for safety as Niger Delta Militants stormed the market and shot in the air to enforce sit at home protest ordered by pro Biafra agitators, IgbereTV has learned.
Abana is the former Local Government Headquarters of Bakassi Peninsula.
The pro Biafra agitators had last month issued a 7 day sit at home order by one of their leaders, Simon Ekpa starting from Monday this week to Tuesday next week to press home for the release of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi kanu.
To implement the order, the militants on Friday morning shot sporadically in Abana, scaring travellers. Business activities were stalled at the beach, as natives scampered for safety.
Top sources close to the group said, “commercial boats, fishermen and others fled when the militant boys were approaching, and many of them are stranded”.
However, the Biafra Nations League, (BnL), an influential group in the Gulf of Guinea led by Princewill Richard is supporting the sit at home.
Commenting, Deputy Leader of BnL, Ebuta Takon said his group “is insisting on the release of Nnamdi Kanu and withdrawal of Cameroon troops from Bakassi Peninsula”.
Nnamdi Kanu was extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya to Nigeria over a year ago and has been in the custody of the Nigerian Department of State Services DSS in Abuja despite several court orders for his release.
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