arrest and detention of its members because of being in possession of IPOB emblems.
“The Police cannot arrest innocent citizen going about their legitimate business because of IPOB emblem. Anybody that has committed an offence should be charged to Court after 24 hours. The Police should charge them to Court or release them,” he said.
The spokesman said during the protest, the Police attempted to intimidate them and threatened to shoot, noting, however, that they would not relent until all their members arrested unlawfully were released.
The protesters later shifted base to the secretariat of the group along Imiringi road where they watched Biafra Television Broadcast.
A Police source who confirmed the arrest of IPOB members said the protest was unnecessary, as the leadership of the group had earlier been invited to bail its members.
He said Bayelsa State Police has made it clear that it would not allow IPOB disrupt the peace of the state with its activities.
Recently the Court in Bayelsa State discharged and acquitted 30 members of the group that were charged to the Court by the Police for unlawful gathering.
Two frontline Igbo group, MASSOB and the Biafra Independent Movement (BIM), said it would celebrate its first anniversary on September 13.
Leader of the group in Ebonyi South zone, Chief Sunday Ezaka, who disclosed this in Abakaliki said the event would be celebrated in Awka, Anambra State with numerous activities.
He said Biafra’s actualisation was near and urged agitators not to be intimidated by those he called enemies of progress.
Ezaka lauded founder of the MASSOB/BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike for floating new Biafra Radio station in Germany, which he noted has come on air. He described Uwazuruike as the authentic Biafra leader.
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