At least 125 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were Thursday arrested while several others sustained injuries during a rally to mark the 19th anniversary celebration of the organization in Anambra State.
Security personnel from the Nigerian Army, Police, Department of State Security services and Civil Defense stormed the venue of the rally at Ifitedunu in Dunukofia Local Government Area of the State at about 12 noon to arrest the agitators.
Although no death was recorded, Chief Arinze Igbani, a member of the Biafra Elders’ Council claimed that many of his members sustained various degrees of injuries as a result of alleged assault and subsequent arrest by the security operatives.
According to him, three bus-load of MASSOB members, including Gen. Innocent Ejioforbiri, the General of Biafra veterans, Anambra South zone and other Biafra war veterans some of whom are octogenarians, were arrested by the security operatives while returning home from similar celebrations at Uga in Aguata Local Government Area of the State.
He also claimed that two other buses were destroyed by the security operatives during the raid.
“Today, Anambra state and the Federal Government collaborated to molest Ndigbo who came out to celebrate non-violently, the 19th
anniversary of MASSOB