http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/court-jails-six-massob-members-in-asaba-for-wearing-biafra-regalia/

SIX members of the Movement for
the Actualization of the Sovereign State of
Biafra, MASSOB, were yesterday sentenced
to prison by a chief magistrate’s court
sitting in Asaba, Delta, for wearing regalia of
defunct Biafra and proclaiming to be
members of the group.
Sentenced to six months imprisonment on
each of the three-count charge of
conspiracy, unlawful possession and
proclamation to be members of MASSOB
were Sunday Okoro, Ifeanyi Igbozuruike,
Francis Onigbo, Sebastian Nworie,
Emmanuel Nwafor and Chidi Okafor.
One of the convicted persons, Sunday
Okoro, was said to have been arrested by
men of Delta State police command at the
Asaba end of the River Niger Head Bridge in
February for being in possession of Biafra
paraphernalia, including flag and chaplet.
It was reported that the next day, other
members of the group from neighbouring
Anambra State stormed the Asaba police
station where Okoro was held in solidarity
visit but that while on that visit, five of them
were detained along with Okoro for also
adorning Biafran regalia.
In jailing the accused persons, the Asaba
Chief Magistrate court presided over by Mr.
S.C. Ehikwe stated that it was the duty of
the court to check the excesses of
miscreants out to cause confusion in the
nation.
However, counsel to the convicted
members of MASSOB, Mr. W.O. Ezeanwo,
said “we are not satisfied. There is no
evidence that MASSOB is an illegal
organization. So we are going to get the
True Certified Copy, CTC, of the judgment
and file our appeal in a higher court.”