Shots, teargas fired at pro-Biafra demo in Nigeria
AFP 5 hrs ago

Port Harcourt (Nigeria) (AFP) - Police in Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt on Tuesday fired shots and teargas to disperse hundreds of pro-Biafra supporters as they marched for the release of a key activist, residents said.

Shots were fired into the air to scare away the protesters in the southern city, while air force helicopters were deployed for surveillance, they added.

The police spokesman for Rivers state, of which Port Harcourt is the capital, confirmed the protest but denied shooting or using teargas.

"Measures have been put in place to handle the situation in such a way that public peace is not disrupted and to ensure life and property are protected," Ahmad Muhammad told AFP, without elaborating.

The protest, involving the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group, comes after a series of similar marches in state capitals in southern Nigeria in the last week, despite a police ban.

The groups support the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra in the southeast and want the release of Nnamdi Kanu, who is believed to be a major IPOB sponsor and director of the pirate radio station Radio Biafra.

He was arrested in October, several months after Nigeria's government ordered Radio Biafra to be taken off air for allegedly broadcasting "unsavoury hate messages".

A previous unilateral declaration of secession to create the Republic of Biafra sparked a brutal civil war in Nigeria from 1967 to 1970.

Federal police said last week security had been increased across the country and measures put in place "to ensure security and nobody will be allowed to disturb the peace of the nation".

The demand for Kanu's release has stirred up more protests across states in the region in the past days.

Since the end of the civil war, which left more than one million dead, many from starvation and disease, there have been sporadic attempts to revive the Biafra movement.

- 'No faith in Nigeria' -

The Igbo people who dominate the southeast region claim they have been unfairly treated -- even punished -- since the fighting stopped.

Infrastructure such as roads, water and electricity is lacking along with medical care and education, while Igbos say they have been denied senior political posts.

The founder of the Igbo Youth Movement, Elliot Uko, says years of feeling marginalised have fuelled the current protests.

"These people who want Biafra do not have faith in Nigeria anymore," he said.

"The idea of re-enacting (the) Biafra Republic has always been in the hearts and minds of young people, especially those who seem not to believe that the Igbo will ever get justice in Nigeria.

"They believe Nigeria is pulling the Igbo backward, they believe the Igbo are better off in a separate state. I have been organising seminars and workshops for Igbo youths for decades, I know their mindset."

A revival of secessionist calls was exploiting lingering anger and bitterness, he said, adding the government needed to take note of the grievances and to "give all sections (of society) a sense of belonging".
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Very Balanced report of what happened unlike the report by BBC authored by Zoo-niGERian journalist working for BBC but collecting Brown envelope from the Zoo officials

Times like this I wish I was in Biafra land to witness and be a part of this revolution.

God pls make biafra possible in ma life time so dat I can witness a nigeria free from a cursed erosion part, baby factory children,419,drug trafficking,rituals and robbery...

kestolove95:
God pls make biafra possible in ma life time so dat I can witness a nigeria free from a cursed erosion part, baby factory children,419,drug trafficking,rituals and robbery...

una don dey give up already? You incobsequential nincompoops call Kanu a fraud while international Agencies that matter call him an ACTIVIST. See the difference between zoogerian baboons and normal human beings?

And Yahoo follows BBC.
Who is next.

Buhari you can keep Kanu a little longer for us.
Please don't release him for now.

Hehehehe... Soon, Fox News, CNN, VOA and many more will carry Biafra news.

Picture Evidences that the Zoo niGERia Security officials used live bullets on unarmed, harmless, Peaceful Protesters. I know that during the 2015 presidential campaign that the camaign train of GEJ were attacked severally by weapon wielding northern APC elements and yet non body was shot or even molested. Is it because of part of the Zoo-niGERia that we come from that will make our people get shot with live bullets even when peaceful an armless? *****shakes head*****

All na the same picture them dey circulate


Chosen04 , Una coloring don finish ?

No picture of gunshot wound

no picture or video evidence of police presence

Abeegi

DaBullIT:
All na the same picture them dey circulate


Chosen04 , Una coloring don finish ?

No picture of gunshot wound

no picture or video evidence of police presence

Abeegi

.....The pictures are posted above, are they cutlas wound injuries (sic) or what? Video evidences are abound. Those of them will be used against the Pedophile, terrorist, Boko Haram sympathizing Dullard of Daura at the ICC

If the well coordinated and the Zoo paid for silence of the media cannot stop Biafra from trending, nothing will stop the coming of the Sovereign State of Biafra soonest.

chosen04:
.....The pictures are posted above, are they cutlas wound injuries (sic) or what? Video evidences are abound. Those of them will be used against the Pedophile, terrorist, Boko Haram sympathizing Dullard of Daura at the ICJ.

Not abound and there's no icj competent enough to prosecute an innocent man

Soon the cry for biafra will end, then GEJ will be prosecuted then we expect another crying and wailing

DaBullIT:



Not abound and there's no icj competent enough to prosecute an innocent man

Soon the cry for biafra will end, then GEJ will be prosecuted then we expect another crying and wailing

......Who is an innocent man? Same Dullard of Daura whose inciting statements following his 2011 election lost led to the deaths over 800 so called Zoo-niGERians? ****I can now understand why Jesus Wept*****

laffytaffy1:
Times like this I wish I was in Biafra land to witness and be a part of this revolution.

Try and come down Nwanne because we will be hitting another Biafran State for another massive protest.

chosen04:
Picture Evidences that the Zoo niGERia Security officials used live bullets on unarmed, harmless, Peaceful Protesters. I know that during the 2015 presidential campaign that the camaign train of GEJ were attacked severally by weapon wielding northern APC elements and yet non body was shot or even molested. Is it because of part of the Zoo-niGERia that we come from that will make our people get shot with live bullets even when peaceful an armless? *****shakes head*****

please help post dis photos to CNN ireport. Sharp sharp.