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Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Nobody: 6:39am On Mar 11, 2010 |
No fewer than 40 members of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were yesterday arrested by the police in Enugu, while marching round major streets within the metropolis, protesting the continued detention of their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike. Though the protest was generally peaceful, an encounter between a combined team of soldiers and mobile policemen with the protesting members at College Road, led to the arrest and detention of over 40 members of the group. Regional Administrator of the group, Chief Ekwe Ikechukwu, alleged that over 50 of the protesting members were arrested at College Road and Ogui New Layout, where they encountered a combined team of the Military and Mobile Policemen, who had pursued them in five Hilux vans from Edinburgh Road. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Ebere Amarizu, said he could not confirm the arrest .The protest, which was staged simultaneously in Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu, Imo and Rivers states, according to the MASSOB leadership, was intended to compel the federal and Imo State governments to facilitate immediate release of Uwazurike. The protesters who marched with placards, rendering popular Biafran war songs to the admiration of onlookers, were, however, peaceful, as security agents were virtually off the streets while the protest march was on. Hundreds of activists of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday stormed the major streets of Umuahia protesting the continued detention of their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike. But despite the peaceful nature of the protest, the police still swooped on some members of the movement at the take-off point of the protest march on Owerri Street and arrested 10 of them, mostly the elderly ones, who were waiting for their colleagues to return from the protest march to round off the protest. Police public relations officer (PPRO) of Abia Command, Ali Okechukwu, confirmed the arrest of the MASSOB activists, saying there was no record to show that they applied for permit to hold their protest rally. The MASSOB leader was arrested in January for allegedly kidnapping one Pascal Okorie, a former representative of MASSOB in London with the police preferring a case of “conspiracy, kidnapping, false imprisonment and assault against Uwazurike. http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=168334 |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by EzeUche(m): 6:41am On Mar 11, 2010 |
And this is a peaceful group. Does Nigeria want to make the Igbo violent as the Niger Deltans, because no group has a monopoly on violence. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by jimmysho(m): 9:06am On Mar 11, 2010 |
EzeUche: the best comment heard so far on the self determination struggle. pls, tell them loud and clear |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by RichyBlacK(m): 9:12am On Mar 11, 2010 |
Useless Nigerian Police! Those fuk.tards won't go and prevent massacres by marauding murderers in Northern Nigeria but will go about arresting a peaceful organization. Absolute uselessness! |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by gidson12(m): 10:30am On Mar 11, 2010 |
why arrest them if it was peaceful, while the demons who perpetrated the jos genocide are at large, imagine how secure we are in Nigeria with our police |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by chosen04(f): 4:59pm On Mar 11, 2010 |
Nigerian Police takes unnecessary pride in arresting defenceless people and MOSSOB members. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by safariman(m): 5:13pm On Mar 11, 2010 |
Maybe they arrested them because they no fit give them bribe |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Beaf: 8:32pm On Mar 11, 2010 |
Why are they so good at trying and even imprisoning MASSOB people for treason, [size=14pt]yet they never try religious rioters in the North?[/size] |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Igwe9(m): 8:43pm On Mar 11, 2010 |
and the state governors say what, aren't they their brothers? and they'd still need their mandates to cling to the seats power |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Onlytruth(m): 9:01pm On Mar 11, 2010 |
~Bluetooth: The truth is that MASSOB is gradually expanding - a very smart strategy. Their peaceful method remains unbeatable. Nigeria loves violence and has been expecting violence from MASSOB. Nothing is more powerful than ideas. If more people continue to buy into MASSOB's manifesto, the vehicle for the liberation of the oppressed will emerge before we can say jack robinson. MASSOB is more credible than Save Nigeria Group because these guys are actually getting thrown into jails and in some instances killed; while the SNG is busy singing songs and carrying placards without ruffling feathers. Two different organizations, two different ideas. May the better idea win! |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Dede1(m): 9:20pm On Mar 11, 2010 |
If the alleged peaceful demonstrated by MASSOB actually happened in the following states such as Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu, Imo and Rivers state, I will say that certain people in southern Nigeria have awoken from deep political slumber. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by oge4real(f): 9:32pm On Mar 11, 2010 |
yeye police. they will nt see the riot in JOS even when preinformed. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by ebere1712: 5:12am On Mar 12, 2010 |
I said it before, they arrest and molest defenseless citizens but let murderers run free. COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Nobody: 9:55am On Mar 12, 2010 |
Dear All, The Nigerian Police is more likely to run for his life in an event of a violent protest. The only place they can show "power" is if the protesters are almless and peaceful. Yet, me thinks that it is time Nigeria which is long dead is bureid for good. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by edoyad(m): 10:44am On Mar 12, 2010 |
Positive Activism i like. The dumb as olopa arrest people who have not raised an arm against anyone but fail to prevent death of travellers from armed robbers. This is the only way to do this thing too much talking and talks about more talks is making one sick and tired. People want emancipation from backwardness and It's inevitable that it will come about one way or the other. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Mbeki: 2:03pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
If only the Nigerian Police knows how far MASSOB has gone and how large they are in number, they'll stop wasting their already wasted time. MASSOB tactics is non-violence and that's why they are spreading , even if they kill Uwazuruike, the movement continues. In less than no time, they'll obtain what others have been fighting for with arms quietly ;So quietly that Nigeria and Nigerians will be shocked. Just keep a date. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by marcino10(m): 2:48pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
as a good citizen of Biafra (Massob) i did not fully agreed with peaceful movement, but is okay we all have abide to what the movement said, but remember about apartheid, unless we want to be second Tibet peoples china, while their people suffering in Asia, we need strong leadership in (Massob) wicked Nigerian government and it allied include useless police will not allow pace to reign unless pieces, i was born in 1975, but reed history been in South African system now let me understood some few thing, I said strong push is needed, as we can not be another Tibet American government visit every new government while our people perishes |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by chosen04(f): 7:19pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
Mbeki: True talk bro |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by riversboy: 9:04pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
I follow all MASSOB News in one place - www.massobnews.com - because there is information coming from everywhere: http://massobnews.com/ Well, they say that a child that does not want his father to sleep, will not sleep either. Nigeria does not want the easterners to sleep, let us see if they will sleep. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by oderemo(m): 9:09pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
Nigeria does not want the easterners to sleep, let us see if they will sleep |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Nobody: 9:12pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
face it . . . we are sliding to an islamic state very soon. You can hide your head in the sand all you want. |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Onlytruth(m): 9:20am On Mar 13, 2010 |
[size=16pt]22 MASSOB Members To Appear In Court [/size] Twenty-two members of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) including a 68-year-old woman, who were arrested in Asaba, Delta State on Wednesday, are to be arraigned in court. The members, drawn from various parts of the Eastern States, including Akwa-Ibom and Delta, were arrested by the police for demonstration in Okwe area of the state capital. Parading the suspects in Asaba on Thursday , the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Simeon Midenda, said the members would be charged with inciting disturbances and belonging to a proscribed group. According to the Deputy Commissioner, they came to Asaba in a dark green Mitsubishi bus with registration number XA456AKU to demonstrate against anti MASSOB actions. The group, 22 males including an 11-year-old boy and the only female, Madam Adanne Otete, carried placards with different inscriptions like “Stop killing our people in the North,” “Free Uwazurike our leader, he is a freedom fighter,”and “We are Biafrans marching to our freedom.” Some of the suspects, who spoke in an interview, claimed that they came to Asaba from Onitsha in Anambra State to refuel their vehicles before they were arrested. But 27-year-old Clement Igwe said they were nabbed on the way to their camp at Omerigbone in Asaba, adding ”we are not Nigerians; we are Biafrans. We have our currency and coat of arm.” Commercial activities in Onitsha were paralysed on Wednesday when over 2,000 MASSOB members took to the streets protesting the arrest of their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike. http://tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/news/573-22-massob-members-to-appear-in-court-.html |
Re: Police Arrest 60 Massob Members by Sunofgod(m): 10:23am On Mar 13, 2010 |
is it 60 or 40 arrests - cant give this story any credibility. |
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