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Boko Haram Prisoners Moved Out Of South East
By Admin • On July 10, 2015 • In Boko Haram, Local News Boko Haram, Local News 0
Major markets in the Southeast were yesterday closed in protest against the presence of Boko Haram detainees in the Ekwulobia prison, Anambra State.
Traders planned to stage a mass protest at a well-
attended meeting of the South East Amalgamated Traders Association held in Onitsha last Saturday.
The meeting drew participants from various
traders’ unions and associations in Abia,
Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states. They
strongly condemned the transfer of the Boko
Haram prisoners to Ekwulobia prison and
requested President Muhammadu Buhari to
remove them.
“At our meeting in Onitsha last Saturday, many participants were very angry over the alleged attempt by the Federal Government to spread terrorism and terrorists to Igbo land. We have made it clear that we don’t want Boko Haram prisoners anywhere in the Southeast and the government has no reason whatsoever to bring them here. Their plan is to expose us to danger and we must resist it,” one of the traders’ leaders said.
All markets in Enugu, including Ogbete Main
Market, Kenyatta Market and Garriki Market, were locked. Onitsha was also totally paralysed.
Imo markets were closed as the traders joined
the peaceful protest.
In the commercial town of Aba, Abia State,
however, all was normal.
Ebonyi traders also failed to join the protest.
The Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, explained why the planned protest by traders against the relocation of some Boko Haram suspects to Anambra State did not hold in the state.
He said this on Thursday during an inspection tour of ongoing projects in Abakaliki that since the suspects had already been taken to Abuja, the protest was unnecessary.
Also Read: Boko Haram Detainees Will Be Relocated Out Of Anambra – Obiano
He said, “The traders have the right to protest but there was no need for the protest because we (South-East governors) had enjoined the Federal Government not to relocate any Boko Haram prisoner to any prison in the South-East. Those suspects brought to Anambra State have been taken back to Abuja.
“The state decided against the protest for the reason that the governors of the region had intimated the Presidency on their opinion on the matter, and so no need for anyone to encourage people of the state to take to the streets.”
Umahi said that risking the lives of the people of the state on the streets was not the best.
It was gathered that the planned protest by the
traders was expected to take place simultaneously across the five states of the South-East.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Chris Anyanwu, said that the command had increase security on major roads and locations of the state to prevent any possible breakdown of law and order.
He said, “We got wind of plans by traders in Abakaliki markets to stage a peaceful protest over what they alleged as relocation of persons
suspected to be Boko Haram members to some
prisons in the South-East. We had to mobilise our men immediately to major roads and locations in the state to avert any breakdown of law and order.
Also Read: Fear Grips Rivers Over Alleged Transfer Of Boko Haram Detainees To P-Harcourt Prison
“Part of our responsibility is to ensure the security of lives and properties of the citizenry. We envisaged that hoodlums may take advantage of the protest to disrupt the peace of the state especially now that the election petition tribunal is sitting in the state capital. We don’t want people to loot peoples’ properties in the name of peaceful protest, so we had to mobilise our men.”
But the protest was greeted with criticisms from
Transform Nigeria Movement (TNM), led by
Comrade Obi Ochije, who described the protest
as “senseless” and “unnecessary”. He blamed it all on Governor Willie Obiano.
He said: “it is shameful and unfair for market leaders to be closing markets without considering the poor, the widows who have nobody to cater for them.”
The rights activist said civil society groups were
appealing to Obiano to stop closing markets, but
hailed him for his efforts in fighting for Ndigbo on the issue.
Meanwhile, the Speaker of the Cross River State
House of Assembly, Mr. John Lebo, on Thursday said the state would resist any attempt to send Boko Haram suspects to prison facilities in the state.
Also Read: Fear Grips Enugu Residents As Boko Haram Allegedly Storms The State
He said categorically that the state could not
accommodate the suspects.
There are no fewer than six prisons sited in different locations including Calabar, Adim, Obubra, Ogoja and Obudu.
Lebo said, “We will resist relocation of Boko Haram suspects to Calabar Prisons or any other one in the state.”
Meanwhile, police authority had said two possible suicide bombers were arrested in Yola on Thursday, July 9, while trying to sell improvised explosive device (IED) given to them.

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thank GOD if this is true.

this is the result of clueless people who call themselves agents of change with so many advisers who just sit and and watch the nation-state deplete completely advising rubbish he wants to spread to it to the south east and we south-easterners vehemently reject it we are not known for terrorism and so we will not associate ourselves with terrorist Biafra is a peaceful land

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The South West is a better place for the prisoners.

nwafuluozoh:
The South West is a better place for the prisoners.

tankz God u ppl do say we b amala ppl so u wey b d militant nd biafruad ppl y dont u jst show all ur power on boko boyz

Haba!

nwafuluozoh:
The South West is a better place for the prisoners.

dats, better pls take it to fellow apc states not imo

Better, it will reduce the fear and restore normalcy back to the affected states
http://dailypost.ng/2015/07/10/boko-haram-detainees-relocated-from-south-east/
pls lalasticlala ds deserve FP