Police Vow to Deal with IPOB, MASSOB, BIM over Planned Market Closure
The Nigeria Police Friday warned that it
will deal decisively with members of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of
Biafra (MASSOB) and the Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) over their
plan to close all markets and commercial activities in the South-east
and part of South-south geo-political zone.
The pro-Biafran agitators recently
called for the closure of markets and commercial activities ahead of the
50th anniversary of the Nigerian civil war.
The release of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu,
has also increased the euphoria by the agitators in the region who have
remained consistent over issues of marginalization and system neglect,
particularly, by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
But in a statement in Abuja, Police
Public Relations Officer, CSP Moshood Jimoh, said the police would
deploy all its strength to deal with any Biafra agitators.
He said: “The attention of the Nigeria
Police Force has been drawn to publications in the media on the planned
protests and order of market closure in the South Eastern states on the
30th May, 2017 by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Movement
for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the
Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) and other like groups.”
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