Enugu court remands 67 pro-Biafra agitators in prison

As part of Governor Peter Mbah’s efforts to put an end to the sit-at-home protests that have been going on throughout Enugu State, a total of 67 Biafra separatists who were arrested in various parts of the state have been remanded in prison custody.

In addition, it is said that five members of the group were killed by combined security agencies, who were allegedly following orders from the state government to put an end to the sit-at-home protests and any other Biafra agitations that were taking place in the state.

According to report, members of the pro-Biafra movement were taken into custody in the Eke-Obinagu and Independence Layout areas on May 29 and 30, respectively, during the Biafra Day commemoration activities that took place in the state.

They are comprised of seven females and sixty males, all of whom are believed to be between the ages of fifty and seventy years old.

Although 52 members of the Biafra Zionist Federation were separatists, only 15 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra were involved in the conflict.

A police officer who did not want his name mentioned in print told our correspondent on Sunday that 67 pro-Biafra members were secretly arraigned before an Enugu North Magistrate Court on Friday evening by Police after a security meeting with the new governor of the State. The officer said that the court ordered their remand prison custody. The officer did not want his name mentioned in print.

They were arraigned in court at approximately 6:45 p.m., where a presiding magistrate ordered that they should be transferred to prison custody while the case file was transferred to the department of public prosecution. When the governor was briefed, he approved that the elderly men and women should be taken to court, and that is the reason why they were arraigned in court.

“In point of fact, they were taken into custody on May 29 and 30, during the so-called Biafra Day celebration that was taking place in the Eke-Obinagu and Independence Layout areas of the state capital.

During the operation, five members of the opposition were eliminated. During the raid that took place in their camp in Eke-Obinagu, those people are members of IPOB. “The operation was part of the measures to end sit-at-home as directed by the state governor who has given the security agencies a marching order to crush anyone that foments trouble in the state in the name of Biafra agitations,” the source said. The governor of the state has given the security agencies a marching order to crush anyone that foments trouble in the state in the name of Biafra agitations.

Our correspondent was told by a warder at the Enugu Maximum Custodial Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service that the pro-Biafra members were brought to the Centre on Thursday and Friday, respectively, at 7:18 p.m.

“The members were documented on Saturday because they were brought in during the night and were primarily elderly people in their 60s and even 70s,” the author writes. “The members were brought in during the night.” They had just finished praying for the souls of those who had passed away during the 30 months of bloody civil war, and they were on the verge of going home when the police and soldiers descended upon them. This is according to some of those who were present.

“Some had gone to show you that we are finished, and nobody who went was carrying any arms or weapons of any kind.” Therefore, it is our crime that we gathered together to pray for those of our brothers who had been brutally put to death during the time of the civil war. The government has continued its war on the Biafran people rather than observing May 30 as a day of remembrance by instituting a national holiday on that date to honor those who perished as a result of being shot or starved to death. The new governor of Enugu State wants to demonstrate his undying loyalty to those who forced him upon the citizens of Enugu State, according to what the warder said.

In the meantime, Governor Mbah has threatened to close any market, school, or transportation units that did not open for business today (Monday) as a result of the unlawful sit-at-home order that was imposed in the state.