At least 67 Biafra agitators who were detained in various Enugu State locations have been kept behind bars.
Seven females and 60 males who were claimed to be between the ages of 50 and 70 were among the remanded individuals.
Additionally, newsmen learned that at least five separatists were allegedly murdered in the state on the State Government’s orders by a coalition of security agencies.
According to reports, Governor Peter Mbah is pursuing the Biafra agitators as part of his efforts to put an end to sit-at-home protests in the state.
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It was heard that during the state’s Biafra Day commemoration events on May 29 and 30, some supporters of the movement were detained in the Eke-Obinagu and Independence Layout districts, respectively.
15 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra made up the separatist group, compared to 52 members of the Biafra Zionist Federation.
The 67 pro-Biafra members were secretly arraigned before an Enugu North Magistrate Court, which ordered their remand prison custody on Friday evening by Police after a security meeting with the new governor of the State, according to a police officer who spoke anonymously to The PUNCH over the weekend and confirmed the development.
The elderly men and women were arraigned in court around 6:45 p.m. after the governor allegedly gave the go-ahead for their transportation, and the presiding magistrate ordered that they be transferred to prison custody while the case file be transferred to the department of public health.
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“Actually they were arrested on May 29 and 30 at Eke-Obinagu and Independence Layout area of the state capital during their so-called Biafra Day commemoration.
“Five members were neutralised during the operation. Those ones are members of IPOB during a raid in their camp in Eke-Obinagu. The operation was part of 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 foment trouble in the state in the name of Biafra agitations,” the security personnel noted.
Additionally, a warder of the Nigerian Correctional Service’s Enugu Maximum Custodial Centre told journalists that the pro-Biafra members were transported to the facility on Thursday and Friday around 7:18 p.m.
The warder said: “The members were documented on Saturday because they were brought in the night and were mainly old people in their 60s and even 70s. According to some of them, they had concluded their prayers for the repose of those who died during the 30 months of bloody civil war and were about to go home when police and soldiers swooped on them.
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“Some had gone to show you we have finished and nobody was carrying arms or carrying any weapons. So, is our offence that we gathered to pray for those of our brothers that were brutally killed during the civil war. Instead of the government declaring a public holiday every May 30 to remember those that were killed by bullets and starvation, the government is still waging war on the Biafran. The new governor wants to show his absolute loyalty to those who imposed him on Enugu State people.”
According to Newsmen, the governor of Enugu State has already threatened to close any markets, schools, or transportation facilities that failed to open for business today (Monday) as a result of the state’s illegitimate sit-at-home order.
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