From KASSIDY UCHENDU, Nsukka
Police in Ibagwa-Aka in Igbo Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State, have arrested a member of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) for using Biafra number plate on his motorcycle. Mr. Obeta Anthony from Obolo-Afor in Udenu Local Council Area, Enugu State, according to reports, was arrested last Saturday at Ovoko community for using MASSOB number plate and has been detained at the Ibagwa-Aka Police Station since then. MASSOB Nsukka Rgional Administrator, Mr. Kenneth Fidelis Okwudili, told Daily Sun that Obeta had been in detention since last Saturday and that all efforts made to secure his bail was abortive.
“All efforts we have been making to bail Obeta were abortive as the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) was making an unnecessary demand of N50,000 for his bail,” the administrator alleged. He said what his member did was not an offence and that they had been using the number plate on their motorcycles for a long time to identify themselves. “Go to Onitsha, it is a popular number plate and nobody molests us,” Okwudili averred.
The MASSOB regional administrator insisted that the number plate was only a symbol of identity for their members and that such did not constitute any offence as it served the purpose of a barge or any other emblem of identity to an organisation. Describing the arrest as provocative and an infringement of Obeta’s fundamental rights, Okwudili queried: “Is the number plate a gun or bomb?” adding that, “Nigeria has enough security challenges on her hand to grapple with.
Police should leave non-violent organisations like MASSOB alone and direct their attention at serious security challenges posed by Boko Haram. The administrator recalled that on April 22, police arrested his members for engaging in a clean-up exercise in Nsukka Urban and gave the names of the arrested members as, Asadunwa Paul, Christopher Ude, Ojobo Sylvanus, Abonyi Sylvester, among others. Also, his members were arrested by the police in Nsukka on the eve of the burial of Ojukwu. He called on the DPO, Ibagwa Aka Police Station, to order the immediate release of his member describing his arrest and detention as illegal.
When Daily Sun reached the IPO) on phone for enquiry, he declined comments and only insisted on asking the reporter: “Who gave you my phone number? Who gave you my phone number?” The IPO (name withheld), however, said, “I am writing something, I will reach you later.” Efforts to reach MASSOB Director of Information, Madu, were fruitless as he could not be reached on his cell phone.
POLICE SHOULD PLEASE LEAVE MASSOB ALONE ! ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION ? NIGERIA.
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Please its not a crime for a citizen to show his patrotism afterall every citizen has freedom fundamental human right without any restriction.injustice anywhere is a treat against justice every where.stop objectficating and victimizing people please.
Please its not a crime for a citizen to show his patrotism afterall every citizen has freedom fundamental human right without any restriction.injustice anywhere is a threat against justice every where.stop objectficating and victimizing people please.
Is plate number identity card? “Go to Onitsha, it is a popular number plate and nobody molests us,” Okwudili averred. hmmm let the police go to Onisha and arrest more people so that they can put stop into it. I am sure Arewa and OPC are not using such in other region. Its time for our security agent to checkmate this attitude before its too late. God bless Nigeria
Leave MASSOB alone police and go and fight criminals and those lynching innocent citizens.
nigeria police leave defenseless people alone
who is the ipo at ibagwa-aka? he is of igbo extraction?? please release your brother without any conditions. remember MASSOB is for all of us.
so stop wasting your energy for nigeria’s sake.
Donot mind our socalled police. some of them dono tknow their work. The police should wait to see if the man with massob id is using it to commit crime.Is it offence to write massob at my motor?please make una whach the police who somebody in cell up to today IF HE IS ENEMY of massob
idoits. why not go to the north and arrest BOKO HARAM and not here arresting a non-violence group