The anti-cult unit attached to the Imo state police command has successfully disrupted an attempt by some group of boys suspected to be members of Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra to block the express along Orji flyover in Owerri.
It was learned that the group had gathered to register their grievances thereby causing serious gridlock of traffic along the expressway which led to an exchange of gunfire that led to some members of the two organizations sustaining serious injuries.
According to an Eyewitness, the IPOB members were waiting at Orji/Okigwe road Owerri Imo State to receive the corpse of a member Onyekachukwu Uzoma from Mbaise, who died at Enugu, when they clashed with the operatives.
The situation forced security operatives to block the road, preventing human and vehicular moments in the area.
Reacting to the development, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Orlando Ikeokwu confirmed the incident to newsmen.
The PPRO said the group were members of MASSOB and the police personnel deployed for the job has swiftly responded and normalcy has returned.
Meanwhile, the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful, alleged that the police shot at the members “when Imo IPOB family were waiting at Orji to receive the dead body of our member been conveyed from Enugu to Mbaise when they were shot by the police operatives with many of them sustaining injuries.
“The Nigeria and army and SARS started shooting sporadically at our IPOB members. Nigeria Army and Police have started once again pushing us to the wall.
“IPOB is not happy how the Nigerian government is killing Biafrans and other Christians in Nigeria.
“We are warning the Nigeria government and her security operatives to stop attacking IPOB because they will regret their actions soon,” he said.
