Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and MASSOB claimed that Nigerian army abducted 18 their members from the private hospital where they received treatment.
New Telegraph reports that the kidnapping in Onitsha has compelled the groups to believe a re-reprisal attack because the members were yet to recover after their last clash with troops attached to the 302 Military Cantonment Onitsha on order of the Commander, Col. Abdulahi.
The revelation came just as ex-governor of the state Chukwuemeka Eziefe said that President Muhammadu Buhari is stirring the agitation for Biafra by his systematic favoritism against the South-East in nominations because of the voting structure of the zone in the last polls.
He added that by Buhari’s inability to ensure that an Igboman receive one of the first five major government positions in Nigeria, and denying the region in particular, of the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the president has left the people of the region without an option.
Phillip Ezekiel, the area commander of the Nigeria police force in Onitsha, noted that. the police had no problem with MASSOB for now.
Meanwhile, a statement issued by the campaign for democracy in the South-East zone supported by Uzor A. Uzor, claimed that attacks on members of the group have continued.
A Federal High Court in Abuja on December 17 ordered the State Security Service to release the leader of the IPOB Nnamdi Kanu, on bail, unconditionally.
However, Kanu, who’s arrest in October caused new wave of pro-Biafran protests, is seems to be still in custody.