Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 82 Division, Lieutenant Colonel Olabisi Ayeni, disclosed this in a statement.
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Security sources revealed that the arrest on Friday followed months of sustained intelligence gathering on the suspects’ activities.
IPOB cited reports, including one submitted by Riley Moore to former U.S. President Donald Trump, highlighting the dangers faced by non-Muslims under Sharia enforcement.
NAN reports that the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) issued the order in the entire South-East region on August 2021 to protest the arrest and incarceration of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
In a statement by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, the directive came directly from IPOB leader Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
The Secretary of Media and Publicity of IPOB, Emma Powerful, restated this on Sunday in a statement he issued to newsmen.
At the meeting at the police headquarters in Awka on Sunday, Orutugu ordered an immediate increase in intelligence-led patrols, security surveillance, and proactive policing to prevent any threat to lives and property.
Powerful, the Publicity Secretary of IPOB, had in a statement on Friday announced the lockdown of the South East on Monday.
Kalu, the lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial District, had on Sunday lamented that the secessionist agitations linked to the activities of the convicted leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, led to the death of over 30,000 people and the destruction of businesses across the South-East.
According to the report, Justice Omotosho was immediately rushed to a hospital as security forces scrambled to secure the area
Justice Omotosho delivered the judgment on Thursday in the terrorism case against Kanu, who has been on trial since 2015
The Deputy Director, Public Relations and Strategic Communications of the DSS, Favour Dozie, made this known in a statement
Justice James Omotosho held that the evidence of the prosecution was uncontroverted, with Kanu having failed to open his defence
I recall that interview now because of the issues surrounding the treason trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB, which took over the agitation for Biafra from Uwazuruike’s MASSOB. That interview gave me insight into Uwazuruike’s mindset and the feelings that drive the Igbo agitation for an independent homeland in Biafra.
Nnamdi Kanu said this at the resumed hearing in his ongoing trial for alleged terrorism offences before Justice James Omotosho
Kanu, who opted to defend himself in the ongoing alleged terrorism trial preferred against him by the Federal Government, told Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on Friday in Abuja.
Asked what his offence was, one of the officers explained that they were executing an order from the Commissioner of Police
When the hearing of the case resumed on Thursday before Justice James Omotosho, he told the judge that he was willing to defend himself
Ejimakor disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Monday, saying police arrested him, along others persons participating in the protest.
According to eyewitness reports, many commuters were turned back by the mobile police officers who cordoned all link roads