Nigeria: Sit-At-Home Order - Go After Boko Haram, Herdsmen, Not Biafra Agitators - - Massob Tells IGP

29 May 2017

As the planned sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, to mark the Biafra Day celebration draws closer, MASSOB has said that no threat order by the Inspector General of Police will stop them from carrying out the celebration.

MASSOB in a statement signed by its Anambra State coordinator and secretary, Mr. Augustine Egbeh and Joseph Nnaji, respectively, asked the Inspector General of Police to deploy his men, to check the rampaging Boko Haran insurgents and herdsmen, who may like to carry out their nefarious activities and attacks on innocent people, instead of dissipating energy on attack and arrest of Biafra agitators.

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