Nigeria: Handshake Across the Niger - How Biafran Women Stripped Naked, Protesting Against Restructuring of Nigeria

17 January 2018

The emergence of female members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who disrupted last Thursday's meeting of Southern and Middle Belt leaders in Enugu has brought a new dimension to the separatist agitation by thousands of Igbo youths who feel frustrated about the way their country is being run. The Director- General of South East Governors' Forum, Professor Uchenna Ortuanya, who reacted to the emergence of the Biafran women, described the situation as a serious security issue and wondered how security agencies would deal with such a matter.

Apart from causing confusion at the Thursday meeting tagged Handshake Across The Niger: A celebration of Igbo/Yoruba Friendship Beyond Brotherhood, the women who invaded the Base Events Centre, venue of the meeting at Independence Layout under the guise of Umuada Ndigbo (daughters of Igbo) also stripped naked outside the hall as they protested their inability to re-enter the center after leading the representative of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose and former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode out to ease himself.

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