Biafra agitators celebrate Xmas on Aba streets

Biafra agitators celebrate Xmas on Aba streets

§  ••To protest Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention

FROM OKEY SAMP­SON, ABA

Members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) celebrated this year’s Christmas on the streets of Aba as they protested the continued detention of the director of Radio Biafra and leader of the IPOB by the federal government.

The protesters had as early as 7.00am gathered at Na­tional High School on Port Harcourt Road from where they marched through Cem­etery to Azikiwe roads before they proceeded towards the city’s main motor park en-route to Osisioma junction.

They displayed the Biaf­ran flag and sang solidarity songs as they marched along.

Speaking to Sunday Sun during the protest, the coor­dinator of MASSOB in Abia State, Comrade Anayochuk­wu Okpala said the protest was against the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu by the federal government despite a valid court order that granted him bail.

Okpala said the federal government would be mak­ing a big mistake if it thinks by detaining Nnamdi Kanu for so long the protests would wane with time.

He assured that what he termed the mother of protests would be carried out in the state after the festivities and warned security agents in the state to steer clear of their members during such pro­tests, stressing that the only remedy would be to release Nnamdi Kanu from deten­tion.