[PUNCHNG] POLICE latest arrest of 21 members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, who gathered at the residence of Nnamdi Kanu’s father, for prayers, represents a new low in the clampdown on a group, which has been relatively civil in its agitation for the actualisation of the sovereign state of Biafra. But the Fulani herdsmen have continued with their genocidal spiral without much reprimand.
The victims, which include women and kiddies, some of whom are adherents of Judaism and Christianity, were rounded up on May 13 at Afara Ukwu, in Umuahia, Abia State, and immediately charged for terrorism at a magistrate’s court. Kanu, the IPOB leader for the resurgence of Biafra, has not been seen in the public since September last year, when soldiers invaded his home upon declaring his group a terrorist organization. He is alleged to have fled the country.
Rallies of IPOB in the South-East in the past three years had been seized by the police and soldiers to exert maximum force on its members, thus leading to the arrest, incarceration and killing of some of its members. This official response is provocative and perfidious, against the backdrop of the cold response to the terrorism act by the Fulani herdsmen and appeal to Boko Haram
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