Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Arinze
Igbani and 18 other members of the group were, yesterday, arrested by
soldiers from the 302 Artillary Regiment, Onitsha over yet to be
disclosed offences.
Igbani was arrested in a native orthopaedic centre where he was
receiving treatment following injuries he sustained from a motorcycle
accident in June this year along with five MASSOB members who had
allegedly gone to visit him.
After the accident, Igbani was admitted to a private orthorpaedic
hospital in the commercial town, but had to be moved to the native
orthopaedic healing centre as a result of uncontrolled number of
people that have been visiting him which does not allow him to have
enough rest.
It was not clear at press time what led to yesterday's arrests, but
MASSOB's Director of Information, Mr. Uchenna Madu, said that 13 other
members of the group were arrested in different locations at the slum
settlement of Okpoko in the outskirts of Onitsha which is very close
to where Igbani and the six other members of the group were staying at
the time.
Madu, who addressed reporters in Onitsha over the incident, claimed
that electronic gadgets which Igbani was using in the hospital, as
well as five motorcycles belonging to the five people that visited him
and six handsets, were seized from them.
He alleged that the soldiers aggravated Igbani's fractured leg, adding
that some traditional othopedic equipment used in treating patients at
the center were
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