Pro-Biafran protests for the release of Nnamdi continues in the South-East as residents of Imo state have grounded Owerri metropolis. According to reports, they protesters stormed the city with police escort to prevent any violence. See more photos after the cut
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Posted: at 13-11-2015 04:12 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
morgrawl231 at 13-11-2015 04:29 PM (9 years ago) (m)
They are looking for what to eat......jobless people Later they will say Niger Delta and south south are Biafrans...u are on ur own.....
Posted: at 13-11-2015 04:29 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
I surely believe that many of these Biafraud agitators will soon regret their move, when they later see what beyond their control. They are not strong enough, and well equipped like Boko/Harram but know, it gradually come to pass. Just try to take a step out of region to another, or Abuja, you will realize your fathers last experience for the same move.
Posted: at 13-11-2015 05:19 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
I wonder if the Police understand the intricacy of their job. The flag being displayed by these Biafraudsters is an emblem that had been abolished alongside the arbotive Republic. To now see the police escorting a mob displaying same emblem in the name of ensuring safe demonstration is sickening.
Posted: at 13-11-2015 06:22 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
princeifeyco at 13-11-2015 06:43 PM (9 years ago) (m)
Quote from: olowoinlionsden on 13-11-2015 06:22 PM
I wonder if the Police understand the intricacy of their job. The flag being displayed by these Biafraudsters is an emblem that had been abolished alongside the arbotive Republic. To now see the police escorting a mob displaying same emblem in the name of ensuring safe demonstration is sickening.
that shows that, biafra is more than what you think,anyway, u hv the right to say whatever want to say, mind you, ur opinion can never be force on others, I don't know why some people like you will be posting your opinion about other people but yours, you can join the police or the army to settle the situation on the grand.
Posted: at 13-11-2015 06:43 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
princeifeyco at 13-11-2015 06:48 PM (9 years ago) (m)
Quote from: morgrawl231 on 13-11-2015 04:29 PM
They are looking for what to eat......jobless people Later they will say Niger Delta and south south are Biafrans...u are on ur own.....
they are not jobless as you said, mind you, you have every right to belong to wherever you want to belong, biafrans are not begging anyone to join them, whether you like it or not, biafra has come to stay n there is nothing anyone can do about it.
Posted: at 13-11-2015 06:48 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
they are not jobless as you said, mind you, you have every right to belong to wherever you want to belong, biafrans are not begging anyone to join them, whether you like it or not, biafra has come to stay n there is nothing anyone can do about it.
Come to stay lol? I thought you people want to go? I thought you people want to depart from Nigeria
Posted: at 13-11-2015 07:19 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
Image caption Many ethnic Igbos feel Nigeria's central government is not representing their interest
Hundreds of people in southern Nigeria have been protesting about the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, an activist who supports the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra.
The director of banned Radio Biafra was arrested last month and is still being held despite a court order to free him, his mainly ethnic Igbo supporters say.
There are reports of violence during a protest in Port Harcourt.
Biafran secessionists fought a three-year civil war that ended in 1970.
More than one million people lost their lives before the uprising was eventually quelled by the military.
Secessionist groups have attracted the support of many young people in the south-east in recent years.
The BBC's Abdussalam Ahmed in the south-eastern city of Enugu says in reality they do not want a repeat of the civil war but are keen to draw the attention of the central government to some developmental challenges the region faces.
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Activists told the BBC that five people were killed and several others injured after police fired shots and teargas to disperse the protesters in Port Harcourt - the largest city in the region.
But police spokesman Ahmad Muhammad said this was untrue.
"Measures have been put in place to handle the situation in such a way that public peace is not disrupted and to ensure life and property are protected," he told the AFP news agency.
Protests were also held on Tuesday in the city of Owerri in Imo state, a day after the region's biggest market in the city of Aba was reportedly shut down by protesters.
Our correspondent says the protests started peacefully on Friday in the oil-rich Delta state and has since taken place in five other major cities in the region.
The demonstrators are mostly young men holding Biafra flags and banners with pictures of Mr Kanu, who is also a leader in the secessionist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Image caption Nnamdi Kanu has been in the custody of Nigeria's intelligence agency for more than three weeks
"We won't give up until our director Nnamdi Kanu is released," one protester told our reporter during a protest in Enugu.
It is not clear where Radio Biafra is based but it mainly broadcasts to the Igbo-speaking south-east of the country.
The Nigerian government says it has been operating without a licence and began jamming its signals in July, but its broadcasts are still available online and via mobile phones by a dialling a local number.
An IPOB leader, Uchemna Madu, told the BBC that the group was fighting against the "injustice and inequality" ethnic Igbos faced in Nigeria.
"We believe in Nigeria, we have businesses everywhere in the country but we are getting nothing apart from political and social marginalisation," he said.
"Our lives and properties are not secured, we want to live on our own."
The Nigerian authorities have always maintained that most of the issues the Biafra activists are complaining about are not unique to southern part of the country.
Posted: at 13-11-2015 07:43 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
Wikigenius at 13-11-2015 08:08 PM (9 years ago) (m)
One is using the other, if Niger delta nd south-south follow biafra dey will break away as well biafra Republic and Niger delta Republic cannot come together bcos Niger delta Republic has more resources, they're not that foolish
Posted: at 13-11-2015 08:08 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
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