PRO-BIAFRA activists yesterday took over the streets of Enugu in continuation of their demand for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, as well as demanding urgent recognition of the Sovereign State of Biafra.
The demonstrators numbering over 5,000 displayed Biafra flags and banners and chanted anti-Federal Government slogans even as they condemned the continued detention of the IPOB leader.
The Enugu protest was peaceful as the demonstrators controlled traffic to ensure free flow of traffic just as security agents kept close eyes on them to ensure the exercise did not degenerate or cause a breakdown of law and order.
The protest, which started very early yesterday morning, attracted some residents who were attending church services within New Haven area of the capital city to join in the protest march.
Meanwhile, a coalition of nine South-East-based human rights organisations yesterday berated the Federal Government over the continued detention of Kanu.
The group in a statement issued in Onitsha inducted the Department of State Service (DSS) into the Hall of Infamy and bestowed an award of ‘Chief Enemy of Democracy and Rule of Law in Nigeria’ on the agency, describing the DSS as the most extensively used and deployed by the Presidency to perpetrate and perpetuate all kinds of anti-democratic and antic constitutional conducts.
The statement read in parts: “We have resolved to raise the alarm concerning the dangers of aiding and abetting of Nigeria’s steady drift into anarchic dictatorship. Of the greatest concern to us is the rationale behind the continued detention of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu by the DSS on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari.”
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