The Police in Delta on Monday said it arrested 10 suspected members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in Asaba.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Lucky Uyabeme, announced this at a news conference in Asaba.
He said the suspects were arrested on August 6 at about 4 p.m. when they were allegedly attacking the vigilantes at Power line and Ominigboma areas of Asaba.
“Consequent upon the information, a team of operatives moved in and arrested the suspects,” he said.
He added that the leader of the group, 52-year-old Emeka Okafor, a native of Nkanu in Enugu, was arrested with five other suspects on August 7.
“Items recovered from them include 114 Biafran flags, two boots, 129 Biafran pounds 10 shillings, 32 membership forms and other documents, and 10 pairs of complete Biafran police uniform with tags.
“Others are three cutlasses, seven hard cover note books of their minutes of meetings from 2010 till date, two military belts and one expended cartridge”, he said.
He said investigations were in progress, adding that the suspects would soon be charged to court.
Mr. Uyabeme also said that no fewer than 64 cultists had renounced their membership in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state.Any source
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