BREAKING: Police reportedly arrest 57 Biafra Zionists members in Enugu

About 57 members of the Barr. Benjamin Onwuka-led Biafra Zionists Federation, BZF, have been arrested in Enugu State.

PRESS INFORMANT learnt that they have been picked up on Sunday morning shortly earlier than the graduation of their Biafra Day parade.

Chief of the group, Onwuka claimed that policemen from Ogui Division stormed their assembly venue and whisked his members away.

In a message he despatched out on Sunday, the self-acclaimed BZF chief mentioned “they arrested 57 of our members this morning. We have been making ready to go for our Biafra parade.

“We’re non-violent individuals, we’re peaceable agitators. They need to be launched instantly, unconditionally, with out cost, they dedicated no crime.

“We’ve knowledgeable the US of this improvement,” he claimed.

Onwuka had a number of days in the past introduced that they’d storm the Michael Okpara Sq., Enugu, right now, for a Biafra parade.

When PRESS INFORMANT known as the PPRO of the Enugu State Police Command, Daniel Ndukwe, he mentioned about 54 members of the group have been picked due to the way in which they’d gathered.

He, nevertheless, mentioned they have been taken to the Command headquarters, addressed on the necessity to preserve peace and left to go instantly.

“They weren’t held in any respect,” he careworn.