Over 2000 ‘BIAFRAN’ Protesters Shut Down Asaba, Defy Protest Ban

In clear defiance of the ban order issued by the Delta State Government against public processions and protests, members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and a fac­tion of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) took to the popular Nnebisi Road in Asaba yesterday to protest the detention of its lead­ers, Prince Nnamdi Kanu, Barrister Benjamin On­wuka and others who are still being held by security agents.

The IPOB had threat­ened to resume its grand­standing by staging pro­tests in the South East and South South states of the federation if by January 18, 2016, its leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Prince Kanu was not re­leased from the cell of De­partment of State Services (DSS) to the Igbo people.

Over 2000 protesters who were armed with only Biafra flags, used motor­cycles, tricycles, cars and buses to cause traffic grid­lock, while they displayed and marched around, chanting in praise of Bi­afra and its leaders.

They however, left one lane of the Inter-Biau junction open to enable traffic flow, as they headed towards the Ogbeogonogo market, Asaba.