The Imo state Police Command has arrested 68 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Soverign States of Biafra, MASSOB, following a clash between both parties few days ago, PUNCH reports.     

The Imo state Commissioner of Police, Austin Evbakavbokun, confirmed the arrest, saying 62 have already been charged to court for alleged conspiracy, breach of peace of the state and unlawfully belonging to society.

The suspects were arrested for storming the state with insignias - which were not of Nigeria, chanting war songs, barricading roads, thereby obstructing free flow of traffic before his men moved in to disperse them.

“Those who came out that day, I am sure, never knew how the Biafra war was fought and won. We have one nation. How can two flags be in one nation? What they are doing is subversive and the security can not close their eyes; we have to guard our nation. Gone are the days when this kind of things happens,” he said.

Items recovered from the arrested members, as listed by the CP, included Biafra uniforms, Biafra ID cards, Biafra flags and some buses.