Biafra Protests Resume in Eastern Nigeria with Scores of Youth #PetalsImpact

Biafra rally via Twitter

Starting on Friday last week, the Million March March as it was billed came out with scores of youth in Eastern Nigerian cities like Aba, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Asaba, Onitsha and even Yenegoa. The Eastern Nigerian natives are protesting the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu the Managing Editor of Radio Biafra, an indegenous station broadcasting from the UK with messages to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Many of the youth are asking for a separation into a Briafran state, something many Nigerians on social media are saying is a bad move for Nigeria, a country striving for Unity.

Confirming this to newsmen in Port Harcourt, Spokesman of the Police Command in the state, Mr Ahmad Muhammad, said that the protesters came into the state from Aba on Monday night.
According to him, they spent the night at Oyigbo and commenced the protest from there before moving into Port Harcourt.

The Biafra movement demonstration began early last week in parts of the South-East and spread to Asaba, Delta, on Friday, where no fewer than 20 of the demonstrators were arrested by the police.
In Rivers, the protesters, some riding on motorcycles and flying Biafra flags, marched through Aba Road into Port Harcourt city but where intercepted by the police with a barricade between Rumukrushi and 1st Artillery junction.

At that point, the scene became rowdy and the police used teargas in effort to disperse the protesters. In the stampede that ensued, some of the protesters fell down as they scampered for the safety.
But, some of them, who later converged on a spot in the area, claimed that the people that fell down were shot with live ammunition by the police. One of the protesters, Samuel Elijah, 25, explained that the reason for the demonstration was to make the Federal Government to release Kanu.

There are several hashtags on Twitter, many tweets and a movement looking like a revolution of sorts. #Biafra and the word #Igbo are currently trending number one on Twitter Worldwide.

With files from Vanguard