The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has asked the governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose, to release some Igbo traders who were ‘unlawfully’ detained in the state since December 2016.
In a statement published by Punch on Sunday, signed by MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Samuel Edeson, the group expressed worry that a supposed supporter of Biafra, would allow the Igbos suffer such fate.
It gave some of the names of the detainees as David Reuben, Onyemechi Nwanneka, Christopher Godwin, David Chukwu, Sunday Agbo, Sunday Mgbiri, Chisoba Obiekwe and Nwobodo James.
The group’s statement read in part,” We want to bring to the attention of his Excellency, Governor Fayose of Ekiti State about the unlawful arrest and detention of some Igbo traders doing their legitimate businesses around Post Office, Ado Ekiti since Dec 2016 by the agents of the state government task force.
“MASSOB is worried that since last year December, they have not been arraigned before any court or allowed medical attention.
” Every efforts to secure their release are being frustrated by Ekiti state security agents. These men are breadwinners of their respective families. “
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