The Enugu State police command has placed its personnel on red alert, following reports that the Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, planned a 10 million -man March in Umuahia, Abia State, tomorrow. Police
The state Police Commissioner, Danmalam Mohammed, who reportedly feared a spillover of the 10 million- man march from Umuahia, ordered all policemen to come out for a “show of force march” throughout the urban areas of the state to dissuade the Biafran agitators from organising similar protest marches in Enugu State.
According to top police sources at Nsukka, “intelligence at the disposal of the command indicate that IPOB/MASSOB have scheduled tomorrow as a day for 10 million man March in Umuahia and there is the possibility of spill over, hence the police commissioner has directed all the divisional police officers, the Police Mobile Force, PMF, Special Anti- Robbery Squads, SARS and anti- cult units,” to be on red alert. Read more