Two years after the fisticuffs between the Nigeria Army and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) where over 130 IPOB members were arrested for allegedly organising unlawful procession, some members of the group are yet to be found.
The command spokesman, Enugu, Ebere Amaraizu, told newsmen that after the IPOB members were arrested on Wednesday 22 May 2017, in Umuahia and other state, the way about of Mr. Ifeanyi Peter is yet unknown.
Ifeanyi Peter, a branch leader of the group according to a source, hails from Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State and some of his fellow members of the group were caught displaying “proscribed items” on the streets and “chanting inciting songs against the nation.
“Through a joint security task force, 130 IPOB members were arrested while engaging in unlawful procession and display of proscribed items against the nation”. Amaraizu said.
He stated that the police have gotten statements from some of the members of the group, and that they would be charged to court, though no fire arms or weapon was recovered from them.
The family of Mr. Ifeanyi Peter is still looking for him and demands any security agency holding him to release him to his family.
Relating to the sit-at-home order given by IPOB, the police said that the group has no right to give such other and would ensure that law-abiding citizens go about their activities “without fear of intimidation or molestation.
Meanwhile, the defence headquarters had in 2017 tagged IPOB a terrorist organisation, though no ammunition or prohibited weapon was seen with them.
A federal high court in Abuja also proscribed the group, and declared its activities acts of terrorism.
This deepened the agitation of the group in the country as different citizens challenged that to be unlawful and unconstitutional, as the group carried out no act of terrorism while the real terrorism are committed daily by the boko haram and the fulani herdsmen but because they are of nothern extraction were not poscribed despite their heinous terrorism activities.
