A summit convened by the Eastern
Consultative Assembly, ECA, in Enugu was on Tuesday disrupted by pro-Biafra
agitators.
The agitators, made up of members
of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the Movement for the Actualization of
the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, the Biafra Zionists Federation, BZF,
among several others, forced the event to an abrupt end.
It was gathered that the
agitators got annoyed when issues of restructuring of Nigeria took the centre
stage instead of their clamour for Biafra.
The event was also expected to
have been used to honour late Owelle Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Prof. Ben Nwabueze,
and a host of others.
Our correspondent equally
gathered that the agitators, who had stormed Enugu in their numbers, with
Biafra flags, were later confronted by the police, leading to the arrest of
some of them.
Convener of the event, Comrade
Eliot Ugochukwu-Uko, who confirmed that he abruptly ended the event owing to
the charged atmosphere created by the Biafra agitators, fingered the leadership
of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo over the incident.
More to come…
What a pity! These groups don't realise they just missed a golden opportunity to forge ahead in the development of the south away from the north! Their members are truly backward in their thinking.
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