Concerning a successful outing of members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, during last Tuesday’s sensitisation campaign on the proposed June 8 sit-at-home exercise, security operatives appeared to have begun a manhunt and total clampdown on the movement, apparently in a bid to frustrate and stop the programme.
Some security agents believed to be personnel of Department of State Services, DSS, on Tuesday evening arrested MASSOB’s Awka North Regional Administrator, Anthony Nwodo, at a newsstand, along the Old Market Road, Onitsha, and whisked him away to a yet to be known destination.
According to eye-witnesses, Nwodo was said to have been called on phone by a lady believed to be a personnel of the security operatives and was informed that he was seen by her issuing out fliers containing articles on the proposed June 8 sit-at-home exercise.
The said caller also demanded to know the where-about of Nwodo, to enable her pick up her own fliers to be educated properly on the sit-at-home exercise, adding that he should tell her the type and colour of dress he was wearing, for proper identification.
Impressed by such flattering words, the witnesses said the MASSOB chieftain not only revealed his where-about, but also informed the caller that he was very close to them.
Unknown to him that the caller was among the security operatives who parked their white SUV with a revolving light at a petrol station very close to the newsstand hunting the MASSOB chieftains, Nwodo drew nearer to their vehicle and as soon as he approached the vehicle closely, she called him once more to confirm that he was actually their target. It was learnt as soon as he was trying to pick the call, they grabbed him, threw him into the waiting vehicle and zoomed off.
It was when the vehicle zoomed off that he looked at the back seat of the vehicle and noticed that the particular lady who had been calling him on phone all the while was sitting at the back seat, as one of the security operatives hunting for MASSOB members.
Contacted on the arrest, the Onitsha police Area commander, Mr. Benjamin Wordu told newsmen on phone that he was not yet aware of the development, adding that most times SSS operatives strike without pre-information to the police. He reasoned that the operatives might have come from Awka, State capital.
Reacting to the arrest, the MASSOB Deputy Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha and the Regional Administrator for Aguata, Sylvester Okonkwo, described the arrest of Nwodo as an uncivilized action and demanded for his immediate release alive in the interest of peace and tranquility.
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