Nigerian security forces stormed MASSOB (Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra) offices on Monday evening in Onitsha, killing 16 and arrested 83 memeber. over 500 members of the group have also been arrested by security agents accross Anambra state during the raid. According to Guardian newspaper reports, some of the memebers of the group were killed when the soldiers stormed a meeting held by the group while others sustained injuries. The raid which started on Monday and ended
early on Tuesday morning has been condemned by MASSOB National Director of Information and the Onitsha Region Four Administrator, Uchenna Madu and Chief Arinze Igbani, who briefed reporters over the incident, declared that the raid on their offices by the security operatives was unwarranted and provocative, saying that it was a renewed plot by the army to resume a systematic clampdown on MASSOB.
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