IGP orders ‘immediate clampdown’ on MASSOB

 Solomon Arase, inspector-general of police, has ordered an immediate clamp down on the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), and persons or group of persons inciting violence and social disorder across the country.

According to Olabisi Kolawole, police spokesperson, the directive became imperative owing to recent activities of members of MASSOB and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in some parts of the country.

“This operational order empowers the police to arrest anybody fomenting any act of violence or disorder, or any act inimical to the security of the nation,” she said.

“So far, the following arrests have been made viz; Anambra State –4 ; Imo State – 6 ; Delta State – 11 and Abia State – 1.

“The IGP further warns that all person so arrested for inciting violence, irrespective of their class or status in the society would be charged to court accordingly.”

MASSOB is an ethnic militia group holing up in the southeast of Nigeria.