IPOB: Police Arrest 10 Members Of Pro-Biafra Group

Ten persons suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have been arrested after being busted while holding a secret meeting in a private school in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria.

The meeting, it was learnt, is a part of an alleged plan by IPOB to unleash mayhem on some parts of Yenagoa, the state capital.

According to The Nation, men of the Operation Puff Adder of the Bayelsa State Police Command arrested the suspect IPOB members at Okutukutu in Yenagoa Local Government Area.

Security sources said a lawyer and headmaster of a school were among those arrested.

Also, a book titled, ‘The Chain of One Nigeria Broken: The Story of our Journey to Freedom’, was said to have been recovered from the suspects.

One of the sources said: “The suspects locked themselves in one of the classrooms. When the Police arrived, they nearly turned back. But when they forced open one of the classrooms, they saw the suspected IPOB members there.”

The state police command could not confirm the incident though.

Earlier on Thursday, the Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa State,  Mike Okoli, advised residents to steer clear of any form of association with lPOB members.

Okoli had stated that intelligence report indicated that some misguided elements were planning to set up IPOB cells in the state.

“Intelligence available to the command indicates that some misguided elements are planning to set up IPOB cells in the state. Police operatives are on their trail and monitoring their activities,” Okoli had said.