Pro-biafra Group On Mission To Topple Enugu Government-cp

Pro-Biafra group on mission to topple Enugu govt
—CP
Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Mohammed Abubakar last night said members of
the Biafra Zionist Federation, BZF, who invaded
the Enugu State Broadcasting Service, ESBS,
yesterday morning were on a mission to topple
the government.
Abubakar spoke while parading the 13 members
of the federation including their leader, Benjamin
Igwe Onwuka at the state police headquarters.
Apart from Onwuka, Abubakar said other
members of the federation arrested included
Paulinus Uzoegbu, Michael Oleinya, Ndubuisi
Nnamchi, Bethrand Obiekwe, Kelvin Ekeh,
Abraham Ugwu, Chukwuma Alogius, Ijaga
Sampson, Josephat Nwodo, Nwonu Fidelis and
Uduma Uduma.
The commissioner said: “When they went to the
ESBS, they gained entrance into the studio and
wanted the the workers to give them access to
make a live broadcast to the people of Nigeria.
“In the broadcast they had on a CD rom where
the details of what they wanted to tell members
of the public.
They made a summary of what they had on the
CD rom, on a sheet of paper and the highlight of
it are; an appeal calling for all boys in Obiagu,
(Enugu) to come out, all boys from Ogui (Enugu)
to come out, all boys in Enugu State to come out;
they also asked students to come out, those
people with KekeNapep (tricycles) to come out.
They wanted to order all businesses closed today
(yesterday); all schools to be closed, all markets
to be closed and all government officials to
surrender all property in their possession before
mid-day. You can see these people were on a
mission of trying to over throw the government
and it is something that we will never tolerate.
“Recall that in March this year, they had attacked
Government House, Enugu. We had earlier
declared their leader (Onwuka) wanted. The same
group of BZF led by their leader, Benjamin
Onwuka invaded the ESBS with the intention that
after the broadcast, they will set the place ablaze.
“They carried with them a lot of arms, machetes,
25 litres of petrol, 46 empty beer bottles and one
BZF flag and some CDs. The purpose of going
there with petrol and bottles, you know when you
put petrol inside a bottle and shake it and throw
it into a building, it will inflame. They went there
also with guns because when the policemen
confronted them, they shot a sergeant and killed
him and in the process of trying to prevent them
from setting the place ablaze, they also had a
casualty, one of them was shot dead. About 13 of
them were arrested including the leader, Benjamin
Onwuka.”
Abubakar then warned that any group of persons
or individuals planning to foment trouble in
whatever form that would cause breach of peace
to desist from doing so, as it would not be
tolerated.
Efforts made to speak with the suspects were
rebuffed as the Commissioner insisted that doing
so “will mean giving them opportunity to say
what they wanted to announce in the live
broadcast.