Court Remands Eight Pro-Biafra Protesters In Prison

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, has fixed Thursday, December 17 to hear the bail applications of eight suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) charged with treasonable felony and planning to persecuting war against the nation. The eight suspects were arrested by the police in connection with the pro-Biafra protests in Port Harcourt which was held recently.

They are standing trial on a two count charge of treason, conspiring to wage war against the Federal Government and breach of public peace by unlawfully demonstrating and chanting war songs.

The presiding judge Justice Hassan Quadri adjourned the hearing of the bail applications of the accused persons till Thursday, December 17, to enable their lawyers’ effect proper service of court process of the bail applications on the police.

The court remanded the accused persons prison custody pending the hearing and determination of their bail application on the the said date.

It would be recalled that the supporters of IPOB had protested twice in Port Harcourt disrupting social and economic activities in the capital city of Rivers.

Meanwhile, there are claims by the Biafran Independence Movement that the Biafra course has gained the attention of the United Nations, hence limiting the possibility for the federal government to stop the actualization of a sovereign state of Biafra.

In a related development, the Oodua Peoples Congress has warned pro-Biafra protesters not to move their campaign to the south western part of the country as they would not stand by and watch the region turned into ‘a theatre of war’.