Chidiebube Okeoma, OwerriHundreds of women suspected to be members of proscribed Independent People of Biafra on Friday protested in Owerri, the Imo State capital, demanding the whereabouts of the missing IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kalu. Marching through Okigwe-Bank and Warehouse roads, the women accused the Federal Government of knowing the whereabouts of the IPOB leader. At Warehouse Junction, policemen in operational vehicles intercepted the women, fired another round of teargas canisters and arrested many of them. While some of them fled to safety and started jeering at the policemen, the cops took the arrested protesters to the state command headquarters. In a telephone conversation with our correspondent, the state commissioner of police, Dasuki Galadanchi, confirmed the arrest of the women during the demonstration.

Source: Punch August 18, 2018 00:04 UTC