The Anambra State Police Command detained Friday Obeta, a member of the Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, for attempting to enforce the pro-Biafran group’s May 30 sit-at-home declaration.
Recall that the pro-Biafran group allegedly proclaimed May 30 to be a day of sit-at-homes throughout the South-East in remembrance of its heroes who lost their lives in the 1967–1970 civil war.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the spokesman for the Anambra State Police Command, announced the 37-year-old suspect’s arrest and added that a motorcycle, a branded t-shirt and an operational identification card belonging to the prohibited organisation were found on the suspect.
Ikenga said operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, Nnewi Sector, arrested the suspect based on intelligence gathering on how he and his gang members had set out plans to enforce the sit-at-home.
The statement said, “Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, Nnewi Sector, acting on credible information on how the proscribed Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra has set out plans to enforce sit-at-home on May 30, 2025, arrested one Friday Obeta aged 37 years and recovered one motorcycle, a branded t-shirt and an operational identification card of the proscribed organisation.
“The suspect confessed to being a member and an informant for the proscribed group and has made useful information that is aiding the investigation for the possible arrest of other gang members.
“To this end, the Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, charged the operatives to intensify their onslaught operations, given the suspect’s confessions.
“He further urged them to step up surveillance operations to thwart any unlawful gathering in the state.”