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massob-01Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has called on the police in Anambra State to release to them for burial, the corpse of one of their members, one Chimezie Anigbata, who they alleged was brutally killed by the police.

The group said it was a taboo in Igbo land for a man to die and not to be properly buried.

MASSOB equally called on the police in the state to free three of their members; Uchenna Ajogwu, Kelechi Nkwuda and Ifeanyi Agbom, who they alleged have been in detention since October this year.

The organisation’s Regional Administrator for Awka North, Anthony Nwodo, who made the call in Aba, Abia State, said Anigbata was killed by the police on

October 14 as they were holding a meeting in Onitsha, when the three members were also arrested.

Nwodo, who said he was in Aba to avoid being arrested by the police in Anambra State, claimed the police were after him and that it was unfortunate that the police could kill Anigbata after MASSOB members had arrested and handed over to them (the police), one Chinedu who impersonated a MASSOB official and was demolishing a building at Otigba 33, in Oyi Local Government.

Nwodo alleged that in an attempt to evade arrest by the MASSOB members, the police branded them kidnappers and charged them to court. He said the court discharged and acquitted them but that police re-arrested and re-branded them armed robbers and has since detained the three persons.

He appealed to President Goddluck Jonathan and the Inspector-General of Police, to as a matter of urgency, not only order the officer in charge of SARS in Anambra State to free the three MASSOB members held incommunicado since October 14, but also to release the corpse of Anigbata to them for burial.

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