Enugu clash: You’ll pay heavy price – IPOB threatens Police, Army over arrest of members

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned security agents against the continued detention of 1 Mazi Ofornedu Okoafor.

IPOB warned that the Enugu State commissioner and other security agents would “pay heavy price” should anything happen to Okoafor while in police detention.

The group, during a statement signed by its spokesman, Emma Powerful alleged that men of the Enugu State Police Command and soldiers had picked up Okoafor alongside his grandfather on August 23rd, 2020, while receiving treatment at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital within the State.

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IPOB called on the Enugu State commissioner to release Okoafor from custody before it’s too late.

IPOB also alleged that Okoafor had been denied access to proper medical attention, hence should be released.

The group also alleged plot by security operatives to arrest Okoafor’s father, Mazi Longinus Okoafor.

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According to IPOB: “We the worldwide family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) condemn within the strongest possible terms the continued inhumane, illegal and immoral detention of Mazi Ofornedu Okoafor who was abducted together with his grand father at the (UNTH) Enugu where he was receiving medical treatment for bullet wounds inflicted on him by an equivalent Nigerian Police and soldiers on the 23rd of August 2020 at Emene in Enugu State

Why an innocent man, grievously injured by the police, should be chained to the ground during a police cell instead of receiving treatment during a hospital defies logic and customary sense. This brand of Janjaweed policing should be condemned by every right thinking person