Tense Stand-Off At Bori Camp, Several Key Locations In Port Harcourt

Youths protesting along Aba Road Waterline, in Port Harcourt, over the release of Radio Biafra Director and Leader, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu (Image source: Vanguard)

Biafran-flag waving protesters are currently locked in a stand-off with armed soldiers in fron of the Bori Camp Cantonment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, southern Nigeria, over the continuous detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the director of the pirate radio, Radio Biafra, GRAPHITTI NEWS can authoritatively report. There have been ongoing protests across several cities since Mazi Kanu’s arrest and subsequent detention.

But the founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra is being held as he is yet to fulfil his bail term of ₦2million and a surety in like sum, who must be a civil servant on Grade level 16.

Eyewitnesses said youths occupied Rumuokoro, Rumuola, Mini-Ezekwu and other locations in the Rivers State Capital. Our reporter was returning from Church service when he ran inot traffic build up at the Army Barracks located at Bori Camp in the Rumuola axis where soldiers armed to the teeth had barricaded the entrance to Army Barracks.

It would be recalled that media reports were filled with news of protests across parts of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, as supporters of the controversial Director of Radio Biafra and Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu have reportedly taken to the streets to protest his immediate release by authorities of the Department of State Services (DSS).

Also other parts of the country, GRAPHITTI NEWS gathered, witnessed protests by supporters of Kanu were Enugu, Awka in Anambra State, Asaba in Delta State.

In Port-Harcourt, the IPOB members were said to have shut-down commercial and vehicular activities.