ENUGU BIAFRA ALERT: Pro-Biafra Group On Mission to Topple ENUGU Govt

Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar last night said members of the Biafra Zionist Federation, BZF, who invaded the Enugu State Broadcasting Service, ESBS, yesterday morning were on a mission to topple the government.

Abubakar spoke while parading the 13 members of the federation including their leader, Benjamin Igwe Onwuka at the state police headquarters.

Apart from Onwuka, Abubakar said other members of the federation arrested included Paulinus Uzoegbu, Michael Oleinya, Ndubuisi Nnamchi, Bethrand Obiekwe, Kelvin Ekeh, Abraham Ugwu, Chukwuma Alogius, Ijaga Sampson, Josephat Nwodo, Nwonu Fidelis and Uduma Uduma.

The commissioner said: "When they went to the ESBS, they gained entrance into the studio and wanted the the workers to give them access to make a live broadcast to the people of Nigeria.

"In the broadcast they had on a CD rom where the details of what they wanted to tell members of the public. http://allafrica.com/stories/201406060617.html

Governors of the South East states rose from their meeting in Enugu yesterday with a condemnation of last Thursday's invasion of Enugu State Broadcasting Service, ESBS, by members of the pro-Biafra group, Biafra Zionist Federation.

The governors were reacting to the invasion of the broadcasting house by BZM in which a police sergeant and a member of the group were killed.

Leader of the group and London-trained lawyer, Benjamin Igwe Onwuka, and 12 members of the group were arrested and now in police custody.

Briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting held at Enugu Government House, Chairman of the South East Governors Forum and Abia State Governor, Dr Theodore Orji, said the forum condemned the attempt by the Biafra Zionist, which attempted to seize Enugu State Radio, after an earlier attempt to hoist Biafran flag at Government House, Enugu. - http://allafrica.com/stories/201406090814.html