THOUSANDS of members and supporters of
the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra shut down
Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, demanding to break away from Nigeria
on Tuesday.
Waving the Biafran flag as they marched through major
roads in Port Harcourt, both MASSOB members and their supporters chanted war
songs, as they also demanded the unconditional release of one of their members,
Mr. Nnamdi Kalu, said to have been arrested by the police in Lagos.
Though, the MASSOB members were tear-gassed by men of
the Nigeria Police, the action did not deter them from marching through Ikoku,
Ikwerre and the Government House in Port Harcourt.
The policemen later stopped firing teargas at the
protesters and decided to watch the protest march by over 3,000 youths.
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