Nnamdi Kanu: Imo Police Teargas, Arrest Protesting IPOB Women

Over 2000 IPOB women who took off on a peaceful protest today in Owerri, Imo State were teargassed by officers attached to the Imo Police Command.

Vanguard gathered that some of the IPOB women who wore black attire with some of them topless, were also arrested by the police shortly after they started the protest from Okigwe Road. Some of the women stated that there would be no election in Igbo land in 2019, while others expressed their unhappiness that pro Biafra agitators have been intimidated for expressing their views.

The women who disclosed that it was not a wrong step for them to demand for a country called Biafra, however scrambled for safety after ove 100 Imo police officers with their patrol vans went after them and further teargassed them during the peaceful protest.

“As a result of the fierce looking police officers fully armed who blocked the road for the women, these women diverted to from warehouse junction to Akwakuma.

“Do you know that many of these women fainted and also many of them were bundled into the police vehicles. Some of them were seriously beaten.”

One of the women identified as Nkechi, also said;

” What is wrong for us to say no to intimidation in this country, Nigeria. We have right to say we are going to be part of this country. It legally right.”

Protesting the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu on September 14, 2017, after his home was invaded by the Nigerian Army, the women took to the streets of Owerri, Imo State to demand answers on the whereabouts of the IPOB leader.

The protest is coming a day after the Nigerian Army, announced its readiness to embark on Operation Python Dance III in major communities in the South East.