International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House (Toronto)
press release
Anambra State operatives of the State Security Services (SSS), Nigeria's intelligence service, are attempting to stop the circulation of publications that carry information on the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
Port Harcourt/Abuja - LEADER of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari was quizzed for two hours yesterday by operatives of State Security Service (SSS) in Abuja for what government described as "inflammatory public utterance lately."
Lagos - A Federal High Court Judge, Justice Marcel Awokulehin, yesterday fixed September 22 for the trial of 28 members of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) for belonging to an unlawful society.
Awka - Director of State Security Services (SSS) in Anambra State, Mr. Ibrahim Audu, yesterday in Nnewi commended Governor Chris Ngige for his quick response to security advice and co-operation with the security agencies in the state.
Onitsha and Abuja - MOVEMENT for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
has for the first time reacted to the June 8 killing of six Igbo traders by
the police in Abuja.
MASSOB said the unconscionable murder had further justified its
agitation for Biafra.
Awka - ANAMBRA State Director of State Security Service [ SSS] , Alhaji Ibrahim
Audu says the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra
[MASSOB] is being sustained and funded from Onitsah, the commercial city of
Anambra State, through illegal extortions from the people. Audu blamed the
elite in the State for keeping quiet while illegal acts and other criminal
tendencies thrive.
Lagos - The activities of militia groups have remained an issue the Federal
Government has been battling over the years. In its determination to check
this problem, President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration vowed to confront
the menace headlong.
Owerri - MOVEMENT for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
last Wednesday counted its losses since 1999 when it kicked off the
agitation for a separate nation, saying so far, about 600 of its members
have been killed by security agents over the struggle.
Lagos - A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Lagos, presided over by Justice Marcel
Owokulehin yesterday quashed the charge of conspiracy and treason preferred
against 53 suspected members of the Actualization of the Sovereign State of
Biafra (MASSOB).
Lagos - Fifty Three members of the Movement for the Actualiz-ation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who were on March 22 arraigned before a Federal High Court, Lagos, were yesterday acquitted of treason.
Trial Judge, Justice Marcel Awokulehin, while ruling on the application brought by the accused, asking the court to quash the three - count charge of conspiracy to commit treason, treason and belonging to an unlawful society, preffered against them by the Federal Government, held that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case of treason against the accused.
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