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ANAMBRA ’17: Police arrest printers producing IPOB’s boycott-themed handbills

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The Anambra State Police Command Thursday arrested two printers in Onitsha who were allegedly printing handbills for the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to spread information on the group’s November 18 governorship election boycott in Anambra State.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Garba Umar, revealed this at a press conference in his office at Amawbia, Anambra State.

Umar stated that his command would not tolerate any IPOB activity in the state.

He said, “After a discreet procedure in collating intelligence on miscreants and members of the proscribed IPOB, the Onitsha area command raided a printing press where thousands of posters and handbills were being printed.”

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Some of the fliers read, ‘Call for referendum is not call for war;’ ‘No election in Anambra State,’ ‘Biafrans declare sit at home,’ ‘Anyone who insists on participating in the Anambra election will be doing so at his or her own risk,’ and so on.

IPOB had in a press statement declared sit-at-home on November 18, the scheduled date day for the Anambra governorship election.

Umar warned that he would not spare any group or individual who tried to disrupt the peace in the state.

He called on residents to ensure that they reported any attempt to cause breach of the peace in their area, adding that the printers arrested would help the police in tracking down the IPOB members who gave them the job.

He said, “We wish to encourage the people to ignore the leaflets and the fruitless effort expended in printing them, but to come out en masse and vote in the election as the plans of the group was to instill fear in everyone and cause apathy during the exercise.

“IPOB is proscribed and there won’t be a hiding place for them in Anambra State.

“We won’t tolerate any insignia of the group in this state. If your nickname is IPOB, please change it now; otherwise, we’ll arrest and prosecute you.”

 

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