Police inward Nigeria on Lord's Day said they had arrested 65 people at a demonstration of back upward for US President Donald Trump organised past times pro-independence activists inward the country's south.
The rally, which took house on Fri inward the southern crude hub of Port Harcourt, was organised to coincide amongst the billionaire businessman's inauguration every bit the 45th US president.
It was organised past times a pro-Biafra grouping advocating an independent province inward southeastern Nigeria in addition to was held on the level of massive demonstrations against Trump across the globe.
"Some suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)... staged an unlawful protestation inward the Port Harcourt metropolis," said Rivers State's deputy constabulary main Ahmed Magaji.
He said the march was non authorised in addition to had disturbed the populace order, amongst constabulary using tear gas to disperse them.
"About 65 of them were arrested" on suspicion of belonging to the IPOB, in addition to were institute to hold upward carrying the movement's flag, he said.
The IPOB is purpose of a wider secessionist crusade that advocates an independent province of Biafra, a portion inward southeast Nigeria that unsuccessfully fought for independence inward a barbarous three-year civil state of war that ended inward 1970.
Posting on Twitter, several pro-Biafra activists claimed constabulary had brutally attacked the unarmed demonstrators in addition to fifty-fifty killed several of them merely at that spot was no agency of independently verifying the reports.
Early on inward the US presidential race, IPOB threw its back upward behind Trump inward the belief he would recognise their independence movement.
Soon afterward United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland voted inward a plebiscite inward June to leave of absence the European Union, the grouping pushed for its ain version of "Brexit" from Nigeria that it dubbed "Biafrexit".
Separatist consider has grown over the past times xv months since the arrest of the blood brother of the IPOB's leader, amongst activists engaging inward bloody clashes amongst the safety forces that accept been condemned past times human rights groups.
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AFP News, Lagos. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/