Angry protesters took to the streets and block major roads in the Nigerian city Port Harcourt on Tuesday (November 10), they protests against the detention of the leader of a Biafran separatist movement.
It would be recalled that the Nigerian police had last week said they arrested more than 80 members of the separatist movement during a protest across the oil-rich south-south against the detention of Radio Biafra director Nnadami Kanu.
According to Bayelsa police spokesman, Anisim Butswa, the 78 men and five women were detained in a motorpark in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa state, "because they want to foment troubles and unleash chaos."
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