Police arrest pro-Biafra member over sit-at-home plot in Anambra

The Anambra State Police Command has arrested one Friday Obeta, a member of the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, for planning to enforce the May 30 sit-at-home declared by the pro-Biafran group.

Recall that the pro-Biafran group had reportedly declared May 30 as a sit-at-home across the South-East, to honour its heroes who died during the civil war of 1967-1970.

The spokesman for the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed the arrest of the 37-year-old suspect in a press statement he released on Wednesday, adding that one motorcycle, a branded t-shirt and an operational identification card of the proscribed organisation were recovered from the suspect.

Ikenga said operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, Nnewi Sector, arrested the suspect based on intelligence gathering on how he and his gang members had set out plans to enforce the sit-at-home.

The statement said, “Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, Nnewi Sector, acting on credible information on how the proscribed Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra has set out plans to enforce sit-at-home on May 30, 2025, arrested one Friday Obeta aged 37 years and recovered one motorcycle, a branded t-shirt and an operational identification card of the proscribed organisation.

“The suspect confessed to being a member and an informant for the proscribed group and has made useful information that is aiding the investigation for the possible arrest of other gang members.

To this end, the Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, charged the operatives to intensify their onslaught operations, given the suspect’s confessions.

“He further urged them to step up surveillance operations to thwart any unlawful gathering in the state.”