By Ebere Suzy Okoye
The members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) on Friday clashed with Anambra Police leaving one person dead, Eleven others in various degrees of injuries.
According to our source, trouble started when a police team on surveillance flagged down a motorist along ever busy Onitsha/Owerri road in Onitsha which drew the attention of MASSOB members that were controlling the traffic since the yuletide of which they felt to rescue the man.
As they intervened, there was a heated argument which resulted in assault between the duo of MASSOB and police which prompted one of the policemen to shot at a MASSOB member and he died instantly.
Consequently, the MASSOB members in anger barricaded the ever-busy Onitsha / Owerri road for two hours and made bonfire with fairly used tyres forcing traffic flow to divert to the Obosi by-pass.
Meanwhile, the corpse of the dead member was said to have been taken to the Awada Police Station.
Contacting the police on the incident, the Onitsha Police Area commander, Mr. Benjamin Wordu confirmed the incident but said that trouble stated when MASSOB and a rival group had a bloody clash.
He said on hearing of the incident he dispatched a team of policemen to the troubled area adding that normalcy has since returned.
