The pro-Biafra protest train arrived Umuahia, the Abia State capital yesterday, moving through major streets under the watch of security agents.
The pro-Biafra demonstrators were fulfilling their vow to take the protest to all states of the Southeast before heading to Abuja, if the leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was not released.
Alhough economic activities were not disrupted, about 500 protesters marched through Isi Court in Umuahia South, Aba and Umuwaya roads as well as Bende and Enugu Roads peacefully.
They were accompanied by security agencies, apparently to forestall a breakdown of law and order.
Roads leading to the Government House was blocked with police vans.
The protesters, who carried Kanu’s portrait and the Biafran flag, chanted songs of freedom and asked the Federal Government to order Kanu’s release.
Before the protesters arrived, security agencies including the police, Army and civil defence, mounted surveillance in strategic locations including the Government House.
Police spokesman Ezekiel Udeviotu said the protest was peaceful and there were no arrests as the police applied international best practices of the rule engagement.
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