Military officers say Biafra separatists have hijacked a dealer ship and threaten to explode it with its foreign team if authorities do not release a detained leader unsettling for their breakaway state.
Defense representative Maj. Gen. Rabe Abubakar says the seizing happened on Friday, however did not tell correspondents the name of the boat. Different officers say the naval force is in pursuit.
There are signs the separatists in the southeast are working with some Niger Delta oil militants in southern Nigeria, heightening clash in a nation effectively troubled by a lethal north-eastern uprising by Boko Haram terrorists, reports The Associated Press.
Division of State Services (DSS) on October 17 confined Biafran separatist Nnamdi Kanu, accusing him of terrorism. His cause sparked a 1960s civil war that murdered a million Nigerians.
Kindly let those who know these hijackers call them to order. There is a government popularly elected in place. What is being done is criminality and the law of the land will take care of the offenders.
PMB is not perturbed by this sabotage, we all know that corruption is fighting back with full force, but they will all fail!!!
I love the non violence approach of Uwaruike lead massob. but this Nnamdi Kanu IPOB will bring sorrow, sufferings and pains to Ndi Igbo, we cannot afford to allow the Nigerian Military see reason to turn our land to a war zone, we will not survive it. Let Ohaneze Ndi Igbo talk sense into this little brat, I mean Nnamdi Kanu. Ndi Igbo are peace loving people, we do not have radical attitude, we are not trouble makers, rather we are money makers and we love our lives more than anything, forget our money chasing attitudes. Please let us not give the International community the chance to label us terrorist, hijacking and blowing ships not your grievance, the International community will never see reason. you can blow your oil pipes and destroy your own people they will give no dam about it, but they will never tolerate the killing of their own people in the name of agitation for a sovereign states. Someone should tell these IPOB sympathizers that they are making a very big mistake by hijacking a ship with foreign expatriates in it.