The Indigenous People of Biafra says
intelligence agents arrested a leader calling for the peaceful secession of the
southeast from Nigeria — a cause that prompted a civil war in the 1970s in
which an estimated million people died.
That group and the
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra say Radio
Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu was detained Saturday as he tried to fly to London
from the airport of the commercial center, Lagos.
It was not immediately
possible to get comment from the Department of State Security.
In July President
Muhammadu Buhari's government said it had jammed Radio Biafra's airwaves
because it is unlicensed but the station is still able to broadcast, airing
grievances of the Igbo tribe who accuse the government of discrimination.
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