About 19 pro-Biafra protesters were on Tuesday arrested by operatives of the Enugu State Police Command.
The policemen reportedly fired canisters on the protesters leaving several persons, including three women bodily injured.
Over 30 protesters had converged opposite the entrance to the main gate of the Government House with placards with inscriptions such as ‘free Nnamdi Kanu, Nnamdi Kanu is a freedom fighter, we need justice’, before the police launched attack on them.
“Heavily armed police men led by the Divisional Police Officer, New Haven, Enugu, CSP Okey Ambrose arrived the scene,” an eyewitness said, adding that the police officers initially pounced on the men who had accompanied the women for the protest during which 19 of them were arrested.
“The arrest made the women resolute and at this point the police fired tear gas directly at them during which the canisters hit some of them, causing heavy bodily injury,”
“The Commissioner of Police Mr Adamu Mohammed later arrived the scene”, he added.
The leader of the group, Mrs Onyekachi Ubenyi said that they were protesting the arrest of one Mr Nnamdi Kanu by the Department of State Security Services (DSS).
