Series of reactions have continued to trail Tuesday’s protest by pro-Biafra agitators that shut down the capital City of Port Harcourt as the Rivers Elders and Leaders Council led by a former national director general of the State Security Service (SSS), Chief Albert Horsfall, have slammed pro-Biafra agitators and distanced the state and its people from the agitation.
Chief Albert Horsfall who spoke on behalf of Rivers Elders and Leaders said they are disturbed over the recent resurgence of the issue of Biafra and its effect on the peace-loving people of Rivers state.
Rivers Elders pointed out that those with pro-Biafra “sentiments have chosen to transport trailer and bus loads of demonstrators from neighbouring states into Port Harcourt. To say the least, this amounts to the display of bad political faith across our neighbouring borders”.
“The attempt by these elements to focus on Port Harcourt for their political rascality is totally unacceptable and is hereby condemned by Rivers Elders and Leaders Council.”
Rivers Elders added that: “The action so far taken by the Biafra protesters in Port Harcourt is highly provocative to all genuine sons and daughters of Rivers state who have so far restrained themselves from confronting the demonstrators in Port Harcourt.
“The choice of Port Harcourt may be a deliberate ploy to make Port Harcourt the battle ground for any fracas that may follow their rascality. We reject these moves in its entirety and hereby repeat our warnings of those concerned to desist forthwith.
“Rivers state people are not Biafrans and had never been and will never be.”
RELEC said it supports the warning issued by Governor Nyesom Wike on behalf of the state government banning pro-Biafra protest in the state.
RELEC called on “all elders and leaders of the states from which these youths have been pouring into Port Harcourt for this unwelcome and unwholesome political rascality to call their youths to order and forbid them forever staging further demonstrations and protest in Port Harcourt and other parts of Rivers state.”
RELEC observed that the good neighbourly relationship which has always existed between Rivers people and their neighbours had been cordial and mutually beneficial, and said that for this to continue those responsible for the protest must put an immediate halt to these unfriendly activities.
Pro-Biafra supporters has been protesting in Rivers, Anambra, Enugu and Delta states against Kanu’s detention.
This was followed by the arrest of eight people including a woman, alleged to be supporters of the Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), involved in the Tuesday, November 10 protest that gridlocked the streets of Port Harcourt.
The eight suspects were arraigned by the police before a chief magistrate’s court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state yesterday, November 12.
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