The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Garba Umar, disclosed this at a press conference in his office at Amawbia, Anambra State.
Umar said his command would not tolerate any IPOB activity in the state under any guise.
He said, “After a discreet procedure in collating intelligence on miscreants and members of the proscribed IPOB, the Onitsha area command raided a printing press where thousands of posters and handbills were being printed.”
Some of the fliers read, “Call for referendum is not call for war,” “No election in Anambra State,” “ Biafrans declare sit-at-home,” and “Anyone who insists on participating in the Anambra election will be doing so at his or her own risk.”
IPOB had in a press statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, declared a sit-at-home on November 18, 2017, the day set aside for the Anambra governorship election.
The Anambra CP, at the press conference, warned that he would not spare any group or individual that attempted to disrupt the peace in the state, while calling on residents of the state to report any attempt to cause a breach of the peace in their area.
Garba said the printers arrested would help the police in tracking down the IPOB members who brought the job to them.
He said, “We wish to encourage the people to ignore the leaflets and the fruitless effort expended in printing them, but to come out en masse and vote in the election as the plans of the group was to instill fear in everyone and cause apathy during the exercise.”
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