GROUP of soldiers from the Artillery Brigade, Obinze, Abia State, yesterday reportedly stormed the office of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB), in Orlu, Ihioma, Imo State, arrested the MASSOB Chief Security Officer (CSO), Boniface Ijeuwa, beat him to coma and clamped him into their cell.

Addressing newsmen in Onitsha, Deputy Director of Information on MASSOB, Mazi Chris Mocha, said that the soldiers carted away MASSOB office equipment that included a laptop valued at N120,000.

Mocha described the incident as unfortunate, adding that the intimidation, harassment and assault on MASSOB by soldiers would not deter it from fighting to actualise the emergence of sovereign state of Biafra.

Reacting to the incident, the MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, advised the soldiers to hand over the matter to the police if they would not want to release the CSO.

Uwazuruike expressed dissatisfaction with the action of the soldiers, adding that it surprised him to hear that soldiers stormed MASSOB office, beat the CSO, detained him and carted away some office equipment.

In a related development, Mazi Mocha recalled that some MASSOB members were still being detained at Awka prisons despite the order from ‘above’ to release all members detained.

He named those detained to include Chibuike Aghaigbo; Hycient Ebubedike Okafor; Francis Alike, Ifeanyi Ibe and Izuchukwu Nzom.