Nigerian police said they had arrested eight separatists suspected of killing six people last month in the country’s troubled southeast.
IPOB is the Indigenous People of Biafra movement, which wants a separate state for the Igbo people in southeast Nigeria, while the ESN is its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network. Local government offices and electoral agency buildings have also been targeted. IPOB denies any responsibility. Four men aged 44 to 43 were arrested, a move that opened the way to the arrest last Thursday of four other IPOB members, who were seized at their hideout after a shootout, the police statement said.Separatism is a sensitive issue in Nigeria, where a declaration of an independent Biafra Republic by Igbo army officers in the southeast in 1967 triggered a three-year civil war that left more than a million dead.
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