Police arrest newspaper vendors for circulating IPOB stories

May 10, 2021
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No fewer than seven newspaper vendors and distribution agents in Imo State were in the early hours of Monday arrested by the operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police.

Other vendors and distribution agents who managed to escape hinted to reporters that the gun-wielding police operatives had pointed accusing fingers at them of circulating newspaper publications that had stories on the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and that were “anti-state.”

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It was gathered by our correspondent that the operatives swooped on the newspaper vendors and distribution agents at their base located at No. 5, Rotibi Street, Douglas Road, Owerri, as the circulation of the day’s newspapers was ongoing.

Some of the vendors and distribution agents arrested by the IGP’s team are Nnamso Okoro, Nelson Enyiama, Blessing Isinwa, Onyebuchi Iwundu, and Michael.

It would be recalled that the state circulation manager of the New Telegraph Newspaper, Chuks Ugwuibe, is still being held in an undisclosed security facility after he was arrested in Orlu on Tuesday last week by security operatives while taking his weekly returns from vendors.

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