Read how police arrested MASSOB members in Onitsha.

The police order in Anambra said 14 associated individuals with the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were captured in Onitsha for claimed illicit parade.

Nkeiruka Nwode, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, made the divulgence in a meeting with columnists in Onitsha on Tuesday.

Ms. Nwode, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, said the captures were completed in various parts of the town amid a parade by the gathering to check 17 years of its presence.

She said the people were captured for illicit parade, including that no life was lost in the disarray that took after the capture of the individuals.

Be that as it may, the Religious Administrator of MASSOB, Apostle Ezichukwu, said more than 50 individuals from the gathering were captured, with 20 lost and one individual professedly shot by the police.

Mr. Ezichukwu, a reverend minister, who said the parade was quiet, asked why the police captured individuals from the gathering.

He said security work force from the Army, Police, Navy and NSCDC were confining MASSOB individuals at the Army Barracks, Onitsha, police central command, Awka and other police headquarters.