Nigeria’s police have dispersed protesters calling for the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra.
Members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) had converged for a demonstration in the south-eastern city of Enugu before police intervened.
Earlier, Nigeria’s police chief Solomon Arase said the group’s threats to “public order” would not be tolerated.
The protesters had on Tuesday blocked the main bridge linking the south-east to the rest of Nigeria
The mainly ethnic Igbo protesters want to form an independent state in southern part of the country.
They are calling for the release of one of their leaders, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention for two months.
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