A total of 67 Biafra separatists arrested in various parts of Enugu State as part ofGovernor Peter Mbah’s efforts to end sit-at-home protests in the state have been remanded in prison custody.

Five members of the group were also allegedly killed by combined security agencies who were allegedly ordered by the State Government to end sit-at-home and all Biafra agitations in the state.

It was reliably gathered on Sunday that members of the pro-Biafra movement were arrested in Eke-Obinagu and Independence Layout area respectively on May 29 and 30 during the Biafra Day commemoration activities in the State.

They include seven females and 60 males who were said to be between the ages of 50 and 70 years.

While 52 separatists were members of the Biafra Zionist Federation, 15 were members of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

A police officer, who didn’t want his name mentioned in print, told our correspondent on Sunday, that the 67 pro-Biafra members were secretly arraigned before an Enugu North Magistrate Court that ordered their remand prison custody on Friday evening by Police after a security meeting with the new governor of the State.

The governor when briefed approved that the elderly men and women should be taken to court and that was the reason they were arraigned in court around 6:45 pm where a presiding magistrate ordered that they should be transferred to prison custody while the case file transferred to the department of public prosecution. (The PUNCH)