Biafran separatists in court over 'secession' bid

Lagos - Eleven members of a Biafran
separatist movement were remanded in
custody when they appeared in court in
southeastern Nigeria accused of conspiring
to declare a breakaway republic.
Prosecutor DE Kaswe told the Enugu High
Court on Wednesday that the group, known
as the Biafra Zionist Movement (BZM),
stormed the offices of the Enugu State
Broadcasting Service on June 4.
They intended to proclaim the Republic of
Biafra in a live radio broadcast, he told the
hearing.
A previous declaration of an independent
Biafran state sparked a three-year civil war
in Nigeria between 1967 and 1970 in which
up to one million people are thought to have
died.