Fredrick Nwajagu, the Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate in Lagos, who threatened to invite members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to Lagos for the protection of the properties of Igbo people in the state, has been arrested by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), Daily Trust has reported.
How Nwajagu was arrested
Nwajagu was reportedly trailed to his palace from where he fled to a hotel in Ejigbo. He was arrested in a joint operation by the DSS and the Police in the early hours of Saturday.
Nwajagu was was arrested for threatening to invite IPOB members to Lagos, against some attacks on some Igbo people in the state, in a 49-second video, shared on Twitter by @DeeOneAyekooto, on Friday.
The Igbo leader further threatened that he stood by his words, insisting that his people must have a stand in Lagos.
“IPOB, we will invite them. They have no job. All of the IPOB will protect all of our shops. And we have to pay them. We have to mobilise for that. We have to do that. We must have our own security so that they will stop attacking us in the midnight, in the morning, in the afternoon.
“When they discover that we have our own security, before they will come, they will know that we have our own men there. I am not saying a single word to be hidden. I am not hiding my words, let my words go viral. Igbo must get their right and get stand in Lagos State,” he had said in the video.
Replying to the post, the spokesperson of the Lagos Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the command would resist IPOB presence in the state.
“To start with, the ever-ready @LagosPoliceNG will never fold its arms and allow such within the state,” he wrote.
