The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos, Fredrick Nwajagu,over threats of inviting proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB) to protect Igbo properties in Lagos.
Current matters gathered that the Igbo leader was picked by a joint team of security operatives comprising the DSS and the Police on Saturday morning .
The team reportedly traced Nwajagu to his palace,but could not find him . He was said to have been tracked to a hotel in Ejigbo where he was arrested
Nwajagu, had in a 49-second video, shared on Twitter on Friday by @DeeOneAyekooto, threatened to invite IPOB members to Lagos .
He said:
“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.
In reaction to the video, the police in Lagos said they would not allow such threats to hold ground in the state.
Spokesman of the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin declared:
“To start with, the ever-ready @LagosPoliceNG will never fold its arms and allow such within the state,”
The bouts of ethic tension in Lagos began after the February 25 Presidential election. The Presidential Candidate of the Labour party had won Lagos perceived to be an exclusive preserve of the All Progressives Congress APC and the eventual winner of the election,Bola Tinubu.
The boasts of the Labour party and supporters to wrest power from the APC government in Lagos and claims by some people that Lagos is a No- Man’s Land,led to violence and destruction of properties owned by Igbos in markets.
