Onitsha – Four members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, were, yesterday, allegedly shot, as policemen dispersed the movement’s protest in Onitsha.

It was learnt that some 400 protesting members of the movement were checkmated, following the shooting near Ochanja Market Roundabout about 11:30 a.m.

Ten other members were said to have sustained injuries during the incident.

Mr Godwin Aguchima, the Director of Information of the movement, said they were staging a peaceful protest to condemn the continued detention of their leaders in Kuje Prisons, Abuja, since 2006.

He said: “Our greatest bitterness is the dumping of an 82-year-old man, Mr Anayo Nwani, who is seriously sick in prison.

“We do not see the reason while someone without arms should be arrested and detained since 2006 without bail.”

Mr Emeka Chukwuemeka, the police spokesman in Anambra, said he had not been briefed on the incident.