The Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate in Lagos State, Fredrick Nwajagu, has been arrested.
Nwajagu had in a video that went viral on Friday, threatened to invite members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra to secure the properties of Igbo people in the state.
“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 security so that they will stop attacking us at midnight, in the morning, and in the afternoon.
“When they discover that we have our security before they will come, they will take caution. 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 a stand in Lagos State,” he had said.
In his reaction to the video, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, 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,” hundeyin tweeted
However, NPO Reports learnt that the Igbo leader was arrested on Saturday morning by a joint team of policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services.
As at the time of filing this report, the police and DSS are yet to release official statement on the arrest of Nwajagu.