Abia State Commissioner of Police says Nnamdi Kanu's Biafra Security Service (BSS) is illegal

Adeleye Oyebade, the Commissioner of Police Abia, State Command has declared the recently formed BiafraSecurity Service of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as illegal.

He warned those behind the formation of the security network he described as “unlawful and illegal” to retrace their steps. He also says the Nigerian constitution recognizes only the Nigerian Police, Nigerians Army and the Department of States service, adding that any other group claiming to be providing security without an approval from constitution was illegal. 

Oyebade further stated that the full weight of the law would be brought upon the organizers of the said BSS who he noted were displaying videos of the “outlawed” security service on their social media network.