German Court Jailed Four IPOB Members Who Attacked Ekweremadu

Germany court sentence four members of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) to twenty days in prison for assulting the former senate deputy president  Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, German.

The Premier newspaper learnt that they had served the sentences.

he convictions, which were handed out in August, went completely under the radar but diplomatic sources in Germany told PRELMIER NEWS  on  Friday learnt  that the four IPOB members were prosecuted for physical assault and sentenced to 20 days of labour “without pay”.

In 2019, the serving senator from Enugu state was beaten up by Biafra agitators in Nuremberg at an event organised by “Ndigbo Germany”.

IPOB — which Nigeria had declared a terrorist organisation — claimed responsibility for the attack which it said “should serve as a warning” to Igbo leaders “that any day we find them in a public event abroad, they will be humiliated”.