Police in southwest Nigeria said Wednesday they had arrested 30 members of a militant group banned last week after bloody ethnic clashes in Lagos.
"The suspects were picked up at the weekend at a spot along Oyemekun road in the city," of Akure, a police spokesman told AFP by phone.
He said the suspects, believed to be members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), would soon appear in court for "unlawful assembly."
The Nigerian government banned the OPC and other militant groups last week following violence in Lagos that left more than 100 people -- mostly ethnic Hausa -- dead.
The government blamed members of the OPC, formed in 1995 to protect the interest of the Yoruba in southwest Nigeria, for the violence and ordered a nationwide crackdown on its leaders.
Police last week in Lagos arrested 204 people, including the OPC's founder and leader Frederic Fasheun.
Fasheun and 41 others were on Friday charged before a Lagos magistrate court for murder, possession of arms and arson. Seventy-two other people had earlier been brought to the court on similar charges.
The suspects are being held at Ikoyi prison in the city until a court hearing scheduled for November 17 -- LAGOS (AFP)
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