The Rivers State government has tightened security at the Port Harcourt Correctional centre, as well as the various police stations in the city due to fears of possible attacks by Biafran groups. The reinforcement came after a group, Biafra Nations League (BNL) in the South-South region threatened to unleash mayhem on oil companies that were operating in Port Harcourt, and bring the state to its knees. The group faulted the Governor of the state, Nyesom Wike, for banning meetings by the United Igbo Community (UIC) in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state. Wike in a statement released by the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, had announced a ban on meetings by Igbo groups in some areas of the state, and that the decision of the government was for security reasons. However, the BNL in a statement signed by its Deputy National Leader and Head of Operations, Ebuta Takon, and the Chief of Staff, Linus Essien, warned Wike to stop threatening Igbos from the South-East merely because of activities of Nnamdi Kanu’s led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).