MASSOB To UN: Let Us Go

For the umpteenth time, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has again called on the United Na­tions (UN) to pass a resolu­tion recognising the South- East of Nigeria as a State of Biafra.

According to The Sun, the organization said recognising Biafra would be in conformity with the recognition given the ter­ritory in the late 60s by some countries during her struggle for self-determination.National Assistant Director of Information of the move­ment, Sunday Okereafor, in a statement, said the out come of the 2015 general elections in the country was nothing but a repeat of the 1960s in which two of the three major blocs in the country conspired against the South-East, cul­minating in the civil war that claimed the lives of many Igbo.

He stated that with the present political marriage be­tween the North and South- West, Ndigbo had no place in the political arrangement of today’s Nigeria, emphasising that in the present circum­stance, it would be expedient for the UN to recognize Bi­afra as a sovereign state.

Last week, the Ex-Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo had a private meeting with the leader of the MASSOB, Ralph Uwazurike at Buguma Toru LGA of Rivers State recently.

Also recently, MASSOB warned the former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, to desist from making derogatory statements about the late Biafran leader, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.

The warning came after a statement by General Danjuma that Ojukwu could have averted the bloodbath in the Biafran war if he had given up following the fall of Enugu during the Nigerian civil war.

Meanwhile, during the electioneering period, the police in Imo state arrested members of  MASSOB suspected to be in possession of  Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

Source:naij.com