The leader of the Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike Monday charged members of the movement to remain steadfast and focused in the revolutionary struggle, saying that the non-violent method adopted by MASSOB has become a source of worry to the so-called northern socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Nigerian military.
Uwazuruike insisted that there was no going back in his bid to actualise Biafra now or never, stressing that he was in the struggle for freedom not for any other person but for his own children, who, he said, desire a free country where the security of their lives and properties can be guaranteed.
Special meeting
The MASSOB leader, who spoke through the Deputy National Director for Information, Mazi Chris Mocha, at the weekend at a special meeting of Enugu West Senatorial District in Nachi, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State, lamented that since Nigeria got her independence in 1960, it had never guaranteed the security of lives and properties of Ndigbo, a situation which persuaded him to seek independence for Biafra.
He frowned that some Igbo elite have become stooges to our oppressors, who often used them to do odd jobs and also sponsor them to make blatant comments to discredit Biafra in order to win contracts from their masters in Abuja.
He regretted that such elite, because of the peanuts they were getting from the oppressors, would accept to sabotage the Biafra struggle without knowing how much MASSOB had laboured in the past 16 years, insisting that their plans were bound to fail.
According to Uwazuruike, “ACF asked Allah to give them Boko Haram, he gave to them and they became comfortable with its outcome. Afenifere elders had Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) fighting for social justice in Yorubaland.
“I am very happy that Biafra is being talked about all over the world and people are being killed and detained for the sake of Biafra. So, if I fail to get Biafra, then I would have failed to do what Ndigbo expected of me and if I also die for the sake of Biafra, I will be fulfilled.”
-Vanguard