How We’ll Achieve Baifra Independence Without Violence – MASSOB
25th Jan. 2016
Solomon Chukwu, one of the leaders of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB) has said that an independence of the Biafra republic would only be realized without violence.
Chukwu via MASSOB spokesman, Sunny Okereafor, criticised the violence and killings which happened during the last protest calling for the release of Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu in Aba, and blamed the Uchenna Madu faction for being sponsored by politicians to sabotage Biafra.
He said: “MASSOB condemns the violence and killings in Aba over the detention of Nnamdi Kanu. We only support peaceful agitation and genuine protest. We don’t carry knives or gun. Our leader, Ralph Uwazuruike has stated severally that Biafra will only be achieved through non-violence. If you watch our activities, we are non- violent in our approach to the Biafran struggle. That is why people see us as the genuine pro-Biafra group. With this violence and killings in Onitsha, Aba and other cities, what have they achieved? Nothing. Why have all these violent protests and killings not led to the release of Nnamdi Kanu? What sense does it make for you to cause violence and killing of the same people you want to liberate? MASSOB has no hand in it.
“The federal government should question Uchenna Madu and his cohorts for the violence and killings in Aba. He has been expelled from MASSOB and should stop using the name of the Movement to commit violence. Anybody doing business with Uchenna Madu under the name of MASSOB does it at his own risk.”
Meantime Rivers state police command reacted to the accusation that it brought the pro-Biafran activists it arraigned before the magistrate’s court half naked.
It dismissed the allegation and the pictures published by some online media as malicious and deceitful, adding that the force cannot malhandle suspects.
The South East and South South parts of Nigeria are on the throes of protest by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). They call for creation a country under Biafra and for the release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu.
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