Leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, Solomon Chukwu, has said that the people of the Niger Delta area and the former Eastern region are part of Biafra, and remains committed to actualize an independent state of their own.
The new MASSOB leader added that the people of Biafra cannot find peace in Nigeria until the actualization of an independent state where there will be limitless freedom to develop their land.
Chukwu who spoke through MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Sunny Okereafor, dismissed reports that the people of South South states like Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Cross River, are not Biafrans, adding that the former Eastern region has refused to be deceived by what he described as federal government’s divide and rule policy.
According to him,” Anybody who says that Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Cross River states are not part of Biafra is deceiving himself. These are Biafran territories. Biafra encompasses all the states of the former Eastern region, including Anioma clan in Delta state. It has been part of the Federal government’s divide and rule policy to tell the World that only Ndigbo want Biafra; but this is false. Do you remember Ojukwu’s second in command, Philip Effiong? Was he not from Akwa Ibom? When he was here, can anybody doubt his commitment to the actualization of Biafra?
“If you see the kind of support from the local people of Ugep, Ikom, Ogoja and adjoining areas when we held our meeting there last week at Ugep, you will be shocked. Over 2,000 people registered as MASSOB members at that meeting. In fact, from what we saw at the meeting, the people of Ogoja, Ugep and Ikom are more Biafra than even Ndigbo.”
He insisted that part of the marginalization of the former Eastern region in Nigeria is the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, despite successive court orders, granting him bail and urged the federal government to release him.
“Nnamdi Kanu is from Eastern Nigeria; this is why he is being held despite court order. His detention is part of the larger plot to continue to marginalize our people and frustrate Biafra, but we can never be deterred. Biafra is the answer,” the MASSOB leader said.
Chukwu, who commended MASSOB’s Regional Administration for Ogoja, Rex Egberebi, for the massive mobilization of members in Ogoja, urged them to insist on the group’s non violent approach to the struggle, stressing that Biafra would soon be achieved. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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That can only be by concensus. Prove grassroot support as a start. The ND people are afraid to be part of the struggle for fear that Nigeria will declare war on them although deep in thier hearts they are not objecting to it. Assure the non igbos that they will not be dominated like how the north has colonised nigeria. One thing is certain that if the eastern nigeria becomes a nation they will surely prosper. That is why the nigerian state hate and fear them so much and the world that does not want to see the greatest nation in the black world arise.
ReplyDeleteEnter your reply...same was said about South Sudan.
DeleteSouth Sudan? What a daft and emotional example. South Sudan was at war amongst the tribes way before independence. Please you owe to yourself to research before you spout your very strong opinions that reflect serious post traumatic zoo disorder.
DeleteSee your big mouth. Are igbos at peace. Their claim on naija delta is it a peaceful one mscheeew
DeleteTufiaaa....God forbids...
ReplyDeleteAsk your fathers why u did not get full cooperation FM the people of Niger delta .Pse just fight yr cause the people of Niger delta will be their own.
ReplyDeleteIf the Niger delta people's refuse to be part of biafra there will be a smaller biafra of Igbos only. Having said that the niger delta people's will not be willing to remain in Nigeria as the nigerian state will surely bleed them dry and so they will likely confederate into a great biafra. I feel that the break up of Nigeria is inevitable as some regions have refused fairness in a so called federal republic and we can only pragmatically hope for it to be peaceful.
ReplyDeleteNiger Delta can never be & will never be part of Massob. Please stop day dreaming
ReplyDeleteIgbo are known to be very greedy and selfish ppl, now u claimed naija delta is part of biafra to have support when truly they know naija delta is d back born of Nigeria. This will even worsen their case because no naija delta state can go out of naija. When Nigeria as a whole is battling for developmental survival I wonder what d fate of Biafra will be after their freedom. Biafra is long dead, we must admit.
ReplyDeleteGreedy and selfish? Did you see the list of the biggest looters? How many igbo there? When you loot billions of public money that is what is the most greedy and selfish. Not igbos who where given only 20 pounds back from all thier accounts and have returned to the lowest poverty rate per head
DeleteSo Ondo,Edo and Yoruba people in Delta State ll follow ur delusory mission,mumu thinking at its peak,anyway nobody is taking u guys seriously.
ReplyDeleteNiger Delta will never be part of Biafra infact my father said during the war the Igbos took over the Bori market in Ogoni and out of the five market days took four and gave the Ogoni's infact the marginalisation and ill treatment was nothing to write home about hence Ken Saro-Wiwa's actions. The Igbos will be worst than the Hausa. Let the Igbos agitate for Biafra and leave the Niger Delta alone we are off in Nigeria
ReplyDeleteSolomon Chukwu talks about the dead like they have any part with what goes on here today. Let's see how the Ibos get the other parts of the south-south to be part of their blind selfish cause.
ReplyDeleteHere is a paraphrase of a Chinese saying: If you do not have a sword, don't go enquiring about who killed your father. Why are the Igbo people seeking for a breakup when they can barely sustain a government economically? You cannot lump Niger Delta with your region because we share no affinity whatsoever just the same way you share nothing with the Hausa and Yoruba. What is good for the goose (Igbo) is equally good for the gander (Niger Delta) I find this new Igbo dream preposterous, illusory.
ReplyDeleteEvery tyrant, despot started by brainwashing the uneducated, the brash young educated and a few spoilt rich "kids".
ReplyDeleteInitially the world would take them unserious before they grow to some uncontrollable force.
IPOB is gradually becoming that. They, not the entire igbos seem convinced that this is the way to go. MASSOB is not so serious.
My take lets have a referendum. If the entire igbo nation want to go then please let them go, so we can all concentrate on solving our problems either as a nation or as different entities.
Logically this quest seems delusional but it seems these guys know somethings we don't all know. Make we Dey look
Boundary never a problem, but biafra must come to pass, even those that are afred will see that biafra is blessing to all of us.
ReplyDeleteStop holding biafra is the best thing that will happen in Africa and world at large.
Bad shit, bad smell. Stop deceiving yourselves, the ppl of ND don't need your kingdom!
DeleteWhen trouble sleep, yanga go wake am... Na wetin e dey find?
ReplyDeleteBiafra my ass supported by bunch of bloody illeterates led by their one eyed king. Igbos re too selfish and greedy to stand as a nation. Illusionists
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