I’m still committed to Biafra struggle - Uwazuruike
I’m still committed to Biafra struggle —Uwazuruike
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Uwazuruike
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Onitsha—Leader of the Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State
of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has charged his Igbo kinsmen
to always disregard counter views or opinions expressed by the Imo State
governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha with regard to the current efforts by
MASSOB to actualize an independent state of Biafra.
He said that such counter-views or opinions always expressed by
Okorocha against the actualization of Biafra “portends him as a common
saboteur to the Igbo cause.”
In a statement to newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra State made on his
behalf by MASSOB’s National Deputy Director for Information, Mazi Chris
Mocha, Uwazuruike stated that although Okorocha had the constitutional
right to express his opinions or views on any matter including that of
MASSOB and Biafra actualization, he has no capacity to decide or
determine what happens in Igbo land.
According to the statement, “Okorocha is aiding and abetting the All
Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government in the continued
marginalization of Ndigbo. He is also financing the central mosque near
the Government House, Owerri, Imo State to the detriment of our people.”
Meanwhile, Uwazurike had again reaffirmed his determination to
actualize Biafra as a sovereign, independent nation without violence
within his life time, stressing that if he failed to get Biafra, then he
would have failed to achieve what is expected of him to do.
Uwazurike, who made the vow at a MASSOB meeting held in Ojukwu
Memorial Library, new Owerri, Imo State, said he was proud that no
member of MASSOB had been charged for armed robbery, kidnapping or
stealing in the course of the Biafran struggle, adding that such a clean
slate was a credit to their non-violent posture.
He boasted that despite the killing of his members by security
agencies from 1999-2015, his men had never retaliated or been found
guilty by any court of competent jurisdiction.
“I came into the world to do one thing and that is to achieve Biafra and liberate my oppressed people from bondage in Nigeria.”