Arrest Uwazuruike, divide Nigeria –MASSOB

Movement for the Actualization
of Sovereign State of, MASSOB, has
threatened to divide the country if
their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike, was
arrested for trial over treason.
MASSOB members who marched in large
numbers in their Biafran uniform to all
major streets of Onitsha, yesterday,
carried placards with various
inscriptions.

Speaking through its regional
administrator for Onitsha Region 4,
Chief Arinze Igbani, MASSOB said the
protest was anchored on the basis of
injustice, incessant harassment and
killing of Igbo people across the
country.
It made reference to Apo six killing of
Igbo youths who are yet to get justice
after several years the crime was
committed and urged the federal
government to refrain from the arrest of
MASSOB members who he described as non-
violent agitators.
Igbani lamented that Igbos had continued
to sacrifice their lives for the unity
of the country without any commensurate
compensation, adding that Boko Haram
militants that had carried out violent
attacks on Nigerian citizens and
institutions was on the verge of being
granted amnesty by the federal
government.
He vowed that MASSOB would continue to
agitate for self-determination no matter
the government’s harsh approach that
exposed their lives to danger.
He called on all “Biafrans” both at home
and in the Diaspora to observe June 8 as
a day of sober reflection to pay their
respect to all Igbos killed in Nigeria
by the powers that be.
He said: “I call on Igbos in Nigeria
and in diaspora to remain at home on
June 8, this year as a mark of respect
for all fallen heroes of “Biafra who
have been massacred in the Country for
the simple excuse that they’re Igbos.
“Why must the Federal Government subject
Ndi-Igbo to second class citizens in a
country they have helped to build?”
In his remark, Anambra State MASSOB
coordinator on Security, Comrade
Nnaemeka Onyemaechi disclosed that the
security agents in the state have
strategized on how to clamp down and
kill MASSOB members and their
sympathizers and called on all Igbos to
observe June 8 as a sit-at-home to
escape the brutality of the Country’s
 Security agents, stressing that MASSOB
would continue to agitate the
independence of her people no matter the
threat.