The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of
Biafra has raised the alarm over alleged plots by the security agencies to
clamp down on its members and other Igbo youths who visit beer parlours at
night.
The leader of MASSOB, Chief Solomon Chukwu, said this in a
statement read on his behalf by the
National Director of Information of the group, Sunday Okereafor, at a
press conference in Owerri, affirmed that the group gathered that the security
agencies were out to arrest the youths at relaxation joints and label them
armed robbers and kidnappers just to intimidate and make them renounce their
agitation.Okereafor warned youths in the zone to stay away from
drinking joints after 7 pm to avoid cheaply given themselves away to security
agents. On the recent allegation by the Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General
Tukur Buratai, in Owerri that members of the group, who were massacred in
Anambra State, were heavily armed, the MASSOB spokesperson said, “The army lied,
they know we have remained non-violent since our struggle.
“They attacked us at Okwe in Onuimo Local Government Area of
Imo State in 2000 and killed 800 of our members at Oyi Local Government in
Anambra state; they dumped the corpse of our members in a shallow river. We
never attacked them, they know those who carry arms, we are non violent people
despite the provocation.”
Okereafor also warned Igbo leaders under the auspices of the
Southeast Council of Traditional Rulers, who recently paid a visit to President
Buhari, denying the existence of Biafra to stop speaking on behalf of Ndigbo,
claiming that they were selfish and only interested in enriching themselves.
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