The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB has replied former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his recent assertion that “Biafra is dead.”
MASSOB insisted that Biafra is still alive and will never die.
Obasanjo, while presenting a paper entitled: “Resurgent Biafra Agitation: Born in Error, Ignorance and Frustration,” at a public discussion on Biafra, organised by Nextier Advisory in Abuja, on January 15, had said Biafra was long dead and forgotten.
The former president played down the current clamour for the resurrection of Biafra as an independent state.
Advising Nigerians, especially the people of the South-East, not to take the pro-Biafra agitators seriously, Obasanjo said, “No right-thinking person who has experienced the horror of war will ever agitate for more war.
“Nigeria cannot afford to go from Boko Haram insurgency to any other insurgency under any guise.
“And on no account should we wittingly or unwittingly allow this to happen again.”
Reacting to Obasanjo’s submission, MASSOB, through its Director of Information, Comrade Samuel Edeson, said Biafra was not dead, and would never die.
Edeson noted that Obasanjo had tried severally in vain to destroy the pro-Biafra group in the past, during his time as the country’s president.
Edeson boasted that the struggle for the actualization of Biafra survived, despite persecution masterminded by Obasanjo’s administration, including the killing of about 1000 MASSOB members at Umulolo, Okigwe, in Imo State, on March 29, 2003.
He said the pro-Biafra group would drag Obasanjo to the International Criminal Court for the alleged killings.
Edeson said, “MASSOB wishes to reply Obasanjo that Biafra is not dead and will never die.
“Obasanjo should have known that after killing over 1000 MASSOB members at Umulolo, Okigwe, in Imo State on March 29, 2003, which he masterminded through Achike Udenwa, then governor of Imo State.
“The killing of MASSOB members in Onitsha, Anambra State in 2006/2007, and detention of MASSOB members in various prisons in Nigeria has not stopped our agitation.”
Edeson alleged that Obasanjo attempted to bribe MASSOB leaders with ‘bag of money’ to forget the struggle for the resurrection of Biafra.
“In 2006 while Uwazuruike was in Keffi prison, Obasanjo invited us to Aso Rock where he promised us millions of naira and to send us out of the country.
“Ghana-must-go bag of money just for us to forget Uwazuruike to die in prison, but we rejected the offer,” Edeson said.
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