Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Comrade Uchenna Madu, says the continuous detention of the leader of Indigenous People of of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu is part of the sacrifice for the actualisation of Biafra.
Recall that Kanu has been in detention after he was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, last year in Lagos.
Madu made the remark yesterday during the 83rd birthday celebration of late Chukuemeka Ojukwu in Okwe, Onuimo Council Area in Imo State.
According to Madu, “The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu by the Hausa- Fulani government is part of the sacrifices that he has to pay for the struggle and we will not be deterred by that and don’t forget I was also detained for over three years by the Obasanjo government, so it the sacrifice that we have to make to gain our freedom”.
The leader of the secessionist group also berated some Igbo leaders for their nonchalant attitude towards the struggle for the actualisation of Baifra.
Madu warned that MASSOB would commence an internal revolution in the South East against political leaders for allegedly conniving with oppressors of the Igbo race.
He said, “Some Igbo political and religious leaders have committed more harmful, dangerous and sacrilegious crimes against Igboland with their nonchalant attitudes and selfishness against our ancestors. It is clear that the Nigerian state has abandoned and neglected Igboland. The question is, why must Igbo political, religious, economic and traditional leaders complement our oppressors’ deliberate policies against the survival of our people in Nigeria?
Eulogising the late Igbo leader, Madu described Ojukwu as the only Igbo that his generation, present generation and future generation will continued to honour and adore as the symbol of the emancipation of Ndigbo.
“Today is November 4, which ought to be a special day in Igboland, a day set aside by God; a day the greatest Igbo man, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was born. So, today we are celebrating his 83rd posthumous birthday.
“We gathered to reflect, refresh and revive the consciousness of Ojukwuism in Igbo land,” he added.
Madu had recently lamented that Igbo leaders no longer respect the leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra, the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, stressing that the spirit of the late Biafra leader was angry.
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