Former chairman of Youth mobilization of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Mr. Ndubuisi Igwekani, popularly referred to as Agu Biafra, has called for the trial of the leader of MASSOB, Chief Raph Uwazuruike for alleged extortion of some Igbo citizens in the guise of pursuing MASSOB agenda.
Igwekani, who is currently the Leader of Igbo Security Organization, stated this in an interactive session with journalists in Enugu.
He said that even though he was against felony trial for any MASSOB member, he wanted Uwazuruike committed to prison for allegedly obtaining huge sums of money from both the rich and the poor supporters of MASSOB only to use the money for self aggrandizement and continue to live in affluence.
Agu Biafra cited two fleets of limousines, choice property in Imo state and other parts of the country, which he said were allegedly owned by Uwauzurike, as proofs of Uwazuruike’s alleged corrupt practices.
He insisted that no freedom fighter was obsessed with wealth acquisitions like Uwazuruike.
“What we are saying is that the ruling of the Supreme Court affects Uwazuruike as a person and not MASSOB. We are rather in support for them to apprehend Uwuazurike and let him face the music, because he did not only disappoint us, but the Igbo nation by using the blood of our people to enrich himself, and his statement today is not his statement tomorrow.
“What we are saying is to let the Supreme court do whatever it can do to bring that Man to justice because I’m also a victim of Uwazurike”, he said.
Igwekani disclosed that MASSOB was abinito conceived as a pressure group to canvass against injustices meted on Ndigbo in Nigeria, particularly the killings in northern Nigeria after the 1996 Gideon Okar Coup and the general marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria polity.
He said: “That was our plan before Uwazuruike came down here from Lagos to deceive us that Britain, Queen Elizabeth and United Nations have signed up for creation of Biafra country, and we brought all our money and resources to invest in this project, hoping that it will benefit our people, but at the end of the day, we discovered that this Man is a dupe, a 419.
“Have you seen any part of the world where someone who calls himself a freedom fighter is riding on limousines, building houses with the blood of our people? We have thousands of our people languishing in prison yards, those who have died without befitting burials and what pains me most is that parents of some of these boys know me in person as Director for mobilization of youth for MASSOB, believing that what we are fighting for is justified.
“We didn’t know that this Man was lying and deceiving us. Today, those who were richer than Uwazuruike are now very poor that they cannot feed their children and Uwazuruike is living fat with our sweat”.
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