Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has vowed that Nigeria will boil if their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike is arrested by the Federal Government for trial over treason.
Members of the group were seen in large numbers and donned in their Biafran attires in all major streets at Onitsha on Monday, carrying placards with various inscriptions, protesting the planned action of the FGN.
The group’s regional administrator for Onitsha Region 4, Chief Arinze Igbani, while speaking during the peaceful protest said the march was anchored on the basis of injustice, incessant harassment and killing of Ndigbo across the country.
He gave an instance of the six Igbo youth who were killed in Apo, Abuja are yet to get justice after several years that the crime was committed, urging the Federal Government to refrain from the arrest of MASSOB members whom he said were non-violent agitators.
The elder statesman further 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 the fight for the realization of Biafran Republic would not stop.
He called on all “Biafrans” both at home and in the Diaspora to observe June 8 as a day of sober reflection, to pay respect to all Igbos killed in Nigeria by the powers that be.
Hear him, “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?”
Also speaking, Anambra State MASSOB coordinator on Security, Comrade Nnaemeka Onyemaechi added that the security agents in the state have strategized on how to clamp down and kill MASSOB members and their sympathizers, calling on all Igbos to observe June 8 with a sit-at-home exercise to escape from the brutality of the Country’s Security agents, stressing that they won’t stop fighting until victory is won.
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