Leader of the Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, Ralph Uwazurike, yesterday affirmed that some politicians are sponsoring splinter groups, including Nnamdi Kanu’s Indigenous People of Biafra, Biafra Zionist Movement, and the Uchenna Madu-led Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, to fight him.
Speaking through the Nnewi South Regional Administrator of BIM, Tony Nwodo, during a press briefing in Onitsha, Anambra State, Uwazuruike alleged that in other to drag his name to the mud, the Uchenna Madu-led faction of MASSOB masterminded the recent IPOB/MASSOB protests that led to the death of some protesters in some parts of the South-East and the South-South geopolitical zone.
Uwazuruike said, “They were expelled members of MASSOB because of anti-MASSOB activities and they had no other option but to rush to politicians who now sponsor them to discredit me and the MASSOB members. And because they have infiltrated MASSOB through Uchenna Madu, we had to form the Biafra Independent Movement, BIM.
“People don’t know that Uchenna Madu and Nnamdi Kanu emerged to destroy the Biafra struggle for their selfish interest.
“Uchenna Madu, who announced himself as the new leader of MASSOB, lied against Uwazurike and sent members of his group to Onitsha where they joined IPOB and carried out the protests. We condemn and warn in strong terms that to use BIM to cause mayhem will be met with disaster.
“It is not through radio broadcast and on the pages of newspapers that a Biafra republic would be actualised.
“Kanu does not know that Biafra cannot be achieved through insulting and using empty threats on Radio Biafra based in London. Kanu and his cohorts do it because they are overzealous and they are without knowledge.”
He further called on the people to stick to the non-violence approach of the struggle.
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