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MASSOB Not Part of November 5th Biafra Declaration – Uwazuruike

Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday dissociated the movement from the proposed November 5 declaration of sovereign state of Biafra. The Biafra Zionist Movement, BZM, another Biafra separatist group, had disclosed in a statement recently that it would formally declare a sovereign state of Biafra on November 5. The leader of the group, Mazi Benjamin Onwuka, who spoke with journalists in Enugu, recently, said they were now seeking the backing of the United States of America, Russia, China, Britain and France as permanent members of the United Nations to realise that lofty objective because the agitation for Biafra could not be achieved without the assistance of the international community. full deets inside

But in his reaction to the declaration statement, Uwazuruike told journalists in a telephone interview yesterday that MASSOB was not part of any plan by any person or group of persons to declare a sovereign Biafran Republic on November 5 or any other date.

He added that MASSOB, as a non-violent organisation, would not identify with any agenda that would imply taking up arms or engaging in any form of violence to realise the Biafra man-date, which, he said, was becoming more feasible by the day.

“I am not aware of any date. MASSOB is not a party to any plan to em-ploy violence as a means of pursuing our agenda.

We are non-violent and we will remain so.

It is true that in this struggle, we have splinter groups, but I am not aware of what happens in their camp nor do I support their plan of ac-tion,” Uwazuruike said.

The MASSOB leader added that the agitation for sovereign state of Biafra was beyond verbal threats and counter-threats.

He said his group was still on course and would not be distracted by activities of other groups who might want to disagree with MASSOB’s non-violent stance.

He said: “MASSOB is very much focused and the liberation of Ndigbo is still our priority but we will not allow unnecessary sentiments to dictate our mode of operations.

MASSOB should be counted out completely from the purported November 5 ultimatum as we are not part of it and will never be.

“MASSOB will achieve Biafra Republic without firing a shot, current events in the country and across the world have supported our struggle in no little means and at the very right time, which may not be too far from now, a Sovereign State of Biafra will be born.”

BREAKING NEWS: REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA TO BE DECLARED NOVEMBER 5TH

A pro-Biafra group, Biafra Zionist Movement, BZM, announced, yesterday, that it had commenced the process to launch the struggle for a State of Biafra with the international community, saying that the formal declaration of the new Biafra Republic had been slated for November 5. full story inside

This came as Conference of Igbo Youth Organizations, CIYO, warned that Ndigbo “would no longer watch in silence while our brothers and sisters are slaughtered like animals” in the Northern States.
National President of BZM, Benjamin Onwuka, at a briefing said what prevented the realization of Biafra republic over the years was the inability to get the support of world powers, like the United States of America to back the project.

“As we approach the end of 13 years since the mobilization and struggle for Biafran Independence began under the aegis of MASSOB and other groups,  the people of Biafra have not made much effort in realizing our dreams because the struggle has been internalized since 1999,” Onwuka said.

He expressed regrets that the international community did not know the aspirations of the Biafra people, saying “Biafra must therefore be internationalized because the forces preventing the dreams for our independence are vested in the United Kingdom.

Biafra can only be achieved when we secure the support of the United States of America; the day USA comes to our side, that day we shall be free from Nigeria; the story of South Sudan where a bloody civil war was fought for over 24 years is a typical example.”

Meanwhile, the Igbo youths in a statement endorsed by 10 youth leaders, including the National Coordinator, Igbo Youth Grand Alliance, Dr. Uchenna Uchehara, who read it after their emergency meeting in Owerri yesterday said: “Events of the past few months in Nigeria have become very disturbing to stakeholders, especially the Igbo nation that played a major role in the founding of Nigeria and inspite of the tragedies of the Biafran war, resolved to give total support to one united Nigeria”.

They lamented that the ugly experience of Ndigbo in Nigeria had been the persistent and unprovoked killings of Igbo citizens out

Culled from Vanguard