The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, has sparked some rage in the hearst
of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB).
Reports from The Punch on Wednesday, March 8, said
the late Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu would have waged another war against the country should he be
alive over the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
If Ojukwu was alive, he would have supported Nnamdi Kanu - MASSOB
MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, stated this in a statement made available to
newsmen in Awka, Anambra state, on Wednesday.
He faulted the Nnia Nwodo-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo for not finding time to visit
Kanu in prison.
Madu wondered what had kept Nwodo and other Igbo leaders from visiting Kanu.
His statement read in part: “If Governor Fayose of Ekiti State were to be
Igbo, he would have visited Nnamdi Kanu in prison, if Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu was still alive, he would have fought for the release of Nnamdi
Kanu.”
“If truly these men in the Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership love our people and
knowing full well that 90 per cent of the Ndigbo prefers Biafra to staying in
Nigeria, what has kept Chief Nnia Nwodo, his executive and Ime Obi from
visiting or showing solidarity to Nnamdi Kanu, the most loved Igbo man
today?"
In a similar vein, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that their
success towards the restoration of Biafra Republic, is sending panic jitters to
the British government
The IPOB argues that it was for this reason that the former Nigerian
colonial master chose to counter the report of the Amnesty International on the
killing of many Biafra agitators and the recent ruling of the Federal High
Court, Abuja which ruled that IPOB was not an unlawful organization.
Reacting to a statement credited to the Nigerian foreign minister, Mr
Geoffrey Onyema in the Premium Times, that the agitation for a sovereign State
of Biafra was unacceptable because it was detrimental to the peace, unity,
stability and development of the Nigerian state, IPOB spokespersons, Mr Emma
Mezu and Dr Clifford Iroanya, claims that the British government was only using
the Nigerian foreign affairs ministry as a cover up.
The group insists that the Nigerian foreign minister was speaking for
Britain.
