Biafra: MASSOB rejects South East governors’ intervention

• Protests sponsors are from outside -Okeke

FROM David Onwuchekwa, Nnewi, Emmanuel Uzor, Abakaliki, Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha , George Onyejiuwa, Owerri and Chuks Onuoha, Umuahia

THE lingering agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra may be very far from end­ing as a faction of the Move­ment for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has reportedly re­jected the outcome of Sunday meeting of South East Gover­nors’ Forum on ways to end the agitation and protests.

MASSOB’s factional Na­tional Director of Information, Uchenna Madu told newsmen in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State yesterday they were not satis­fied with the meeting of Igbo leaders last weekend as they did not show any seriousness to the plight of detained Direc­tor of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

“How can revered Igbo leaders waste a whole day in a marathon meeting without discussing our simple demand of Nnamdi Kanu’s release?. Are they afraid of the northern oligarchy, Western alliance with the North or President Muhammadu Buhari ?”

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Chief Simon Okeke has blasted sponsors of pro- Biafra agitators, just as he ap­pealed to Federal Government not to order shoot-on-sight on them.

Chief Okeke, at a press briefing at his Amichi resi­dence, yesterday, in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State said spon­sors of the protests across the South East and South South geo-political zones were to blame for the heightening ten­sion. “Are people protesting in Onitsha, Enugu, Aba, Asaba, and so on genuinely disposed to the agitation? If proper scrutiny is made, you will dis­cover that the proponents of Biafra may be doing that out of selfishness because they are exploiting our people in the diaspora.

Also, Regent of Igboland and Traditional Prime Minis­ter of Ndigbo, Chief Michael Ozua Okoye has cautioned MASSOB and Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB) over self determination agitation by the group.

Okoye said this in an inter­action with Daily Sun, add­ing that “Ndigbo cannot afford to go into another war after the Nigerian civil war where many Igbo people died.”

He added that most Igbo leaders, who fought and died championing the cause of Ni­geria believed in the unity of one Nigeria.

In a related development, National Coordinator of the Rochas Fan Club has blamed a deliberate marginalisation of the South East geopolitical zone for the resurgence for the agitation of Biafra.

He urged the Federal Gov­ernment to adhere to the principles of federal character for the unity and peace of the country.

Rev. Dr Simeon Nwaulu, who stated this yesterday in Owerri, Imo State at a press conference noted that the South East was the most mar­ginalised zone in the country.

Also, Ohaneze Youth Council (OYC) has alleged to have commenced negotiation with the Federal Government on how to resolve the issues surrounding the protests by IPOB and MASSOB, with an aim to secure an uncondition­al release for Kanu.