Over 1,000 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday stormed Nnewi, Anambra State and the grave of the late Biafra leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, to pay him homage.
The members who arrived in the area in 30 buses and 50 motor cycles brought human and vehicular movement to standstill for several hours on the Owerri, Nnewi-Okigwe, Igwe Orizu and other major roads in Nnewi.
Its members trouped to the streets in thousands to sensitise residents of the industrial community on their stand in the on-going national conference and to welcome MASSOB new Nnewi North Regional Administrator, Comrade Emmanuel Omenka.
Comrade Omenka told the residents that their mission was primarily to visit the grave of Ojukwu to consult with his spirit and to receive the blessings of Igwe Nnewi, His Royal Highness, Igwe Nnewi Kenneth Orizu 111, the bishops of Nnewi Catholic and Anglican dioceses.
Omenka said: “I’m newly transferred to Nnewi and we want to tell the people of Nnewi that the capital of Biafra is Nnewi. But the headquarters of MASSOB is Okwe, Okigwe in Imo State.
The issue of police or other security agents confronting us is a thing of the past because most of them have now realised why we should not be disturbed. They have realised that we are fighting for justice and some of them have secretly joined us and they know that we are a non-violent body”.
He noted that the actualisation of the state of Biafra had dragged for long because of those he described as saboteurs of the struggle.
Omeka also blamed it on disunity among the Igbo. He said the Igbo nation was divided into Abuja politicians, Ohaneze and the MASSOB with different interests.
The MASSOB administrator said the group would support President Goodluck Jonathan’s second tenure in 2015 “so long as we are still in Nigeria.”
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