Ahead of Monday’s Biafra Day remembrance celebrations, in military
uniforms yesterday intercepted five 18-seater buses occupied by the
Chief Ralph Uwazuruike- led members of the Movement for Actualization of
Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) at a military check-point along
Onitsha/Owerri dual carriageway by Azia Junction in Ihiala Local
Government Area of Anambra State.
MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Chris Mocha, told newsmen on
phone that he did now know where the soldiers took the detained
travellers belonging to the group also known as BIM to.
Mocha explained that three of the buses carrying their members who were returning to Anambra and
Delta states from Owerri, Imo State where they had attended their
national convention were intercepted first, while two others carrying
veteran Biafran soldiers returning from the same Owerri meeting were
intercepted about 30 minutes later.
He disclosed that he had communicated the development to the MASSOB
leader, Uwazuruike who in turn instructed him to issue a press statement
on it.
Mocha said in spite of the odds, MASSOB has concluded arrangements to
celebrate Biafra Day in remembrance of Biafra fallen heroes and the 49th
anniversary of the outbreak of the genocidal civil war arising from the
declaration of Biafra Republic, which claimed lives of millions of Igbo
sons and daughters.
He also called on security agencies to leave their members alone as they were neither armed nor exhibited any act of violence.
He stressed that the concerned MASSOB members were harmlessly returning
to Anambra and parts of Delta states from Owerri where they had
attended meeting presided over by Uwazuruike.
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