MASSOB to organise mass burial for dead members

As the crack in the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) continues to deepen, the breakaway group has planned a mass burial for its members who were killed in the struggle.

The mass burial, which will take place in Enugu, will be a prelude to the naming of a new leader to take over from Ralph Uwazuruike.

The new leader is expected to emerge at the burial of 69 MASSOB members, which would take place in Enugu.

A member of the MASSOB interim administration, Comrade Ndubuisi Igwekani a.k.a. Agu Biafra, told newsmen in Enugu that the fallen members were those who were killed during peaceful protests across “Biafran Territories” and deposited in mortuaries in Enugu and Onitsha.

Igwekani said the Ralph Uwazuruike leadership had lost focus and no longer pursues the aspirations of what he called Biafrans and the Biafran dream. He emphatically stated that “Ralph is no longer in control of MASSOB.”

While insisting that MASSOB was not factionalised, Igwekani stressed that “what we are saying is that those of us that hold MASSOB believe that the leadership of Ralph Uwazuruike has disappointed the Biafran struggle.

“He has used the organis  ation to enrich himself and using our children the way he likes and diverted the resources which would have been used to advance the struggle. Our elders refused to understand initially, but by the special grace of God, many people have come to understand that he cannot continue to lead us.”

“This is a man who even claims that he is richer than the people that control the resources of the states. It is during the burial of these fallen MASSOB heroes that you people will see the new face of MASSOB.

“The fact is that MASSOB is a movement that came to give the Igbo people the identity of Biafra. So, if we are not Nigerians and we are Biafrans how can Uwazuruike now mobilize people and say “Jega must go”. Jega is not a Biafran. He is a Nigerian coordinating the Nigerian election.

“It is for his selfish gains that he held the Jega must go march. In a week or two, we will know where we are heading to. We will give our people a new direction on what to do. We are not in support of our children roaming the streets.

“What we are after now is to ensure that after the election, no single Igboman will be killed and neither their property be destroyed especially in the North. We know we are always the target. We are now sending signal that any state that that allow their people to kill any Igbo man or destroy his propert after the elections, we will hold that state to ransom.

“And we will mobilize all our security forces to that state to protect our property. Enough is Enough. Ends