MASSOB, Police Clash In Owerri

May 31, 2015

Members of Movement for the Actualisation Of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday had a confrontation with the police at the Assumpta roundabout in Owerri, the Imo State capital, while riding in a motorcade to the heart of the state capital in commemoration of the MASSOB Day celebration, during which they were teargased by the police.

An eyewitness, who disclosed this to LEADERSHIP Sunday, said that the police who had stationed their vehicles at the popular Control Post, Owerri, asked the MASSOB members to retreat but they kept advancing, prompting the police to use teargas to disperse them.

The witness further disclosed that the members of MASSOB who were over 500 in number, hauled stones at the police who got angry and shot in the air to scare them away.Massob

The state commissioner of police, Austin Evbakvbokun, while confirming the incident to LEADERSHIP Sunday said that the police had to intervene by halting the advancement of the MASSOB members to the state capital because they did not have a permit for such gathering.

He added that the Igbo pressure group movement conducted themselves in a disorderly manner, carrying insignias not of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, necessitating the prompt action of his men to stop them.

“How can they say that they were peaceful when they conducted themselves in a disorderly manner, carrying insignias that are not of the nation? We had to disperse them, they are not a nation, they are expected to have a permit before embarking on any such gathering,” Evbakhavbokun said.

Meanwhile, speaking during the 2015 MASSOB Day celebration, the apex Leader of the Ijaw Youth Council, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, faulted the amnesty granted to the ex-Niger Delta Militants by the late President Umuaru Musa Ya’radua, alleging that it was a bribe meant to tap oil from the Niger Delta region, adding that it was the basis why he rejected the offer.

He also condemned the National Conference organised by the federal government, insisting that the exercise did not represent the views of the Niger Delta region that is yearning for a referendum.

“It only represented the views of the rest of the country. Let us be allowed to have a referendum. We have the right to hold a referendum on where we want to go,” he stated.

The Ijaw Youth Council leader described MASSOB and his group as partners in progress who are moving in the same direction to arrive at a common destination as one people and one nation.

He advised the nation’s leaders to always hearken to the worthy yearnings and aspirations of all aggrieved component parts in order to avert frequent violent confrontation, saying, “those who make change impossible make violence inevitable.”


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Nigeria is getting more divided by the day, not like I care anyway.

Isorrite

Some Igbos may even be among the police men, pledging allegiance to one big scam called Nigeria.

am a Niger deltan, but if Nigeria splits,i'll prefer to remain a Nigerian and not a biafran

Hmmmm

QTEST007:
am a Niger deltan, but if Nigeria splits,i'll prefer to remain a Nigerian and not a biafran

Nobody asked you to join before.

What? They even have the effrontery.... Time to bring in the Khaki boys. Hehehehe who am i even kidding , Ordinary pot bellied police even without guns are enough for these noise makers. The police regularly use MASSOB members as target practice at the slightest provocation and nothing happens … Glad the police too are igbos so no need for finger pointing.

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If they misbehave, the Nigerian army should be sent to deal with anyone who go against the law.

Idrismusty97:
What? They even have the effrontery.... Time to bring in the Khaki boys. Hehehehe who am i even kidding , Ordinary pot bellied police even without guns is enough for these noise makers.

Infact a pregnant female cop can finish the idi0ts.
But seriously, why not focus on biafra and leave us alone? They keep saying that we care about them because we comment on their threads yet you always see sentences like Nigeria is a zoo. They think we are so stup1d that we will allow them to be insulting our blessed, great land

WisdomCanada:
Some Igbos may even be among the police men, pledging allegiance to one big scam called Nigeria.

Emekamex:
Nobody asked you to join before.

The two of you should leave your enclave, and come out to see your fellow tribemen and women scattered all over hustling for their daily breed. I have a lot of them as friends. If I ask them, '' do you people still want Biafruad, sorry Biafra''? They answer is '' menh, forget about that tin, na people Wey no get work dey talk that one''

Truly, na people Wey no get work dey talk am. E.g, those trools despised by the police.

Hmmm

this Massob people are clueless and stupid set of people.

QTEST007:
am a Niger deltan, but if Nigeria splits,i'll prefer to remain a Nigerian and not a biafran

More reason you should ask ur mum who is your real father.

IdisuleOurOwn:



The two of you should leave your enclave, and come out to see your fellow tribemen and women scattered all over hustling for their daily breed. I have a lot of them as friends. If I ask them, '' do you people still want Biafruad, sorry Biafra''? They answer is '' menh, forget about that tin, na people Wey no get work dey talk that one''

Truly, na people Wey no get work dey talk am. E.g, those trools despised by the police.

I laugh at you hausas when you said that.
i'm from port-harcourt but i'm in Ebonyi state ryt now.
Do you know the number of hausas here in Ebonyi doing shoe making,selling water Mellon and carrot, doing gateman selling suya,selling dried fish and dried chicken and digging well and selling rope for fetching well and many other things.rearing and selling cows
There is a place called garrikki,there is a place called hausa quaters,there is a big long street and buildings behind new market road and there is a place called murtala muhamed quaters.
dude they are more than 1.5 milliion hausas here in Ebonyi state.
so how many trucks are you going to send to bring them back to the north?

QTEST007:
am a Niger deltan, but if Nigeria splits,i'll prefer to remain a Nigerian and not a biafran

you are on your own.

Amadi45:

digging well and selling rope for fetching

So you mean the govt can't provide drinking water for its people?

IdisuleOurOwn:


So you mean the govt can't provide drinking water for its people?

if derailing the topic will console you then suit yourself. Here in Ebonyi state they don't depend only in one source of water

Amadi45:

I laugh at you hausas when you said that.
i'm from port-harcourt but i'm in Ebonyi state ryt now.
Do you know the number of hausas here in Ebonyi doing shoe making,selling water Mellon and carrot, doing gateman selling suya,selling dried fish and dried chicken and digging well and selling rope for fetching well and many other things.rearing and selling cows
There is a place called garrikki,there is a place called hausa quaters,there is a big long street and buildings behind new market road and there is a place called murtala muhamed quaters.
dude they are more than 1.5 milliion hausas here in Ebonyi state.
so how many trucks are you going to send to bring them back to the north?

Igbos and their habit of throwing phantom figures around. Lol. Are you serious? 1.5million hausas in Ebonyi? ? ? For a state that has like how many people altogether? With that many hausas I'd say Ebonyi is a Hausa colony. You better be exaggerating, girl!

Idrismusty97:
What? They even have the effrontery.... Time to bring in the Khaki boys. Hehehehe who am i even kidding , Ordinary pot bellied police even without guns are enough for these noise makers. The police regularly use MASSOB members as target practice at the slightest provocation and nothing
happens … Glad the police too are igbos so no need for finger pointing.

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Such a shame. Just take a look at them. Fighting for a lost cause that will get them annihilated once more.

Did you see the name of the police chief talking rubbish? If we play our game well, we won't have foreigners policing us. Everybody will police their own people.

"Evbakvbokun". This name is non Igbo.

OkutaNla:


Igbos and their habit of throwing phantom figures around. Lol. Are you serious? 1.5million hausas in Ebonyi? ? ? For a state that has like how many people altogether? With that many hausas I'd say Ebonyi is a Hausa colony. You better be exaggerating, girl!

you have no idea.
of the population in Ebonyi.
that they were told not to vote for d sake of biafra made it look lyk they ain't much.
call it exaggeration if you like wen next i go there i will get the pictures and upload.
by the way are you aware that the land mass of Ebonyi is bigger than abia and enugu

Zoharariel:


Such a shame. Just take a look at them. Fighting for a lost cause that will get them annihilated once more.

why were not they annihiliated yesterday in Aba?

Amadi45:

you have no idea.
of the population in Ebonyi.
that they were told not to vote for d sake of biafra made it look lyk they ain't much.
call it exaggeration if you like wen next i go there i will get the pictures and upload.
by the way are you aware that the land mass of Ebonyi is bigger than abia and enugu

I still think you're exaggerating. I find that extremely hard to believe. 1.5-million? ?

QTEST007:
am a Niger deltan, but if Nigeria splits,i'll prefer to remain a Nigerian and not a biafran

Well,that's your choice.

OkutaNla:


I still think you're exaggerating. I find that extremely hard to believe. 1.5-million? ?

pls log in to their government website.