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MASSOB Men Abduct Rival Group’s Leaders Over Nov 5 Declaration by chucky234(m): 9:17am On Nov 02, 2012
Leaders of the Biafra Zionist Movement
(BZM), a pro-Biafra group that have
been mobilizing for the re-declaration of
Biafra on November 5 have been
whisked away to an unknown
destination by MASSOB members in
Enugu. The BZM leader, Mr. Ben
Onwuka, who told newsmen recently
that there was no going back on the re-
declaration, was abducted alongside
his deputy, Mr. John Edeson in what
was believed to be an effort to frustrate
the group from going ahead with their
plan next Monday.
The BZM, which had started to be
popular among the people of the
South-East had been having a cold
battle with MASSOB leader, Ralph
Uwazuruike since he distanced himself
from the proposed re-declaration of
Biafra in an interview where he also
tried to discredit the group.
The group had replied the MASSOB
leader by saying that they would
realize Biafra with or without him,
accusing him of compromising his
position as a pro-Biafra crusader.
Reacting to the disappearance of the
two leaders, spokesman to MASSOB
leader, Mr. Uchenna Madu, told our
reporter on phone that the duo were
not abducted but taken away by
MASSOB members in Enugu for
interrogation.
Madu said the Biafra re-declaration was
not clear to his group thus they
decided to interrogate them on the
issue, which, he also claimed, had
turned security operatives against
MASSOB members with the belief that
MASSOB was part of the arrangement.
He, however, said the MASSOB leader
was not aware of the action of his
members in Enugu, insisting that the
action was unilaterally taken by the
Enugu branch of MASSOB and had
nothing to do with the national
leadership of the group.
A member of the BZM, who identified
himself as Ugochukwu, however, told
our reporter in Enugu that their leaders
were seriously manhandled by the
invading MASSOB members and
whisked away just as they expressed
fears over their safety.
.
Re-declaration of Biafra: Count us
out –MASSOB
.
Movement for the Actualization of
Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has
said it was not part of the planned re-
declaration of Biafra and has, therefore,
warned its members to steer clear of
the exercise, described as an attempt
to bastardise Biafra.
A group, which called itself Biafra
Zionist Movement (BZM) and led by
one Ben Onwuka said it had concluded
arrangements for the re-declaration of
Biafra on November 5, stating that
nothing would stop the campaign on
that day.
Speaking with Daily Sun, the MASSOB
administrator for Aba Region A, Mrs.
Comfort Ogbuokiri, who spoke through
her Director of Information, Chidi Okoro
and the Director of Information, Aba
Region B, Sunny Okereafor, said it
amounted to taking the people for a
ride for anybody to think of re-
declaration of Biafra when in actual
sense, Biafra had been declared twice.
They contended that the late Ezeigbo
Gburugburu, Chief Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu, first declared
Biafra in 1967, which culminated in the
civil war that ended in 1970 with the
‘no victor, no vanquished slogan’.
They stated that due to what the Igbos
had gone through in the Nigerian
nation since after the civil, that Ralph
Uwazuruike on May 22, 2000, re-
declared Biafra at Aba with her non-
violent stance, stressing that what the
other group wanted to do now, if
allowed would make mockery of the
state of Biafra and said MASSOB was
out of it.
“Which Biafra do they want to declare?
Is it the one declared by Chief Ojukwu
or that by Chief Uwazuruike, which was
declared due to the exigencies of the
time. They should stop causing
confusion in Igbo and security
operatives should checkmate their
activities,” they said.
LINK:
www.sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/massob-men-abduct-rival-groups-leaders/

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