The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra in the South-East and Oodua People's Congress in the South-West have said they are ready to protect the people in their regions from terrorists.

While MASSOB called on the Igbo in the North to "come back home," the OPC said its plans to secure the South-West would remain in secrecy.

Speaking to Punch correspondent on Friday, Director of Information, MASSOB, Mr. Uchenna Madu, described the list of 25 victims of the March 18 bombing of a Lagos-bound luxury bus and several others at Sabon-Gari Park, Kano, released by the state Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, as a fallacy.

Suspected terrorists had attacked the ever-busy luxury bus park in the metropolis, with a bomb that left 75 dead and many others injured.

Madu accused the governor of trying to create confusion by giving the impression that the attack was not targeted at the Igbo. He said the group had "75 dead bodies, purely Igbo" on its record.

He said, "When the attack took place, we called the Biafran Intelligent Agency - the MASSOB security arm - and we got first-hand information."

He called on state governors in the South-East to facilitate evacuation of Igbo people from the North, adding that the northern governors had failed to protect non-indigenes.

He further said MASSOB recently sent 18 buses to the North for the evacuation of the Igbo, adding that it would send more.

The National Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mr. Tony Oganah, also said the group would probe the names of victims of the blast to ascertain the number of the Igbo affected.

He argued that the only way to get the authentic list was from the passengers manifest available to operators of the affected vehicles and not from the governor.

"I smell a rat because it doesn't make sense for the bulk of people going to the South-East from the North to be northerners. It doesn't make any sense," Oganah added.

The founder, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, who refused to give details of security measures put in place, said, "Any fighter that announces his strategy is a very poor fighter. I am sure Boko Haram has no business in the South-West. I think it (presence of the sect in Lagos) is a speculation."

Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, however called for a thorough investigation of the suspected terrorists arrested in Lagos, saying militants from the South-South might be culpable.

The National Publicity Secretary, Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, also said, "The suspected terrorists occupied a house in Lagos and the house belongs to Bayelsa State - Bayelsa has admitted owning the house but denied knowing the suspects. That is why we have called for a thorough investigation because we knew that some elements of the Niger Delta had come to Lagos to attack the Atlas Cove. We want to be sure of what is happening.

"Wherever the enemies are coming from, I want to assure them that Yorubaland will not be defenceless and let nobody try any act of terrorism in the land because the Yoruba don't terrorise anybody."

Shortly after the Kano attack, the state Chairman, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Tobias Idika, had said, "This is the worst experience of the Igbo in Kano; we have lost over 60 souls, while five buses were burnt to ashes. These show that we have always been the target of the attacks."

However, Kwankwaso on March 22 released the list that had northerners as the majority, apparently to refute claims that the attack was targeted at the Igbo from the South-Eastern part of the country.

http://m.naij.com/news/29401.html

Hmm biafran intelligence agency so anyone can just wake up one morning start a grp and name demselves intelligence agency or how are dey getting funds dont tell me dey hav started collection of biafran tax dats really interesting well dey said dey are providing buses to ferry dem back home wat abt accommodation,feeding,work,etc are dey providing dat also if not dey should just shut up and pressurize deir son Gej to do something fast abt boko haram in d north.
Lest i forget i am d 1st to comment

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Instead of taking panadol for someone else's headache, why not tell us what Afenifere or the OPC had done about the Atlas cove attack and what advice you wish to give on how they handle the recent discovery at Ijora. Always living in denial.

LOL @ baiafara intelligonce agency! But this is what happens when a government is too stup.id to protect the people, they resort to self help. The people complaining that helping to rig in a retardeen president will come at a cost but they are not done and want him till 2019! Why? GEJ has approved contracts for road construction in the east, promised to build a port in iboland and floating cities in the Niger Delta. Perhaps, road construction in the SE is worth 75 iboz life but I am sure the folks in the West are so making much progress, they will NEVER willingly trade the lives of their people even for all the roads and ports in Nigeria both built and 'promised'. This is why they draw the attention of Nigerians to the issues and are accused of unfairly criticizing the retardeen but iboz (SE) already pledged to vote and rig 99.999% for the retardeen. That is their choice but do not come here to cry about your retardeen later. For the record, GEJ's substantive presidency was made possible by LARGELY by the SWesterners who rescued GEJ from under Turai's skirt: Tunde Bakare, Odumakin, Falana, SNG members, the press of the SW majorly while only Akunyili spoke up after equally misleading and lying to Nigeria for a long time as the Information minister.

If you folks like, help the retardeen rig himself in again, you will be the ones to suffer for as you lay your bed, you will lie on it.

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CyberG: LOL @ baiafara intelligonce agency! But this is what happens when a government is too stup.id to protect the people, they resort to self help. The people complaining that helping to rig in a retardeen president will come at a cost but they are not done and want him till 2019! Why? GEJ has approved contracts for road construction in the east, promised to build a port in iboland and floating cities in the Niger Delta. Perhaps, road construction in the SE is worth 75 iboz life but I am sure the folks in the West are so making much progress, they will NEVER willingly trade the lives of their people even for all the roads and ports in Nigeria both built and 'promised'. This is why they draw the attention of Nigerians to the issues and are accused of unfairly criticizing the retardeen but iboz (SE) already pledged to vote and rig 99.999% for the retardeen. That is their choice but do not come here to cry about your retardeen later. For the record, GEJ's substantive presidency was made possible by LARGELY by the SWesterners who rescued GEJ from under Turai's skirt: Tunde Bakare, Odumakin, Falana, SNG members, the press of the SW majorly while only Akunyili spoke up after equally misleading and lying to Nigeria for a long time as the Information minister.

If you folks like, help the retardeen rig himself in again, you will be the ones to suffer for as you lay your bed, you will lie on it.

Mr. Adviser, don't make this east and west issue. This is about ur masters Boko Haram. Who do u suggest we rig in among these folks: Tinubu, Fashola, Buhari, Aliyu. Thanx as I await ur most uwarranted advice.

Better!
Since we've been realising the other sides of our region are no more safe, the best thing is to move back to one's region.
The groups representing the two southern regions have spoken well, getting a means to defend their regions against any attack, disclosed or undisclosed.
There is no way one can justify if the bomb blast was aimed at a group or not since it is not in the group's region.

Yeske!:
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Instead of taking panadol for someone else's headache, why not tell us what Afenifere or the OPC had done about the Atlas cove attack and what advice you wish to give on how they handle the recent discovery at Ijora. Always living in denial.

were in my post am i taking panadol 4 ibos problem i only find d biafran intelligence agency hilarious moreover i do not look up to opc for my protection shey na charm dem go use defuse bomb cos dat is d function of federal government which is non functional so i will advising dem to fish out those boko haram agent and illegal immigrant in lagos state dat will go a long way in solving d problem even thought i'm not getting my hopes high cos we ought to see boko haram as a national problem and not regional

CyberG: LOL @ baiafara intelligonce agency! But this is what happens when a government is too stup.id to protect the people, they resort to self help. The people complaining that helping to rig in a retardeen president will come at a cost but they are not done and want him till 2019! Why? GEJ has approved contracts for road construction in the east, promised to build a port in iboland and floating cities in the Niger Delta. Perhaps, road construction in the SE is worth 75 iboz life but I am sure the folks in the West are so making much progress, they will NEVER willingly trade the lives of their people even for all the roads and ports in Nigeria both built and 'promised'. This is why they draw the attention of Nigerians to the issues and are accused of unfairly criticizing the retardeen but iboz (SE) already pledged to vote and rig 99.999% for the retardeen. That is their choice but do not come here to cry about your retardeen later. For the record, GEJ's substantive presidency was made possible by LARGELY by the SWesterners who rescued GEJ from under Turai's skirt: Tunde Bakare, Odumakin, Falana, SNG members, the press of the SW majorly while only Akunyili spoke up after equally misleading and lying to Nigeria for a long time as the Information minister.

If you folks like, help the retardeen rig himself in again, you will be the ones to suffer for as you lay your bed, you will lie on it.

If you truly that Jonathan is the problem of the current killings in the North, then you are neither a mischief maker of simply naive.

Northerners have been killing Southerners and Middle Beltans for as long as Southerners migrated to the North. I will vote for Jonathan come 2015, except there is a candidate that proves to me he has something better to offer. And I hope you are not thinking in the likes of Buhari?