Human rights activist and former labour union leader, Chief Frank Kokori, has berated the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra for saying that the South-South is part of the struggle for the creation of a Biafra Republic.

MASSOB had said in a statement on Sunday that “anybody who says that Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Cross River states are not part of Biafra is deceiving himself.”

It said the listed states were Biafran territories and that Biafra comprises all the states of the former eastern region, including the Anioma community in Delta State.

“It has been part of the Federal Government’s policy of divide and rule to tell the world that only the Ndigbo want Biafra; but this is false,” MASSOB said in the statement.

However, Kokori, a former Secretary-General of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, told our correspondent during an interview that MASSOB and other pro-Biafran agitators were jokers trying to exploit the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Kokori, who is from Delta State, said MASSOB and other pro-Biafran groups like the Indigenous People of Biafra, were only trying to deceive Nigerians.

The activist wondered how the South-South could be part of their struggle when most of the Igbo living outside the South-East had refused to abandon their businesses in Lagos to join the Biafran agitation at home.

He said the creation of a Biafra Republic could spell doom for the South-East as the geopolitical zone is landlocked and thus not strategic for international commerce.

He said, “During the civil war, there was no South-South. There were the Eastern Region, Midwest Region and Western Region. The Midwest Region comprised Bendel people. The Eastern Region extended to Cross River, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom of today but that was a long time ago.

“So, we in Delta State have never been part of Biafra. Anything that is Biafran today is purely in the South-East which does not include Rivers, Bayelsa , Cross River and Akwa Ibom.

“These states are not part of this new Biafran joke. To me, it is a joke. The Biafra of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu was a serious issue. What people like Ralph Uwazuruike of MASSOB and Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB are doing is trivialising the serious struggle of Ojukwu.

“They are not even serious; they don’t know what they want. What they want is not viable and so they are just trivialising. Is Biafra today possible with five landlocked South-East states?”

Kokori urged Igbo leaders to caution the pro-Biafran youths who did not understand the implication of their demand.

He, however, urged the Federal Government to release Kanu, who is currently in the custody of the Department of State Services, for the sake of peace.

He added, “With Igbo people prospering all over Nigeria in places like Lagos, Abuja and even in the North, will they abandon their business and return home? Even if there is a referendum, the pro-Biafrans will not get up to 10 per cent of the votes.

“Most of the Igbo leaders are just keeping quiet. This struggle is a childish and selfish cause being sponsored by opportunists.

“However, the Federal Government should give Kanu a serious warning not to toy with treason again and then release him for the sake of peace.”

SOURCE: http://www.punchng.com/ssouth-not-part-of-biafra-kokori-tells-massob/

who made kokori a mouthpiece for the ss.

INTROVERT:
who made kokori a mouthpiece for the ss.

He's a known commodity and therefore qualified to speak for his tribe. Who are you?

Cool
Common sense shows that south south is different from south east
It's one Kanu from the United Kingdom that wants to merge them together all because of oyel

INTROVERT:
who made kokori a mouthpiece for the ss.

I wonder ooh.
who made Massob the mouthpiece of the entire south south region.

The usual suspects will soon infest the thread
#shaky_yoroobers

PassingShot:

He's a known commodity and therefore qualified to speak for his tribe. Who are you?

Kokori is from Delta State; most likely Urhobo and he is talking on behalf of another people entirely different from his own people.
So you have no talk.

Oya over to the south westerners dis one concern them wella

Good. We the south-southerners will vigorously drum this into their blockheads.

Biafrauds should take their greasy, snuff-congested noses off our region and its resources.

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No longer “Niger Delta” or “Igbo” BUT Biafra – Asari Dokubo

KOKORI IS THE ONE DECEIVING HIMSELF. OF COURSE HE IS AN OIL WORKER IN NIGERIA SO BIAFRA MAY MEAN UNCERTAINTY FOR HIS STOMACH. KOKORI NOBODY CARES WHERE YOU COME FROM, BUT YOU CAN NOT SPEAK FOR THE ACHUZIES AND IKECHUKWUS IN DELTA, WHO TOLD YOU CAN SPEAK FOR THE KENECHUKWUS OF OYIGBO AND IGWEOCHA IN RIVERS. NIGERIAN OYEL MAN KEEP DECEIVING YOURSELF.

TUNE IN TO RADIO BIAFRA AND LISTEN TO EFIKS, IBIBIOS, IJAWS, IGALA, URHOBOS CALL IN TO DECLARE SUPPORT FOR BIAFRA. THEY EVEN ENCOURAGED TO SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE SO YOU DON'T CLAIM IT'S AN IGBO THING.

EdCure:
Good. We the south-southerners will vigorously drum this into their blockheads.

Biafrauds should take their greasy, snuff-congested noses off our region and its resources.

WE ALL KNOW IDOMA HAS THE LARGEST OYEL RESERVE IN THE WORLD THAT'S WHY BIAFRA INCLUDED THEM IN THEIR MAP.

Everyone trying to speak.

coolebux:
The usual suspects will soon infest the thread
#shaky_yoroobers

. One sighted already. Anyway. Googbye to nairaland. After 4months of ban. I came back to deactivate my account. Cc:operation igirigi,omoreminder2,Arodetsolaye,collynzo,ebukaobi,generalscatter(Balogun) and host of others. Its fun meeting u guys here. Cheers!!!

If I hear,and dey sumtyms gather for yeye biafra protest.

Wahala dey o! lol

Typing in Biafra pattern. Kokori is a yoruba man.

EdCure:
Good. We the south-southerners will vigorously drum this into their blockheads.

Biafrauds should take their greasy, snuff-congested noses off our region and its resources.

. Ofcourse you will be here. Let me tag others. Cc:coolitempa,spanishkid,omololu,simpleseyi

Beremx:
Wahala dey o! lol

. Sisi eko kee way?

ARIZONA123:
. Sisi eko kee way?

LEAVE AM MAKE SHE DEY ANSWER IGBO LAGOSIAN ABI NA IGBOGOSIAN.

ARIZONA123:
. One sighted already. Anyway. Googbye to nairaland. After 4months of ban. I came back to deactivate my account. Cc:operation igirigi,omoreminder2,Arodetsolaye,collynzo,ebukaobi,generalscatter(Balogun) and host of others. Its fun meeting u guys here. Cheers!!!

Why u wan deactivate?

@ Topic,

IPOB youths will nearly die because of this news!

Kokori just destroyed their hopes of going with Oyel

2016 is the great year for Nigeria

The Dilector and bleaching expert will be executed by hanging for his crimes against Nigeria

Vulu:
IDOMA HAS THE LARGEST OYEL RESERVE IN THE WORLD THAT'S WHY BIAFRA INCLUDED THEM IN THEIR MAP.

Let the idomas worry about this idiotic sarcasm that you spew on every thread you troll on. I don't give a dog's foot about them.

If you and your teachers hadn't failed in learning and teaching history, you would've recalled that the first thing ojukwu and his Biafra bandits did as soon as they got to Benin was to Rob the central bank branch in the city.

Biafrauds have always been thieves. And armed robbers...only interested in stealing our S/S lands and other resources.

dmater:


Kokori is from Delta State; most likely Urhobo and he is talking on behalf of another people entirely different from his own people.
So you have no talk.

who made massob and ipod the Speaker of South-South

Funny how the mods. Are not rushing to lock up this thread,
Oh i forgot, The only do that when the message is Pro Biafra

EdCure:

Let the idomas worry about this idiotic sarcasm that you spew on every thread you troll on. I don't give a dog's foot about them.

If you and your teachers hadn't failed in learning and teaching history, you would've recalled that the first thing ojukwu and his Biafra bandits did as soon as they got to Benin was to Rob the central bank branch in the city.

Biafrauds have always been thieves. And armed robbers...only interested in stealing our S/S lands and other resources.

WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE. YOU ARE FROM BENIN, YOU HAVE A MONARCHY, BIAFRANS DON'T WANT YOU, THEY DON'T WANT YOUR LAND THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE MORE RELATED TO IDOMAS WHO BEAR NAMES LIKE OKOLO, ADAH IDIBIA. SO TAKE YOUR RESOURCES IN BINILAND WITH YOUR OBA AND FACE YORUBALAND. YOU ARE MORE RELATED TO THEM. SOUTH-SOUTH IS NOT IN ANY GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOK. CIAO!

hungryboy:
Funny how the mods. Are not rushing to lock up this thread,

Oh i forgot,
The only do that when the message is Pro Biafra

THEY'LL LOCK IT WHEN THEY LOSE THE THREAD TO PRO-BIAFRANS AND COMMON SENSE.

INTROVERT:
who made kokori a mouthpiece for the ss.

he is very right...Ss can neva b a part of biafra...d ealier u guys realize dat d beta 4 u..

good news

PassingShot:

He's a known commodity and therefore qualified to speak for his tribe. Who are you?

South South is not a tribe.
If he is an ijaw man from Delta State,he should speak for Ijaws not the entire SS.

front page

RisingSun1:
South South is not a tribe.
If he is an ijaw man from Delta State,he should speak for Ijaws not the entire SS.

stop saying this rubbish. I hate it when I see it. we south south are ok with kokori speaking for us.
who are u to tell us who can speak for us or not?

we approve tonyebarcanista, spanishkid, truckpusher, atbu1983, etc to speak for us.

why are u speaking for Enugu, anambra, imo, ebonyi etc.

they all have their individual sub tribe.