₦airaland Forum

Andre Uweh:
Chyz, May God continue to bless you for the truth you speak at all time. You knew the truth and said the truth that Ohanaeze was heading to the right direction. One more huddle to the end of the race. Surely we shall all celebrate together in April.

alj harem:
hmmmmmmm

you are right

Onlytruth:
My question remain unanswered: Why are Yorubas the most agitated about this rumour?
Are they closet MASSOB members?

Onlytruth:
[size=16pt]2011 elections crucial to Biafra struggle – MASSOB[/size]

From GEOFFREY ANYANWU, Awka
Friday, February 04, 2011

In what looks like a u-turn, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday made known its decision to participate in the April 2011 general elections.

The movement, however, said its decision was not in any way an abandonment of its struggle for the actualisation of the state of Biafra, stressing that the 2011 election was very crucial to the Biafran struggle.

In a statement dated February 3, 2011, signed by MASSOB National Director of Information, Uchenna Madu, which was made available to Daily Sun, the movement said the decision to participate in the election was reached by the leadership of MASSOB after a national officers meeting, presided over by their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.

Giving more reasons why it decided to participate in the election, the movement said: “Biafra land is occupied by Nigerian government and has succeeded in imposition of stooges and errand boys from Biafraland as governors, senators and House of Representativess members in the past.”
“For the past 11 years, MASSOB distanced itself in Nigeria’s internal political exercise like census and elections. Our participation now does not mean that we have abandoned the struggle for Biafra’s actualisation or that the leadership has derailed. We are employing every available means to better the future of over 40million Biafrans.

“Since Biafra will get independence from Nigeria, we see this election as another platform for Biafra’s actualisation. Our subject matter is Biafra. The very reason and essence of participating in this year’s election is that MASSOB wants to establish credible persons, people of integrity without questionable characters, Igbo men/women with Igbo interest, people of progressive minds, who are eloquent, brave and consistent, who think the way MASSOB does. With our numerical strength, steadfastness and consistency, we shall prevail.”

On the nature of their participation, the statement said: “We are still consulting as our qualified aspirants cut across all the political parties. As stakeholders on political life of Ndigbo, we need good governance, good representation, not cowards, who are selfish and Judases in Igboland. Men of inferiority complex can no longer preside over the governance and representation in our occupied Biafraland.”

“As every struggle has its methodologies, we see this year election as another platform to showcase our numerical strength in establishing Igbo interest by using our voter’s card to elect men with Biafra blood in their veins. More than sixteen million MASSOB members have already registered for the voter’s card and are still registering.”

The movement also expressed its approval of the recent appointment of the wife of ex-Biafran warlord, Dim Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca into President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet, saying, “MASSOB welcomes the appointment of our Lolo Bianca Ojukwu into President Jonathan’s cabinet as a good development. We advise that she take it”. Meanwhile, MASSOB has debunked allegations that it has abandoned the Biafran struggle, saying that nothing would ever make it to do so.

[b]Reacting to a publication in one of the national dailies yesterday, Madu said, “MASSOB led by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike will never abandon, retreat, surrender, compromise or loose focus on the non-violent agitation for Biafra actualization. How can over 20 million MASSOB members suddenly abandon over 11 years struggle? We’ve lost more than 7, 000 members in the hands of Nigerian security agents, millions have gone through prisons, we have been persecuted, harassed, arrested, dehumanized, tortured, traumatized, taunted, mesmerized, prosecuted, imprisoned, killed, our fundamental human rights abused for our struggle believe in Biafra.

“That publication in Compass is false, malicious, ungodly and abominable. It is sponsored by desperate, disgruntled, faceless agents of darkness. This is wickedness and insensitivity against the aspiration and future of Ndigbo. “In MASSOB, we don’t have such office as Director of Operation or Officer with such a name as Comrade Maduewesi Okonkwo. This is a cheap blackmail and cowardly act. This calumnious campaign of “if you can’t beat, you scatter them” will not prevail as MASSOB is not afraid of their antics.

“Ojukwu’s ill health will never deter us. Biafrans should disregard the malicious publication as we still represent the genuine interest of Ndigbo.”[/b]

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/feb/04/national-04-02-2011-016.htm

Rhino.5dm:
Okay. Alhaji can you help tell the Americans that they are not indigines of north America?
Look people will aways acquired land and it became thiers period!



The Ikwerre man will sale land to an Ibo, after wastefully exhusting the money through buying of jeep and marrying a new wife, will later start dragging land again cos he feels he is an indigine. Thats unfair!

My advice to all. If you must by a land then by a Gun! Killed any i.d.i.ot that will want to take it from you. And if you get killed you a hero. o ti pari!

alj harem:


why did you stop at ondo, why not extend it to osun and lagos, or are they not south south as well
www.nairaland.com/attachments/387761_nigerdeltastates_png75173cdc9cfe0e72ad00e0ccd451f7d5

imagine see map

were is now south west, mid west, south east

Rhino.5dm:
What a joke! you guys have the rights to discuss over your keyboards. Even as at today an Ibo man has to disquise himself(change name) to be able to purchase a land in portharcourt or rent apartment in some areas. All this charade can be attributed to cash and carry Ibos ways of politics. Sadly but True. Its vexes me to how  some few selfish will always be mortgaging the future of ibo nation.

SS and SE, one Indeed!

Onlytruth:
Actually we could sell it to Somalians! They would keep that side busy for 400 years.  

alj harem:
good one

why not sell it to us northerners, we will pay go for it

Onlytruth:
Posted by: Eko Ile
You mean after we finish selling your Yorubaland first? lmao!

Abagworo:
Take a look at this definition.

# S: (n) native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal (an indigenous person who was born in a particular place)

"the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"

alj harem:
even white people

We Ndigbo people are bless

kcjazz:
I admire Ralph Uwazurike for his courage and prison visits, however its good for him to understand that the strategy for what he believes has to change. He is a pacifist but most of the hawks around him are violent minded. Nothing much can be achieved with that strategy. Well good luck to the struggle, I would donate to any cause that helps the society.

ezeagu:
Who actually reads 'Compass'?

ezeagu:
If anything, MASSOB is growing everyday. You should take a trip to a state like Imo and see how the motor ways are lined with Biafran flags.

Obiagu1:
It's all about getting my own personal acts together, get the organisation running underground, and wait for the right time.
If opportunity opens, then come out in full force without relenting.

EzeUche_:
Are you sure about this? MASSOB needs to change its orientation and focus on protecting Igbo interest. By any means necessary.

EzeUche_:
This is unbelievable. I cannot believe I am reading this. The Igbo leadership has failed us.

MASSOB, Ohanaeze, Igbo politicians. All of them! For the sake of their Messiah GEJ.

[size=15pt]Biafran struggle still on —Uwazuruike
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From VAL OKARA, Owerri

Saturday, January 29, 2011


Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has said that the struggle for the state of Biafra is still on.

He said that his group will keep pressing for the state of Biafra until this is achieved, revealing that MASSOB has built an estate for wounded Biafran soldiers and MASSOB members in Okwe, Okigwe, with a view to taking care of them.

In this interview, Uwazuruike spoke on his struggle and why MASSOB encouraged Igbo to participate in the current voters’ registration.

What informed your group (MASSOB) to build a housing estate for wounded Biafra war veterans?
The project is for the rehabilitation of wounded Biafra soldiers and I don’t like the word ex-Biafra soldiers because the struggle has not stopped and Biafra is still alive. And outside them, some members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are also wounded but we are trying to rehabilitate those who were wounded during the Biafran war. The purpose of setting up the place is to give them a sense of belonging, since they suffered for the majority of Biafrans and they are just abandoned in Orji River Camp, in Enugu State and their efforts are still being remembered. As long as the struggle continues, they are the heroes and ours started where their own stopped. We did the construction of the housing estate to accommodate them and their families.

The land is about 5, 000 acres, not plots. We have been able to pay compensation to 28 families whose lands were acquired and three families who refuse compensation and went to court, but the community is looking into the matter. The community is appealing to them to withdraw their case from the court because the project is for the welfare of the Biafrans and the underprivileged.

The project is capital intensive.
Where do you source the funds to execute the project?
Nobody has contributed a dime for the project, except the MASSOB members who are paying their dues. No prominent Igbo man has contributed a dime for the project, except MASSOB members.

What other facilities do you want to put in place in the area?
We want to build old people’s home in addition to the housing estate, which will be about 50 buildings. The old people will include our own members who have contributed to the struggle and members of the public. We want to put up a clinic next month, to look after the people already transferred from Orji River Camp. The clinic would be manned by some qualified medical doctors and nurses, who will be available on a daily basis to attend to the wounded Biafran soldiers.

We want to have a recreation centre in the place for the children and members of the public. We want to have what we call Ojukwu’s House that will accommodate about 5, 000 people and the centre at Okwe in Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo State is just like the capital of Biafra. It is why we are taking much time not to abuse the area by setting up irrelevant structures in the area. The place will also have a portion where we will bury the unknown Biafran heroes (soldiers)

How do intend to see the welfare of the Biafran veterans transferred form Orji River to this area?
For the past five years, we have been supplying them with food items at the Orji River Camp, but we told them that they should not go to the press for any reason. Each month we buy food items and send to them and we have been doing it for the past five years.
Although, it was not enough because some of their children have to go to school and some are ready in the higher institutions. We brought them here to take adequate care of them and to see that none of their children drop from school. At Orji River, they are being attacked by wild animals, thieves and even crushed by vehicles. And if any of them dies, he will be buried here because this is Biafran land, unless where the family of the decreased thinks otherwise; but most Biafrans and MASSOB will like to be buried opposite the Freedom House.

Still on funding, do you intend to reach out to the international donors and wealthy Nigerians for assistance?
Why not? But, I wouldn’t like it to be the type of thing the non-governmental organisations are doing. The NGOs we have in Nigeria are extorting money from people and international bodies. We are not interested in such programmes. This is something we are doing for ourselves and right now we are sourcing the funds internally, but if we have any assistance from the international community the people concerned will benefit from it. We don’t want to use it as a campaign, like other NGOs to get funds from members of the public and we don’t even intend talking to international community and other volunteers now, so that people will not abuse it. As I said earlier, for the past five years we have been sustaining them at the Orji River Camp and nobody knows about it. I am not a politician and I am not contesting for any election and I don’t want anybody to know what I am doing; rather I am doing it for my people.

For sometime now, MASSOB activities have slowed down. What is happening?
The struggle is more than on now and as far as we have relocated the wounded Biafran war veterans to Okwe, from Orji River Camp, they are the source of our inspiration. They are the roots of our struggle and each morning I wake up, I see them before any other thing. They remind me of the Biafran war and when I see them, it reminds me that the struggle has not ended and it makes me to continue because what they have fought for will never be in vain and we have to continue to fight for it until we get it. For anybody to think that l have abandoned the struggle, the person must be sick, because one cannot abandon his life; the struggle is my life and I have no other ambition on earth than to actualize Biafra.

How do your people feel that you cited this project in your home town, Okwe?
They are very happy. You can see a mini-market on the site bubbling and moreover when we have meetings, the people are very happy. As I told you earlier, about three families went to court, but the community is against them.

Are they still facing harassment from the Nigerian security operatives?
Well, I think they are tired, but I am not tired and for the past three months, I have not gone to prison and I feel like going to prison any of these days because it is part of the struggle. And, if you stay for a long time and you don’t go to prison, it looks as if nothing is happening. So, I don’t know why they are feeling tired now and I want them to come. I am inviting them and let them not forget that the struggle is still on; so I am not afraid of that.

You have been accused of going to prison to get funds from the international donors/organisation?
I have never got a kobo from any country in the world and I don’t have access to any international body/organisation. No NGO in Nigeria or outside the country has given me any dime. I don’t have connection with outside world except our members.

MASSOB has been accused of supporting a particular political party for the coming elections in the country?
MASSOB is apolitical and Uwazuruike is apolitical and we are not members of any political party and as a matter of fact, we are not Nigerians. I am not a Nigerian, I am a Biafran and every member of MASSOB is a Biafran. We don’t participate in Nigerian politics; so can we support no Nigerian political party. Dim Odimegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu is our hero, our father and we do support him, but when it has to do with Nigerian politics, we declined because we are not part of it. For anybody to say that Uwazuruike or MASSOB is supporting any Nigerian political party, that person is wrong.

Our organisation has taken a stand that all MASSOB members should register in this voters registration exercise for good governance. As of today, the Biafran territory is being occupied by Nigeria and is from Nigeria itself that we shall have Biafra. We believed that we are not Nigerians; we are Biafrans, but our territory is occupied by Nigeria. We will not delude ourselves on the fact that we are still in Nigeria. The leadership of MASSOB has decided that our members should go and register in the voters’ registration and that does not, in anyway, make us Nigerians because roads have to be built, electricity has to be provided and there must be water. It is only when you vote good people that will provide these amenities and if you refuse to vote, bad people will be in government and your condition will worsen. I remember when we asked our members (Ndigbo) not to take part in the census; because of it, the population of Ndigbo came to a very low level; then some people started blaming MASSOB leadership and we don’t have to make that mistake again. Even now I asked all the Igbo to register in this exercise.

By asking your members to register in the ongoing voters’ registration, is it not a way of given credence to the Nigerian government?
No, No, I said go and register and if you register you are not forced to vote during the general elections. You may register and on the voting day you may refused to vote. We asked them to register and vote, when Biafra is got, we know that we got our independence and to administer our territory. Inasmuch as we are still in Nigeria and our economy is being managed by Nigerian authorities, we are stakeholders too. You see what is happening across the globe. Until referendum is conducted, you will not say that you have got sovereignty or your own government. Whatever we are doing is for the welfare of our people, who believe in our cause. It is not good to disfranchise ourselves; it is disadvantageous to us.

You first register to have that empowerment to vote and you decide not to vote; that is your own decision; but if you don’t register you have disempowered yourself. If your child wants to register tomorrow in any of the government owned schools, he or she maybe asked to bring his father’s registration card and if he has no voter’s card, the child maybe denied admission; so I don’t want my members to be incapacitated. First of all, ensure that you are qualified, but you may refuse to vote.
I personally encourage voting because if you fail to vote bad people will take over the government and they will dictate for you.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/jan/29/national-29-01-2011-0019.htm

Onlytruth:
Posted by: Chyz*
I could care less!
For me the standard for measuring success is that APGA sweeps EVERY position in Igboland. 

All these PDP posts we have at the center now are chaffy and have no legs, which is why they are swapped like handkerchiefs.
The day APGA grows to a level where we have leaders at the center, such position will not be swapped at the whims of the president or anybody. In the first place, we would have the best from among us representing us, not all these half-baked thieves.

Onlytruth:
Posted by: Chyz*
I honestly don't think that Ekweremadu's first worry NOW is the senate leadership position. He has to be in the senate first, abi?
The guy faces a real prospect of not returning at all. 

So, every man to himself! hehehe! 

Onlytruth:
Chime's only hope now is to decamp to APGA or he would face the Omehia issue even if he wins.
ie assuming APGA would accept him.

eku_bear:
Yep, if you find something like that, post it.

If I had it my way, SW military and police would only be folk from that region. . .

Would certainly increase the options, as far as secession goes.

GAR3TH:
can the thread title be changed. . .The OP is misleading information.