BIAFRA: OUR NON VIOLENCE AGITATION CAN'T BE STOP WITH MILITARY COUP OR NOT

The Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of

Biafra, MASSOB and Biafra Independence Movement, BIM,

yesterday stated that military coup d’tat or not in Nigeria,

as speculated in some quarters, would not postpone the

movement from carrying out its non violent agitations to

actualize Biafra.

   MASSOB/BIM contended that even if Nigerians wake up

tomorrow morning and discover that the military has replace the present democratic government in place, the

movement would not mind because the MASSOB/BIM

leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike had actually wanted to

start the current agitations in 1997 during the Abacha

military regime but one thing or the other shifted it to 1999

during Obasanjo’s regime.

In a press statement issued yesterday to newsmen in

Onitsha, Anambra state, shortly after the inspection of

MASSOB/BIM’s information office at Umuaka, in Njaba

Local Government Area of Imo state, MASSOB/BIM’s

National Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha noted

that the group met the requirements of UN to carry out its

separatist agitation when in 1999 Uwazuruike notified the

UN by applying for an observer status and also

accompanied this request with the Biafra bill of rights.

Mocha expressed confidence that MASSOB/BIM and

others have convinced the UN through its actions that

there will be no peace in Nigeria unless independence is

granted to them.

He therefore urged MASSOB/BIM members to increase its

non-violent activities in south east and south south, adding

that self-determination is permitted by the United Nations,

UN, even as military regime is illegal and therefore not

recognized by the world body to stop agitations.

He observed that, although UN will not sponsor any

rebellious act in any nation including Nigeria that is a

member of the UN, the organization permitted that any

section of its member states or nation that wants

independence is free to pursue the course holistically.

Mocha expressed hopefully that the UN will normally

intervene in Nigeria’ when the further existence of the

member state becomes questionable and ungovernable, he

lamented that before now, that the world body had played

double standard in tacking the conflicts or crises affecting

the Africa continent.

Mocha accused Britain and other western nations that it

had always waited until such problems degenerated into

civil wars or genocide before it intervened.

SORCE: VANGUARD