SAN FRANCISCO, September 07, (THEWILL) – The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Comrade Kingsley Madu, has declared that Lagos, Abuja, and other cities where Igbos reside and own major investments are all part of ‘Biafraland’.
The MASSOB leader made the declaration on Thursday at Awgu, in Enugu, during a rally organised to welcome the leader of the Biafra National Guard (said to be the ‘military wing’ of the pro-Biafra groups), ‘General’ Innocent Oji, who was recently released from detention.
Addressing the rally, Madu declared that Igbos would not be forced out of any part of Nigeria where they invested lots of resources to develop saying ‘Biafrans’ do not want to ‘confine’ themselves to a particular place.
He recalled the alleged sacking of Igbo traders from a portion of land at Trade Fair and Festac in Lagos saying the affected traders were evicted by the Lagos State Government after they had invested billions of naira in developing the area.
“Pro-Biafra groups have adopted a new ideology which stated that any part of the country where a large population of Igbos is found, and where Igbos contributed towards human and material development, is part of Biafra,” Madu said.
“Some years back a portion of land at Trade Fair and FESTAC were conceded to our people for development in Lagos.
“After spending billions of naira in developing this part of Lagos for the economic growth of Nigerian government, today information reaching us is that the Federal Government, conniving with the Lagos State Government, yesterday retrieved the land, the platform, all the investment and everything from the people of Biafra.
“This is part of the reason for Biafra agitation and we are warning because we now believe that everywhere an Igbo man is is part of Biafra.
“That is the latest ideology we have. We don’t want to confine ourselves to a particular place; we now believe that wherever our foot touches is our land that is Biafra.
“Lagos is also Biafra, Abuja is also Biafra. Anywhere our people are that place is Biafra.
“So what we are saying now is that that part of Lagos that our people developed with their money is also part of Biafra and we cannot leave.”
Oji, in his speech, commended Madu for carrying on with the struggle while he was incarcerated and declared that Biafra will be achieved in less than one year.
He warned that any attempt by the Federal Government to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who he described as ‘Supreme Leader’, would be met with stiff resistance.
“By the grace of God, this struggle will not last beyond one year from now because we have our strategy.
“But if the Federal Government feels we cannot do anything let them go and arrest our supreme leader, Nnamdi Kanu, for them to see what we can do,” he said.
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