SAN FRANCISCO, January 28, (THEWILL) – Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has dismissed an assertion made by leader of the defunct Arewa Peoples Congress, Alhaji Sagir Muhammad, that it is championing the secession of Biafra from Nigeria because it wants to colonise the South-south geopolitical zone given its huge oil resources.
On the contrary, the group in a statement issued yesterday by its leader, Uchenna Madu stated that proponents of Biafra are out to decolonize the South-south region from Hausa, Fulani and Yoruba oligarchy who have held its people captives for decades and subjected them to slavery as was meted to Ndigbo.
Mohammed had told Vanguard that “those Indigenous People of Biafra have a hidden agenda. Their hidden agenda is to declare Biafra and then go recolonize the South-South. They would go and within a question of less than one month they would capture all those South-South and colonise the oil fields that is the agenda of IPOB. If you look at the East, it is land-locked; they don’t have any serious minerals apart from coal.”
But Madu, while frowning at this remark, stated that “MASSOB can never be intimidated, disorganized or shaken because of some disgruntled, frustrated, confused, defeated people like Sagir Mohammed who in frustration, alleged that Ndi Igbo wants to capture and colonize the people of south-south with Biafra.
“MASSOB, Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, and Lower Niger Congress, LNC, with our affiliates in Diaspora are more determined, consistent and articulated for Biafra actualization not minding the cries of Sagir Mohammed and his likes. We are not in the Biafra struggle to colonize our south-south brethren but to decolonize them from Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba oligarchy who have held them captives for decades, subjected our brothers and sisters into slavery as was meted to Ndigbo.
“90 per cent oil wells in Niger Delta were owned by these criminal parasites of northern oligarchy. Today, the Fulani are crying fowl because they have no stake again as Nigeria is in near collapse under the leadership President Muhammad Buhari. The people of eastern region are wiser now, formidable, united, focused and determined for survival, emancipation and independence of Biafra. Igboland is not locked as alleged by Sagir Mohammed. The people and land of south-east region are more developed individually than the entire 19 states of northern Nigeria.”
