NIGER-DELTA AREA AND FORMER EASTERN REGION ARE PART OF BIAFRA- MASSOB

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, has said through their new leader, Solomon Chukwu, the Niger Delta area and the former Eastern region people are part of Biafra, and remains committed to the struggle in actualizing their own independent state and also stated that these people cannot find peace in Nigeria until they actualize their independent state where they will have unlimited freedom to develop their land.He said this through , Sunny Okereafor, MASSOB’s National Director of Information and dismissed reports that the people of South South states like Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Cross River, are not Biafrans,and also said it has always been " part of the Federal government’s divide and rule policy to tell the World that only Ndigbo want Biafra; but this is false. Do you remember Ojukwu’s second in command, Philip Effiong? Was he not from Akwa Ibom? When he was here, can anybody doubt his commitment to the actualization of Biafra?"

He also commend Rex Egberebi, the MASSOB’s Regional Administration for Ogoja, for the massive mobilization of members in Ogoja, urged them to insist on the group’s non violent approach to the struggle, stressing that Biafra would soon be achieved.

“If you see the kind of support from the local people of Ugep, Ikom, Ogoja and adjoining areas when we held our meeting there last week at Ugep, you will be shocked. Over 2,000 people registered as MASSOB members at that meeting. In fact, from what we saw at the meeting, the people of Ogoja, Ugep and Ikom are more Biafra than even Ndigbo.”

MASSOB leader said further that the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu who is from Eastern Nigeria "despite court order"... is part of the larger plot to continue to marginalize our people and frustrate Biafra, but we can never be deterred. Biafra is the answer.”