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
deter the movement from carrying out its non violent struggle to
actualize Biafra.
MASSOB/BIM contended that even if Nigerians wake up tomorrow morning and discover that the military has toppled 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 optimism 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.