… I guaranteed Ojukwu MASSOB will never turn to violence and that there would be no war again in Nigeria
… MASSOB has gone past walking in the city to political moves
… I set up Radio Biafra, utilized Kanu to run it however government officials commandeered him and the Radio is presently being utilized to extort me and spread detest messages
… It's a lie –IPOB
By Vincent Ujumadu
Boss Ralph Uwazurike, the originator of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB is troubled and that may not be detached with the way that he, of later, is being consigned to the foundation on the issue of Biafra disturbance. The man existing apart from everything else, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who Uwazurike said he utilized and given over the Radio Biafra he set up as a major aspect of the unsettling procedure, has been getting all the consideration recently.
Uwazurike is additionally stressed that many individuals, including the media, had not valued his penances towards the realization of Biafra. However, he demands that lone his style of approach can prompt the realization of Biafra, depicting as a demonstration of evil, the hint that he was an offer out on the issue of the battle.
Since the starting in Aba, Abia State in 1999, MASSOB under Uwazurike constantly claimed mass captures and killings of its individuals by government powers. He had additionally reliably set out on programs gone for completing Biafra and was in reality the arrow point of the fomentation. For the initial 10 years of the development of MASSOB by Uwazurike, the body and its individuals/supporters were extremely dynamic however peaceful.
For example, in May 2008, MASSOB discharged a rundown of 2,020 individuals claimed to have been executed by security operators since 1999. Uwazuruike was captured on a few events and accused of conspiracy. In 2011, he and 280 MASSOB individuals were captured in Enugu while going to a capacity out of appreciation for late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Hardly any days after the fact, notwithstanding, previous President Goodluck Jonathan requested Uwazuruike's discharge, and in addition all other MASSOB individuals in detainment.
MASSOB from there on propelled the Biafran travel permit in 2009 as a major aspect of the program to praise its tenth commemoration and Uwazuruike, said the presentation of the Biafran international ID was in light of steady requests from Biafrans in Diaspora
In 2005, MASSOB re-brought the old Biafran cash into flow. This started a ton of fervor at the time particularly as one Biafran pound was said to trade for two hundred and seventy naira at the outskirt groups of Togo and the Republic of Benin.
In February 2013, MASSOB guaranteed that few bodies discovered drifting in the Ezu River on the limit of Enugu and Anambra States were those of its individuals already captured by the police. The gathering asserted that the police routinely executed MASSOB individuals without legitimate trial.
On September 13, 2015 police in Anambra state captured around 25 MASSOB individuals who were denoting their sixteenth commemoration and one of them was shot. At St Charles Lwanga Catholic Church Okpoko,18 individuals were captured and one shot and at Iba Pope Catholic Church, while at Awada, 11 individuals from MASSOB were captured. At Awka, two MASSOB individuals were captured by the police.
On May 31, 2013, Uwazurike's MASSOB was marked as one of three fanatic gatherings debilitating the security of Nigeria. Truth be told previous President Goodluck Jonathan announced that the Nigerian state confronted three major security challenges postured by fanatic gatherings which he recorded as Boko Haram in the North; the MASSOB in the South-East; and the Oodua People's Congress OPC, in the South-West..
In any case, following his conflict with a segment of MASSOB individuals, the air pocket burst and the man, who was practically strong in the Biafra tumult, began getting thumps from individuals who heretofore, were venerating him. One of the assertions was that he relinquished some MASSOB individuals who were detained in different Nigerian penitentiaries. He however protected himself, saying a wonder such as this never happened.
He revealed to Saturday Vanguard: "The impression being made was that somebody paid me to stop the battle. This is unreasonable. Or, on the other hand do individuals anticipate that me will begin battling Nnamdi Kanu? Or, on the other hand do individuals think you are battling for Biafra when you stoop down in broad daylight spots to make appear? How might anyone hold the view that I am an offer out?
"I set up Radio Biafra in 1999 and gave it over to Nnamdi Kanu for the benefit of the battle, yet what did I receive consequently? Somebody I utilized the radio station I set up to coerce me. Where did I turn out badly? What's more, if you somehow happened to be Uwazurike, what will you do under such a circumstance? In the event that I didn't set up MASSOB, how could Nnamdi Kanu have had a stage to begin what he is doing?"
Focusing on that his way to deal with the battle is the thing that would at last prompt the completion of Biafra, Uwazurike included: "On May 22nd, we composed a service in which more than one million individuals partaken in Onitsha and different urban areas and this was accounted for by the media. It was the same in Aba, Enugu, Owerri and different urban communities, yet individuals are stating that I am losing the faith or that I am an offer out.
"Do you additionally realize that I manufactured 20 houses at Okwe, Imo State, for the injured Biafra warriors who were asking for offerings at Oji River and I pay them compensation consistently? Today, there are no more Biafra officers asking for donations at that spot.
"Just a month ago, I took a chance with my life to go toward the North for Biafra and I was at Arewa House in Kaduna where I met individuals, yet the media and Igbo individuals don't value my penances. How might you feel if you somehow happened to be in my position?"
Uwazurike, who drove an assignment of Igbo pioneers from the South East, revealed to some young gatherings at the Arewa House in Kaduna that MASSOB had sought after the way of peace since its creation in 1999 and would keep on doing so.
He proceeded with: "Self-assurance without brutality is a major right, we should endeavor against sowing the seed of friction yet do all that will advance peace and equity in Nigeria. There is a hole in correspondence from our pioneers which should be connected, consequently we are meeting with outstanding pioneers in the north to convince them that there is no reason to get excited,
"We have congested the time of walking the roads with Biafran banners. MASSOB is presently merging on building structures and political transactions with different nations, reviewing that there was a re-statement of Biafra on May 22nd, 2000, accommodation of Biafra Bill of rights to United Nations and his participation of OAU Summit in Lome, Togo in 2000, among different accomplishments..
"MASSOB existed for a long time without viciousness and in 2009, I went to London and opened Radio Biafra and gave it over to Nnamdi Kanu as the executive. Before long a short time later, government officials captured him, and he began working for them.
"The radio that was intended to instruct our kin and prompt our kin was transformed into a wellspring of detest messages, extortion, terrorizing and others. The resultant impact was that the northern young people came up to move us, to state that they are not content with the despise messages and the put-down they get from a similar radio.
"The primary reason for coasting the association called MASSOB was not to cause emergency in Nigeria. I guaranteed the late Odumegu Ojukwu when he was alive that there would be no other common war in Nigeria. Since he, Ojukwu, was so concerned and needed some measure of confirmation from me that MASSOB would not cause issues in Nigeria, I gave him that affirmation."
