Why I Invited Police To Arrest Uwazuruike- OJUKWU JNR

Chief Emeka Ojukwu, the first son of the late Biafran leader Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has confessed that he invited Officers and men of the Nigeria Police to arrest the leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) Chief Raph Uwazuruike.

Speaking in an exclusive interview today in his Nnewi Anambra State residence of his late father, Emeka Jnr. said there was serious fight in their family compound on Sunday during the traditional removal of mourning clothes by their family for their late father as is the custom of their people.

According to him, the commotion was caused by the MASSOB leader who he said was invited to the occasion by Ojukwu's wife, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu. He said  Uwazuruike came arrived with hundreds of MASSOB members and refused to heed the advice of the security men at the gate who told him to go into the compound with a few of his men rather than the crowd.

He alleged that Uwazuruike did not only force his way into the compound but also ordered his men to physically assault him, a development he said prompted some MASSOB members who were no longer loyal to Uwazuruike engaged those loyal to him in a free for all.

He said it was at that point that he made a couple of calls that brought in some soldiers and policemen that controlled the situation.

The MASSOB leader according to him was able to beat the security men and escape arrest before the arrived the place. The attempt to arrest Uwazuruike therefore was due to the unruly behaviour of his members exhibited in the early morning of that day before the church service.

"I heard that there was a request made by the SSS there to Abuja to be given permission to arrest him (Uwazuruike) because of the lawlessness that his unruly men exhibited and that could have possibly made him to hastily leave the compound when he got the wind that there was an attempt to arrest him," said.

"You can not come into somebody's household and try to take over the entire household. The family here is Ojukwu family and it is our business to secure it. Nobody can come from outside and do it for us. And when you go to somebody's home you respect it and I think that is the standard anywhere", he insisted.