UWAZURIKE, MASSOB LEADER, ASKS JEGA TO QUIT OFFICE BEFORE POLLS

Leader of the Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, on Wednesday called for the immediate resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, for alleged bias.
Uwazurike, who addressed a press conference in Owerri, said Jega cannot conduct pre-determined elections in the southern part of the country. He said aside from the 'obvious display of bias', the INEC chairman ought to proceed on three months pre-retirement leave as was done by his predecessors, Dr Abel Guobadia and Prof. Maurice Iwu during their times.

MASSOB RAISES ALARM OVER PLOT TO BOMB ONITSHA MARKET

THE Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday raised an alarm over what it called a plot by members of the Boko Haram sect to bomb the popular Onitsha main market and some other markets in the South-East geo-political zone.
It therefore warned that MASSOB would resist any attempt to perpetrate such terrorism in any part of Igbo land which is also regarded as Biafra land, by all means and with the last drop of their blood.
Speaking to newsmen yesterday in a telephone chat, MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu, said the Boko Haram’s plot was discovered by the MASSOB intelligence and security groups, adding that it is even possible that some of the Nigerian security agents would have equally perceived such an information.

TENSION IN SOUTH EAST OVER MASSOB SIT-AT-HOME ORDER

Palpable tension pervades the five states of the South East, following today’s sit-at-home order given by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

The pro-Biafran group had ordered all Igbo across the country and in Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi as well as Anambra states, to stay in their homes today, in protest of the killing of South easterners all over the country, especially in the North.

MASSOB also said that there will be no wedding, burial or any ceremony in Igboland today.

WE’LL GO TO WAR WITH NORTH IF..., MASSOB WARNS BOKO HARAM

THE leader of Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has expressed utter discomfort over the continuous killing of the Igbo in the northern parts of the country as he said the Igbo nation would consider an option of declaring war against the North if pushed to the wall.

The MASSOB leader, who made this known said the Igbo nation had borne the pains of sustained killing of their kinsmen in the northern parts of the country by terrorist groups for too long, contending that the issue, to members of his group, has assumed a more dangerous dimension which he said demanded an urgent attention.

POLICE: NO MASSOB MEMBER WAS KILLED

The Anambra State Police Command yesterday said no member of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) was killed and dumped in Ezu River as being claimed by the group.

The Commissioner of Police, Ballah Nasarawa, said yesterday at the Command’s Headquarters in Amawbia that the names mentioned by MASSOB as some of its missing members were not in the Command’s records.