MASSOB leader, Ralph Uwazuruike
The leader of the Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), Ralph Uwazuruike says what the ‘people of Biafra’ want is “independence from Nigeria devoid of violence.”
Uwazuruike also lamented that the injustices against Ndigbo that led to the unfortunate civil war still exists in Nigeria today, even at a higher level.
Uwazuruike, who spoke through his personal Assistant on Media Matters, Chris Anierobi Mocha said: “the injustice for which the war was fought had worsened today as the defeated Biafrans are still regarded as enemies in Nigeria”.
The MASSOB founder said after founding MASSOB in 1999, he told the then American President, Bill Clinton “of atrocities of the Nigerian civil war in which no fewer than one million people lost their lives and that the Biafran people do not want to be part of the evil contraption called Nigeria again”.
Famzn News understands that the alleged injustice led to the emergence of several successionist groups in the country, with Nnamdi Kanu leading the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) while Uwazuruike has since dumped the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) which he founded in 1999 for BIM.
Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB has pushed for independence severally under President Muhammadu Buhari, a move which led to the federal government placing a ban on the activities of the secessionist group.