The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereing State of Biafra, MASSOB, others has made a call to the United Nations, UN, to speed up its justice process on the Massacre and other extra-judicial killings of Biafrans by the Nigerian governments and grant freedom to Bia
.
The call was contained in a statement to mark the 50th anniversary of Biafra and MASSOB’s 18th anniversary.
The statement urged the UN to stop the unending killings and brutal treatment meted out to people of the defunct eastern region by Nigerian government.
The statement which was signed by Chief Samuel Ogubuike (Zonal Leader Okigwe), Ezeugo Kingsley (Elders Council, Okigwe), and Reverend Linus Iweanya (Elders Council, Okigwe), demanded the UN to intervene into the brutality metted out against Biarfrans by, especially, the present Nigerian government
The statement read in part: “Beside the over two million people that were killed in the genocide that took place during the Nigeria/Biafran civil war, thousands of pro-Biafra agitators have been killed in Nigeria.
“More than 500 pro- Biafra agitators were massacred on March 29, 2003 in Okigwe while hundreds have been gruesomely murdered in various parts of Nigeria because of their stand that Biafra must be independent.
“MASSOB and BIM have been taking care of the families of those people killed in Okigwe and ex-Biafra soldiers who sustained injuries during the civil war without any compensation from government.
“It is all these unfair treatments to Biafrans that is fueling the endless agitation for freedom and we are calling on international organizations especially the United Nations to hasten up the process of Biafra independence.’’
The call was contained in a statement to mark the 50th anniversary of Biafra and MASSOB’s 18th anniversary.
The statement urged the UN to stop the unending killings and brutal treatment meted out to people of the defunct eastern region by Nigerian government.
The statement which was signed by Chief Samuel Ogubuike (Zonal Leader Okigwe), Ezeugo Kingsley (Elders Council, Okigwe), and Reverend Linus Iweanya (Elders Council, Okigwe), demanded the UN to intervene into the brutality metted out against Biarfrans by, especially, the present Nigerian government
The statement read in part: “Beside the over two million people that were killed in the genocide that took place during the Nigeria/Biafran civil war, thousands of pro-Biafra agitators have been killed in Nigeria.
“More than 500 pro- Biafra agitators were massacred on March 29, 2003 in Okigwe while hundreds have been gruesomely murdered in various parts of Nigeria because of their stand that Biafra must be independent.
“MASSOB and BIM have been taking care of the families of those people killed in Okigwe and ex-Biafra soldiers who sustained injuries during the civil war without any compensation from government.
“It is all these unfair treatments to Biafrans that is fueling the endless agitation for freedom and we are calling on international organizations especially the United Nations to hasten up the process of Biafra independence.’’
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