Fear Grips Nnewi As 1, 000 MASSOB Members Storm Ojukwu’s Grave Side

Tension best described the situation in Nnewi , Nnewi North local government area of Anambra state yesterday when over One thousand (1,000) members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, reportedly stormed the area to pay homage  to the former Biafra war lord, Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu  at his graveside.

MASSOB members who came on a convoy of 30 buses and 50 Motor bikes reportedly disrupted human and vehicular movement for several hours along Owerri-Nnewi –Okigwe road, as well as Igwe Orizu and other major roads in Nnewi.

They moved unchallenged by any security section but were peaceful and meant business.

MASSOB members after paying homage to their late leader went around town sensitizing the industrial community on its stand in the on-going national confab. They used the opportunity too to welcome its new Nnewi North Regional Administrator, Comrade Emmanuel Omenka.

Speaking to a mammoth crowd, Comrade Omenka said the  storming of Nnewi was meant to visit the grave of late Biafran war lord, aimed at consulting with his spirit, and also to receive royal blessing and advice from  His Royal Highness, Igwe Kenneth O. Orizu 111, Igwe Nnewi.

 He said they also visited the Bishops of Nnewi Catholic and
Anglican dioceses, respectively for their prophetic utterances.

In the words of Omenka: "I'm newly transferred to Nnewi and we want to tell the people of Nnewi that the capital of Biafra is Nnewi. But the headquarters of MASSOB is Okwe, Okigwe in
Imo State.

The issue of police or other security agents confronting us is a
thing of the past because most of them have now realized why we should not be disturbed. They have realized that ‘’we are fighting for injustices and some of them have secretly joined us and they know that we are non violent”.

He noted that the actualization of the state of Biafra had dragged  so long
because of those he described as saboteurs of the struggle and blamed it on disunity among the Igbo even as he said the Igbo nation was divided into Abuja politicians, Ohaneze and the MASSOB with different interests but he noted that the groups had of late discovered the need to speak with one voice "but not yet to the extent of becoming one".

The MASSOB administrator said the group  would support  President Goodluck Jonathan's second tenure in 2015 "so long as we are still in Nigeria’’. He said the group also supported the on-going national confab and insisted on confederation.