MASSOB Raises Alarm over Boko Haram As Arrested MASSOB members Regain Freedom

                                                       

Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday warned Ndigbo in all Northern parts of the country to relocate their businesses from the core North as the Boko Haram insurgents have proved to be enemies of progress in a secular Nation. 

MASSOB said the Nortehrn Nigerian is no longer safe for people to live in especially Ndigo who are businessmen and women sequel to the Bomb blast at Nyanya bus stop.

The movement also raised the alarm that suspected people masquerading as herdsmen have invaded Onitsha and environs, calling attention for Ndigbo to be vigilant in all parts of South-East to forestall any break down of law and order.  

MASSOB Deputy National Director Information, Chris Mocha told odogwuemekaodogwu.com that infiltration of some unknown faces into South-East is a worrisome development but warned that MASSOB will not take it lightly with anybody breeching the peace of the South-East.

Meanwhile, nine members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, arrested by Joint Security Task Force in the commercial city of Onitsha have been granted bail by an Onitsha Chief Magistrate court.

Among those arrested by the security agents included the MASSOB Regional Administrator in charge of Awka South, Chief Arinze Igbani and eight others who were on their way to attend funeral service of their late member at Ezinifite community.

The MASSOB members were later arraigned in court and charged with conspiracy to commit felony and unlawful society as well as threat to public peace in suit Number M/292c/2014.

But when arraigned in the Onitsha Chief Magistrate court , the suspects were granted bail by the Chief Magistrate, Mr. Mike Oknonkwo who adjourned the matter to May 26^th , 2014 for continuation.

The Regional Administrator of Awka South Region, Chief Arnze Igbani who spoke through the Regional Director for Information, Mr. Paul Okoye said their arrest was another clamp down on innocent MASSOB members by the state government.

He narrated their ordeals in the hands of the security agents who arrested them on their way to Ezinifite to attend the burial of their late member, adding that apart from other humiliating treatments in the hands of the security agencies, the police refused to arraign them in court for several days.