Breaking News: Uwazuruike exposed by Igbo Mandate Congress

www.odogwublog.com reports that as crisis among the Pro-Biafra agitators deepens, the Igbo Mandate Congress, IMC, a socio-cultural Igbo Organization, yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State, posited that for peace to reign supreme in Igbo Land, the Leader of the Movement for Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, which now changed to Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazurike, must render account of 16 years of stewardship.
Addressing newsmen, Director General of IMC, Rev Obinna Akukwe revealed that the splinter groups that include, Biafra Zionist Movement, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Uchenna Madu led Faction, among others were exploited by Chief Uwazuruike for 16 years.
He said, “Igbo Mandate Congress, IMC and General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organisations and Ministers, GAAICOM, had in the past three to four years been authorised by leading Igbo clerics and opinion leaders to wade into feud between Uwazurike and his complaining lieutenants over mismanagement of financial issues with the intentions of ensuring that the South East is not turned into a bloody zone as a result of sharing formula. IMC and GAAICOM had expected Uwazurike to have appreciated our past interventions and made his financial dealings with his boys more transparent so that his lietunants would stop salivating and gallivating around”.
Rev Akukwe said, “Madu was one of those who have served Uwazurike and MASSOB, faithfully from the beginning and deserved better treatment from Chief”.
“IMC had learnt over time that Madu and his supporters were kept in the dark over billions MASSOB was garnering in the name of Biafra. IMC had known over the years that Madu and his loyalists were the fifth group to abandon Uwazurike’s MASSOB on account of financial impropriety”, he stated
He listed the causes of the splinter groups from MASSOB to include among others, non accountability of Biafra International Passport which about N100 million was generated and the diversion of over N40 million realised from the dedication of the Biafra war veterans home in Okwe built by MASSOB members to Uwazurike’s personal purse.
Others he said were, collection of proceeds from membership identity cards with the sum of N1000 each and also pay monthly income tax of N200 to Uwazurike, running into billion yet unaccounted for and purchase of private properties in many locations in Owerri numbering up to 28 plots.
He also added contribution of nearly N4 billion in the last 16 years into Uwazurike’s personal use.
According to him, “IMC hereby counsels Chief Uwazurike to ask for forgiveness from his lieutenants, make amends and retrace his steps. IMC also calls upon the new MASSOB leader, Madu, to sheath the sword if his former boss shows sign of remorse and seek acceptable means of resolving the crisis”.
Rev Akukwe said further that, “IMC condemns also a situation whereby leaders of the group are living in palatial mansions while the foot soldiers are abandoned to lives of penury and frustration”