‘BIM/MASSOB to welcome more pro-Biafra agitators’

Leader of the Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, and Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has said that his organization, being in the mainstream of the struggle for the emancipation of Ndigbo, is ready to welcome other pro-Biafra groups, provided such groups are ready to adopt non-violence posture in their agitation. He said that if it is possible for 20 more pro-Biafra groups to emerge and join in the campaign for the actualization of Biafra, then the agitation would go into a wider horizon, since, according to him, the more the merrier. In a press statement, yesterday, through the Biafra Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha, Uwazuruike reminded splinter groups that, from the beginning, God never intended that everybody must come together as one entity, stressing that BIM had never opposed factionalism in the current struggle for Biafra’s independence. “Infact, I am calling for the emergence of more 20 pro-Biafra groups to join in the campaign but I must caution that all the different groups campaigning for a separate existence for Ndigbo, in the name of Biafra, should always stay on their own and manage themselves very well”, Uwazuruike said. He recalled that, all over the world, including South Africa where similar separatist struggles existed, there was always a dominant group, like MASSOB/BIM, using the principle of non-violence, adding,. “This our own group has never been threatened by factionalization, rather, while we are the originators, others are imitators”. Meanwhile, Uwazuruike commiserated with the Ihebom family over the death of Thomas Ihebom, the BIM/MASSOB Regional Administrator for Owerri North Region, who was killed in a generator fire.