Leader of Movement for the
Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Solomon Chukwu, has
said that his group was partnering a faction of Movement for the
Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, for the actualization of an independent
state of Biafra.
He assured that the people of the Niger Delta have nothing to fear as
they will be allowed to control their resources if Biafra was
actualized.
According to him: “When Biafra is actualized, children of the Niger
Delta and Ogoni would be given scholarship. We assure the Niger Delta
and Ogoni people from Rivers State that the Igbo do not hate them. The
hatred story being bandied, but only exists in the minds of Nigerians
who want to destroy the unity of the Biafran people.”
Chukwu, who spoke through MASSOB’s National Director of Information,
Sunny Okereafor, after a meeting of the two groups in Gokana, Rivers
State, said that the factional leader of MOSOP, Goodluck Freeman, who
led the Ogoni group delegation to the meeting, promised to partner
MASSOB.
The MASSOB spokesman informed that Freeman insisted that Ogoni
people had suffered greatly under Nigeria and were looking for a
platform to be liberated, which he said MASSOB had provided in its
struggle for the state of Biafra.
Okereafor said that the MASSOB leader, Chukwu, while addressing the
gathering, assured people of the Niger Delta and Ogoni that they would
not only enjoy full autonomy under Biafra, but also control their
resources and pay tax to the federal government of Biafra.
He added that this was in line with the seven-pillar of MASSOB/Niger
Delta agreement of 2004, at MASSOB headquarters in Okwe, Imo State.
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