MASSOB backs Niger Delta Avengers

MASSOB backs Niger Delta Avengers

— 5th June 2016

From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka

THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday declared total support for the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) and other pro-­Biafra groups from the Niger Delta region.

Declaring support for the Niger Delta Avengers, MASSOB in a statement issued by its leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu said the movement was happy with the firmness and sincerity with which NDA was supporting the struggle for Biafra realization.

MASSOB also said that the acceptability of Biafra by their brethren across the Niger had made nonsense of negative positions of some leaders of ethnic nationalities in the South-­South that were brainwashed to speak against Biafra.

The MASSOB statement read in part: “The consistency, selflessness and pragmatism of these Biafra warriors gladdens our hearts, it shows and proves the positivity and acceptability of Biafra by our brethren across the Niger. It has also rubbished the earlier diversionary, stupid and negative comments, statements and position of some leaders of ethnic nationalities of the South-­South who are brainwashed by Hausa Fulani-­Yoruba oligarchies against Biafra.

“The activities of the current Niger Delta warriors are natural confirmation that Biafra stretches towards the gulf of Guinea. The natural inhabitants and indigenous people of these lands are Biafrans by birth but Nigerians by citizenship.”

Madu noted that though MASSOB chose the non-­violent approach that it would also support every genuine and legitimate methodology and approach chosen by any group towards Biafran self-determination. Because of our non-­violent approach,

the Nigerian security forces have killed thousands of MASSOB members and other groups since 1999, when the current struggle started. “These extra judicial killings of non-­violent and unarmed

Biafra agitators have gone unchecked by the Nigerian government and the international watchdogs against human rights abuses, brutalities, genocides and pogroms, including the United Nations.

“The Western world seems not to react against the ethnic cleansing of our people because of economic and diplomatic interests in Biafra natural treasures which they aligned with Nigeria and kept

their hypocritical eyes closed against the fate of over 60 millions Biafrans.”

While describing the present Nigerian leadership as a confused one, MASSOB maintained that those pursuing the Biafran agitators would see shame. “Our comrades from Niger Delta who are more united and focused than groups from Igbo-­based hinterland should not relent as the knees of our oppressors shall bow soon.

They will beg Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the others,” the group said.