Biafra Crisis: Uwazuruike Berates Kanu, Renames MASSOB

Following the continued violence perpetuated by Biafra
protesters, chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the leader of the
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of
Biafra (MASSOB) has renamed the group.
Ralph Uwazuruike
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Vanguard reports that Uwazuruike who made this known on
Sunday, December 6, in a statement issued in Owerri, said
the name of MASSOB has been changed to Biafra
Independent Movement (BIM).
The BIM leader said the decision became necessary as
some dissidents of MASSOB were giving the group a bad
corporate image; a development he revealed was very
annoying.
He said: “The change in name became absolutely necessary
because of the sad introduction of violence by the disgruntled
dissidents and this is at variance with the non-violence stance
of MASSOB over the years.”
According to him, the dedicated loyalists of MASSOB are
embarrassed to be associated with violence, assuring that
plans were already ongoing to reorganise MASSOB and turn
it to the youth wing of the Biafra Independent Movement.
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Uwazuruike who further hinted on how he recruited Nnamdi
Kanu in 1989, to head Radio Biafra also pointed out that
there was a displaced liability in civil law.
“I recruited Nnamdi Kanu in 1989, when I established Radio
Biafra and appointed him the director of the establishment. He
started preaching hatred and brainwashing the youths. MASSOB
sacked him,” Uwazuruike said.
Meanwhile, The Nation reported on November 30, that
MASSOB at a ceremony attended by national officers
including the zonal and regional administrators of the group,
inaugurated a new leadership for the Biafra movement after
the group expelled its national leader, chief Uwazuruike. The
group’s former national director of information, Uchenna
Madu, was made the new leader while Ugwuoke Ibem
Ugwuoke, emerged as national secretary.
The agitation for Biafra might be getting secret support from
some well meaning Nigerians as it was reported that chief
Chris Uche, a chieftain of the All Progressive Grand Alliance
(APGA) in Owerri on Thursday, November 26, at the third
memorial anniversary of Ojukwu’s death was quoted to have
said “ the spirit of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, the leader of the
defunct Republic of Biafra, is reportedly at work in the recent
pro-Biafran agitations.”
The APGA stalwart, however, noted that Biafra would be
declared a sovereign state without the shedding of blood.