Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) says Igbo residing outside Igbo land should start returning home and re-establish their businesses and investments in the South-East.
MASSOB National Director of Information, Mr. Uchenna Madu, in a statement promised to provide adequate security for lives and property in Igboland.
He lamented that Igbo living in the northern and and western parts of the country appeared nonchalant an insensitive to the struggle for Biafra and assured that “MASSOB shall defend Igboland with our blood, valour and enthusiasm.”
The statement continued: “It is our unflinching service to our father land.
“MASSOB has vowed to stop kidnapping, armed robbery and other criminal tendencies in Igbo land because there is no place in Nigeria like Igbo land.
“Nigeria is a state where others are first class citizens but treat the Igbo as second class citizen, a state where others are born to rule but treat the Igbo as perpetual outcasts, a state where state policies deliberately deny Igbo land critical developmental infrastructure.
“Nigeria has vowed to continue to be a state where prejudice, tribalism, exclusion and hate are elevated while nation building is ignored, a state where it seems the only logic for unity is to share oil resources and not on the basis of consent, mutual respect, fraternity and brotherhood.
“Today in Nigeria, true nationhood has remained elusive to Nigeria which still remains in perpetual strife and ever increasing crisis since independence.
These undeniable realities are the reasons the Nigeria state is afraid of Biafra which represents the truth they cannot legitimately counter.”
