MASSOB orders Ndigbo to sit at home on June 8

The Movement for Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafran (MASSOB) has relentless calls on NdIgbo for total  compliance with its “sit at home order” on June 8, 2013,  the Owerri Municipal Region of the freedom fighting  organization has indicated its willingness not to compromise with the planned  action. Regional Administrator, Chief Okechukwu Nwogu, said the call became necessary now that the Federal Government had brazenly failed to protect the lives and properties of the Igbo in the Northern part of the country.

Nwogu, who attributed the persistent conspiracy, persecution marginalization and criminal discrimination  being meted to the Igbo in the country attributed this to the infamous 1914 amalgamation of the then Northern  and Southern protectorates by Lord Lugard, noting that the fatal  mistake had made the Igbo  to be seen as a common enemy by the  Northern part of the country.

The MASSOB  Chief  stated  in  Owerri: “It is also quite obvious that the Federal Government had failed woefully in its duty to protect the lives  and properties of Ndigbo living in other parts of the country, especially in the

Northern  part of Nigeria but we won’t fold our arms and watch them kill our people in their droves on daily  bases like rams in the north before we react”.

As a non-violent organization which applies caution and maturity to actualize its age-long dream, Nwogu ruled out the fears of reprisal attack, saying that as a refined movement “we have a methodological way of doing things as opposed to primitive method of bombing, shooting and killing of innocent people hence the call on Ndigbo at home and abroad to strictly observe the June 8 sit at home order.

Contributing, the Director for Culture/Music and Entertainment, Owerri Municipal Region, Comrade Ifeanyi Amaefule, accused the Northern leaders of conspiracy  against the Igbo in the country, saying that they (the Northern leaders) are using the dreaded Islamic sect (Boko Haram) as a  weapon to drive the Igbo to extinction.

“Going by the spate of terrorism in Nigeria and the areas they took place, you will however be convinced that Ndigbo were their target,” he stated.

He cited the 2012 Christmas day bombing of St Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State and in such other states like Kano, Kaduna, Borno, Yobe, Plateau to the massacre of the  Igbo in Mubi, Adamawa State and the recent luxury park bombing in Kano as classical examples.