The Igbo ethnic group feel marginalized, and their women have decided to turn to God, to ease their disgruntlement.
After a MASSOB meeting in Onitsha, Anambra on Monday, Igbo women resolved to resort to prayers in their bid to get what they deserve from Nigeria.
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB Women Director for Anambra North, Amaka Okafor, said:
“We will use this month of August women meeting to pray more fervently as we have embarked on prayer session throughout Igbo land to ask God to help us actualize our cause.
“We cannot achieve this without fervent prayers and we ask our women in Igbo land to ensure they use this August meeting of women to mobilize the women for the prayer which will be headed by the prayer warriors we have employed.
“We have been marginalized for about four decades and that prompted Chief Uwazurike to vow that the marginalization must stop and actualizing a Biafran state is the only way it will stop.”
“For the women to come out in their large number to speak against the injustice being meted out to Igbos by the Federal Government in Biafran land shows that they are fed up and can no longer tolerate it.
“It was for this same reason that we had the Aba women riot of 1929 when the women protested because they were asked to pay tax by the government and we said no and today again, we saying no to the marginalization of the Igbo”.
