The Movement for the Actualisation of the Soverign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has dismissed reports that the aim of the agitation for secession is to colonize the South-south geopolitical zone because of its vast oil resources.

MASSOB, on Thursday, January 28, in a statement released by the group’s leader, Uchenna Madu categorically dismissed such reports.

Madu further stated that instead of colonizing the South-south, the aim of their agitation was to decolonize the region from the North and the South-West.

Sagir Mohammed had earlier described the agiattion for Biafra as a desperate ploy to colonize the South-south region to gainnaccess to its crude oil as the driver for the Biafran economy prompting MASSOB to reply.

Dismissing Sagir, Leader of MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, in a statement said:

“MASSOB can never be intimidated, disorganized or shaken because of some disgruntled, frustrated, confused, defeated people like Sagir Mohammed who in frustration, alleged that Ndi Igbo wants to capture and colonize the people of south-south with Biafra.

“MASSOB, Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, and Lower Niger Congress, LNC, with our affiliates in Diaspora are more determined, consistent and articulated for Biafra actualization not minding the cries of Sagir Mohammed and his likes. We are not in the Biafra struggle to colonize our south-south brethren but to decolonize them from Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba oligarchy who have held them captives for decades, subjected our brothers and sisters into slavery as was meted to Ndigbo.

“90 per cent oil wells in Niger Delta were owned by these criminal parasites of northern oligarchy. Today, the Fulani are crying fowl because they have no stake again as Nigeria is in near collapse under the leadership President Muhammad Buhari. The people of eastern region are wiser now, formidable, united, focused and determined for survival, emancipation and independence of Biafra. Igboland is not locked as alleged by Sagir Mohammed. The people and land of south-east region are more developed individually than the entire 19 states of northern Nigeria.”