‘We support ex-militants’ 31-day ultimatum to FG’ – MASSOB

Secessionist group, Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has declared its support for the 31 day ultimatum issued by the Niger Delta Militants to the Nigerian government.

The ex-militants are demanding the release of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Both MASSOB and IPOB are seeking for the independence of the former Eastern region (comprising the whole of South-east and parts of South-south).

Some other pro-Biafra groups have also issued a 31 days ultimatum to federal government to release Kanu, or they will make Nigeria ungovernable.

The MASSOB National Director of Information, Samuel Edeson, speaking during an interview with the Punch Newspapers, noted that all pro-Biafra groups were fighting for the same cause.

He stated that: “We (MASSOB) support them (ex-militants) because if they felt that it is the only way for them to go about the struggle, they have the right to do what they are doing. They have not taken up arms against the country and the Federal Government, they are only making a demand.”

While noting that MASSOB doesn’t have any partnership with the Niger Delta militant, the spokesperson said: “We are not working in partnership with them but we are fighting the same cause. They are Biafrans and we are also Biafrans. We as MASSOB, we don’t believe in violence but they, as militants, want to use the approach they know best, and the means at their disposal, to press home the demand for Nnamdi Kanu’s release. We are not working in partnership but we are all fighting a common cause as Biafrans. We don’t know them (Niger Delta militants) in person.”

“We have come to understand that the Federal Government believes in violence. If not, why will they go to Aba where MASSOB and IPOB members were praying and shot at them? Maybe the Federal Government wants to see what the Igbos will do. In this country called Nigeria, if a non-Igbo person does something the Federal Government will not bother, but if an Igbo man does the same thing the Federal Government will treat him as a criminal.”

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