MASSOB, IPOB Calls For Release Of Kanu, Others

MOVEMENT for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has called on President Mohammadu Buhari to do the needful by granting unconditional release to the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Ben Onwuka of Biafra Zionist Movement (BZM) who had been in the custody since last year.

In a statement yesterday in Onitsha, the National Director of Information (MASSOB), Comrade Samuel Edeson, reportedly said the group’s leader, Uchenna Madu would soon attend International conference with seven other members in Western Europe where some of the issues would be discussed.

Among the detainees the movement demanded for immediate release were 23 other held in various prisons since 2006 according to the group’s statement adding that continued detention of these Igbo agitators by the federal government will do more harm than good.

The group emphatically noted that atrocities committed by the Fulani herdsmen against other ethnic groups were terrible and obviously inhumanity to man, yet the Federal Government kept mum without bringing the culprits to book in pursuit of justice.  It added that the alleged crimes ‘Biafrans’ committed that led to the incarcerations was a conventional norm across the world.