Ndigbo in Diaspora Responsible For Insecurity in Southeast – Uwazuruike
The leader of the Biafra Independence Movement and Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (BIM-MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has described recent claims by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) of security threat in the South East as false alarm, accusing a section of Igbo youths in America and Europe of amplifying the security crisis even as he insists that Igbo land is the safest place in Nigeria.
The MASSOB founder made clarification while addressing members of the World Igbo Congress European Branch (WICE) during its virtual meeting on security situations in the South East on October 3, 2020.
“Ala-Igbo is the safest place in Nigeria, the only insecurity in the land is the one that is being sponsored by Ndigbo in diaspora. Some Ndigbo in diaspora especially America and Europe are sponsoring the leader of the proscribed group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu to destabilise Ala-Igbo with his constant illusionary Fulani herdsmen attack,” Uwazurike was quoted as telling the participants.
The MASSOB leader and his former protégé, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had engaged in cold war since their acrimonious fall out following the emergence of a more radical pro-Biafra group, IPOB out of MASSOB. Although, both groups had continued to agitate for peaceful creation of an independent Biafra state out of Nigeria, their campaign strategy and message differ.
According to a statement released through his Special Assistant on Social Media Matters, Comrade Emma N. Nnadi, Uwazurike assured Ndigbo in Europe that as far as Igbo land is concerned, “we don’t have any security problem here. The South East is the most peaceful zone in Nigeria.
“The only problem we have in Igbo land is from our people in diaspora mainly America and Europe because they are the people from foreign land telling us that Fulani people have taken over the entire South East, that Fulani are inside bushes and rivers in the South East.”
“All these are false propaganda. They are all lies because BIM-MASSOB as an organization are on ground. BIM-MASSOB is in every family in Igbo land. There is no family in Igbo land you will not get a member of BIM-MASSOB and our security members are writing and submitting security reports on daily basis about whatever happens in their areas and we analyse such report here (Biafra seat of power). But you people will be in America and Europe and will be telling the gullible people in Igbo land that Hausa/ Fulani people have entered our land, this and that are happening in Igbo land.
“So you people are the ones creating the crisis we are having in Igbo land. If Hausa people enter Igbo land with trailers and so what? How many of them,” he queried.
“You people don’t check how many Igbo people in their thousands that stream to the North and West on daily basis. If Hausa people, about three or four enter Igbo land, the entire world will be disturbed unnecessarily because some people have taken such propaganda as their business. They eat with such propaganda and they are ready to be creating crisis in the South East. But those that are creating that, none of them reside in South East and Nigeria”.
“It is an article of threat, their role franchise is to cause crisis in Igbo land. There is no place Fulani people did this or that in Igbo land and such cannot happen”.
