Prominent Igbo leaders, including the leader of the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazuruike and the Ogirishi Igbo, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka have reacted to the proposal by another Biafran group, the Biafra Zionist Movement (BZM) to declare an independent state of Biafra on November 5.
While Uwazuruike dissociated himself and his members from those he identified as faceless group who he said are just trying to destabilise the relative peace being enjoyed in parts of Igbo land, by proposing to declare a Republic of Biafra on November 5, Ezeonwuka cautioned the Igbo particularly those involved in the proposal to avoid any act of lawlessness capable of generating public disorder in Igboland.
Reacting to a recent statement credited to BZM that it would officially declare Biafra as a republic on November 5, Uwazuruike who spoke in a statement jointly signed on his behalf, by Uchenna Madu and Mazi Chris Mocha of the MASSOB’s Directorate of Information warned: “MASSOB will partner with police to deal with any person or groups under the cover of Biafra to cause mayhem on Saturday, November 3 or any other date”.
Ezeonwuka, on his own part, while briefing reporters in his office at the Rojenny Games Village, Oba in Anambra State, said that the Igbo at this point in time are not ready to engage in any act of confrontation with the Federal Government of Nigeria, as according to him the Federal Government has a lot of challenges that require every body’s support at this point in time Uwazuruike recalled that some expelled members of MASSOB had threatened to declare Biafra on November 5, adding that he was using the medium to caution such dissident group that he would not allow them to make mockery of ‘the new Biafra struggle’.
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