*Insists that Nigeria apologizes to Ojukwu over 1966 program against Igbo
Leader of UNPO -member-nation, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, in what looks like a bombshell, yesterday, maintained that every thing he told his members of BİM-MASSOB in the cause of Biafra struggle would come to pass.
Uwazuruike who holds the traditional title of Ijele Ndigbo explained that after listening to the confessions of some of the retired Nigerian Army generals who played active roles and fought against Biafra during the unwarranted war, said Ojukwu was right for defending his own people when the rest of Nigerians committed pogrom against Ndigbo in 1966 and later 1967 till 1970.
A press statement issued to journalists on Tuesday and signed by the Director of Information of MASSOB, Mazi Chris Mocha, Uwazuruike emphasized that the confessions of IBB, and others after 55 years of the said Nigeria/Biafra civil war, had justified Ojukwu’s actions.
He, therefore, demanded that Nigeria should posthumously apologize to the people’s General, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for the unjust war against Ndigbo where his Igbo tribe lost over 3 million lives and properties.
Uwazuruike restates that one of the major reasons MASSOB came up again to agitate for Biafra Independence on September 13, 1999 was because Nigeria did not implement the 3RS of Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation policy of Gen. Yakubu Gowon as agreed in Aburi, Ghana Conference.
He told his members of BİM-MASSOB that non-violence methodology is the only key and the gateway to achieving Self-Determination struggle for Biafra’s freedom.
He said: “Whether Nigeria likes it or not, Biafra must be actualized. No genuine revolutionary struggle across the world has ever ended without achieving its desired objectives or goals no matter how long it lasted.”
The MASSOB leader who promised to follow the Mahatma Gandhi’s footsteps to the end, dropped a bombshell at the just concluded monthly meeting in Owerri, the Imo state capital, by reminding them for the 3rd time in 25 years of the Biafra struggle how he would wish to be buried after his death.
He said: “Whenever I die, gather tyres to burn my body to ashes. I give you 10 days to enable you gather as many tyres as possible. After burning my dead body, gather the ashes and throw the ashes into the flowing rivers.”
Insisting there is no patriotism among the different peoples of Nigeria, adding that ‘no tribe including the Yorubas of the South West and Hausa/Fulani in the North believe in one Nigeria.’
Recall that the former Nigerian military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (Rtd) popularly known as IBB had recently confessed to Nigerians at his book launch that the failures of Gen. Yakubu Gowon to protect lives and properties of Ndigbo led Gen. Ojukwu to declare secession in 1967.
