Pro-Biafra Groups Pulls Out of Proposed Nation-wide Protest, Cautions Onanuga Against Inciting Comments
From Omaka OKOH (Benin)
Coalition of Pro Biafra groups (COPROBIG), has cancelled the proposed nationwide protest in the South East, saying the protest is a subtle plot to lure Ndi-Igbo youths to their early graves.
The Coalition comprises Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Eastern Peoples Congress (EPC), Billie Human Rights Initiative (BHRI), Biafra Liberation Council (BLC), Biafra Revolutionary Force (BRF), Biafra Revolutionary Organization (BRO), Biafra Reconciliation (BR) and Union of Biafra Scientists and Engineers (UBSE).
The Coalition is a non-violent body that unites various positive Biafra agitators, activists and groups seeking to actualise and restore the right to self determination for the indigenous Biafra people through the mechanism of legal, political and diplomatic methodology.
In a statement signed by
Comrade Uchenna Madu for MASSOB, Mazi Okechukwu Orji for EPC, Engr Innocent Amadi for BHRI, Comrade Festus Obiorah. for BLC, Comrade Bidwell Ogbonna for BRF, Rev S. Chioma Ajah for BRO, Elder Anya Kalu for BR, and Engr Okasi for UBSE, the Coalition state as follows: state as follows.
“That to avoid the genocidal plot of the federal government that will result in massive killings of Biafrans involved in the coming nationwide protest, COPROBIG declared that there will be no sit at home in Biafra land during the weeklong national protest.
"That the cancellation of any public pro-Biafra activities will not give Nigeria security agencies the opportunity to kill the people of Biafra.
"That the planned weeklong national protest is a subtle plot to lure the youths of Ndigbo to their early graves. That the people of Biafra should go about their normal businesses of the day.
The group said they are law abiding citizens of Nigeria by birth and Biafrans by indigenous identity. We, therefore, condemn the atrocious outburst by federal government sponsored Bayo Onanuga on the person of Mr Peter Obi.
According to them, it is high time the federal government fixed her economy that is seriously nosediving into undesirable state of decay than laying blames at Peter Obi who with other well meaning Nigerian citizens, have the right to criticize the economic situation of the Nigeria nation.
It stated further that the weeklong protest is born out of economic frustrations and hunger meted on the citizens of Nigeria as a result of clueless, impunity and high corruption of Bola Ahmed Tinubu led federal government.
Insisting that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has inflicted much hunger on citizens of Nigeria, the Coalition said an attempt point accusing fingers at Peter Obi is a provocation of spirits of our ancestors and all the progressives.
