'To Hell With Biafra If...' - Uwazuruike

 

Ralph Uwazuruike, the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB); a group canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria says "if the new Biafra as a country will not be better than Nigeria, to hell with it", AllNews reports.

The Biafra apostle who spoke through a recent statement signed by his Special Assistant on Social Media Matters, Emma Nnadi, regretted that one of his trained Directors, Nnamdi Kanu, is using Radio Biafra to "insult and blackmail our elder  statesmen like Chief Pete Edochie, Nnia Nwodo, Church and Muslim leaders in the country.”

He, however, admitted that the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader has done some good works by helping him (Uwazuruike) in spreading the gospel of Biafra to all the nooks and crannies of the world with the availability of materials at his disposal, but maintained that he (Uwazuruike) should take the credit first because he was the one who opened the Radio Biafra, London and employed Kanu as the director in 2009 for the sole aim of spreading the news about the plight of the Biafran people to the world.

“So, what Nnamdi Kanu is doing today was the same thing I wanted him to do ab initio, but not to insult and blackmail our respected  elders,” he said.

Furthermore, Uwazuruike apologized to all that have been insulted, abused and blackmailed by Radio Biafra or any other Biafra news channels anywhere in the world.

The activist claimed that everyone that is agitating for the actualization of Biafra today was trained by him either directly or indirectly, saying, 'whatsoever any of the agitators has committed in the cause of the struggle, he should be held responsible'.

Uwazuruike emphasized that his real mission for floating the UK-based radio station was to propagate the Biafra struggle and to internationalize the senseless killings and marginalization of Igbo Christians in Nigeria to the world.

He declared that the struggle for Biafra was still much alive and that in “no distant time, Biafra would be a sovereign, independent state because  BIM-MASSOB had made tremendous achievements.”

He regretted that “none of those who engaged in insulting our illustrious sons and daughters on social media platforms were born  during the Biafra-Nigeria civil war and some  of them when he (Uwazuruike) started the new Biafra struggle on September 13, 1999.”

According to him, when he started the new struggle, there was no social media to show to the world what he did at that time.

“If the new Biafra will be a country where the freedom of religious worship will not be guaranteed, to hell with it.

“If the new Biafra as a country will not be better than Nigeria, to hell with it.

“If the new Biafra will be  a nation  where  someone like Chief Pete Edochie, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Chief Nnia Nwodo, Alhaji Asari Dokubo  (Elabo Edi Abali) and every other elders of the church in the land will be insulted and abused with all cheerful boldness,  to hell with it”.

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He, therefore, begged “Ndigbo for forgiveness over the uncouth and irresponsible character” of the IPOB leader.

The 'cold war' between Uwazuruike and Kanu continues as the duo throw counter-accusations.