military coup cant stop our agitation

The Movement for Actualization of Sovereign
State of Biafra, MASSOB and Biafra
Independence Movement, BIM, yesterday stated

that military coup d’tat or not in Nigeria, as
speculated in some quarters, would not deter the
movement from carrying out its non violent
struggle to actualize Biafra.
MASSOB/BIM contended that even if Nigerians
wake up tomorrow morning and discover that the
military has toppled the present democratic
government in place, the movement would not
mind because the MASSOB/BIM leader, Chief
Ralph Uwazuruike had actually wanted to start
the current agitations in 1997 during the Abacha
military regime but one thing or the other shifted
it to 1999 during Obasanjo’s regime.
In a press statement issued yesterday to
newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra state, shortly after
the inspection of MASSOB/BIM’s information
office at Umuaka, in Njaba Local Government
Area of Imo state, MASSOB/BIM’s National
Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha noted
that the group met the requirements of UN to
carry out its separatist agitation when in 1999
Uwazuruike notified the UN by applying for an
observer status and also accompanied this
request with the Biafra bill of rights.
Mocha expressed confidence that MASSOB/BIM
and others have convinced the UN through its
actions that there will be no peace in Nigeria
unless independence is granted to them.
He therefore urged MASSOB/BIM members to
increase its non-violent activities in south east
and south south, adding that self-determination
is permitted by the United Nations, UN, even as
military regime is illegal and therefore not
recognized by the world body to stop agitations.
He observed that, although UN will not sponsor
any rebellious act in any nation including Nigeria
that is a member of the UN, the organization
permitted that any section of its member states
or nation that wants independence is free to
pursue the course holistically.
Mocha expressed optimism that the UN will
normally intervene in Nigeria’ when the further
existence of the member state becomes
questionable and ungovernable, he lamented that
before now, that the world body had played
double standard in tacking the conflicts or crises
affecting the Africa continent.
Mocha accused Britain and other western
nations that it had always waited until such
problems degenerated into civil wars or genocide
before it intervened.