The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State Biafra, MASSOB, on Tuesday, ordered the leaders of Igbos’ communities in the north to compile names of their tribesmen and women, who are living in the north ahead of the October 1 deadline quit notice given by the Arewa youths.
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The order was contained in a statement the secessionist group’s National Information Officer, Mr. Samuel Edesonu, released wherein MASSOB directed Igbo residing in the Northern part to return to the East in August to beat the deadline Arewa Youths gave to them to exit north.
The statement reads in part, ”In continuation of our earlier stand and position on the quit notice to the people of Biafra by Arewa people, which will elapse on Oct 1st, MASSOB insists and beckons on Biafrans living in Arewa land to intensify efforts in relocating their families back home.
“MASSOB has resolved that the month of August being a significant month of special festivals of Iri ji (New yam festival) and Women August meeting in Igbo land, should be a special month of mass return for all Igbo living in Northern Nigeria.
“MASSOB also mandates all married Igbo women living in Northern Nigeria to start intimating their husbands about the dangers of staying in Arewa land which no longer guarantees their safety. They should also intensify their pressure on their husbands concerning the mass return next month.
“After the September 10th deadline for this compilation, MASSOB will embark on investigation of all the Eze Ndigbo in northern cities to ascertain their level of participation in this ancestral order.
“MASSOB urges the Eze Ndigbo in northern cities to carry out this compilation of our kinsmen data as a native and ancestry exercise and we appeal to them not to betray this act of nobility because of their individual interests or favors from Hausa Fulani.
“MASSOB under the leadership of Comrade Uchenna Madu will continue undeterred in nonviolence pursuant of Biafra actualization and restoration”.
