Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB) has threatened to start exchanging naira for Biafran currency
in Igboland.
Speaking in Onitsha, Anambra State, the MASSOB
Anambra North Director of Finance, Mr Martins Ezeaka, said since the
value of the naira has depreciated, the group may reintroduce the
Biafran currency and make people use it in South East, as it did in
2011.
MASSOB former leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike, had on
February 27, 2011 launched the Biafran currency, vehicles, motorcycle
plate numbers and driver’s licence.
According to Ezeaka, “now
that the naira has depreciated, it is to the advantage of Biafra
currency because you can buy things with Biafran money at a very cheap
price.
“We can now consolidate our finance sector with valuable
economy to meet the world standard and we attribute this feat to our
brain, resourcefulness and holistic approach to the struggle for a
Biafran state.”
He stated that corruption was responsible for the disparity in the exchange rate of naira in the official and parallel market.
“It
is corruption in the financial sector that made the naira to exchange
for N200 officially and about N350 in the black market,” he stated
further.
Also contributing, the MASSOB Director of Agriculture in
the zone, Comrade Obaji Obaji, said Biafran land is fertilised
naturally for enough healthy farm produce, adding that for now Biafra
has food that can sustain it until a Biafran state is actualised.
“We now go into mechanised agriculture in places like, Adani, Igbariam,Atani, Nsukka, Abakaliki, Ogbaru among others,” he said.
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