The founder of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State
of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has called the leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, a “fraudster”, who is
not genuinely interested in the Biafran struggle.
Uwazuruike said
this in Owerri, Imo State, while responding to rumours that the federal
government wants him to testify against Kanu in secret.
He insisted he could do so openly if he wanted.
Emma
Powerful, spokesman of IPOB, had claimed Uwazuruike was promised oil
wells by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, if he helped
in nailing Kanu.
“Some unscrupulous elements in Biafra land are
working with the Nigeria government and the DSS to hide under the screen
to testify against Nnamdi Kanu,” Powerful said in a statement.
“IPOB
intelligence unit across the country uncovered plans and names of those
to be used by the federal government to testify against our leader
Nnamdi Kanu.
“The Buhari government promised to allocate oil wells
to Ralph Uwazuruike and his associates in crime against the leader of
IPOB and Biafrans worldwide.
“To buttress our points, Raphael
Uwazuruike and co were in contact with the DSS headquarters in Owerri
and Abuja to perfect this heinous crime against humanity but right now
they are in Abuja to compliment the whole arrangements to testify
against the People of Biafra and our leader”, he added.
Uwazuruike described the allegations as laughable and stated that modern Biafra was his concept.
“The
allegations are idiotic, stupid and laughable. The modern Biafra is my
product; I started it in 1999 and since that time I have been on with
the struggle,” he said.
“Our late leader, Odimegwu Ojukwu gave me the franchise and I am the
leader of the Biafran struggle today any other person involved in the
struggle is working on my behalf.
“When I founded MASSOB in 1999
and started the struggle for Biafra, no Igbo man could summon the
courage to mention Biafra, it was then considered as a taboo. Our people
were cowards and could not mention Biafra until I started.
“When I
started, nobody gave me a chance, I went through the hurdles alone. So
Nnamdi Kanu is not the first Igbo to be tried for treason, I also stood
before the same judge handling his case for the same charge of treason.
He should face his trial like a freedom fighter and if need be die for
the course”, he added.
Uwazuruike also claimed Kanu was “a nobody”
when he picked him up in London, where he was “practising Internet
fraud as his only means of livelihood”.
“Kanu was homeless when I
met him in London, I gave him the first money to rent an apartment after
he was thrown out by the Ghanaian woman he was living with,” he said.
“When
I met him (Kanu) in London he had no job and no certificate, he was
into internet crime. So who is Nnamdi Kanu, it is you the journalists
that are flaming him up as somebody, if not he is a nobody.
“The
struggle continues to be alive as long as I agree. Even if Nnamdi Kanu
dies today, the struggle continues. I cannot travel to Abuja to give
evidence against Kanu masked, if I want to do that, I will testify
against him in an open court, but I can’t do that; what do I stand to
gain?”
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