MASSOB to Igbo: Return home

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra has directed all Igbo sons and daughters living outside Igboland to start returning home.
MASSOB said it was time for the Igbo to re-establish their businesses and investments in the South East instead of outside their own territory.
The position of the group was made known by its National Director of Information, Uchenna Madu, on Friday.
Madu decried the nonchalant attitude and insensitivity of many Igbo people residing in the Northern and Western parts of the country to the development in the nation, adding that MASSOB will provide security for them at home.
He said: “We have decided and promise to provide adequate security for lives and property in Igboland.
“MASSOB shall defend Igboland with our blood, valour and enthusiasm. It is our unflinching service to our fatherland.
“MASSOB has vowed to stop kidnapping, armed robbery and other criminal tendencies in Igboland because there is no place in Nigeria like Igboland.
“Nigeria is a state where others are first class citizens but treat the Igbo as second class citizen, a state where others are born to rule but treat the Igbo as perpetual outcasts, a state where state policies deliberately deny Igboland critical developmental infrastructure.
“Nigeria has vowed to continue to be a state where prejudice, tribalism, exclusion and hate are elevated while nation building is ignored, a state where it seems the only logic for unity is to share oil resources and not on the basis of consent, mutual respect, fraternity and brotherhood.
“Today in Nigeria, true nationhood has remained elusive to Nigeria which still remains in perpetual strife and ever increasing crisis since independence.
“These undeniable realities are the reasons the Nigeria state is afraid of Biafra which represents the truth they cannot legitimately counter.”