Why IPOB, MASSOB Are Threatening Igbo Elders – Ohaneze Ndigbo’s President, Nnia Nwodo

The President-General of the Ohaneze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo has disclosed why pro-Biafra groups, Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement of the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, threaten Igbo leaders.

Speaking in Lagos, Nwodo disclosed that both pro-Biafra groups warned that they cannot subsist their agitation under “this present political situation.”

Nwodo also frowned over the killings of some members of the pro-Biafra groups, saying “their grief is my grief, their struggle is my struggle.”

Recall that no fewer than five members of IPOB were on January 12, 2017 alleged killed by security operatives in Asaba, Delta State.

But speaking on the agitation, the President-General said, “Who wouldn’t agitate if you were in their shoes? I did so when we went to war in Biafra. The pogrom was a catalyst for war. And no civilization murders people in a way to solve political problems.

“I fought for Biafra in 1967. I see the same condition that propelled Biafra existing now. I see the children restive and even threatening us their fathers that they cannot subsist under this present political situation. I am their father.

“Their grief is my grief. Their struggle is my struggle. Even though I do not agree that it is necessary to waste Igbo lives now, I believe that Nigeria is going to be restructured in a manner that every part of it can be developed on its own momentum with a reasonable sense of fiscal independence.

“I think that what is being done to these boys has exacerbated them and increased their capacity for violence.

“Between Enugu and Anambra States, there is a river, 20 bodies floated in that river for two months and they were sup­posed to be MASSOB bodies, nobody cared and investigated it till today.”