MASSOB takes on CNG over call for Igbo leaders’ arrest

The Igbo leaders were led by the First Republic minister and a republican parliamentarian, Chief Mbazuliki Amechi.

While opposing the plea, the northern group called for the arrest of the Igbo leaders, saying Kanu’s release would set a wrong precedence.

However, offended by CNG’s ‘unpatriotic, parasitic and insensitive’ stance, MASSOB described the group as “a bunch of cowards, charlatans and street boys”, adding that the group should be punished for its unguarded utterances,

In a statement on Wednesday, signed by MASSOB National Director of Information, Comrade Edeaon Samuel, the pro-Biafra group said: “The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of condemned the Coalition of Northern Group and their sponsors on their unguarded and stupid statements against Chief Mbazuruike Amaechi-led Igbo patriotic leaders that visited Major General Mohammadu Buhari in Aso Villa for an interface meeting concerning the detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and agitation clamours for an independent state of Biafra.

“MASSOB views this attack on honourable Igbo leaders as an attack against the Igbo nation. Though the statements of CNG are unpatriotic, parasitic and insensitive, they will never go unpunished.

“MASSOB will always see CNG as a bunch of cowards, charlatans and street boys that is always at the service of Fulani northern oligarchy and their mission of enthroning Islamic fundamentalism in Nigeria.

“They are working for northern-based Islamic terrorist organisations including Fulani herdsmen, Fulani bandits, Boko Haram, ISWAP and President Muhammed Buhari-led Federal Government.

“The Suleiman Abdul led CNG has failed to call for the arrest of Sheik Gummi who has been negotiating, dining and speaking for terrorist criminals and bandits that are killing, kidnapping and causing genocide in northern Nigeria.”

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Nnamdi Kanu, leader of IPOB, has been in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS since his controversial rearrest in faraway Kenya in July. His detention has led to spiral violence in the South-east where the IPOB-ordered sit-at-home protest has crippled the region’s economy.

It was in a bid to stem the carnage that the nonagenarian Amechi led the Igbo leaders to the Presidential Villa in search of a political solution to the imbroglio.