Uche Onyema, Owerri
A coalition of pro-Biafra organisations has condemned the sentencing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, describing the judgment as “unconstitutional and unjust.”
Speaking at a press conference in Owerri, the coalition in a statement signed by the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Uchenna Madu, reaffirmed its commitment to pursuing Biafra’s self-determination, insisting that Kanu’s imprisonment would not halt the agitation.
The coalition, which includes MASSOB, the Eastern Peoples Congress (EPC) and the Biafra Liberation Council (BLC), accused the Nigerian government of breaching international human rights treaties and urged Igbo political leaders and activists to unite in the struggle for “total emancipation.”
The groups further warned against what they described as the infiltration of ISWAP, Boko Haram and armed Fulani elements into communities in the South-East, vowing to resist any form of incursion into what they called “Biafran territory.”
