The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has begged President Bola Tinubu to free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in remembrance of the Biafra civil war.
MASSOB, led by Comrade Uchenna Madu, made the appeal in a statement made available to NATIONAL POST on Tuesday, signed by Comrade Edeson Samuel, its National Director of Information.
This is also as Madu reiterated the call for the observation of 58th anniversary of Biafra declaration by General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30th, 1967.
He listed several areas of neglect the people of South-East had been subjected to post-civil war and urged for a redress.
He described May 30th, 2025 as “a national day of introspection and self examination for the people of Biafra after 58 years of our forceful and deceitful actions of General Gowon popularly known as reintegration, reconciliation and rehabilitation back to Nigeria.”
Madu said successive government of Nigeria had continuously pushed the people of Biafra into subjective slavery and politically motivated denial of infrastructural, economical, academical and social developments
He then reiterated demand for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other pro Biafra agitators detained across Nigeria.
He lamented that, “the South-East was excluded from the Nigeria Student Loan.
“JAMB consciously and systematically frustrated the high average examination score of South eastern region students.
“No working seaport in the South-East zone.
“No South-East person among the senior officials of Nigeria National Petroleum Company, Federal Inland Revenue Service and Nigeria Customs Service.
“MASSOB condemns the heavy presence of Nigeria military and police checkpoints scattered across the South East zone.
“May 30th Biafra Day Anniversary Celebration is sacrosanct. The voluntary sit at home is our annual exercise for honour and remembrance of our fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters that suffered, massacred and sacrificed their existence for Biafra.”