Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB)
MASSOB who appealed to President Goodluck
Jonathan to order the release of its members
before he hands over power on May 29 also appealed to Mr.
President in the Spirit of forgiveness to grant
amnesty to Chukwuemeka Ezeuko (Rev. King) who
was condemned to death.
MASSOB also urged him to free members of other
pro-Biafra groups who have been languishing in
prison since 2007 as a parting gift to Igbo's before
he leaves office.
In a press statement signed by MASSOB's National
Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu
the group urged the outgoing president to act in
line with the spirit of forgiveness, Justice, love and
reconciliation being experienced among politician
gladiators, opponents and enemies in Nigeria and
also in the interest of the Igbo's.
He gave the names of the detained MASSOB
members at Awka prison as: Sebastian Amadi,
Ikechukwu Chikwem, Peter Igbokwe, Uchenna
Nicholas, uche Idika, Casmir Odokara, Eni Kalu,
Chidiebere Ezekwem, Chima Asoh (cripple), Ojimba
Anyanwu and Ndubuisi Okam.
Others are Emmanuel Orji, Micheal Okezie,
Ikechukwu Aghari, Mmaduabuchi Asika, Chinwike
Irondi, Chukwuma Kalu.
Those at Onitsha prison are Innocent Orji,
Chukwuebuka Ikenwa, Amah Onu, Okwudiri Basil
(female) and Onyekachi Orji (female) while those in
Enugu are Benjamin Onwuka (Leader of Biafra
Zionist Movement), and 12 other members
detained in Enugu prisons.
He lamented the plight of 22 members of MASSOB
detained in Awka and Onitsha prisons since April
2007 and that of 13 members of the Biafra Zionist
Movement detained in Enugu Prison since last two
years on frivolous charges of treasonable felony.
Madu noted that out of the 22 detainees, one is a
cripple while two of them are females.
"They have been abandoned in the prison yard to
rot away for being MASSOB members. About 15 of
them need serious medical attention including the
females and crippled member", he said.
He noted that several court adjournments, transfer
of judges who wants to establish justice and
systematic delay of trail, has been used to frustrate
their release at Federal High Court Awka and State
high Court Ogidi and Federal High Court Enugu.
He said, "MASSOB appeals to President Jonathan
to intervene and affect their release because of
their aged parents who have suffered psychological
trauma. Also many of the detainees are bread
winners of their families, and many of their children
are no longer in schools, while their wives have
gone back to their respective villages.
In the case of Chukwuemeka Ezeuko (Rev. King),
the group argued that he is being persecuted in
Nigeria because he is an Igboman.
"His trial was quickly rushed without fair hearing
just to maintain a groups' interest of Yoruba
Pentecostal Christian leadership who saw Rev.
king as an obstacle to their domination of
Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria", MASSOB insisted
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