The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is a secessionist movement with the aim of securing the resurgence of the defunct state of Biafra from Nigeria. It is led by an Indian-trained lawyer Ralph Uwazurike, with headquarters in Okwe, in the Okigwe district of Imo State. Image File history File links Flag_of_Biafra. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Biafra. ... National motto: Peace, Unity, Freedom Official language English Capital Enugu Head of State Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Area ?- Total ?- % water Population;- Total 13,500,000 (1967) Currency Biafran pound (BIAP) Created May 30, 1967 Dissolved January 15, 1970 Demonym Biafran The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in... Okigwe is the second largest city in Imo state of Nigeria. ... Imo is in Southern Nigeria and was created on February 3, 1976. ...
The Oodua Republic Front is a seccesionist movement based in Yorubaland, southwestern Nigeria, which advocates for the creation of the Oodua (or Oduduwa) Republic of the Yorubas. ...
MASSOB led by Chief Ralph Uwazurike had said it was using the day to draw attention of the world to the need for the creation of the Republic of Biafra through peaceful means.
Before now, MASSOB had been seen as a bunch of idealist group, pursuing the resuscitation of the Biafran state that collapsed in 1970, at the end of Nigerian civil war.
With the MASSOB protest coming one year after the general elections, something must therefore be wrong with those who claim to have legitimately secured the mandate of the people and at the same time could not rally them when the need arose.
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