The Movement
for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Friday said there is a
plot by members of the Boko Haram sect to bomb the popular Onitsha main market
and some other markets in the South-East geo-political zone.
MASSOB’s
National Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu, speaking to newsmen,
warned that MASSOB would resist any attempt to perpetrate such terrorism in any
part of Igbo land which is also regarded as Biafra land, by all means and with
the last drop of their blood.
Madu said
the Boko Haram’s plot was discovered by the
MASSOB intelligence and security
groups, adding that it is even possible that some of the Nigerian security
agents would have equally perceived such an information.
Madu warned
that should the insurgents attempt to execute the plot, whether successful or
not, MASSOB would have no other option than to remove its non-violence posture
and wear the violence garb for a revenge mission.
In his
reaction, the Police Area Commander for Onitsha, Mr. Benjamin Wordu, an
Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, told newsmen on phone that although he
had not heard of plot by the insurgents
to attack Onitsha or any part of Igbo land from any authentic source, there is
every tendency that rumour mongers would have cashed in on the recent
concentration of attacks by the insurgents on major markets and motor parks in
the North to nurse the fear of possible attacks on major markets in the South
East region.
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