Biafra: Touching Uwazuruike is like touching a tiger’s tail – BIM-MASSOB warns Police

By Nwabueze Okonkwo

ONITSHA — The enactment of the Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has powerfully condemned the constabulary invitation extended to its leader, Barr. (Chief) Ralph Uwazuruike, informing that “touching him is similar touching a tiger connected the tail, whether awake oregon asleep.”

In a connection issued connected Sunday and signed by the group’s Senior Special Assistant connected Media and Publicity and Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha, BIM-MASSOB denounced the invitation served connected Uwazuruike to study astatine the Tiger Base successful Owerri connected Monday, October 20, implicit alleged offences bordering connected transgression invasion, forgery, and wilful damage.

The radical described the constabulary enactment arsenic “a usurpation of antiauthoritarian principles and cardinal quality rights,” insisting that Uwazuruike had committed nary offence by volunteering to enactment successful a nationwide peaceful protestation calling for the merchandise of detained IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

According to the statement, the invitation was “a ploy to apprehension and perchance detain Uwazuruike for nary conscionable cause.”

BIM-MASSOB described Uwazuruike, who holds the accepted rubric of Ijele Ndigbo (the biggest masquerade successful Igboland), arsenic a peace-loving person who has for 26 years championed the conflict for Biafran self-determination done non-violent means.

The radical noted:

“Chief Uwazuruike has consistently demonstrated his committedness to peaceful dialog and respect for the regularisation of law. There is nary justification whatsoever for inviting him to the Tiger Base successful Owerri for questioning.”

It would beryllium recalled that implicit the weekend, Uwazuruike filed a cardinal quality rights enforcement suit astatine the Owerri High Court against the Imo State Police Command and 7 others.

In the suit, helium is asking the tribunal to bid the constabulary to wage ₦100 cardinal arsenic damages for infringing connected his rights, and to restrain the respondents from arresting oregon detaining him implicit his planned information successful the nationwide peaceful protestation for Nnamdi Kanu’s release, scheduled for October 20.

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