peaceful conduct during the Movement for the Biafra Independent Movement, BIM/MASSOIB, celebration of the re-declaration of Biafra and hoisting of flag by Chief Ralph Uwazurike. The residents and some Biafra activists who gathered in Onitsha groups, discussing Tuesdays Sit-at-home method of celebration of Biafra Day and remembrance of fallen heroes, expressed surprise that throughout the celebration by BIM/MASSOB, nobody was harassed, intimidated, arrested or shot.
They therefore appealed to Army and other military formations in Onitsha to replicate the respectable show of professionalism when the IPOB and MASSOB holds their Sit-at-home celebration, saying that they Army in Onitsha showed good Military Civil relationship when they monitored that celebration without shooting and arresting anybody However, the IPOB further stated that “we want to put the whole world on notice, on the plan of the Nigeria Government and her security agencies, who are out again to take lives of the IPOB and other Biafra agitators.” “We are therefore calling on men and women of good conscience across the globe, United Nations, European Union, African Union, Amnesty International and other relevant human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch to call Nigerian government and its security operatives to order.
“Nigerian Government and her security agencies should respect our feeling of honour for our fallen heroes and heroines, we are only remembering the 50 years of Biafra declaration by Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and honouring those who died during the war of genocide against our the people of Biafra between 1967 and 1970.
“No matter the threat from the Nigerian security apparatus and their armaments the Biafrans and IPOB members worldwide must honour and remember those killed and starved to death during the war by Nigerian Government and their soldiers.”
