According to Vanguard, The Movement for Actualization of
Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday raised an alarm over what it
called 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.
It therefore 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.
Speaking to newsmen yesterday in a
telephone chat, MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna
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.
Reacting to the speculations, 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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