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. Vanguard Reports
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 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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