MASSOB Trivializing Biafra Struggle By Claiming S/South States – Kokori

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MASSOB Trivializing Biafra Struggle By Claiming S/South States – Kokori

Human rights activist and former labour union leader, Chief Frank Kokori, has carpeted the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, for saying that the South-South is Biafran territory.

MASSOB had said in a statement on Sunday said that “anybody who says that Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Cross River states are not part of Biafra is deceiving himself”.

According to MASSOB, Biafra comprises all the states of the former eastern region, including the Anioma clan in Delta State.

“It has been part of the Federal Government’s policy of divide and rule to tell the world that only the Ndigbo want Biafra; but this is false”, MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Sunny Okereafor, said in the statement.

However, Kokori, a former Secretary-General of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, said that MASSOB and other pro-Biafran agitators were jokers trying to exploit the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Kokori, who is from Delta State, said MASSOB and other pro-Biafran groups like the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, were only trying to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians.

He said,