From Geoffrey Anyanwu, Enugu
Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), yesterday, condemned attacks on the Igbo living or doing business in Lagos State, including the arrest of Eze Ndigbo in Ajao, Lagos, Frederick Nwajagu, by the Department of State Service (DSS), over alleged incitement.
MASSOB, which demanded the immediate release of the Igbo leader in Lagos from the DSS, warned the Federal Government and top security chiefs in the country to stop pushing Ndigbo to the wall.
Its leadership through a statement by the National Director of Information, Edeson Samuel, accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of not hiding its perceived hatred for Ndigbo since the president took over power in 2015.
The pro-Biafra group blamed the government for failing to arrest thugs suspected to be working for the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, whom they alleged “masterminded all the attacks, killings, burning and destroying properties, goods and shops belonging to Ndigbo in Lagos.”
Insisting that Nwajagu committed no offence to warrant arrest by the DSS, MASSOB blamed security agencies for failure to arrest Oba of Lagos, who threatened to throw the Igbo into the lagoon if they failed to vote the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the general election.
MASSOB said: “In this year’s general election, MC Oluomo, a Yoruba man, threatened to kill the Igbo if they failed to vote for APC, which he later carried out in broad daylight, the same security agents that arrested Fredrick did not arrest Oluomo.
“Many Yoruba indigenes are living in Igbo land, many own properties as landlords, many are doing their legitimate businesses and none of them has ever been attacked. Why must Ndigbo be attacked unprovoked, is it a crime that Ndigbo voted their choice?”
Warning the Yoruba to desist from pushing Ndigbo to the wall, MASSOB called on the Igbo living in Lagos and other states of the federation to come home and invest in Igbo land, saying: “Igbo business men and traders should return to their root and get established in Igbo lands because their future is being threatened by the people they have supported many times to be president of the entity called Nigeria.”