‘No amount of intimidation”ll stop MASSOB agenda’

THE leader of the Movement for
the Actualization of the Sovereign State of
Biafra, Biafra Independent Movement (BIM), in
Ebonyi State, Mr. John Nwifuru, yesterday said
no amount of police intimidation and
harassment would deter him from pursuing the
agenda of MASSOB even if it claimed his life.
MASSOB protests
Insisting that it was the judiciary that ordered
the Ebonyi State Police Command to return all
the properties they took from his office and
pay him compensation for infringing on his
fundamental Human Rights, the MASSOB
(BIM) leader who showed a copy of the
judgment that was delivered on February 17,
2014 by Justice F.C. Inya-Agha to Vanguard
stressed the need for institutions of
government to obey the verdicts of the court..
Addressing newsmen in Abakaliki, Nwifuru who
is also the leader of MASSOB (BIM) for Ebonyi
North zone of the State noted that the Court
also mandated the police to apologize to him
using five national dailies in the country, but
that the police had refused to obey the ruling
of the court.
According to him, it was the police that took
the case to the Appeal Court in a bid to jail
him but failed as the Court ordered the Police
to release him as he didn’t have any case to
answer.
“If they deny me, God will not deny me; I have
all the evidence of the ruling delivered by the
Nigerian court in my favour. During
proceedings, the police brought four lawyers
to facilitate my jail but they couldn’t as the
Court ordered me to go and that I did not have
any case to answer and that they (police)
should go to 5 national dailies and apologize to
me.
“MASSOB of Uwazuruike is non violent from
1999 till date; the group has never violated any
Nigerian law and that’s why we are being
killed like fowls. We have lawyers, doctors,
commissioners and even policemen who are
apart of us. Though they may be intimidating
and killing us, they are part of us. But
government workers are afraid because of that
name ‘freedom fighters’ because if they come
out as our members they could be sacked.
They are our brothers.”