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MASSOB dares police over Uwazuruike

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By OKEY SAMPSON, Aba
…We’ll arrest him -Police
Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has warned the police against defy­ing a court order to arrest their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, saying such action would force the group to jettison its non-violent approach to the struggle.
The movement said the warning became impera­tive due to intelligence report it received that the police was planning to ar­rest their leader, Uwazur­uike against the order of the court.
Heavy fighting was re­ported to have broken out at the headquarters of MAS­SOB at Okwe in Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo State between some members of the movement and loyalists of Uwazur­uike, which led to the death of about four persons.
Following this devel­opment, Imo State Police command invited the MAS­SOB leader for question­ing, threatening to declare him wanted if he failed to report to the command’s headquarters in Owerri.
However, on Friday last week, Uwazuruike headed to an Owerri High Court, where he got an order re­straining the police from arresting or declaring him wanted if he failed to hon­our their invitation.
Speaking in Aba, Abia State, MASSOB’s Act­ing Director of Informa­tion, Sunny Okereafor said it was wrong in the first place, for police to have in­vited Uwazuruike over the Okwe incident, which he said the group’s leader had no hands in.
Okereafor said the Okwe incident was a family mat­ter, which MASSOB was going to handle in the nor­mal Igbo communal way of resolving issues, and that did not require the involve­ment of the police which he described as MASSOB’s number one enemy.
He said: “Last week’s incident at our headquar­ters in Okwe, although was unfortunate, but it’s a fam­ily matter. We are going to handle it the way the Igbo communally resolve their problems, which does not require the involvement of the police.
“Police should know that they are MASSOB’s number one enemy and their coming into the mat­ter would not help matters. Before inviting our leader, Uwazuruike, to their office, they should first account for the thousands of MAS­SOB members they massa­cred,” Okereafor said.
But the Imo State Police Command at the week­end, vowed to arrest Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, despite an existing court order re­straining it from arresting him.
The state Police Pub­lic Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Enwerem, said the police would track down Chief Uwazuruike wher­ever he might be hiding, to explain his role in the crisis.
“What we are talk­ing about is murder. He must come and answer the charges. Court cannot stop him from being interrogat­ed,”  he said.

 Biafra Galaxy

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