IGBO separatist group the Biafran National Guard (BNG) has urged new President Muhammadu Buhari to release the 35 members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) currently being detained.
They have been facing trial after being arrested while attempted burning down of the Enugu State Broadcasting Service building last year. They have since applied for bail pending the hearing of the case against them but Justice Dorcas Agish of the Federal High Court in Enugu refused their application.
Yesterday, Mazi Godswill Okoro, the personal assistant to the BNG national leader Innocent Orji, urged the federal government to release all the men being held in prisons in Enugu and Anambra States. He added that it had become very imperative to release all the Massob members being detained all over the federation because they were not known to have committed any offence that should warrant their continued incarceration.
BNG made the call as it celebrated 48 years of the declaration of the Nigerian Civil War which took place between 1967 and 1970. In addition, the group thanked all its members for their commitment and support, especially during the burial of late Dim Ojukwu and for responding to the recent remembrance and honouring of all the dead Biafrans massacred in 1966.
Mr Okoro said: “We also use this 48 anniversary to commend the director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu and all the crew and Uche Mefor at Radio Biafra, London, for the marvellous work they are doing. This includes all their tireless effort in educating, sensitising and orientating all indigenous people of Biafra globally.”
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