THE Movement for Actualization of Sovereign
State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday raised an alarm over what it called a plot
by members of the Boko Haram sect to bomb the popular Onitsha main market and
some other markets in the South-East geo-political zone.
It
therefore warned that MASSOB would resist any attempt to perpetrate such
terrorism in any part of Igbo land which is also regarded as Biafra land, by
all means and with the last drop of their blood.
Speaking
to newsmen yesterday in a telephone chat, MASSOB’s National Director of
Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu, said the Boko Haram’s plot was discovered by
the MASSOB intelligence and security groups, adding that it is even possible
that some of the Nigerian security agents would have equally perceived such an
information.
Madu
warned that should the insurgents attempt to execute the plot, whether
successful or not, MASSOB would have no other option than to remove its
non-violence posture and wear the violence garb for a revenge mission.
Reacting
to the speculations, the Police Area Commander for Onitsha, Mr. Benjamin Wordu,
an Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, told newsmen on phone that although
he had not heard of plot by the insurgents to attack Onitsha or any part
of Igbo land from any authentic source, there is every tendency that rumour
mongers would have cashed in on the recent concentration of attacks by the
insurgents on major markets and motor parks in the North to nurse the fear of
possible attacks on major markets in the South East region.