Pro Biafra group, Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has condemned the sacrilegious act of unknown gun men which went viral on social media showing how school children and their teachers were beaten, traumatised and ridiculed for not obeying sit- at-home order.
The organisation lamented that the order was wrecking Igbo economy and urged the gunmen to stop their ungodly activities.
MASSOB national director of Information, Edeson Samuel, in a statement Monday condemned the unwholesome act, saying it was unfortunate that school children and their teachers should be ruffled in the name of enforcing compliance to the obnoxious order.
“It’s very unfortunate that the people who claimed to be agitating for the emancipation of Biafran people will at the same time engage in activities that subject them into hardship, poverty and destruction of the economy of the same people.
“Torturing the school children and their teachers is as good as destroying the future of the children and the entire incoming generation of Biafrans,” Edeson lamented.
He noted that, “Instead of working towards the progress of Ndigbo and moving them forward, misguided and inconsequential actions are being used to drag the economy of Ndigbo backwards.
“MASSOB wishes to make it clear that the continuous and mandatory sit- at- home exercise in Igbo land can never give us Biafra. Rather, it destroys our economy.
“It is destroying the future of our young children, it creates more pains on our people and there is no difference between the way Nigerian government have been dealing with Ndigbo and that of the group that claims to be pro Biafra.
“MASSOB condemns in its entirety the actions of these unknown gun men who went about destroying the farm produce and means of livelihood of those poor women. It is evil in the sight of God and man.
“The land of Biafra will not support such acts of man’s inhumanity to fellow man.
“In as much as MASSOB condems the act of the unknown gun men, it demands the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”
