The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State
of Biafra has on Thursday claimed that the corpses found on Ezzu rivers belonged to its members arrested and detained
by security agencies in Anambra State.
MASSOB said the corpses were bodies of its members, who were never released from detention or charged to court by the police.
MASSOB said the corpses were bodies of its members, who were never released from detention or charged to court by the police.
The Director of Information, MASSOB, Mr. Uchenna
Madu, said the movement had petitioned the Secretary General of the United
Nations, Ban Ki-Moon; President Barack Obama; the United Nations Human Rights
Commission; and Amnesty International, protesting the mass killing of its
members by Nigerian security agencies.
He gave the names of MASSOB members the movement
suspected to be among those killed and dumped in the Ezu River to include Basil
Ogbu, Michael Ogwa, Sunday Omogo, Philip Nwankpa, Eze Ndubisi, Ebuka Eze, Obinna
Ofor, Joseph Udoh and Uchechukwu Ejiofor.
He said they were arrested at MASSOB security
office at Onitsha Anambra State on November 9, 2012, by a combined team of the
army, police and State Security Service men and handed over to the State
Anti-Robbery Squad headquarters, Awkuzu Anambra State, where they were detained
until their disappearance.
He said, “Efforts by our counsel to secure their
bail from the police proved futile. Our demands for their arraignment before a
competent court of law were frustrated by SARS officers. They claimed that the
court was not sitting because of Christmas.
“We got information from an insider at SARS
headquarters, Awkuzu, that armless MASSOB members detained at SARS were secretly
killed alongside other robbery suspects.”
