Abuja - "My spirit is very much alive. I'm ready to stay in prison as long as the Federal Government wants me there. After all, I have stopped making babies," National Leader of the outlawed Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike yesterday said.
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Lagos - Forty years ago this month, precisely on the 6th of July, the first bullets that would mark the beginning of the Nigerian Civil War were fired.
What was then called a police action to halt the secessionist bid of the Igbo from Nigeria would not end until the instruments of surrender were handed in thirty months later- January 1970. Those would be thirty months of total misery when some of the worst human tragedies of the modern era would be recorded. Forty years after, Nigerians are yet to fully come to terms with the conditions that led to the War.
Lagos - Detained leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazurike, says he is not deterred by his incarceration in prison custody."
My spirit is alive, I am ready to stay as long as they want me there, after all, I have stopped making babies," Uwazurike said shortly after a court session yesterday in Abuja.Uwazurike and 10 others are facing trial on charges of treasonable felony before an Abuja Federal High Court.They have been detained in prison custody on the order of the court in the past two years.
Abuja - Government yesterday said it was opposing the bail being asked by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike who is standing trial for treasonable felony because he is considered a serious threat to national security.
But the detained leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Uwazuruike, debunked the claim saying he is a peace-loving and gentle man.
Lagos - Women from the Eastern part of the country under the aegis of Eastern Women Consultative Forum (EWCF) have given the Federal Government a 24-hour ultimatum to release detained leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike or face dire consequences.
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Chief Colonel Joe Achuzia is the secretary general of the Ohaneze Ndigbo. In this encounter from Enugu, he spoke on the Igbo question, the crisis amongst Ndigbo in the present day Nigeria, the trial of former governors and the continued detention of Dr. Ralph Uwazurike, the founder of MASSOB after other ethnic kingpins have been released; the travails of former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu and the factionalisation of Ohaneze. Here are excerpts of the conversation.
Awka - The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has acussed the leadership of the People Democratic Party (PDP) of plotting to eliminate it's leader Chief Raph Uwazurike, who has been in detention since 2005.
Enugu - Conference of Speakers of the State Houses of Assembly in the South East Zone has hailed the on-going trial of some former governors for corruption during their tenure in office and described it as the best thing to happen to Nigeria.
Enugu - Speakers of the State Houses of Assembly in the South East Zone have thrown their weight behind the current trial of former state governors for alleged corrupt practices, while in office by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), saying that the proper handling of the alleged charges by the commission would go a long way in stabilizing the nation's democracy as well as ensure that prudence was introduce in the governance of the country.
Lagos - The United Action for Democracy (UAD), a pressure group, has recommended capital punishment for public office holders found guilty of corruption in the country.
The convener of the group, Mr Abiodun Aremu, told a news conference tagged "Beyond the Failure of the Nigerian State," yesterday in Lagos that the EFCC Act should be amended to make corruption a capital offence.
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