MASSOB declares sit-at-home May 30 to mark 59th Biafra anniversary

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has declared May 30, 2026, arsenic Biafra Day.

MASSOB announced a sit-at-home crossed the South-East successful commemoration of the 59th day of the declaration of Biafra by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu successful 1967.

The group, led by Uchenna Madu, said markets, schools, banks, nationalist and backstage centrifugal parks, and different concern premises would stay unopen from 6am to 4pm on May 30.

This was contained successful a connection issued on Thursday by MASSOB’s National Director of Information, Edeson Samuel.

According to the group, the sit-at-home is aimed astatine honouring Biafrans who died during the civilian warfare and promoting what it described arsenic a non-violent self-determination struggle.

MASSOB besides utilized the juncture to request the merchandise of Nnamdi Kanu, describing his detention arsenic unjust.

“We request his contiguous merchandise and telephone for justness for each Biafrans who person been unjustly detained oregon persecuted,” the connection said.

The radical maintained that information successful the sit-at-home workout would not beryllium enforced...