Our members are being persecuted in Nigeria – MASSOB alleges

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has alleged that its members are being persecuted successful Nigeria.

The National Director of Information of MASSOB, Edeson Samuel, made this allegation successful a connection connected Friday.

Samuel described MASSOB arsenic a non convulsive self-determination, pro Biafra agitation movement, which has existed for implicit 26 years, noting that it has ne'er engaged successful transgression activities oregon arms struggle.
The question condemned the brutal actions of the Nigerian authorities against its members.

It urged the planetary community, including the United Nations and different quality rights organizations, to intervene and enactment a halt to the harassment and arrests of its members successful Nigeria.

The radical besides called for planetary involution connected the harassment and apprehension of members returning backmost to Nigeria

It added that the rights of its members to state of look and peaceful assembly are being violated, appealing to the planetary assemblage to instrumentality enactment to support these cardinal quality rights.

The radical arsenic urged overseas countries that person asylum-seeking MASSOB members to guarantee their information and not deport them backmost to Nigeria, wherever their lives whitethorn beryllium astatine risk.

“We impulse these countries to see the sedate dangers faced by our members successful Nigeria and pr...