Why this year’s Biafra anniversary is very significant to current struggle – MASSOB

The enactment of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has insisted that this year’s day solemnisation of Biafra declaration is precise important to the existent self-determination conflict for the Biafra actualization and restoration championed by the group.

In a connection issued on Monday by National Director of Information, Edeson Samuel, the radical besides called for the merchandise of Nnamdi Kanu, the person of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who was convicted and sentenced to beingness imprisonment successful November 2025 connected terrorism-related charges.

Recall that the group, led by Uchenna Madu, had announced a sit-at-home across the South-East successful commemoration of the 59th day of the declaration of Biafra by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu successful 1967. 

MASSOB besides directed each churches successful ‘Biafraland’ to prosecute successful a memorial and thanksgiving work on 31st May 2026, to retrieve and wage tribute to those who mislaid their lives during the Biafran War.

DAILY POST reports that the yearly commemoration and day solemnisation of the Biafra declaration is regarded by pro-Biafra activists arsenic a clip for sober reflection, remembrance and unity.