MASSOB Accuses FG, Gambia of Plot to Eliminate Leaders



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Vanguard (Lagos)

February 14, 2005
Posted to the web February 15, 2005

Tony Edike
Enugu

THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
has alleged joint plot by Nigerian and Gambian security forces to secretly
eliminate some of its top leaders in both countries under different
pretexts.

The group said in a petition sent to the United Nations Secretary General,
Koffi Anan and several international human rights organizations that the
Gambian government, apparently acting under instructions from its Nigerian
counterpart has been secretly and indiscriminately arresting its members in
the Gambia and transferring them to Abuja, without formal charges.


The petition signed by the Organization's Director of Information, Uchenna
Madu said that seven of its leaders, Chief Abraham Ifunanya and Charles
Onyebunne both arrested at Diboro, a border town between Gambia and Senegal
on 2nd October, 2004 and Cletus Emechebe, Elijah Obiora, Stephen
Mmegbuadighinma and Victor Agu who were apprehended at Sherekunda, Banjul on
1st October were all transferred to Abuja and had not been heard of since
then.

According to him, eleven members of the group had earlier been eliminated in
the same manner before intelligence sources alerted the group to the plot
and challenged the security forces of both nations to arraign the arrested
persons in court in order to clear themselves of the allegations.Madu
further debunked as cheap propaganda claims by security agencies in Nigeria
that MASSOB was a subversive organization stressing that the Nigerian Police
had recently admitted its non-violent and peaceful activities in pursuit of
its cause for an end to injustice against the people of the old eastern
region.



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