By Nwabueze Okonkwo
ONITSHA — The management of the Biafra Independence Motion (BIM) and the Motion for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has strongly condemned the police invitation prolonged to its chief, Barr. (Chief) Ralph Uwazuruike, warning that “touching him is like touching a tiger on the tail, whether or not awake or asleep.”
In an announcement issued on Sunday and signed by the group’s Senior Particular Assistant on Media and Publicity and Director of Info, Mazi Chris Mocha, BIM-MASSOB denounced the invitation served on Uwazuruike to report on the Tiger Base in Owerri on Monday, October 20, over alleged offences bordering on legal invasion, forgery, and wilful harm.
The group described the police motion as “a violation of democratic rules and elementary human rights,” insisting that Uwazuruike had dedicated no offence by volunteering to take part in a nationwide peaceable protest calling for the discharge of detained IPOB chief, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
In accordance with the assertion, the invitation was “a ploy to arrest and presumably detain Uwazuruike for no simply trigger.”
BIM-MASSOB described Uwazuruike, who holds the standard title of Ijele Ndigbo (the largest masquerade in Igboland), as a peace-loving chief who has for 26 years championed the battle for Biafran self-determination via non-violent means.
The group famous:
“Chief Uwazuruike has persistently demonstrated his dedication to peaceable dialogue and respect for the rule of legislation. There is no such thing as a justification in any way for inviting him to the Tiger Base in Owerri for questioning.”
It will be recalled that over the weekend, Uwazuruike filed a elementary human rights enforcement swimsuit on the Owerri Excessive Court docket in opposition to the Imo State Police Command and 7 others.
Within the swimsuit, he’s asking the court docket to order the police to pay ₦100 million as damages for infringing on his rights, and to restrain the respondents from arresting or detaining him over his deliberate participation within the nationwide peaceable protest for Nnamdi Kanu’s launch, scheduled for October 20.
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