Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), says he handed over Radio Biafra to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) but Kanu disappointed him.
Uwazuruike said this on Monday in Kaduna during a meeting with Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer to the late Sani Abacha, former head of state.
The meeting was aimed at brokering peace over the quit notice issued to the Igbo in the north by a coalition of northern youth groups.
Uwazuruike said he founded MASSOB in 1999 as a peaceful platform through which “issues of perceived marginalisation of the Igbo in Nigeria could be discussed and tackled”.
He said he was disappointed that the radio station “has become something else” other than what it was created for.
“I handed over Radio Biafra which I created to Nnamdi Kanu in London as the managing director and was hoping it would serve the purpose for which it was created, but I was disappointed that politicians hijacked it and it became something else,” he said.
He further said that the ethnic crisis currently faced in the country was being “manipulated and caused by politicians.”
He said the country “must” continue to exist as one nation although “issues of marginalisation can be disscussed”.
He said though it is right for any part of the country to seek for sself-determination it is however wrong to pursue same through violent means.
“I want to assure northerners that your people in the south-east are safe and nobody will harass them and I’m happy that my friend Al-Mustapha has also given same assurance of the safety of our people in the north.”
Al-Mustapha urged the Igbo to wear their thinking caps and shun acts that are detrimental to the unity of the country.
He said it would not be surprising if some countries that that were envious of Nigeria’s progress may be the sponsors of the tension in the country.
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