CORPSES IN EZU RIVER WERE MEMBERS OF MASSOB

The group Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has claimed that the mystery corpses found floating on the Ezu River three weeks ago were members of their group and they were members who were arrested and detained by security agencies in Anambra State and were never released from detention or charged to court by the police.

They were arrested at MASSOB security office at Onitsha Anambra State on November 9, 2012, by a combined team of the army, police and State Security Service men and handed over to the State Anti-Robbery Squad headquarters, Awkuzu Anambra State, where they were detained until their disappearance. They were never arraigned before any court and they later got information from an insider at SARS headquarters that armless MASSOB members detained at SARS were secretly killed along side other robbery suspects and apparently dumped in the river.

To clear this allegation, the police should produce the MASSOB members in their custody but if it true, then this is a crime against humanity and everybody involved in the killing of these people must be made to face the law. Continue reading after the cut...

The Director of Information of MASSOB, Mr. Uchenna Madu, said the movement had petitioned the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon; President Barack Obama; the United Nations Human Rights Commission; and Amnesty International, protesting the mass killing of its members by Nigerian security agencies. The names of MASSOB members suspected to be among those killed and dumped in the Ezu River are Basil Ogbu, Michael Ogwa, Sunday Omogo, Philip Nwankpa, Eze Ndubisi, Ebuka Eze, Obinna Ofor, Joseph Udoh and Uchechukwu Ejiofor.