MASSOB warns Chinese medical team to stay out of ‘Biafra land’

The Movement for the Actualization of the African Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on Thursday said the Chinese medical team that arrived the country yesterday were not welcomed in the Southeast.

The group also warned the Federal Government to limit the planned Chinese medical assistance to Nigeria to areas it described as Arewa and Oduduwa areas of the country.

Leader of the group, Comrade Uchenna Madu, in a statement insisted that the assistance should be concentrated in the northern and south western parts of the country where the Covid-19 were more predominant.

According to him, the decision to bring the Chinese was part of the grand design by President Muhammadu Buhari to sell Nigeria’s economic sovereignty to China.

MASSOB said: “It is his desire to solidify a new Chinese colonization of Nigeria, which is gradually diffusing the economic and political interest of the government of United States of America in Nigeria.

“MASSOB shall resist any medical assistance from China to the people of Biafra.

“Coronavirus disease is not in Biafra land and can never penetrate in Biafra land. It is only on trade, commerce and political diplomacy that the people of Biafra have a bilateral relationship with the people and government of China.

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“MASSOB, therefore, advises Chinese government and people not to bother themselves on the people of Biafra concerning coronavirus disease.

“They should concentrate their medical assistance to President Buhari’s kinsmen in Arewa land and political associates in Oduduwa land, who are more devastated in the coronavirus infections because MASSOB has informed the people of Biafra to resist any form of medical assistance from China in regards to coronavirus disease.

“Medical doctors and other health workers in South East and South South are capable and are well trained to handle every medical challenge professionally.

“MASSOB hereby advises the eastern zone of Nigeria Medical Association to reject outright this President’s sudden love for the lives of our people.

“President Buhari has never stopped the Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group that is devastating the Northeast.

“He has not stopped or arrested the rampaging herdsmen on ethnic cleansing mission in the middle belt.

“He has not condemned the terrorist activities of herdsmen in Igbo land and did not show any moral sensitivity of a president to Nigerian citizens in South Africa when our people were slaughtered in xenophobic killings in that country. Why this sudden love of protecting Ndigbo from coronavirus disease?”

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