‘Operation Python Dance’ Buhari’s plan to deal with Igbos –MASSOB

Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has described Nigerian Army’s newly launched Operation Python Dance in South East states, as a new method the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government is waging war against Igbo people.

According to the group, the plan is to deal with the people of the region and intimidate them to abandon the campaign for a Biafra state.

The group in a statement issued in Abakaliki by its National Director of Information, Comrade Samuel Edeson, said the new military operation in South East means a political declaration of state of emergency in the zone. It added that the action of the military has no other intention rather than to maim the people of Biafra and prevent them from returning home for the Christmas celebration.

“The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, after our National Executive meeting today at MASSOB headquarters, Okwe, Onuimo Local Government Area, which also coincided with first anniversary of the new leadership of MASSOB under our amiable leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu condemned in totality the recent declaration by Nigerian Army of Operation Python Dance in Biafra land.

“The meeting which was presided over by our leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu at Okwe resolved as follows: That Operation Python Dance is another dimension of prosecution of war by Buhari-led administration against Ndigbo. It also amounts to political declaration of state of emergency in South-East states.

“That Army headquarters, with their ulterior negative motives, started this annihilating operation on November 27, without any public enlightenment and orientation in order to maim the people of Biafra.

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“That the primary target and reason of this operation is not against pro Biafra groups, as we have no public functions in this Christmas season. It is against the people of Biafra, mostly the Igbo during this Christmas period through intensive pressurized monetary extortion, harassment, mesmerization and secret/extra judicial killings of Ndigbo because of current Biafranization of Igboland and Ndigbo.

“That Christmas season is a period of Igbo gathering with much concentration in Igboland, so to the military, it’s a fertile land and opportunity for creating fears/tensions among our people which they thought will derail the love, confidence and consciousness of Biafra.

“That this is an extension of Buhari-led administration’s forceful islamisation of Igboland through military fears and religious intimidation. This operation is also designed to demoralize the people of Biafra from returning home for Christmas celebration,” the statement read.
By Ebere Ndukwu …

 

 

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