The Biafra independence movement’s leader and founder of
movement for actualization of sovereign state of Biafra BIM-MASSOB, Chief Ralph
Uwazuruike has said that his group would give a befitting honour and burial to
General Paul U. Okonkwo whose death was announced on December 07, last year.
Uwazuruike in a press statement yesterday and signed by the
Biafra Director of information to BIM, Mazi Chris Mocha said the numerous
efforts and remarkable contributions made by the veteran soldier in the
struggle for the emancipation of his Igbo tribe shall ever be remembered,
stating that before his demise that Okonkwo was a true senior citizen of Biafra
having played heroic roles and contributed very immensely to the progress in
the old and New Biafra and saw the movement waxed from strength to strength.
The Biafran leader who spoke during a general meeting held
at Ojukwu memorial library, in New Owerri, the Imo state capital, had announced
that the up coming burial for the senior Biafran Soldier, SBS, is compulsory
for all the members of BIM-MASSOB in the six senatorial districts of Enugu and
Ebonyi states, while others can also attend.
He recalled that Ojukwu told him about a particular
Ex-Biafran war veteran soldier (names withheld) who fought gallantly on the
side of Biafra during the civil war but killed more of our own soldiers than
Nigeria Army officers promising to give honour to whom honour was due and not
the particular veteran who was full of double standard
Uwazuruike added that
if Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was alive, that he would join BIM-MASSOB
members to participate in the state burial planned for April 20th at Agbogugu
in Awgu council area of Enugu state.
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