Boko Haram Crises: MASSOB Hires Buses For Igbos.

To bail out Igbos stranded in the North, the
leader of Movement for the Actualisation of
the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief
Ralph Uwazuruike has sent 20 luxury buses
to convey his kinsmen to the East at no cost.
The gesture was announced in an
advertorial in a national daily today.
Igbos and other southerners are fleeing the
north because of attacks on them by the
Boko Haram fundamentalist sect.
Uwazuruike noted that Igbos are stranded
in the north as transport fares have gone up
astronomically since they started returning
to the East in droves to escape the incessant
bomb attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist
Sect.
Uwazuruike said one of the 20 buses he
hired will convey Igbos in Abuja back home
while the remaining 19 will be distributed to
other states in the north according to a
formula based on exigencies.
The MASSOB leader assured the Igbo
returnees that they will be initially quartered
in Okwe, Onuimo Local Government Area of
Imo State where a refugee camp already
exists, adding that five refugee centres will
be opened in the course of time, with two
located in Imo and Anambra and one in
Enugu State.
For easy link with the buses and to begin
arrangement to travel back to the East,
Igbos in the North were advised to call two
help lines, 07032635198 or 08038734457.
Uwazuruike reiterated his earlier call on
Igbos in the North to send their wives and
children home while the men could stay
back to monitor their investments in the
North.
At a meeting held at the residence of the late
Biafra leader, Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, last weekend,
Uwazuruike ordered Igbos in the North to
return home since Boko Haram has not
withdrawn its quit order on Christians and
Southerners in the North.
Meanwhile, a political pressure group based
in Northern Nigeria, Arewa Consultative
Forum, ACF has justified the 2 January Boko
Haram order issued to southerners residing
in the north to leave or be attacked by the
dreaded group.
ACF Wednesday at a press conference in
Kaduna at the Sokoto Road ACF quarters
said those blaming Boko Haram for issuing
the order were unfair, when in the first
place the southerners were the first to issue
such order that northerners should leave
the south .
Though ACF Chairman , Alhaji Aliko
Mohammed said the group is not
supporting Boko Haram for issuing such
order, he said there was need to properly
understand that the southerners started
first before Boko Haram retaliated.
According to him, until the Federal
Government wakes up to its responsibility of
ensuring the security of Nigerians where
ever they reside, the kind of situation where
a group will just wake up and order some
Nigerians to leave a part of the country, will
continue.
On his reaction concerning the large
number of Igbos leaving the north,
Mohammed claimed they as northern
leaders have not asked the Igbos to leave,
but later said the Igbos can go if they want
to go.