MASSOB Gets New Name

Founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, on Sunday proclaimed that MASSOB will now be known as Biafra Independent Movement (BIM).Addressing media men in Owerri, Uwazuruike noted that he was angered by what he termed bad corporate image perpetrated by some protestors of MASSOB.According to him, “The change in name became absolutely necessary because of the sad introduction of violence by the disgruntled dissidents and this is at variance with the non-violence stance of MASSOB over the years.”Uwazuruike further argued that those who are really loyal to MASSOB are unhappy and ashamed to be associated with violence, just as he made a promise that MASSOB would be restructured.He added that, “I recruited Nnamdi Kanu in 1989, when I established Radio Biafra and appointed him the director of the establishment. He started preaching hatred and brainwashing the youths. MASSOB sacked him.”