The coalition of pro-Biafra groups has cancelled the South East sit-at-home protest during the planned nationwide protests against hunger and bad governance, citing concerns about potential violence from security agencies.
The groups are the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Eastern Peoples Congress (EPC), Billie Human Rights Initiative (BHRI), Biafra Liberation Council (BLC), Biafra Revolutionary Force (BRF), Biafra Revolutionary Organisation (BRO), Biafra Reconciliation (BR) and Union of Biafra Scientists and Engineers (UBSE), said they do not want to give security agencies an excuse to harm protesters.
Part of their statements reads thus:
“That the cancellation of any public pro-Biafra activities will not give Nigerian security agencies the opportunity to kill the people of Biafra.
“That the planed weeklong national protest is a subtle plot to lure the youths of Ndigbo to their early graves.
“That the people of Biafra should go about their normal businesses of the day.”
