Work to commence on Ojukwu memorial library annex

By Nwabueze Okonkwo

ONITSHA—Leader of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has expressed concern that Biafran people have  continued to be brutalized by enemies surrounding them, even as the struggle for self determination and quest for liberation from Nigeria’s bondage remains endless.

He said Biafra was designed to be a country free from terrorism, corruption and other vices that portend danger to the free world, but for the unfortunate 1914 amalgamation of northern and southern protectorate.

Uwazuruike who spoke yesterday at the joint special meeting of MASSOB/BIM at the project site for the proposed Ojukwu Memorial Library Annex in Enugu-Ezike near Ogute, headquarters of Igbo-Eze North Local Government Headquarters of Enugu State,  contended that security agencies should respect the santity of human lives and fundamental rights of the Biafran people to self determination.

Represented by BIM’s  Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha, Uwazuruike, however, advised members to always remain law-abiding even in the face of provocation, adding that their dream for Biafra’s independence can only be realized through non-violence.

He maintained that the achievements so far recorded by MASSOB/BIM as pioneer initiators of the on-going self determination struggle to actualize Biafra, after the civil war, would not have been possible if the separatists had taken up arms against the Federal Government,

Earlier in his opening remarks, the leader of BIM in Enugu North Senatorial district, Chief James Omeke disclosed that BIM in the district has concluded arrangements to flag-off the construction work on Ojukwu Library Annex, an edifice in memory of the former military Head of State of the defunct Biafra republic, late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.Omeke further disclosed that the project, when completed, is expected to contain about 15,000 members, as an annex of the Ojukwu Library headquarters located in Owerri, Imo State.