MASSOB directs Igbo residents in the North to Return in August, ...

On Tuesday,The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State Biafra, MASSOB,  directed Igbo residing in the Northern part of the country to use the month of August, 2017 to return to the Eastern part to beat the October 1 deadline quit notice given by the Arewa youths.

MASSOB National Information Officer, Mr. Samuel Edesonu said in a statement that the decision to urge Igbo people to come back home in August was taken at its national executive meeting presided over by the MASSOB leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu. According to Edesonu, August was chosen because of its significance in Igbo calendar as the period for new yam festival and women’s August meeting and charged the Igbo, especially women, to persuade their loved ones (husbands and children) to come home unfailingly. 
MASSOB directed all the Eze Igbo in the 19 Northern states to immediately commence the compilation of names, residential addresses and villages/towns of all Igbo living in their respective northern cities where they led, advising that such data collation of the people should end by 10th of September 2017. 
According to the statement, the Biafra Intelligence Agency had also been deployed to the Northern Nigeria to monitor the situation in all the cities.