CLO Slams Jonathan, PDP For Patronizing MASSOB

Posted by African Examiner Latest Headlines, National News, News, Nigeria 2015 Election Monday, March 16th, 2015

FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – The South east zonal office of the Civil Liberties Organisation CLO, has raised an alarm over what it described as alleged selected justice by the President Goodluck Jonathan’s led federal government, as it concerns the advancement of Biafra activism in the Nigeria.

The group noted that while some members of Movement for the Actualisation for the Soverign State of Biafra, MASSOB, that protested the removal of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, chairman, Mr. Attahiru Jega last weekend, were left untouched, some of their colleagues in the same struggle, led by Mr. Benjamin Onwuka, are currently facing a treason offence.

South east zonal Director of CLO, Barrister Olu Omotayo, stated this Sunday, in Enugu, following a demonstration carried out simultaneously in Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and Imo states by MASSOB, calling for the sack of INEC national chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, on the ground that he was not capable of conducting free and fair polls.

African Examiner reports that the protest, though peaceful, attracted a large turn-out of MASSOB members who disrupted vehicular movements in Enugu, especially on the major roads.

Omotayo who was reacting to the protest, via a statement, said: “It is no news that Benjamin Onwuka and 10 other Biafra activists are standing trial for treason before an Enugu Federal High Court presided over by Hon. Justice D.V. Agishi.

“It should be noted that part of the offences levelled against the activists was raising of the Biafran flag at the Enugu State Broadcasting Corporation and the state Government House.

“The Attorney-General of the Federation had maintained before the court that the Biafra activists belong to an outlawed violent group and also maintained that Biafra flags and other emblems depicting the state of Biafra are outlawed.

“The most surprising thing in Enugu city during the protest was the full police protection accorded a faction of Biafra activists campaigning for the removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega.

The protesters in Biafra Army uniforms, carrying Biafra flags and other Biafra emblems protested round Enugu city.

“What happened at Enugu shows that the country has actually jettisoned the rule of law which is the cardinal principle in any civilised democracy and we are now operating the Rule of the Jungle” Omotayo stated

Meanwhile, African Examiner reliably gathered that the anti Jega, protest in the south east was allegedly sponsored by president Goodluck Jonathan ,and his party, the peoples Democratic party PDP.