11/07/2026
Nnamdi Kanu: Uwazuruike Gets Clean Bill of Health; MASSOB Insists Only Him Is Genuinely Working for Biafra
From the Biafra Seat of Power, Owerri
July 10, 2026
OWERRI, Imo State — The leadership of the Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has cleared its founder and leader, Chief Dr. Ralph Uwazuruike, of allegations that he betrayed the Biafra struggle.
It will be recalled that some factions of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, who is currently serving a life sentence in Sokoto prison, had alleged that the MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, betrayed the Biafra struggle for money. Uwazuruike has consistently and vehemently denied the allegations, including in a viral live video in which he swore his innocence while holding a Holy Bible.
MASSOB also stated that it had previously cleared Uwazuruike of similar allegations made by IPOB. The movement, however, challenged IPOB leaders, including Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, to provide factual evidence to substantiate their claims against Ijele Ndigbo, Barr. (Chief) Dr. Ralph Uwazuruike.
In a press statement issued to journalists and endorsed by the MASSOB Director of Information and Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Biafra Independence Movement, Mazi Chris Mocha, the organization absolved its leader of any wrongdoing or dishonest conduct.
According to BIM-MASSOB, anyone involved in any of the following actions is not genuinely working for the realization of Biafra:
- If you are killing your own people or anyone else in the name of fighting for Biafra, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you recruited young men and women and armed them to kill as a non-state actor, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you promised Ndigbo that Biafra would be achieved within three months—from September 2013 to December 31, 2013—you are not working for Biafra.
- If, when challenged to identify even one office where your members hold meetings in Igboland, or when someone disagrees with your method of agitation, you label that person a saboteur, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you sight Nigerian security personnel and immediately flee for your safety, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you registered your pro-Biafra organization in London, United Kingdom, as a Limited Liability Company (Ltd.) without first notifying the United Nations of your agenda for Biafra, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you are hiding in forests when there is neither Sambisa Forest nor the creeks in Igboland, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you arrogate to yourself the power to determine who lives or dies, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you are ignorant of the internationally recognized procedures for a people seeking self-determination, beginning with notifying the United Nations—a step Chief Ralph Uwazuruike took on November 1, 1999—you are not working for Biafra.
- If you directly or indirectly sponsor instability in the South-East from abroad or within Nigeria, or support any pro-Biafra movement whose objective is contrary to the actualization of Biafra, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you transformed Uwazuruike's voluntary "Stay-at-Home" protest into violent Monday sit-at-home enforcement, you are not working for Biafra.
- If Nigerian security agencies attacked your members and they retaliated by killing even one security operative, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you publicly preach non-violence while engaging in violence, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you attack Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, knowing that without him nobody would be talking about Biafra today, you are an enemy of the Biafra struggle.
- If you betrayed the trust and confidence of the originator and leader of the new Biafra struggle, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you hijacked Radio Biafra London, registered it in your own name, and used it as an instrument of blackmail, propaganda, and a campaign of calumny against Ralph Uwazuruike, you are not working for Biafra.
- If you claim to be propagating Biafra without any traceable office or address in Igboland or anywhere in Nigeria, operating only through Nigerian newspapers and social media platforms, you are not working for Biafra.
The statement further maintained that it is important for Ndigbo to understand that, without Uwazuruike, nobody would be talking about Biafra today. It also asserted that Uwazuruike remains the only leader with the 25-stage roadmap for the actualization of Biafra.
The movement emphasized that any individual or group carrying weapons while claiming to represent Chief Ralph Uwazuruike in the quest for the new Biafra does so without the approval or support of BIM-MASSOB.
"For the purpose of clarity," the statement continued, "it was on the strength of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike's application to the United Nations in 1999 that the then UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, personally intervened to seek his immediate release from detention in 2000 during the African Union (then OAU) Heads of State Summit in Lomé, Togo."
The statement concluded that Ralph Uwazuruike has remained consistent and focused on the Biafra cause, insisting that "no amount of IPOB's blackmail or media campaign of calumny will deter him from pursuing the realization of Biafra sovereignty."