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Sunday, September 05 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.30

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News Why govt is after MASSOB - Minister MALACHY UZENDU, Abuja ATTORNEY-GENERAL of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Chief Akinlolu Olujinmi (SAN), on Wednesday, explained the vehemence with which government fights to annihilate the memories of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). The minister, while addressing newsmen in Abuja, said "the MASSOB, more than the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) and Egbesu, Arewa Peoples Congress (APC) and other such bodies, threaten the corporate existence of Nigeria. "Unlike the other illegal groups which are populated by miscreants and other forms of trouble makers, MASSOB wants to dismember this country and no responsible government would give any form of respect to such a group. Olujinmi reiterated that the issue of threat to the sovereignty of a nation is treasonable, whereas the OPC and other groups, commit simple crimes, "though, these would not be condemned by the government." He stated that the case of MASSOB was viewed with greater vigour by government, adding that all arms of the nation’s security have been employed to deal with anyone known to be a member of MASSOB. Although the minister did not react to the successful encforcement of the sit-at-home order by MASSOB last week, the AGF stated that the activities of the group were so fierce that no breathing space would be given to the organisation to properly put its acts in order. Commenting on the discoveries at the Okija shrines in Anambra State, the minister noted that rather than unleashing a vendetta against the traditional practices of the people of the area, several unlawful practices had been identified which were the areas government wanted to correct. "I want to tell you that nobody is against the traditional religion of any society. But, you must note that the procedure for keeping those corpses found in Okija runs foul of the law. "There are even some of us who bury their dead in their buildings not knowing that it is against the law to do that. But, that very act and the fact that the person being buried built the house does not make it lawful to bury him in the same house," the AGF stated. Chief Olujinmi added that government is currently in search of places where similar "barbaric and unlawful activities" are being perpetrated, with the view to apprehending those behind such deities, pleading that the public should either volunteer information on such places to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) or to him.

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