We are dying of hunger in Nigeria, MASSOB cries out
The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) Cross River State chapter has raised an alarm alleging that people are dying as a result of the high cost of living in the state, The Punch reports.
MASSOB in a statement issued in Calabar on Tuesday, December 27, by its Public Relations Officer, Okon Eyo Effiom, said there were indications that the Nigerian state could no longer take care of its citizens, adding that so many Nigerians could no longer afford to buy basic food items due to inflation.
The statement read in part: “Even at Christmas, a period characterised by celebration and merriment, many people could not afford to cook the common rice meal for their families. Rice is the basic staple during such time but because of high level of poverty in the land many families could not afford to buy it.
“The standard of living in the country has depreciated abysmally in just one year and the cost of basic items has quadrupled beyond the reach of the ordinary person. This has made the citizens to easily succumb to diseases and death while others who are unable to bear the situation are killing themselves.
“Between 2015 and this year, the cost of living has risen by over 500% which is way beyond the ordinary citizen which accounts for the high death rate amongst our people.”
The group calling on President Muhammadu Buharistated said they want to leave the Nigerian state and build a nation of their own based on the vision of Ralph Uwazurike instead of languishing in this unholy state.
Meanwhile MASSOB has raised an alarm over covert plans by security agencies to clampdown on its members and label them as kidnappers and robbers, thereby giving an avenue for them to find occasion against them.
Zonal Leader of MASSOB in Delta Central Perry Akujinwa told NAIJ.com that despite the threat and the intimidation from the federal troops, the group's members will not give up the struggle because it believes that at the appropriate time the dream of the Igbo man would be realized.
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