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What were we t h i n k i n g ? That is the multi-million Naira question on the minds of thousands of Igbo men and women who obtained the documents sold by the now deposed leader of
the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, as Biafran International port.

It is alleged that MASSOB generated over N500 million from the sale of the port alone. But incidentally, it was a port to nowhere, as none of those who obtained it could travel with it. Findings by New Telegraph indicate disenchantment and disappointment among former loyalists of Uwazuruike who bought the Biafran port.

A holder of the port, Ngwoke Ibem Ngwoke, who has since dumped Uwazuruike, told New Telegraph that whatever led people to rush to buy the port can best be described as mass deception’, skillfully deployed by an unscrupulous spin doctor. He said: “I paid N10,000 to buy the port. At the time, I was the istrative Secretary. and interested persons paid the sum of N10,000 into a designated bank at First Bank, then presented the teller to me.

I verified and issued receipt and they in turn took the receipt to the port officer, who was delegated by Uwazuruike, one Ambrose Anyasoh, who will see the receipt and then issue the port. “Based on the assurances given to us by Uwazuruike, which we didn’t know were all lies and make-believe, we even urged people to buy and use the port for ease of travel. “Uwazuruike told us that he was set to travel with the Biafran port, assuring us that there was no hindrance or security
encumbrances travelling with the Biafran port.

One of our aged bought Uwazuruike’s story like many of us did at the time and convinced his daughter who was about travelling to Europe to use the port. The lady was arrested in Lagos and was detained for nearly two years. Uwazuruike did nothing to free her,” Ibem said. He maintained that today, four of Uwazuruike’s children and wife are overseas and none of them travelled with the Biafran port.

Ngwoke stated that the issue of Biafran International port was not the only initiative of Uwazuruike to allegedly exploit the largely impoverished hip of MASSOB.

He recalled the launching of a MASSOB plate number. He said: “Speaking about the area I operated and know very well, many people in the Nsukka area of Enugu State were clamped down in detention for several months for buying and using the MASSOB number plate as recommended by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.

And there was never a compensation or refund for damages caused the buyers.” Another respondent, who spoke to New Telegraph and wanted to be addressed simply as ‘Chief’ explained that the Biafran International port was apparently printed in Lagos and brought down to the South-East by one Benjamin Onuegbu (a.k.a Papa) who also prints the Biafran income tax receipt and coordinates Western operations of the group at the time. “I bought the Biafran International port around 2012. I paid to Anyasoh who was mandated by Chief Uwazuruike to handle the port issuance.

We were strongly assured that no government could question or reject the Biafran International port. Our then leader told us that most African nations like Ghana have endorsed the port, stressing that it was safe to travel with it to any part of the world. We didn’t have any reason to doubt him as we believed he must have negotiated and received some assurances from all the relevant agencies and embassies.”

Chief, however, noted that his biggest regret in the course of the port saga came when he recommended the port to one of his friends, who was about travelling to Canada, but was facing some minor bureaucratic delays.

“Based on what Uwazuruike told us, I literally guaranteed my friend ease of age and a hassle-free journey until he accepted to travel with the Biafran International port. Shockingly, he was arrested and detained for three months in a prison in Lagos. Today, I have become his enemy and I don’t blame him. I blame the leader that lied to us.”

Chief maintained that he paid for the port at Okwe in Uwazuruike’s country home. “When the sales of the port started, we were paying cash, but later a bank was opened and run by Anyasoh. But the withdrawal book was kept by Uwazuruike who superintended over the ,” he said.

The issuance of Biafran international port by the then leadership of MASSOB under Uwazuruike has, for some time now, remained a talking point among public commentators. This followed revelations made by the splinter MASSOB group under the leadership of Comrade Uchenna Madu, while announcing the findings of a probe of the leadership of the group under Uwazuruike.

“Under Uwazuruike, each member also paid N10,000 for Biafra International port to Ralph Uwazuruike. Since 1999 to 2014, have contributed about N300 million to Uwazuruike’s while about N200 million was also paid into a Zenith Bank of Confidence Uwazuruike, a son of the former leader,” Madu said.

According to the group, Uwazuruike bought houses in many locations in Owerri, “including a street he bought and named after himself in New Owerri, which is estimated to contain about 28 plots. MASSOB has contributed and generated nearly N4 billion in the last 16 years under Uwazurike.”

Reading the communiqué at the MASSOB National Headquarters, Okwe in Onuimo council area of Imo State, the group maintained that Uwazuruike’s introduction of the Biafra International port without the existence of a sovereign state of Biafra was a grossly dubious and fraudulent means of amassing over N100 million to himself. “Many, who attempted to use the port landed in trouble. Today, the port is useless to thousands of its holders as not even Uwazuruike uses it. This was a premeditated scam,” the communiqué read. Madu told New Telegraph that the Biafran port is a scam.

His words: “It’s one of the numerous ways Uwazuruike uses to defraud people in the name of Biafra. Others are Biafra income tax and Biafra vehicle/motorcycle plate number.

“With the level of fraud, corruption and criminality Uwazuruike exhibited, he can no longer be trusted or taken serious in Biafraland again. Even his followers are aware that he’s no longer a factor in Igboland,” Madu told New Telegraph. Reacting, the spokesman for BIM/MASSOB, Sunday Okoroafor, said that the Biafran International port had always been valid and would continue to remain valid.

According Okoroafor, “I know no fewer than three persons in America who travelled and live in America with Biafran port. They live in Virginia and Baltimore and their residency is valid. “As a matter of fact, the Biafran International port has been in existence since the days of Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Through the civil war, we had the Biafran port, we only renewed its existence,” Okoroafor told New Telegraph.

He noted that the claim that there was no nation behind the port is false. He informed that the issue of Biafran referendum has been raised and settled in the British parliament. “Presently, we are in the process of conducting elections into public offices in the Biafran nation. Biafra is valid and our port is valid,” he said.

http://newtelegraphonline.com/biafran-port-massob-defrauded-us-victims/

Crazy.

Omo,see mumu raise to power two.

Funny I say. some people are gullible. How can a educated person fall for this cheap scam?

You are paying for a port of a utopia country. Smh

Ignorance is a disease

U want to use Biafran port to travel abroad Is Biafra a country? Chai some pple mumuism dey on exponential form

Even the lunatic Bleaching Yellow Pawpaw aka "our Dilector" did not even used that.

Ignorance is a disease. Wallahi.

We are dooomed again....

They were not just swindled with the port alone, their case reminds me of how this fraudster back then in Ikare Akoko, Ondo state my country home, would come with coloured papers and called it biafran currency, he would lie to his victims that it was the money they're spending in Aba, Enugu and Onitsha etc, without reasoning or asking questions, my gullible "businessmen" would part with their money in exchange for nothing other than ordinary paper, also this same guy would come with newspapers with lying headlines that George Bush and Queen Elizabeth warned Obasanjo to let Igbo get independence or face war and the paper would sell in Osele market like hot akara.

Lol

Now that was gross

G

They are so gullible,daft and stup1d in nature.Why would people buy a port you can't use?It is annoying.I don't know what to write again.What a shame.

It has always been a scam from the first day. Ibo man just scammed the Ibo people in the name of Biafra.

Super1Star:
Even the lunatic Bleaching Yellow Pawpaw aka "our Dilector" did no even used that.

Ignorance is a disease. Wallahi.

This is madness.

rhymestech:
It has always been Biafra

I don't want to be banned again.I believe with this,90% of them will go underground.

Even Ojukwu Odumegwu scammed his people on Biafra issue, scamming them stick and cutlass could stand against riffle and amour tank. Then bolted in the middle of the night to Abidjan.

Biafra is a scam. It will certainly be a land of more fraud and scam if realized!

Baifra has always been a fraud.
Either financial fraud or emotional fraud. Most of them suffer from emotional fraud.

It is alleged that MASSOB generated over N500 million from the sale of the port alone. But incidentally, it was a port to nowhere.

For paying 10k for a 'no country' port to nowhere, Nigeria government needs to issue Nigeria port to biafrans for 1m to somewhere.

See the way I just dey, dey look the mumu.

If this is true, massive reorientation is needed in the East

they want to use a "biafran" port to fly out of Nigeria.

hohohohoho
common sense is not common

That means, heavens will shake, when Okwukanu's own atrocities are revealed!

Ndi ara!

Kastonkastroll:
Funny I say. some people are gullible. How can a educated person fall for this cheap scam?

You are paying for a port of a utopia country. Smh

Lmao. In a few years time, we'd be getting such stories about Nnamumudi Kaalu/IPOD as well. They would never heed good counsel since all they do right now is being driven by hate and nothing else. Their minds have been put on temporary suspension at the moment, their hearts have been processing their thoughts for them lately.

All best to them oo.

It is alleged that MASSOB generated over N500 million from the sale of the port alone. But incidentally, it was a port to nowhere, as none of those who obtained it could travel with it. Findings by New Telegraph indicate disenchantment and disappointment among former loyalists of Uwazuruike who bought the Biafran port

If EFCC and IC decided to investigate the fraudulent activity now, the same people defrauded will be the first to protest, shouting marginalization, anti Igbo and anti Biafra.

In Kelly Hansome voice: Maga don pay shout hallelujah

At last, those of us from the eastern block who kicked against this FRAUD called Biafra, people called us names and saboteurs. Thank God we have been exonerated.

Let thank God this country has not gone up in flames by exciting word of Kanu via Radio biafra.

God bless Nigeria.

Aufbauh:
It is alleged that MASSOB generated over N500 million from the sale of the port alone. But incidentally, it was a port to nowhere.

For paying 10k for a 'no country' port to nowhere, Nigeria government needs to issue Nigeria port to biafrans for 1m to somewhere.

Dog eating dog! Na wa for una oo. So you guys think you can even use that 'shit' of paper to travel to ordinary Ghana?

Some IPOB ers were publicly burning their Nigerian ports while Kanu retained his.

Sule > 1

Supo = Sule x Sule


Sunmonu = Sule x Sule x Sule


Sumondere = Sule x Sule x Sule x Sule


Biafrauds = Sumondere.