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Saturday, October 6, 2012

MASSOB Loses 1000 Members To AIYO (Association Of Igbo Youths)

Nairaland
Nairaland Forum
MASSOB Loses 1000 Members To AIYO (Association Of Igbo Youths)
Oct 6th 2012, 17:22

Awka – No fewer than 1,000 members of MASSOB have deserted the association and joined another one, an official of the new association has said.

A statement from the Association of Igbo Youths (AIYO), signed by its Director of Publicity, Mr Charles Chikelu, on Friday attributed the development to the attitude of the MASSOB leadership.

It claimed that the plight of many youths who had suffered or lost their lives in the course of working in MASSOB resulted to the action by the group.

According to the group, many youths who are MASSOB members are languishing in various prisons without trial while many others lost their lives in the course of carrying out MASSOB functions.

Chikelu also claimed that many MASSOB members were in mortuaries and abandoned by the leadership.

The new group further expressed regrets that no compensation had been paid to families of those who died in MASSOB crisis.

The association expressed support for the closure of all camps of MASSOB in different parts of Onitsha, Anambra.

The statement noted that the association was a youth vanguard which promoted peace, love and oneness of the Igbo in accordance with the laws of the country.

It added that the organisation was registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission since 2007 and that it was legal.

It appealed to Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, human rights organisation and Igbo political leaders to save them from the MASSOB leadership.

"We have changed and dropped MASSOB and opted for the Association of Igbo Youths,'' it said. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/massob-suffers-set-back-as-members-join-another-group/

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