MASSOB Calls Out FG For Cancelling Eastern Railway Project

MASSOB Calls Out FG For Cancelling Eastern Railway Project

by Victor Ndubuisi
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The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra’s leadership has blasted the Federal Government for deciding to scrap the project to rebuild the eastern railway.

In a statement released on Friday in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, MASSOB’s leader, Uchenna Madu, accused the FG of purposefully excluding residents of the South-East area from infrastructure development.

The separatist group said that the FG had persisted in using money obtained from South-East oil resources to build northern states at the expense of the Igbo people.

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MASSOB also disregarded a claim made by the FG that workers for the China Civil Engineering and Construction Company in Abia State had been subjected to persistent harassment by youths.

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The group said that the Chinese construction company had not started their work in Abia State.

The statement read, “The leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has disagreed and lambasted the Nigeria Federal Government on their resolution to cancel the reconstruction of the eastern railway project with an excuse of no money to fund the project.

“President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government is not ashamed of the impunities they have committed and are still committing through various sectors of his corrupt administration.

“Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government speedily and rigorously developed the core northern states, built and promoted modern railway transportation across northern states and Lagos State including constructing a highway with money from crude oils from southeastern states.

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“They showcased their hypocritical tendencies against the easter region with reckless abandon. It is total hypocritical and unacceptable that there is no money to fund the Eastern Railway project.

“MASSOB also disagreeS and reject the report by the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government that the China Civil Engineering and Construction Company workers are incessantly harassed by youths in Abia State.

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“This Chinese construction company has not started their work in Abia State, even their staffs are not in Abia State.”

 

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