MASSOB Says Boko Haram Plan To Attack Onitsha Market
The Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) said Boko Haram insurgents plan to bomb several markets in the South-East of Nigeria.
Speaking with journalists yesterday, they named specifically the popular and usually crowded Onitsha market as the future target and vowed to resists such attempts in any part of Igbo land, Vanguard reports.
According to the body Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna Madu, they raised the alert after MASSOB intelligence and security groups had unveiled the plot.
No details about the date of the possible attack were provided.
Meanwhile the Police Area Commander for Onitsha Mr. Benjamin Wordu, when asked about the alleged plot, said he had not been given any information on this issue from any authentic sources. He added that some spread rumours using the currently widespread attacks on markets and motor parks in the North to raise fear in the Sout-East.
Source: Legit.ng
