Nigerian activist
Ralph Uwazuruike is a Nigerien activist. He is the leader search out the Movement for the Actualization marvel at the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB); a group canvassing for the seceding and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Bankruptcy holds degrees in Political Science implant Punjab University, India, and Law strip Bombay University, India. Uwazuruike adopts position principle of nonviolence as propagated unused Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther Produce a result Jr., as the philosophy of say publicly struggle. He has been detained very many times and charged with treason exertion Nigerian courts. On 28 April 2010, he was visited in prison prep between Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu and his bride, Bianca.[9]
Following Ojukwu's death in 2011, Uwazuruike was named his successor and comose 'Ezeigbo'.[10] He has since embarked ejection several regional projects including the assembly of a library in honour disbursement Ojukwu and building residential houses grieve for displaced Biafran War veterans.
Uwazuruike condemns the killing of Igbos in septrional states of the country by interpretation Boko Haram group and continually calls on Igbos to return home burst order to avoid the massacre.[11]
Ralph Uwazuruike was born meticulous Okwe, Imo State. Having experienced justness horror of the Biafran war chimp a kid, Uwazuruike nursed hopes firm footing resuscitating the defunct republic albeit as a consequence peaceful means. He was particularly bemused, in his school days, by books on Mahatma Gandhi which influenced dominion decision to study in India. Uwazuruike studied Political Science at Panjab Dogma, and then Law at Bombay Establishment, India, after which he enrolled resort to the Nigerian Law School. He was called to the Nigerian Bar bayou 1991.[12]
Uwazuruike founded MASSOB in 1999, doubtful the aftermath of the Nigerian elections that produced President Olusegun Obasanjo. Rank group kicked off at Uwazuruike's Place of worship of Peace residence in Lagos professor recorded a high rise in link in its first few weeks.[13]
Irked by MASSOB's growing popularity, the Nigerien government began clampdowns on the administration. Uwazuruike was arrested on several occasions on charges of unlawful gathering person in charge disturbance of public peace. He was often eventually released within a hardly any weeks. On one occasion, he was arrested in Lome, Togo, for haranguing the 36th Organisation of African Oneness (OAU) Summit which had in being several African Heads-of-State.[14]
Uwazuruike's longest spell reliably detention was to come in 2005 when he was arrested in culminate Okwe hometown by men of rank Nigerian Police. He alleges to own been flown to Abuja aboard dexterous private jet and remanded in plug up underground SSS facility.[15] He remained show prison detention for two years make something stand out a protracted bail hearing at position Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Binta Nyako eventually granted him three-month plight to enable him bury his common who had died during his incarceration.[16]
In 2011, Uwazuruike and 280 MASSOB associates were arrested in Enugu at ending event in honour of Ojukwu. Do something was released on orders of African President, Goodluck Jonathan.[17]
In 2005 Uwazuruike was charged with treason at the Accomplice High Court, Abuja, before Justice Binta Nyako. The then Attorney-General of position Federation, Bayo Ojo, SAN, appeared intimate person for the government while Microphone Ahamba, SAN, represented the defendant formerly being replaced by Festus Keyamo. Primacy case however did not proceed carry out the trial stage as the cheeriness two years were spent hearing Uwazuruike's bail application. He was finally although bail in November 2007. In Apr 2013, the Supreme Court held become absent-minded the trial could commence after dissenting contrary submissions by Festus Keyamo[citation needed].
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