Biafra Passport Does Not Exist - FG

The controversy behind the issuance of the Biafra passport by the former leader of  Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) Chief Ralph Uwazuruike may still linger for some time.

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Ohaneze Diaspora, a group made of Igbos in the diaspora at a time observed that the inability of the federal government to thoroughly correct the problem and challenges of marginalisation of the Igbos is one of the reasons that has brought up issues like that of the Biafra passport.

Reports from The Telegraph newspaper of Saturday, January 9 revealed that several federal government agencies in charge of issuing important documents like the International Passport have all washed off their hands in anything like an Igbo passport after information made known by the factional and new leader of the MASSOB, Uchenna Madu.

The revelation of Madu is coming after he parted ways with the founder and former leader of the group, Uwazuruike. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its part affirmed that there was nothing like the production and issuing of a United States of Biafra passport.

Mr. Ogbole Amedu-Odeh, a director in the Public Communications division of the foreign ministry while speaking to newsmen on the matter said he does not have knowledge of anything like the distribution of a Biafra passport in the country. He said: “I don’t know anything about any Biafran passport. I am not aware that it exists. But good luck to whoever is using it to travel.”

In the same vein, Mr. Ekpedeme King, who is the public relations officer (PRO) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) revealed that he has never set his eyes on the talked about Igbo passport. He said this so because no one has yet been apprehended at the major airports in connection to the passport being part of the travelling document presented.