The Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has lost his mother, Ezinne Chibuzo Ekenma Madu.

She died last Sunday according to a statement issued yesterday by MASSOB.

According to the statement signed by MASSOB National Director of Information,Comrade Edeson Samuel, the pro -Biafra group said it was devastated by the exit of its Leader’s mother.

The statement said “she was a devout Christian and women community leader, a caring mother to many and the less- privileged ones.”

Confirming the incident to Vanguard, the MASSOB leader said he had lost somebody too dear to him.

He said the late mother died about two weeks she was discharged from the hospital where she underwent surgery

She was aged 70. Madu was formerly MASSOB Spokesman under its Founder Chief Ralph Uwazurike, before both men parted ways, and Uwazurike founded MASSOB BIM.

Ever since Uwazurike’s exit Uchenna Madu has carried on with the mandate of MASSOB, in synergy with other pro-Biafra movements. (Vanguard)