Biafra groups have emerged advocating for a separate country for the people of south-eastern Nigeria. Biafra groups continue to surface after the death of Ojukwu. To advance Biafra restoration, MASSOB leader Chief Ralph Uwazuruike established Radio Biafra in the United Kingdom (Great Britain) in 2009, with Mr. Nnamdi Kanu as his radio director; later Kanu was said to have been dismissed from MASSOB because of accusations of supporting violence that is against MASSOB philosophy. . The Biafra agitators accuse the state and the Federal Republic of Nigeria of marginalising the Igbo people. MASSOB says it is a peaceful group and advertises
Republic of Benin (1967) and at the same time NCNC partisans began to clash with supporters of other parties, and the non-Igbo rejection of the invasion was solidified. As Okonkwo's administration continued to lose the support of the Mid-Western Region's populace, they became desperate. On 19 September 1967, the Biafrans rebranded the region by proclaiming the Republic of Benin, an independent state separate from Biafra, as a last-ditch effort. It was believed that even if it could not win non-Igbo support, the new state might at least physically divide Biafra from the Nigerian federal forces. Citing the deaths of Mid-Western residents in the northern