IMPHAL, Feb 16: The Manipur Naga Revolutionary Front has claimed that the firing incident at a truck yesterday, which had left a handyman injured, was carried out by its cadres.
According to a statement signed by the Information and publicity officer of MNRF, Maj Maxstone said that they have been requesting to the truck owners and businessmen who are doing timber business in between Kasomkhullen and Kamjong areas to extend monetary help to the organization since 2011 and in April 2012 they had collected some money from the truck drivers and owners.
From 2013, they demanded the truck owners and businessmen to pay the same amount of money as tax as they pay to NSCN (IM), to which the truck owners and businessmen responded in the negative which has led to the firing incident where a handyman was injured, the statement said.
The statement also clarified that the attack was not intentionally aim at any particular community whether it is Meitei or Muslim or Naga or Kuki and that it happened while their cadres were executing their orders.
While saying that they stand to save the territorial integrity of Manipur and NSCN (IM) threatens the territorial integrity of Manipur, It has further appealed to the truck drivers and owners and businessmen to pay the same amount of money to them as they pay to NSCN-IM.
“We also request to the family of the injured assistant driver Pangambam Manisana to give us the chance to provide some monetary help for his treatment,” it added.