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Biafra: How Nigeria’s Continuing Economic War Against Igbo Fuels Agitation

By ANOTE AJELUOROU
21 February 2016   |   4:56 am
How did the agitation for Biafra begin and how does your group intend to see it through to a logical end? It started as Igbo National Movement (INM) to deal with Igbo general issues and not necessarily to agitate for Biafra. That was how Nnamdi Kanu and I met for the first time in London.…
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How did the agitation for Biafra begin and how does your group intend to see it through to a logical end?
It started as Igbo National Movement (INM) to deal with Igbo general issues and not necessarily to agitate for Biafra. That was how Nnamdi Kanu and I met for the first time in London. From there, we started nursing the idea of having a full-fledged Biafra organisation. So, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a recent one. The idea of IPOB originated from human rights activists agitating against the current case in the High Court trying Kanu. Kanu and I do not have separate Biafra organisations.
 
The idea of Biafra began when we started thinking of how we could lay the economic foundation for Biafra and it was not until 2008/2009 that we established Radio Biafra, which formation actively started our agitation for Biafra. Until then, we were supporting Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), the only existing Biafra organisation, where everyone supporting Biafra was. We were all supporting Biafra actively until we set up Radio Biafra to provide needed support for the Biafra movement.
 
This is not to say that our support for MASSOB stopped, as it helped in the setting up, as well as contribute to meeting the initial cost of setting up Radio Biafra, which operated from February to September 2009. Initially, it was on short wave and we were popular because people received Radio Biafra in almost every part of the world. We also popularised it through word of mouth and the social media platforms. It actually caught on.

Why exactly do you want a separate Biafra country? What is your dissatisfaction with Nigeria as currently constituted?
 
This is the million naira question. But it’s a simple one. It’s a combination of reasons and it’s because of the failure of the Nigerian government to implement agreements reached at the end of the Nigerian Civil war in January 1970. The Federal Government declared the three Rs – Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reconciliation! But the Federal Government did not implement these three programmes. If you remember the recent statement of former Akwa Ibom governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, when he said ‘Reconstruction was not carried out in war-ravaged parts of Biafra but in Lagos,’ which did not experience war.
 
You must also remember how the Federal Government used hunger as a war weapon during the war, which was a war crime— the blockade that was used to starve Biafra people to death. Then after the war, FG confiscated money in the bank accounts of Igbo people from eastern Nigeria and only gave them 20 pounds out of all they had! You must remember how hardworking Igbo people are, how they were in every field of human endeavour during the colonial era before independence and how they dominated in the civil service and business. There were billionaires among them. And then you gave them only 20 pounds out of all they had. It did not only destroy people’s lives, it destroyed their economies. It was a great injustice done to them.
 
So, the three Rs were not carried out. Then the FG carried out the Indigenisation and Nationalisation Decree, which was the privatisation that nationalised foreign companies and gave them to Nigerian ownership. It enabled Nigerians to buy shares of foreign companies. It happened shortly after the war, and Igbo people did not have money to buy, as it denied us the opportunity to participate in being part owners of nationalised companies in Nigeria.
 
Another reason is the Land Use and Allocation Decree. These are foundations that made people to start thinking of having their own republic. The decree said whatever you have, even in your own backyard or territory, belongs to the FG. In other words, you cannot use the resources you have to generate wealth because of the Land Use and Allocation Decree that makes it impossible for people to develop their own resources. It makes us think that when you turn left, right, up or down, there’s limitation to your abilities, talent and what you can possibly do or achieve in the place you call your country. It’s like voluntarily submitting to enslavement in your own country.
 
And so, if you travel round the East, there is no meaningful development and federal presence. So, you can see that the civil war continues through another mean. It’s that injustice you see everywhere in Igbo land. That is why the agitation continues in Igbo land and not just there. That is why there’s no going back on the agitation. I’m sure we’re all following what is happening since October when Kanu was arrested. We’ve been boiling ever since, but it was the arrest of Kanu that made it boil over.
 
So, it’s the hatred, the marginalisation that has boiled over and made our people to continue agitate. And no amount of force by the Federal Government can stop the agitation.
But how much is the Igbo elite involved in the struggle? Or are you going to carry on without them?
 
A lot of Igbo elites— the top politicians, businessmen and women— are not identifying with the struggle because they are not feeling the pains or injustice we are talking about. But they are less than 10 per cent of the Igbo population. They are the politicians, the businessmen and women and the wealthy that do not feel or suffer what the people are feeling or suffering. They are the ones benefitting from the government and are being used by the latter to oppress the people. The Federal Government is using divide and rule tactics to oppress the Igbo people. It handpicks these people although it’s not so clear how this is being done, but if you scratch the surface you will see it. These people have access to government’s largesse in terms of contracts. Hence, they are not struggling to see the change they need to come about.
 
But this is a very tiny minority. However, this type of thing is also happening in other parts of Nigeria. But I must tell you that Igbo people are quite different from people in other parts of Nigeria. Their value system is different. The Igbo are predominantly Christians and their ways of thinking and reasoning are different. They are a free people who rule themselves without bowing to kings like the Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani do to their obas and emirs and their feudal systems. The Igbo have never been a conquered people. In Igbo land, we have the rule of the people. We knew what the Trial Jury was long before the white man even practised it; yes, before it was incorporated into the British legal system.
 
However, there’s a lot of affinity between the different peoples of the Eastern Region. For instance, Ibibio means ‘little Igbo’ although it’s in Akwa Ibom State. A lot of the practices in Igbo land originated in Ibibio. When an Igbo woman dresses, it’s exactly the same in some areas of Delta, Rivers and Benue, which cannot be differentiated. They have the same market system and dressing with Igbo people; these are what make us unique. So, it’s not just the core Igbo area, but areas where Igbo have affinity that will be part of Biafra, when the time for it comes.
What efforts is your group making to see that Nnamdi Kanu regains his freedom?
 
We are all concerned about Kanu because of his detention. We set goals and we are in agreement. Kanu has been my friend for 17 years, though we have misunderstanding about methods and tactics. But we are all working for the same purpose of realising Biafra.
President Buhari has repeatedly said he would not allow any part of the country to be taken away under his watch. How do you respond to that in view of your demands that run counter to his assertions?
 
I’m not surprised. Will chicken be invited when Christmas dinner is being discussed? I do not expect Buhari or anybody else in his position to allow Biafra to happen. He took an oath of office to defend Nigeria. If I were the president, I would also say the same thing. The issue of Biafra is out of the hands of the political establishment or authority in Abuja. When a woman is pregnant, she is expected to deliver after nine months. When it’s time, Buhari will be forced to stand and watch, and even participate and be a signatory to it. So, no president will willingly say they can stand for it. But it will be a peaceful method and we will achieve it.
 
But even without the issue of Biafra, Nigeria is in disintegration already. Nigeria is not one in the remotest sense of nationhood. At the right time, Biafra will emerge.
Some point at the impracticality of your mission for Biafra, when they look at the bulk of Igbo businesses outside of the zone you refer to as Biafra, which doesn’t seem favourable to Igbo business people. Are you saying these people will abandon their businesses and move over to Biafra?
 
Their decision to locate their businesses outside of Biafra is purely an economic one underpinned by political power. Without political power, there will not be economic power. All economic decisions are derived from political policies. So, there is no economic power without political power. Persons with political power will decide your economic wealth even if they are imbeciles or know nothing about business. Their decisions will be anti-business.

People of Eastern zone that make up Biafra include part of Ijaw, Delta, in fact, a large part of the South-south and Benue State. They are all suffering because of wrong political power holders in Nigeria. Take a look at the ports in Port Harcourt, Warri and Calabar; why is it that all the ships land in Lagos? This is political maneuvering. Business people decide where to locate their businesses if politics makes it profitable. Why are those ports not functioning? Why is it that only the airports in Lagos and Abuja are functional and not the ones in Port Harcourt and Enugu that also have international status?
 
I’m not justifying it, but in Biafra we will make these possible. In any case, who said business people are not supporting Biafra? This is far from the truth. If I locate my business in Lagos, it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t agitate for Biafra. Biafra’s political regime will be more favourable for business. In Nigeria, a person who doesn’t know anything about business is making economic policy. What kind of outcome will that be? It’s purely to continue the punishment that started in 1967. The economic war continues against Igbo people.
How do you intend to realise this quest for Biafra? Will it be through a referendum or through the use of force of arms?

There are procedures for everything, when indigenous people want independence from oppression and these procedures are recognised by world bodies. If you cast your mind back to the 1950s and 1960s, liberation movements were rife and sometimes there were armed struggles before independence could be attained. But these days, armed struggles are no longer fashionable. We have adopted a peaceful movement.

45 Comments

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    May God’s will be done! Let people have the freedom of choice and viable companionship. If Biafran exit will promote peace and good neighborliness in Nigeria may it come to pass.

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    Strange headline. What precisely do you mean by economic war? Every state gets there share of all the resources of the nation – monies, ministerial appointment, state government, representatives etc. Would there be an agitation if Johnathan was still the president? If the Igbo youth do not connect with their leaders and elders that should be resolved in house. How much is even generated by the federal government from the east? Please you could make a better case

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      Don’t mind this ibos. They wanted to annex part of SS and even Benue! Can you imagine that? Ibos are the most ungrateful people on earth. Give then, 1% of your land, and they will quickly work together with their folks to annex the 99%. Sardauna of Sokoto was right about them. Nigeria should know by now that ibos are greedy people.

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        The only unfortunate problem with Nigeria is that the lazy people which is the major population of the entire country believe hard work to be greed, what a sad people of the earth. No wonder that country can never see the light. The America, London and other European countries you folks run to, all believe in hard work. None of them believe in quota system because they know its another form of welfare system. Biafrans are republicans and would like to give and develop anywhere they are but not take like you parasites. You folks are simply too primitive, unbelievable I must say.

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        Are Asaba, Obigbo, Igwe Ocha, Umuola and others Igbo towns and villages in Delta and Rivers sound Hausa-Fulani-Yoruba to you? You thieves are clowns. How many times have you rejected the Kogi and Kwara Yoruba as non Yoruba? The divide and rule is death and buried?

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        I think you guys are just confused here. We are both saying the same thing. It is obvious that we both don’t like each other, and can never ever live together peacefully. Arguing here everyday on who is right or wrong is not the solution. Biafra may not be useful to Nigeria economically. That is not the problem. The question is:
        What is the best solution to this lingering problem?
        And the best answer is:
        Free Biafra!
        Let Biafra go so that Nigeria can have peace (if at all your evil deeds will let you know peace).

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        Is it a crime to agitate for freedom? If a slave boy, who has served his master for years decides to be free, why would the master not let him go? The master has been calling him all sorts of name, thief, robber, saboteur, good for nothing boy, irresponsible boy, poor boy, and yet, when the boy requests from the master to set him free so that he can be on his own, the master yes no to that. Many people from the north and south west believe the Ibos do not have anything to sustain. They believe that the Ibos are parasites and dependent on federal allocations to survive. But when the same hungry people want to be free from the rich masters, why not let them go? It is not by force that we must remain and clogged together in one country. It will even serve us better if the Ibos are left on their on so that the resources Nigeria has will be enough to develop Nigeria. All these insults are getting too much. Whether we are landlocked or air-locked, we should be released to go. It will in the larger interest of Nigeria to let Biafra be.

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        Talking like when we were kids,wen u are beaten u throw sands.

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        Why not allow them go so they wont be in your land?
        The old eastern region and Biafraland were one people. Biafra was there before Nigeria and if you are educated, please research it. Someone is saying stay on your own, let me stay on my own and you say he is greedy, Why not let the discussion be done by referendum? Why not let the people decide if they want to follow their brothers or not?

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      Please dont deceive anyone with grammar. The North is scantly populated and they get enough money for not going to school. We also pay the price for their refusal to go to school. The Governors use the monies to pay salaries, but the revenues like company taxes go to the Federal government. The diaspora remittances, the embassies and all the ports are outside the old Eastern region and what can you say about it?

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        you make me laugh. you keep deceiving yourselves and make yourselves feel good that south south are also igbos. Please continue deceiving yourselves on it. the oil producing states and lagos make the money and all the country share it.

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          The Igbos are saying, they do not want the lazy system of sharing oil money, they want to work and produce their stuff. Let me ask you, have you wondered where Lagos makes money from?What the Obasanjo, Gowon group did was to divert the port traffic to Lagos, embassies and air transport to lagos and use the government to strangle what was the old eastern region in return for oyibo to take the oil and give them weapons. This is a visible evidence of black stupidity because we dont need the oil to survive. There was no oil in the 50’s and that should tell you. Oyibos just capitalize on the ignorance and illiteracy of the Northerners and others like Obasanjo. Oil will soon be like slaves, coal, palm oil were from the same Bight of Biafra.

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            Illusions. you do not need to leave (am not saying stay or leave) nigeria to be productive and have an economy that is robust. if after 40 years, you still blame gowon and obasanjo, good luck. you have not told me how much the east contribute to the money we share. sure you know you are not south south. if you develop you economy and do not depend on the center its a plus for you. please stop day dreaming. still blaming the whites for your predicaments. pls unplug your system, throw away your handset. go to work by foot today.

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            I think you post is more of ignorance than anything else. Who is South-South? The South-South that you created from the old Eastern region which was create from Biafra? I am sure you still think Biafra was created in 1967? That apart, you cannot develop an economy where you are forced to sit back and share rubbish. The state revenue allocations are in Naira but the oil is sold in dollars have you wondered where the dollars go? They pay the oyibo companies and give the rest to their brothers to sell. Without independence and economic viability, you cant develop your economy. If a road is marked as Federal road, how do you fix it? Shamefully, some of you still believe tin he lazy system of sharing money.

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    Such a concoction of lies and half-truths. The 20pound story is still a myth that no reputable unbiased newspaper at the time corroborated. The hunger as a weapon by feds is a complete fabrication. On many occasions when Biafran commanders [who strangely managed to stay sleek and well-fed despite the state of the women and children] were asked if they would rather have weapons or food, they said they would choose weapons. The Biafran commanders rebuffed overtures by the federalists to have food trucked to them by road to feed their people preferring air shipments. They did this as a perfect cover for their gun-running. There was a famous explosion of an aircraft laden with arms in cameroon that exposed their true intentions for wanting to maintain air as the primary mode of transportation. There are so many other holes in this article. It is poorly researched at best and generally extremely biased at worst.

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      Well you sounded knowledgeable. How then could you question the £20 issue. How could it be a lie? You dont need newspapers, it is in the public domain. Check the govt gazettes. Strange someone is trying to doubt it. It goes to show how Nigeria buries its head in the sand and not teaching people about their civil war. No other country in this world does it. No hope for that country as it is bent on fraud. For you i’d suggest you get some education.

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        dummy, few people used bank at the time. Those with proof of their money got everything back. FG was kind enough. Ojukwu looted FG bank in Eastern Region to start the prosecution of the war until the currency was changed. Why did Ojukwu refuse ground shipment. All the soldiers were fat and looking good, while their civilians counterpart were skinny and hungry. Ojukwu should be charged for crime against humanity.

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          This is the exact reason why Biafrans have no single doubt that Nigeria is holding them back, its all about people who are clearly blank upstairs. Go check the vast array of written accounts of 1950 and 1960s Nigeria, you will if you can read, come to learn that Biafrans of the pre and post independence Nigeria were way ahead in banking. Biafrans know and believe that sticking with egg heads like you will hold us back forever because 50 years of no going anywhere is too much of a time to stick messing around with people without future.

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            I couldn’t have said it better. These nonentities in Nigeria keep giving Biafrans reasons to remain resolute in this pursuit. It’s interesting to see how many Biafrans they have helped to make up their minds to see Biafra to its fruition.

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            Dummy, you ate being fed with lies. Yorubas were way ahead of ibos in education, industries, etc. As for federal position, Zik formed an alliance with the North so that the former can fill most positions and appointment by FG with iboes because Hausas and Fulanis did not have the qualifications to occupy those post. And every knows that if there are 100 people in a place and you make am ibo as head, be rest assured that ibos will fill the whole positions quickly with their tribe.

            You get allocations like every zone. What did SE do with theirs?

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            Now my man, if you wake up from a dream and someone tells you that Yorubas are more educated than Igbos and you believe him, I have a piece of property in a prime location of Manhattan, NY for a dollar. In every institution of higher learning in America, Igbo kids way out numbers Yorubas. Both WAEC and JAMB have proven this point to be true to every Nigerian accept ignorant ones like you. Were have you been. The only sad thing about this exchange is that it deepens the hate between Yoruba and Igbo. I suggest that Yoruba people both the elite and egg heads like you stop the anti Igbo war they have been fighting. Any mare mention of good associated with Igbo calls for Yoruba’s rebuttal as though Igbo people killed their over 3 million children and innocent pregnant women. I urge you to support Biafra cessation so that this hate stops. And while on it, think of issuing apology for the hate you meted out to Ndiigbo for you can never hide away from your sinful actions against innocent people. Continuing to fight Ndiigbo hoping to hide in such hate, further deepens you into trouble. If you don’t apologize today, you will in time to come, and I must assure you that you have chosen the wrong people to mess with.

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          Every time there’s an article on Biafran, one always find Yorobbers in the forums peddling lies. Contrary to your lies the soldiers were just as hungry as the civilian, and because of Awolowo, who changed the currency to Naira (Never allow igbos rule again) and the use of food as a weapon, more than 3 million Biafrans starved to death. No the the real war criminal is Awolowo, and no amount of lies can change that.

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          Mugu, it is your illiterate people that hid money under the pillow, not where i came from.

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          Nigeria has now entered the denial mode. A people of lies. Few people use banks at that time is another lie when most Eboes were the civil servants. Why do you think the government is afraid to talk about Biafra? Shameless people and some of you claim they go to church too. Liars

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          So people in war carries their bank account books on them,why most yorubas are perpertual logical liars.i hv seen ur comments about biafra,it seems u are one those who’s fathers benefited from the stolen wealth of biafrans.

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            Not necessarily so. However, they have it in their possession at all time. Besides, they have identication. So, if you have an account with names, and you have an identification to prove yourself with other information that matches what you have, FG gives you what you have. Unless you want to go to a bank and sat you have millions, when you have nothing. By the way, less than 5% keep their money in the banks in those days. Moreover, Ojukwu seizes FG branch of CBN in Enugu. He also looted the same in Benin. By the way, all the allocations that were due East were given to them by the FG after the war. This was why Ukpabi Asika was able to use the 3 years allocation to redevelop Eastern Region. Next time you are ready for war, be really ready because war is no fun.

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            “So, if you have an account with names, and you have an identification to prove yourself with other information that matches what you have, FG gives you what you have.” — what a shame after all these years, you refuse stop mentioning federal government because you folks always hope in welfare quota system where people without brain rule. I cannot talk capitalism here because to you folks it is greed and too much of hard work which is incompatible with Nigeria’s mentality. The gods must be crazy.

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      KING BABOON, DUMB NIGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRR
      THE MIND OF AN AFRICAN ANIMAL, THE 8 WONDER OF THE WORLD.

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      Please do not say what you dont know. Nigeria has been a lie including the claim that it was coined by Lugard and his wife and will continue to be a lie. The british imposed an air land and sea blockade of Biafra and we all know that. You are denying the starvation and soon you will deny the houses stolen and redistributed in the Portharcourt area which was supervised by Obasanjo, the devil’s amabassador to Nigeria. Why not google “Britain and Biafra The case for genocide examined” a newspaper report published in 1969 and you can see it. Only God knows why black people hate themselves. So you have now moved from denial. Many Nigerians had claimed that Kanu was a terrorist, the same way the Cameron the current British prime minister campaigned that Mandela was a terrorist and should be executed but do not know they are just doing the same thing that was done under slavery. I can see that your defese also used the same terms as the british used to justify the bombing of schools, markets, Churches, hospitals when they are in session. Why not also google “who cares about Biafra anyway” as it will help your wickedness mixed with ignorance. You probably also believe the British that Ojukwu created Biafra? What I wonder is how your brains work, you hate someone, tell all sorts of lies against him but still want to be in the same country with him. I dont get it.

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    Olosi. You Biafra is limited to SE. Make any move beyond that, and you will see how we will deal with you. Besides, you are a liar about 20 pounds given to igbo. Although Ojukwu took FG money in Eastern Region to start prosecuting the war, the change in currency made it useless. In those days, only few people put money in the bank! And those who left money in banks, and came back with their bank passbook were given their money back. After the war, most ibos rushed to Nigerian banks to milk the nation. In fact, FG was kind enough to give 20 pounds to those who came to lie that they have accounts and yet they have nothing. Those with proofs were given their money back. Ibos are thieves. They will continue to sell the story of 20 pounds to justify that they were impoverished.

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      What you don’t understand about today’s war is that, in 1967 there were very few Igbos outside Nigeria, but today, due to the harsh economic and anti-igbo policies, there are far more Igbos outside the zoo than any other ethnic group , hence, we can now afford to finance a war FOREVER. Forget Britain and Russia, the age of empire is gone, so don’t expect free money, arms and ammunition from them again.

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      Ojukwu did not create Biafra why not do some research, The British capitalized on the ignorance and illiteracy of the Hausa/Fulani to say Biafra was created in 1967.

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    So! Nigerians hate Biafrans but will not let them go!. Will they be slaves in NIGERIA for ever!. Yeye de smell.

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    These people are real jokers. Little wonder they are seen as clowns. Discussing them is even giving the them un-deserved attention.

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    We Ohaneze-Igbos world-wide do not subscribe to the corporate existence of Nigeria. We are Biafrans. Nigeria is a total failure and a clog to Biafran dream of a civilized nation. Biafrans has resolved to arm and defend themselves. Nigeria has been caught with evidence of war crime and genocide, and therefore wants to pay with currency and bribery, but somebody must be held accountable for war crime. The North and the Oduduwa has finally realized that the Biafrans: South-East and South-South are serious of leaving Nigeria and with Radio Biafra and its Superior Technology which the Nigerian authority with all its stolen oil money could not stop, the Biafran Television, Its Newspapers and its Social Media which is gaining world-wide audience, they can’t match the Biafran Truth or its Propaganda War. Lies and Deception of Nigeria has been exposed, and the center is no longer holding. Fear of retaliatory attack against weak, ill-trained and ill-equipped Nigerian Army has become real. Niger Delta force, TIV army and Biafran Army ready to immobilize a weak Nigerian army. Nigeria is fast disintegrating and deteriorating, while facing imminent economic, social and political collapse, and its all unfolding under watcgful eye of the regime of Buhari

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    What a well articulated response,biafra we stand.

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    The british goverment should not be allowed to rest,they are the problem of black race and indigenous people of d world,they wiped out the red indians,chase them into ice in canada,did the same to aborigins of austeralia by exporting their convicts to that part of the world,now they are using fulani and yorubas to wipe and disposesse biafrans,british shame ur greed,they are very envous of other nation prosperity.

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    These people still have not clearly defined Biafra. Ojukwu’s Biafra cannot be the same Biafra being asked for now. They have to re-draw the map to exclude the Niger Delta.

    That is such a simple task.

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      Ojukwu never created Biafra.Why not google the Map of Africa in 1840’s and 1850’s? Why not do some research? Equiano Olaudah the Eboe slave that wrote a book was sold from the Bight of Biafra or Bay of Biafra as it was called, why not check it?

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        Well, that territory is populated by different homogeneous groups who,today, do not collectively share the fantasy of an independent state of Biafra. So, it is important for those who are passionate about Biafra to re-define the geo-political context of Biafra different from the theatre of battle between 1967-70.

        This is my concern.

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          So who gave the British and Hausa/Fulani the right to put the Ibibio and Efik with the Ijaws and call it South-South? Why should they finish buying our brothers from the Bight of Biafra and then turn around to connive with aliens to rename it to Bight of Bonny and tell us to keep quiet? No one has even talked about secession yet, but Nigerians and those who want to be Nigerians must recognize that some people are born Biafrans and should be classified as that first. Who wants to really stay with the Hausa/Fulani? Is it the religion or lack of education that you want or the marrying of babies? Let it be decided by a referendum.Those brainwashed to think that their brothers are their problem can only be mental slaves

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            If the British made the mistake of lumping us together, do you now want to further lump the South East and South South together in a Biafran country?

            If Nigeria will will disintegrate it will not be into three states or countries. Rather, it will be multiple states. Let the Biafran agitators not mistake PDP politics with nationhood.

            Even in the South South, some ethnic groups would prefer to have their own country rather than be part of Biafra, if Nigeria disappears.