Biafra: Igbos In Gombe Disown Agitators, Ijaw Group Calls For Prompt Action
The Igbos in Gombe State have disowned their kinsmen in the South East, who have been protesting in many cities in the region. They said they decided to tow the line of the Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio- cultural organisation, in the matter relating to agitation for the actualisation of Biafra.
This is on the heels of the call by the Ijaw extraction in the Niger Delta, who criticised the agitators for including some parts of the South- South in the map of Biafra.
The President General of Igbo Welfare Association in Gombe, Chief Kenneth Okeugon, told newsmen during the week that the Igbos in the state decided to go with the Ohaneze Indigbo in the matter.
“Ohaneze Ndigbo is the body that we are affiliated to and i use this opportunity to advised all our members to please watch their tongues and be law abiding citizens. The health and divinity of our people in Gombe state has been our great concern as business can only thrive when the mind and body is in a good functional state and it is on this light that we have amongst us today expert, who would give us a talk on health and religion”, he said.
Meanwhile, the Ijaw Monitoring Group
(IMG) in the Niger Delta has called for “vigorous measures” to end the pro-Biafra protests in the South-East geopolitical zone of the country, noting that the upheaval is an attempt by “enemies of progress to set Nigeria on fire”.
The group condemned the protagonists for the state of Biafra for including parts of Niger Delta in their Map.
“The Niger Delta region is not part of Biafra republic. Our identity as Niger Deltans is non-negotiable. There is no doubt that we will continue to maintain the usual cordial relationship with all ethnic groups throughout the country,” said the group coordinator, Comrade Joseph Evah, in a statement yesterday.
Continuing, he said,“We are aware that the apex body in Igbo land, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has clearly stated that Biafra is dead and buried. We are also aware that when the former president of defunct Biafra, the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu died, he was given full military honour by the Federal Government and when Ojukwu was alive, he also contested for the presidency of Nigeria, which showed his faith in Nigeria. Therefore, the current threat to peace, through killing and maiming of innocent persons is gradually leading to ethnic and religious crisis that would, if not checked, destabilise the country.”
They therefore, urged the Federal Government, the states and local councils in the South-East to take serious measures aimed at maintaining law and order and to restore normalcy in the region.
“We are aware that when Boko Haram elements surfaced, the government was pretending that they were joking. Now, the endless killings and destructions by the group should teach us a lesson to take the current Biafra agitations seriously,” he warned.
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Do you know that there are over 250 tribes in Nigeria. About 200
of these tribes are in Northern Nigeria and over 30 of the tribes are in
Western Nigeria. The word Arewa units these 200 Northern Nigeria tribes and the
word Oduduwa units these 30 Western Nigeria tribes as the word Biafra units the
20 tribes in Eastern Nigeria. Arewa and Oduduwa knowing and fully aware that
Biafran land contribute 95% of the Nigeria economic output have employed Divide
Biafra and Rule Biafra to continue to enslave us in order to ravage our land.
We know we have saboteurs, slave collaborators and other efulefus amongst us (some
‘elders’, top politicians, public servants and civil servants and business men)
who due to their immediate economic benefits from their slave master they claim
one Nigeria why most biafrans are butchered periodically. For your information,
we don’t expect fearful civil servants, fearful public servants, corrupt
politicians and many others who are afraid of risking their means of livelihood
or who are ‘benefiting’ from the status
qua to support biafran cause. Hardcore biafrans are those who own their own
businesses and don’t need the patronage of the Nigeria Government or any of its
corrupt enterprise to survive. All Hardcore biafran own their business. We
don’t expect real slaves (efulefus from biafran land) to stand against their
masters(Hausa-Fulani) for now, in the fullness of time, they will regret their
action. Freedom fighting is not for civil servants, public servants, corrupt
politicians and such other baifran slaves of One Nigeria.
Biafrans
makeup majority of the local and international flying passengers, but one
wonders why most biafrans on international flights are forced to land in Abuja,
Lagos or Kano and not Port Harcourt, Calabar or Enugu. Biafrans makeup majority
of importers to Lagos ports while Port Harcourt, Warri and Calabar ports remain
moribund. One Nigeria my foot. One thing remains very clear, the constitution
of Nigeria shows clearly that it is an Islamic country, anybody who rules with
such an evil constitution will definitely fail like Jonathan. One Nigeria with an
Islamic and lopsided constitution that favours only a section of the country,
of course makes it impossible for a non-northerner or non-Muslim to succeed as
president of Nigeria. All Senators and
Reps in the National Assembly from Biafran land are representing their
families, their pockets and themselves plus their slave masters who they must
obey and please with their shameful circus and jamboree sittings. Only the
collaborators of baboons and chimpanzee from the British Southern Protectorate
and the hyenas and vampires from British Northern Protectorate of the Zoo
called Nigeria with unprecedented idiocy would want to be governed with the 1999
Constitution, where Shariah was mentioned 73 times, Grand Khadi 54 times, Islam
28 times , Muslims 10 times in the so called ’Secular Constitution’ and where there is no single mention of
Christ, Christian, Christianity, church or the Most High Chukwu Okike Abiama. This
is a wakeup call for all Sleeping Lions and Lionesses of the Biafran Land. Baboons, chimpanzees,
hyenas and vampires may remain the Zoological Republic called Nigeria
scavenging, letting out blood and sucking blood only if you keep sleeping and
doing nothing. Your place is the Pride Land of Biafra. In Biafra we shall
collectively, freely and willingly write our own constitution as a people based
on Freedom, Equality and Liberty as a people. ALL HAIL BIAFRA. I have a great
vision that one day Nigeria will collapse into 3 powerful nation, the Islamic
Republic of Arewa, Christainislamic Republic of Oduduwa and the Christian States
of Biafra. Biafra will be made up of free federating units with full control
over their resources.
Fulani cattle herdsmen are armed by the northern people with
sophisticated AK47 assault rifles to protect ordinary cattle and guide them to
destroy farm lands in Biafra land. So if Nnamdi Kanu demands for arms to
protect his people from Boko Haram, what is wrong with that? Buhari and APC
floated a pirate radio station in Northern Nigeria (Radio Changi) to bring down
Jonathan’s Government and to enslave
Biafra, and Prof Soyinka and Dele Mamoud floated Radio Kudirate to bring down
Abacha government, so if Nnamdi Kanu floats Radio Biafra to free Biafrans, what
is wrong with that? Buhari and his collaborators committed treasonable felony
in 1967 by killing/overthrowing Nigeria Head State, General Agueyi Ironsi and
in 1983 by overthrowing Shagari, so if Citizen Nnamdi Kanu
commits treasonable felony to free biafrans, what is wrong with that? If
you can freely say you want One Nigeria because it serves your purpose, why can’t
I say I want divided Nigeria that will serve my purpose? Agueyi Ironsi said let’s
have a Unitary Government, Hausa, Fulani & Yoruba said no and killed him.
Ojukwu said let’s have a confederation you said no and went to war with him.
What do you want us to do? To watch you continue to butcher us in
northern Nigeria since 1945 or to push us inside the Lagos lagoon? What is
wrong with those who call themselves Nigerians is simple: monkeys,
baboons and chimpanzees in the zoo. Those who make peaceful release of Nnamdi
Kanu impossible of course make the continues protest for his release
inevitable.
Even they hijack our homeland security ,
any station you went is either mohammed this or ahmed that
we really need to protect ourselves against this salvage parasites .
Traceless propaganda that remains futile and counterproductive,
we are matching on and nothing can stop us, Biafra has defiled
the wrath of bullet, incarceration, conspiracy and the sham
local and international media propaganda.
WITHOUT PREJUDICE, THE IGBOS IN GOMBE WHOSE REASONS WERE EXPOSED TO “GOMBE” DURESS; CANNOT RESPONSIBLY, BE SPEAKING FROM THEIR SANITY, AT THIS TIME?
We will review and take appropriate action.