a superior or special people in the mould of the Zionist Jews, which those who believe in Igbo Supremacy are advocating. This dichotomy between Igbo supremacists in the mould of IPOB/MASSOB/BZN, and other Igbos in the mould of Ike Nwachukwu and Rochas Okorocha, must be carefully exploited to divide and weaken the support base which the supremacists sections of the Southeast region need to mobilise in order to successfully destabilise that area.
The usual Nigerian solution of bribing the agitators cannot work in killing off the Biafran cause, as it will mean surrendering Nigeria to one ethnic group, at the expense of over 600 others. However the other Nigerian solution of brute force application will also not work, rather it will be counter-productive, leading to a situation where instead of weakening the Biafran cause, the Nigerian government will only strengthen it, as we can see happening right now. What is called for, is a strategic plan to weaken the base of IPOB, dissuade others from going the Biafra path, remind all dissidents why Biafra failed, neutralise the various pro-Biafra organisations, political supporters of the Biafran cause who are eating from Nigeria but fuelling Biafra, and also undermine the entire cause of Igbo supremacy. Such a strategy would call for a really big stick applied judiciously, along with an equally judicious distribution of carrots, and of course flags to distract the masses in the region from focusing on Biafra too much. Nigeria must first of all solidify its resolve to keep its territories united, and its rule sacrosanct all across the country, without any compromise to Biafran independence or an autonomous Biafran region.
Then it must sort out the current leadership crisis which is creating the vacuum, certain traitors serving as political office holders or aspiring political office holders from the Southeast are exploiting to publicly hold brief for IPOB and co.
There must be a swift resolution to the vacuum left by the absence of the President due to his ill health (May Allah Heal him), and the inability of the Vice-President who has unfortunately not been able to impose his rule over the competing political factions in the current administration. This vacuum is making it unable for the national security establishment and the military to receive effective guidance on what strategy should be adopted to deal with the IPOB/MASSOB threat, rather it has left the security and defence services playing a reactive game instead of taking control of the situation.[/b]
Nigeria must fully resolve to not give in to blackmail to a group of people who should be regular guests of the hangman’s noose for treason rather than be political office holders. Rather, once the leadership vacuum is filled and the national resolve solidified, Nigeria must brutally go after any current or former political office holder from the Southeast who expresses any sort of solidarity with IPOB/MASSOB, stripping them of office and jailing them.
I propose that a state of emergency be declared and martial law imposed over four of the five Southeast states, namely Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo, plus Rivers State in the Niger-Delta. The governors of these states will be deposed and replaced by sole administrators of Igbo (in the case of Rivers, of Ijaw or Ikwerre) origin. This state of emergency should be accompanied with the creation of a Counter-Biafra Strategic Operations Organisation (CBSOO), on a two-year temporary mandate to design and implement strategic operations which will weaken and neutralise the various pro-Biafra organisations, by disrupting their funding, eliminating their leadership, weakening the cohesion of their target regional support base, while emasculating the ability of the part of the Igbo diaspora which they are trying to mobilise to their cause, to aid them, influence global public opinion and policy by international actors, etc.
This temporary organisation would work in the grey and black zones of operational stratification, but would also work closely in support of the white zone operations of the Joint Counter-Biafra Operational Task Force (JCBOTF), which I propose will be the joint task force level organisation exercising command and control over white-zone operations run by the Armed Forces, Police, NSCDC and SSS. Unlike the JCBOTF which may be placed under the National Security Adviser or the Minister of Interior, the CBSOO will be directly responsible to the President. The CBSOO once formed should create, train and run a non-uniformed civilian organisation recruited from across the
