BIAFRA: THE PLANNED IMPOSITION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY IN BIAFRALAND WILL RESULT IN A WAR
By: Chima Onyekachi
Without doubt, the 30TH May 2017 sit-at-home in commemoration of the Biafra Heroes Day has shown the formidability of the Indigenous People of Biafra led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the quest for the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra. The unity and total compliance shown on that day by the people of Biafra has jolted every opposition to the restoration of Biafra and they have geared into nefarious plans which are to begin with the imposition of state of emergency and martial law in Biafra land.
I have always wondered why most of the Hausa/Fulani who are opportune to have a formal education and supposedly know how to write and comprehend what is written will be reasoning alike with those of them moving around with herds of cattle whose thoughts are towards violent and the shedding of blood. The piece titled “To resolve the Biafra problem, Nigeria needs strategy, a big stick and carrots, by Fulan Nasrullah” is a revelation of the parasitic traits of the Hausa/Fulani in the forced union orchestrated by the British to form Nigeria.
The writer who claimed to be a Conflict Analyst and a National Security Strategist/Policy Adviser, does not see the Fulani herdsmen and BokoHaram Islamic terrorists as threats to peace and stability in Nigeria but he is fingering the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, that has been peaceful and diplomatic towards exercising the right to self-determination as enshrined in the United Nations Charter.
Fulan Nasrullah purposely ignored the fact that the Nigeria security forces have been indicted for extra judicial murder and violence against members of IPOB and instead revealed his nomadic-thinking by proposing the imposition of state of emergency and martial law in four out of the five southeast states, namely Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo, plus Rivers State in the so-called Niger-Delta as a means to diminish IPOB and the clamor for the restoration of Biafra.
The writer is obviously still wallowing in deception over the 1966 coup led by Kaduna Nzeogwu which was wrongly tagged an ‘Igbo Coup’ by British media, forgetting that officers from other ethnic group including Hausa/Fulani were actively involved in carrying out the coup with the sole motive of installing Obafemi Awolowo (a Yoruba man) as the head of state. The same coup was thwarted by an Igbo military officer in the person of Aguiyi Ironsi and a revenge mission by the northerners led to a pogrom against the Igbo people.
The fact is available to show that late Odumegwu Ojuwku consulted the then Eastern Assembly which comprises of Efiks, Ibibios, Annang, Ikwerre, Ijaw etc, before the secession and declaration of the Republic of Biafra. In fact, an Ijaw man in the person of Frank Opigo reminded Ojukwu of the
