Igbos had invested so much in Nigeria and would therefore oppose secession of any group of people – whether they be Arewa or Oduduwa; and in another breath, he says, he was proud to be a Biafran, which claimed an ordinary identification!
(18) We disagree with that postulation! Biafra is synonymous with SECESSION from the nation of Nigeria between 1967-1970 in which over TWO MILLION innocent human beings – including vulnerable women and children died untimely; it is also synonymous to the introduction of CANIBALISM into that part of the nation when elders who survived had to feed on the flesh of their CHILDREN, like in Biblical Israel during a terrible period of FAMINE! (2 Kings. 6:24-29).
BIAFRA IS ANATHEMA!
(19) Biafra rings out a sound of discord, it is an ARCHAIC DOCTRINE that should be abandoned in the archives! Protagonists of a Biafra nation are the naive and disillusioned Igbo youths who did not experience the agonizing pain of war and who need a new orientation that Nigeria would remain ONE INDIVISIBLE NATION FOREVER AND EVER ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSIVE WILL OF GOD.
(20) The following were the last comments of Chief Iwuanyanwu at a recent National Unity Summit, organised by Arewa Ambassadors Congress of Nigeria in partnership with Youth Assembly of Nigeria: “Biafra is not about secession. It is a name of a particular people in Nigeria from the South East. Therefore, it is not an offence to say that I am a Biafran. There was no victor, no vanquished after the civil war. I am impressed with Yakubu Gowon because he IMPLEMENTED ALL THE AGREEMENTS REACHED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. IGBO WERE NOT DEPRIVED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR.” WHAT ABOUT THE NIGERIAN MASSES!
(21) In all of these arguments – for and against – none of the agitators ever bothered to consider the ripple effects that such acrimonious war would add to the plight of the common Nigerians who would suffer the consequences of another civil war in the country while they are yet to recover from the hurts and scars of the dying economic recession! EVERYONE IS MARGINALIZED!
(22) A second republic law maker and elder statesman, Dr Junaid Mohammed, recently accused President Buhari of marginalizing the North in favour of the South West in areas of Key appointments and development projects like roads without constructing one single toad in the North and without meeting the aspirations and basic needs of northerners!
(23) Recommendations of the 2014 National Conference in respect of the South East Geo-Political Zone which states among other things that an additional state should be created for the South East to be at par with others with SIX States should be revisited without delay!
CIVIL DISTURBANCE AGAIN?
(24) Must IPOB/MASSOB and Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), disrupt social/commercial activities of other Nigerians and national security on 30th MAY 2017? A timely warning against any form of planned protests in some States of the Federation by pro-Biafra organisations was issued on Friday, 26th May, 2017 by the Nigeria Police, who promised to deal decisively with defaulters who might breach security and undermine law and order.
(25) Misguided Igbo youths should be reminded that just as they could claim the freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association under the Constitution, so could other millions of Nigerians whom they planned to deprive of their constitutional rights of free movements and access to public/private facilities on the day in question!
NIGERIA DOES NOT NEED DIVERSIONARY BLOODSHED WHILE GRAPLING WITH THE REMNANTS OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY!
I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.
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