Children of scores of parents allegedly killed for being members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by security operatives are seeking justice over the alleged killings of their parents.
They yesterday at a meeting in Abia state wired a save our soul message to the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU) and all the big countries of the world, urging them to come to their aid because they were allegedly made orphans against the will of their creator by the Nigerian security agents.
The children who had gathered to welcome Mrs. Uchechi Okwu Kanu, the wife of IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in this year’s Biafran Children Conference organised in Aba by IPOB, Abia state chapter in remembrance of the children who starved to death during the 1967/1970 civil war, urged world leaders to give them a nation where they’ll be loved.
According to a statement by IPOB’s coordinator, Abia state chapter, the conference was being used to reach out to those who had in one way or the other lost a member of their family from the year 2015 since the protests started till date.
Speaking on behalf of the children, Miss Chidinma who gave the welcome speech, wept, saying “we the children of Biafra want to ask the whole world, super powers, UN, AU and ECOWAS what our offense and that of our parents are to deserve all these ill treatments?
“Yes, it’s obvious that Nigeria is hard to everybody, but the plight of we Biafrans especially we children are beyond what humans should pass through. On daily basis we are made orphans as our parents can go out and never return due to the harsh treatment they pass through in the hands of government security agents. Most of us here are orphans and the only crime we committed is that we’re Biafrans.”
