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| Self-Determination: Why Biafra must breakaway from Nigeria |
Biafra Restoration:
Historic and Cultural Reason for secession
Nigeria is a illegitimate product of the British colonial government and
there is no historic relationship between the Biafrans and other ethnic
nationalities in the geographic region called Nigeria (Niger Area). The unholy
marriage between the various ethnic nationalities has resulted in the
underlying disunity in Nigeria, which has made it impossible for the country to
move forward. 100 years after the ethnic nationalities were amalgamated into
one country for the administrative convenience of the British colonialists;
there is nothing on ground to show for it. This historic relationship
disconnection of the nationalities with diverse culture and values will
continue to strangulate any attempt to move Nigeria forward. Biafrans have come
to this realisation a long time ago and made attempt to leave the union but
were forcefully brought back into the unprogressive union by the Nigerian
government that was backed by their international collaborators. This has
brought about unthinkable hardship on Biafrans that must not be allowed to
continue. Therefore Biafra must be restored.
Biafra Restoration:
Developmental Reason for secession
The development of Biafra has continued to be undermined by successive
Nigerian governments (civilians and military). Before, the Biafra-Nigeria war,
Biafra was a leading region in Nigeria in economic and developmental prowess.
But during the war many industrial structures and infrastructure in the region
were intentional demolished by the Nigerian troops. Soon after the war East
Central government, which took over the administration of a large chunk of the
Biafran Republic was starved of funds by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
This was a policy embarked on to make sure Biafra remained underdeveloped.
Compared to other regions of Nigeria, the South East is the only region that
has no tangible federal government presence in terms of industries, and other
amenities. Despite the fact that two key states in the region are generating
huge oil and gas revenue for the country, no oil refinery has been established
in the region, rather a refinery was established in Kaduna a none oil producing
state in north lying about 24hrs hour from the oil wells in Biafra land. The
policy essentially rendered Biafrans slaves in Nigeria, forcing them to move to
other parts of the country and world to scrounge for survival. If not for their
resilience and hard work, and community effort, the South East would have been
a ghost town. It is on record that the Imo Airport was built with contributions
directly sourced from South East indigenes. This is unprecedented in the
history of Nigeria as the Federal Government built all the airports in Nigeria.
This airport was built by the people when it became clear that the Federal
Government of Nigeria was not going to do it. This policy of enslaving Biafrans
by starving them of funds and development remained until the unforeseen
emergence of Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria. It was eye opening
for the world that the South East region with more than 1/3 of Nigeria’s population
and with people that are widely travelled only got an international airport
couple of months ago. Biafrans have for long been forced to make international
trips from airports located 10 to 12hrs away from them.
The reversal of this policy of underdevelopment of the South East region
is one of the key reasons why the Jonathan administration is being highly
criticised by the ‘owners’ of Nigeria. Therefore, there is no guarantee that
subsequent government will not revert back to the status quo of deliberate
undermining of the region. Thus Biafra must secede!
Biafra Restoration:
Political Reason
The political landscape of Nigeria has been in such a way that Biafrans
will never produce Nigeria presidency. The shock emergence of Jonathan as the
President of Nigeria after the sudden death of President Yar’adua, disorganised
the long held political equation in Nigeria. This ‘aberration’ where a Biafra
has risen to the topmost position is the major reason for the political tension
in Nigeria. The political landscape, which has been dominated by the
Hausa-Fulani Oligarchy and their Yoruba minions, has deliberately schemed out
Biafrans from attaining the topmost position in Nigeria. It is on record that
throughout the 53 years of Nigeria’s independence, Biafrans have cumulatively
held the position for less than 4 years (Aguiyi Ironsi - 6 months, Goodluck
Jonathan - 3+years). The Hausa-Fulani- ‘owners’ of Nigeria are battling to
‘correct’ the political anomaly, as can be seen from various recent political
moves being made in the country. They have made it very clear they must take
back power by 2015, even without consulting the rest of the population.
Therefore, it would be foolhardy for Biafra to remain in such a country
where every expression, action and words are targeted against them and where it
is amply clear that they are not regarded as part of the owners of the country,
but rather subservient to the Hausa-Fulani oligarchy and their Yoruba lackeys.
Biafra Restoration: Economic Reason
Biafrans
are treated as second class citizens in Nigeria despite the ‘One Nigeria’
mantra that ensued after the Biafran-Nigerian war. Their region was
deliberately left undeveloped to cause economic hardship and subsequent
migration out of the region. Biafrans deceived by the ‘One Nigeria’ mantra have
moved to every part of Nigeria developing them, without getting reciprocal
actions from other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. Despite having helped
developed places such as Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja, Kano, Kano states, they have
continued to be regarded as strangers in the country they were forcefully
brought into. It is on record that most of the houses and businesses in Lagos, Abuja
and Kano are owned by Biafrans, but this did not dissuade the Lagos State
government from ‘deporting’ Biafrans back to their homeland. It is also on
record that no other ethnic nationality has built a single house in Biafran
land contrary to what Biafrans have done to other states of Nigeria. Therefore,
it has become obvious that while other regions knew that Biafra is not part of
Nigeria, Biafrans themselves have been hoodwinked to believe that they are part
of Nigeria. Now the scale has dropped off from their eyes, Independent State of
Biafra must be restored.
Aba and
Nnewi are prominent industrial areas in Biafraland that has been deliberately
neglected by the Nigerian government. All these actions are designed for the
perpetual subjugation of the Biafran people. Many Biafran scientists and
inventors, such as Damian Anyanwu of the Radio Mbaise fame, despite having
received national awards recognising their inventions have deliberately been
frustrated and starved of funds to take their inventions further. These are
acts of economic and industrial sabotage against Biafrans.
Biafra Restoration: Genocidal Reason
Millions of
Biafran civilians were killed by Nigerian forces during the Biafran- Nigerian
war. Till date no one has been brought to trial for these war crimes committed
against the people of Biafra.
In the last
couple of months, thousands of Biafrans have been killed by the Islamic Boko Haram
insurgents in the north, who have asked them to leave the northern Nigeria or
face death. The genocide against Biafrans is continuing because the Nigerian
government has continued to deceive Biafrans to remain in the northern part of
the country.
Biafra Restoration:
Religious Reason
Biafrans
are aware that the main aim of the Boko Haram insurgency is complete
islamisation of every part of Nigeria. Evidence abound that apart from the wanton
killings of Biafrans by Boko Haram, the Jihadists are corrupting Biafra land
with their religion through some state governors in the region, who have been
compromised by their Muslim paymasters. These governors are coercing Biafrans
to convert to Islam. Islam is completely
unacceptably in Biafraland and must be stopped. Biafrans do not want their
country to become Afghanistan or Somali. Biafrans are peaceful and God-fearing
people, who believe in equality of every human being.
Therefore,
Biafra must secede from Nigeria and prepare their homeland against these
Islamic jihadists, before it is too late.
Biafra Restoration: Bad name
Apart from
the numerous locally perpetrated wicked acts of the Northern terrorist group
Boko Haram, the Hausa-Fulani and the Yoruba’s have launched their terrorism in
the international scene. In December, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Hausa-Fulani terrorist,
was caught aboard a US flight with explosives he had wanted to use to blow up a
US passenger plane. Yet again, in 2013, two Yoruba sons, Michael
Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale murdered a British soldier Lee Rigby in broad
day light in the streets of London in the most gruesome manner the world has ever
witnessed. The two separate terrorist actions are just the tip of the iceberg,
which has brought other Nigerians, especially the peace loving Biafrans to
shame and disrepute. Biafrans therefore are tired of bearing the brunt of the
acts of these terrorists, by restoring the independence of Biafra Republic.
According to the consortium of sources who spoke on the true causative factors responsible for the turn in demeanor in the former People Democratic Party [PDP] godfather, General Olusegun Obasanjo towards President Jonathan, indicate that the chief reason for the effort to halt Jonathan’s presidency before 2015 points to the formerly agreed upon policy towards the former eastern region – which later became the Biafra territory – that then lost the war the Nigerian troops.
According to a competent source, the self – acclaimed victors of the Nigerian civil war, the likes of Buhari, Babangida, Obasanjo, Gowon, Murtala Mohammed and company – had an agreed upon policy of under-development of the region – to aide sedated the urge for another agitation group to find its footing. The policy was particularized for the south east zone.
Such policies focused on denying the region of an international airport, ability to source crude oil and refine, ability to access international trade and technology – among other sensitive developmental vectors. Through the successive government that followed after the military fall of the Biafra effort, the policy was implemented without error. Obasanjo’s regime during the civilian era ensured that the marginalization policy remained unchanged.
The talk of locating an international airport at each geopolitical zone in Nigeria saw a defiant Obasanjo when the discourse included South East region. The Obasanjo regime also saw the placement of an oil refinery in the South East as going against the agreed upon policy of the winners of the Nigeria/Biafra war. The exploration of crude oil deposits around the Kogi/Enugu/Anambra belt remained abandoned during his regime.
The surprise and uncharacteristic coming of Dr. Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan to the presidential seat brought an anomaly into the equation. The said owners of the country did not expect what his presidency may result to – as per the agreed upon policy towards the south east region. Obasanjo had promised his “co-owners” that he would be able to “control” the excesses of President Jonathan – “that Goodluck was his boy” and will be held with a short leash. Obasanjo’s northern partners were able to rest their nerves in that President Jonathan will serve a mere one term and that by 2015, he will step down from the mantle of leadership and allowed for the owners of Nigeria to continue along the path already set out by General Gowon.
Biafra Restoration: Subjugation by Successive Governments
A source close to Obasanjo told 247ureports.com that the former head of state had stated in serious discussions that Jonathan chances putting Nigeria at risk over his conversion of Enugu Airport to International Airport because of the history of the area. He also mentioned the opening of the Orient Petroleum oil drilling and refining services as near treasonable – because it allows the region access to precious cash commodity [as crude oil] should the region chose to declare independence from the Nigerian Union again. The source pointed out that Obasanjo sees himself as a defender of the present day Nigeria dating from post Nigerian civil war. The sources continues that Obasanjo sees himself as responsible for ensuring that the country stays together as one unit. In his mind, the eagerness of the Jonathan presidency to ease the tariff placed against the former Biafran region points to a dangerous precedence that may be copied by other leaders – if not checkmated.
The recent open letter to the President of the federal republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck E. Jonathan by the former president, General Olusegun Obasanjo is believed by our source to be part of the program to halt the trend of easing the economic blockade against the south east and south south region. One of the principal fears – according to the source – concerns the upcoming national census exercise scheduled for 2016. The recent public utterances by the former top boss of the national population commission, Odumegwu, stating that the previous census figures were either wrong or falsified, exacerbated the fear harbored by the self-proclaimed owners of the country. It lead to the likes of Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso into issuing threats to the President charging that he sack the census commission boss – or face the consequences. President Jonathan bowed and unceremoniously sacked Odumegwu.
But Jonathan’s body language of wanting to continue his leadership past 2015 has the former president and one-time coup-plotter unsettled. Both President Jonathan and Obasanjo are reported to have met severally behind closed doors over the upcoming 2015 elections – with Obasanjo impressing on Jonathan that his desire to contest will throw the country into bloody revolution. At a recent secret meeting in Abuja [not Aso Villa], the two were said to have met at a home around the home of high personality in Asokoro – where Obasanjo continued to remind President Jonathan that he will be embarking on a potentially catastrophic mistake should he continue to be adamant about the 2015 venture. Some of Obasanjo’s northern partners were reported to be present at the meeting – when President Jonathan that a truly democratic Nigeria must not be allowed to degenerate to bloody chaos over what is constitutional rights and freedoms. The President was reported to have made it categorically clear that Nigeria remains a free democratic society for every citizen regardless of which geopolitical zone he originates “justice must fear no evil” – to which Obasanjo retorted, “You may not survive this”.
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