Getting behind an idea means imbuing it with your conviction and your passion. This enthusiasm also helps enamour your idea and instinct while you protect them as you might a child.
65 years old veteran singer, actress, journalist and songwriter, Ms. Onyeka Onwenu has reiterated her support for the realization of an independent state of Biafra, an agitation being championed by an Igbo youth group.
The former executive director/chief executive officer of the National Centre for Women Development, who has been consistent with her stand for Igbo self-rule, two weeks ago, once again released another bombshell against perceived enemies of the Igbo agitation.
Responding to an opinion posted online by a certain Mr. Ken Henshaw, regarding the Biafra campaign, which she obviously found offensive, the ‘elegant stallion’, as the ever beautiful singer is fondly called by her music fans, insisted that Ken’s views on the Biafra matter were ‘not all objective’.
Her reaction:
“It (Ken’s opinion and others’) dwells on the usual fears about Ndigbo. These fears of domination by Igbos continue, based on a distorted history and jealousy of a people, for their hard work, enterprise, tenacity and ability to survive against all odds. We are done apologizing for being the people God has made us to be. We have suffered enough and paid the price for Nigeria’s unity.
We should be allowed to go our own way, since we are not wanted in this country. Nigeria cannot keep us as the whipping boy, just to see how much more they can marginalize us. Please, we are not interested in “colonizing” anybody. Come along if you want to, or don’t. Nobody can shave your head in your absence so do not threaten us. We are God’s children like every other group. We are entitled to be ourselves and thrive.
Ndigbo cannot be held down anymore. Do not worry about us being landlocked. We have solutions for that as we can deepen our waterways in Oguta and Azunmiri, in Abia. We are blessed with abundant human and natural resources and technological know how is our forte. We have oil and we have gas, even though some of our wells were ceded to surrounding States to punish us after the civil war. In any case, oil will be obsolete in a few years.
Let Biafra be and watch the face and pace of African development change dramatically in a few years. Let us stop the Pushback of jealousy and hatred, coming from the success of the May 30 Stay At Home Order. Nigeria thought Ndigbo were finished but we are rising like a Phenix. All the glory goes to God, Who has a purpose for everybody. We are all blessed.”
Onyeka had in 2016, penned a similar declaration which went viral in the social media and subsequently became public topic for a long time.
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