The Biafran: Riot Act

Saturday, 19 March 2016

NNAMDI KANU: It's time Buhari is read the Riot Act

Much as violence is abhorred as an effective tool for any conflict resolution certain actions that could plunge the polity into utter chaos must be frowned upon no matter whose ox is gored.

Nigeria operates a federal system of government with no fewer than 36 federating units. It is an established fact that the constitution makes no provision for a federal referendum to decide an important public question like the ongoing agitation for an independent Biafran state.

Republic of Biafra Anthem

Land of rising sun, we love and cherish,
Beloved homeland of our brave heroes;
We must defend our lives or we shall perish,
We shall protect our hearts from all our foes;
But if the price is death for all we hold dear,
Then let us die without a shred of fear.

Hail to Biafra, consecrated nation,
O fatherland, this be our solemn pledge:
Defending thee shall be a dedication,
Spilling our blood we’ll count a privilege;
The waving standard which emboldens the free
Shall always be our flag of liberty.

We shall emerge triumphant from this ordeal,
And through the crucible unscathed we’ll pass;
When we are poised the wounds of battle to heal,
We shall remember those who died in mass;
Then shall our trumpets peal the glorious song
Of victory we scored o’er might and wrong.

Oh God, protect us from the hidden pitfall,
Guide all our movements lest we go astray;
Give us the strength to heed the humanist call:
To give and not to count the cost’ each day;
Bless those who rule to serve with resoluteness,
To make this clime a land of righteousness.

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Saturday, 19 March 2016

NNAMDI KANU: It's time Buhari is read the Riot Act