The Biafran: Ibrahim Coomasie

Wednesday, 26 August 2015

The fear of Radio Biafra: Arewa Consultative Forum begs Biafran elders to appeal to Biafran youths. “We cannot afford to transit from one insurgency into another.”

The pan-northern socio-political group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has begged Biafran leaders to appeal to Biafran youths agitating for secession for calm. Speaking at a news conference in Kaduna on Tuesday, the panic-stricken chairman of ACF, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomasie, claimed that the issue that led to the nation’s 30-month Biafra-Nigeria War was settled since 1970.

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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Wednesday, 26 August 2015

The fear of Radio Biafra: Arewa Consultative Forum begs Biafran elders to appeal to Biafran youths. “We cannot afford to transit from one insurgency into another.”