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Why Radio Biafra Must Be Stop by genali(m): 5:34pm On Jul 15, 2015 |
Why Nnamdi Kanu’s
Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now.
Ever since former President Jonathan lost
the presidential elections on March 28 2015
which some of us knew he will never win
based on the facts that we all know and the
statistics available, majority of Igbo's have
been unhappy and angry. They have been
cursing and abusing the President and APC
leaders wishing that President Buhari never
existed and APC never formed. Many of
them have been so frustrated after the
elections that they are now looking for a
way to get back to the APC controlled
Federal government.
Now, one Nnamdi Kanu who has been
dreaming about the State of Biafra has
provided a space for them to vent their
anger. Some of them have joined this small
boy to begin to wish for the State of Biafra.
Suddenly the so-called Radio Biafra has
created a momentum for them. On
facebook I have watched with a keen
interest what these guys dish out on daily
basis in the name of fighting for Biafra.
They tell blatant lies, they create havoc,
they make terrible noise, they abuse other
Nigerians, and they preach unimaginable
propaganda and hate that at once put Igbo
land in potential danger. I have been
waiting for the South East Governors to
speak up but they have maintained a
deafening silence that suggests complicity. I
have also waited for our elders to call this
small boy to order but nothing has
happened. With the so-called Radio Biafra
this boy I do not know his age has
unleashed an unimaginable trailer-load of
lies and potentially dangerous propaganda
that has put Igbo nation in danger. It is now
45years after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War
and I think that Igbo must rise up to stop
this small boy who never saw the
1967-1970 Civil War and who may not know
the implications of what he is doing. He has
never consulted anybody to seek his
opinion. He has been speaking to the
gullible and not too educated people in
Igboland, and very soon these uneducated
people will take a dangerous decision that
may decimate and destroy Igboland. Soon
our people will start complaining that they
were not consulted. To be fore warned is to
be fore armed.
Last week, I saw the photo of a group of
people that gave the impression that they
are getting a military training somewhere in
Igboland. This afternoon I saw another
photograph on facebook with some youths
bearing guns and Nnamdi Kanu standing
with them. I may not know where these
pictures came from and what they are
planning to do but this is the time to speak
out and I urge anybody who is anybody who
understands where we are coming from to
stand up now to be counted. Woe betides a
nation whose leaders are children. If we
elders do not talk about this evil, posterity
will never forgive us. Let us speak out and if
these children do not hear us, then it
should be on record that we spoke. About a
month ago the barrage of lies and
uncontrolled propaganda Radio Biafra
dished out everyday drew the attention of
NBC which asked Nigerians to stop listening
to this useless Radio Station.
Now here are compelling reasons why Igbo
must remain in Nigeria in their own
interest:
Igbo fought a civil war of self determination
between 1967 and 1970 and lost about one
million people. This should be taken as a
huge price for the unity of this country.
Having paid this monumental supreme
price I think Igbo should work for the unity
of this country based on social justice,
equity and fair play.
Nigeria has three major ethnic groups:
Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo. The Hausa/
Fulani Empire has Hausa people stretching
all through the Sahel to the Sudan. They are
mostly Muslims and they have contact with
the Arab world. The Yoruba nation has
Togo, Benin Republic, Sierra Leone and
even up to Brazil and Cuba to run to where
their kinsmen are. Igbo nation has no outlet
anywhere in the world where the language
is spoken. Therefore they must see Nigeria
as where they belong and work for its
survival.
Nigeria provided a big space for Igbo to
spread their tentacles, explore, excel and
blossom. South East is too small for this
highly mobile and dynamic people to thrive.
The world pays attention to Nigeria today
because of our size and population. If
Nigeria splits into smaller countries the
world will pack their bag and baggage and
leave. Population and size make a nation a
destination.
Assuming we manage to get a State of
Biafra which State in the South East will
produce the first President? When Enugu
State was created, the late Governor C.C
Onoh sacked all the Civil Servants and
Teachers from Anambra State. Recently
former governor Orji of Abia State sacked
workers from Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi and
Enugu States. Now how can we manage
Biafra with this attitude?
Igbo control 60-70% of all the imports in
Nigeria and other Nigerians, Yoruba, Hausa/
Fulani, Ijaw, Efik, Birom, Tiv, Idoma etc
provides huge market for Igbo mobile and
big time traders.
Monumental inter marriages between Igbo
and Yoruba and other ethnic groups have
thrived for close to 70years now that we
cannot just dismiss all these with a wave of
hand.
Igbo own huge and massive investments in
property in Lagos and Abuja, and other
State capitals in Nigeria. Now are you going
to wish all this away?
Other Nigerian cities have provided safe
haven for Igbo as places to run to cool off
whenever self inflicted crisis arise or other
problems. When kidnapping became a way
of life in the South East, our people moved
to other parts of Nigeria to settle. Now
where will Igbo go when confronted with
these problems in Biafra.
How can Igbo thrive without their Lagos
and Abuja or Port-Harcourt? What happens
to all their connections and relationships in
these places?
Can someone tell Nnamdi Kanu that wars
may be fought for 50years and people will
die to achieve Biafra? The war may even
consume Nnamdi and all the members of
his family and millions of others without
achieving the purpose.
We have been so inter-married, interwoven,
intertwined, inter-related that the idea of
separation may not be encouraged. I do not
want to lose my friends from the other
parts of Nigeria for anything.
I can go on but there is no need to continue
to do so. We must be strong enough to stop
this world’s old problems of looking down
on people who are different from us. This is
the problem of Nigeria. Nigeria’s diversity is
a big plus for all of us to excel. United we
stand, divided we fall. I confess that Igbo
have not played better politics in Nigeria
since 1970 and that has been our bane.
Anytime we want to change bad leadership
in the country Igbo as a block will resist it. It
happened in 1993 and we lost everything.
In 2015 Igbo were at it again but forces of
history prevailed. Igbo can do better than
this.
Now we must collectively stop this small
boy called Nnamdi Kanu who is still sucking
his mother’s breast before he endangers the
whole of Igboland and plunge us into a civil
war once again. When a writer is silent he is
lying. A story that must be told never
forgives silence. The only thing necessary
for evil to triumph in any society is that
good men do nothing.
However, I want Nigerian leaders to show
leadership by carrying all Nigerians along in
distributing power and resources. If there is
no justice, there will be no peace. If there is
no peace there will be no progress. Let
justice prevail.
Let us be fair to all concerned. If the truth
must prevail and it must prevail, Nigeria has
not been fair to Igbo since the end of civil
war. They tell us that there is no victor and
no vanquished but in actions and deeds the
victors are still celebrating and enjoying the
spoils of the war while the defeated are still
languishing in abject neglect. For instance,
of all the six zones in Nigeria only the South
East zone has five States. We have found
solace in all these because we have found
out that those who are still oppressing the
Igbo in Nigeria are not better. We also take
solace in the findings of the Fathers of the
Second Vatican Council that all acts of
indignity against human persons, against
human society debase the perpetrators
more than the victims. It is not that the
offended cannot forgive but have the
offenders repented? This injustice must
stop now for the sake of unity of this
country. I wrote Igbos: 25 Years After Biafra
in 1995 thinking that the book will prick the
conscience of other Nigerians but they have
not paid any attention. It has been business
as usual. Now, President Buhari must
address this injustice. Case rested! |
Re: Why Radio Biafra Must Be Stop by Dbrainiac1(m): 5:36pm On Jul 15, 2015 |
Guy you dey earth? |
Re: Why Radio Biafra Must Be Stop by maverickdude(m): 5:45pm On Jul 15, 2015 |
k |
Re: Why Radio Biafra Must Be Stop by egift(m): 6:28pm On Jul 15, 2015 |
It will be stopped. We do not want any Mexico at the backyard of the United States of Nigeria. |
Re: Why Radio Biafra Must Be Stop by Africandope(m): 11:31pm On Sep 06, 2015 |
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Re: Why Radio Biafra Must Be Stop by Nobody: 12:11am On Sep 07, 2015 |
Chai!! Biafra giving Yorubas sleepless nights. Yorubas run under their bed and hide when they hear the voice of Nnamdi Kanu on Radio. You can come out from where you're hiding now, Nnamdi Kanu is not anywhere near the SW yet. 2 Likes |
Re: Why Radio Biafra Must Be Stop by c33b33(m): 12:18am On Sep 07, 2015 |
The author of this nonsense is Joe Igbokwe and it has been trashed. Your government isn't after Radio Biafra anymore because it has been jammed without success but a naturalization process has been initiated and it is not working either. It is now killing,harassment and arresting of IPOB members that is taking place and I hope they plan to construct more prisons? Baboons! IPOB Youth 2 Likes |
Re: Why Radio Biafra Must Be Stop by theDEVILisHERE: 12:29am On Sep 07, 2015 |
Every thing has its season and its time An idea or a movement whose time has come can't be stoped 1 Like |
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