A retired commissioner of police, Mr.
Ibezimako Aghanya has said that the
renewed agitation for an independent
Biafra state was baseless as Biafra was
‘dead and buried’ with the end of the
Nigerian civil war.
Daily Trust reports that the former
commissioner of police who served in
Kogi, Benue and Ekiti made his comment
about Biafra during an interview at the
Igbo Day celebration at the Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida Square in Makurdi,
Benue state.
Mr. Ibezimako Aghanya Photo Credit: Daily
Trust
The arrest and continued detention of
Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra
has escalated the protest for an
independent state in the eastern part of
the country. The protests under the aegis
of the Independent People Of Biafra and
The Movement for the Actualization of the
Sovereign State of Biafra have sometimes
resulted in violence and the Nigerian army
has warned that it would not fold its arm
and allow the country degenerate into a
state of lawlessness.
Aghanya claimed the leaders of the
renewed agitation for Biafra know nothing
about what led and transpired during the
civil war. He added that the late
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who
championed the Biafra war later contested
to be the president which meant he had
submitted himself to Nigeria. He urged
Igbos to fight for their right to be
successful in Nigeria and not try to break
away from it.
He said: Nnamdi Kanu and Ralph
Uwazurike, who are now agitating for
Biafra, were born in the 1980s. I was a boy
of about 15 years during the war. I didn’t
go to war, but when federal troops
entered Port-Harcourt, I trekked for about
35 kilometres from Port-Harcourt to Igita.
We were running like the refugees you
now see in the North-East.
They would shell some places and we
would take cover. All of us would fall into
gutters and other dangerous places.
People were abandoning their children.
Nobody wants that type of thing again.
Uwazurike, Kanu and his sister don’t know
anything about Biafra, and they have not
read any book written on Biafra. If they
had read books on Biafra, they would have
known why the agitation failed and
whether it can rise again. They would
know whether the circumstances
prevailing now were the same thing then.
They are quite different. If these boys
talking of Biafra had read Achuzie’s book,
they would ask why Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik
of Africa), at a particular stage, ran back to
Nigeria. It was Zik who took Ojukwu to get
the recognition of Tanzania, Ivory Coast
and other countries for Biafra. Why did he
(Zik) go back to Nigeria and declare to the
whole world that there was no genocide in
Biafra?
It is instructive that the late Biafran
warlord, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu joined the National Party of
Nigeria (NPN) and told the whole world
that his mission was to reintegrate the
Igbo into the mainstream of Nigerian
politics.
So who is telling Kanu and Uwazurike and
the rest of them that there is still
something called Biafra? Ojukwu even
contested to be the president of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria. This means
that before he died, Ojukwu submitted
himself to the authorities of the Nigerian
government. It means that Biafra is dead
and buried.
Now, let us look at why Kanu is talking of
Biafra. On one hand, he said he wanted to
liberate the oppressed people that are
bound genetically and culturally by the
same value system. He started mentioning
Idoma people, Igbo people, the Efik,
Anang, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Igala and so
on. The Idoma have nothing to do with
the Igbo. These people he is mentioning
can never join the South-East to agitate
for Biafra. He cannot go to Warri and tell
them that they are Igbo. I remember that
when the Igbo were making noise during
the elections, Edwin Clark told them that
Jonathan did not need their votes to win
presidential election. And he will be
disappointed to believe what Asari Dokubo
is saying. Dokubo should be talking about
resource control, not Biafra. Recall that
the people of South-South respect the late
freedom fighter, Isaac Adaka Boro, a lot
because he never wanted to have
anything to do with the Igbo.
Unfortunately, I don’t know why the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) is
breeding all these militants. Isaac Adaka
Boro dropped out from the UNN, Kanu is
also a UNN dropout. I heard that Kanu
went to London because of strike in
Nigeria. He is a university dropout.
Kanu agreed that the Igbo have shops all
over Nigeria, and they are making profits
and are wealthy; so how can he say they
are oppressed? As far as I am concerned it
is the Igbo that are oppressing other
people all over Nigeria. They are
everywhere trading, including Maiduguri.
You see, the Igbo are no longer what they
were before the 1966 coup. They were
humble, meek and mild, but had the
courage of a lion. The claim that the Igbo
are being oppressed is not true. I served in
the Nigeria Police Force for 35 years and
nobody oppressed me. My wife is doing
business in Makurdi and nobody is
oppressing her. Igbo people are buying
plots of land all over the country. If you go
to Enugu today, no Hausa or Yoruba man
has been allocated any plot of land. It is
the same in Anambra and other eastern
states. But in the North, lands are
allocated to the Igbo. So no Igbo man
should be talking of oppression. They
should be humble wherever they are.
They should be meek and mild but have
the courage of a lion so that one day, the
Igbo man will contest election in Sokoto,
Maiduguri and so and win. That is what we
want.

Cc lalasticlala seun


Source: https://www.naij.com/645106-will-never-biafra-dead-buried-former-police-chief.html

What a blatant truth!


#NoToBiafra

Na by force



Dem say dey no want....y is it an issue?

My dear, igbos and other Biafrans have for so long embraced nigeria and some are still embracing it, but what do they get in return? Hatred, semi-slavery, killing and wickedness melted on them by nigeria and nigerians....... This call should go to other ethnic nationalities living in this wicked contraption called nigeria to embrace nigeria because right now our minds are made up... Is either you give onto Biafra what was given to Scots or we will hold everyone to ransom.... B O D=BIAFRA OR DEATH

brize:
My dear, igbos and other Biafrans have for so long embraced nigeria and some are still embracing it, but what do they get in return? Hatred, semi-slavery, killing and wickedness melted on them by nigeria and nigerians....... This call should go to other ethnic nationalities living in this wicked contraption called nigeria to embrace nigeria because right now our minds are made up... Is either you give onto Biafra what was given to Scots or we will hold everyone to ransom.... B O D=BIAFRA OR DEATH

whenever I see a Biafra LUNATIC threatens the peace of Nigeria by saying they are gonna shed blood, I just smile. You know why? Because you don't know what WAR is. I pray we never witness it IJN AMEN.

Banter1:
whenever I see a Biafra LUNATIC threatens the peace of Nigeria by saying they are gonna shed blood, I just smile. You know why? Because you don't know what WAR is. I pray we never witness it IJN AMEN.

another baboon or a monkey on the lose..... Check my post again and know whether i typed something like war there..... My dear reason with your brain and not your anus

brize:
another baboon or a monkey on the lose..... Check my post again and know whether i typed something like war there..... My dear reason with your brain and not your anus

Mr. LuNaTic what do you mean By DEATH?

Honestly i dnt see any reason why this biafra agitators is given us sleepless night, if realy these miscreants are not serious or that the biafra course is dead, why not ignore them. If their noise can inevitably ignored, why not give them biafra or kill them all... Shikena!

[size=14pt][b]The impression that Igbos have suddenly decided not to embrace Nigeria is FALSE.

Igbos founded Nigeria's independence and invested most heavily in areas of Nigeria outside their homeland because they believed in Nigeria, even when the others have NEVER believed in Nigeria.People like Muhammadu Buhari that oppress Igbos today, did not even know how much sacrifice Igbo politicians made for the independence of Nigeria.

Igbos are only asking to be treated as EQUAL citizens of Nigeria and not 5th class citizens. Since, Nigeria flatly and callously denied their request to be treated fairly as citizens of Nigeria, Igbos are compelled to determine their own future in another country away from Nigeria's predatory slave-master relationship.

Those northern boys threatening fire and brimstone should get ready to fight. In any case, our people still deaf to the idea of leaving the north should at least acquire some guns and machetes, in order to defend themselves when the northern mob comes for them.

As for the impression that we will somehow give in to northern threats/blackmail and remain in Nigeria as slaves because of our peoples' property who had been adamant about living in the north, you must be totally mistaken. [/b][/size]

na today?