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Biafra Has No Future -says France by TheBlessedMAN: 12:57pm On Mar 12, 2017 |
Less than one week after
Tukur Buratai, chief of army
staff, dealt a blow on
agitators of Biafra, the bid
to actualise a sovereign
state has suffered yet
another set back.
Buratai had told proponents
of separation that they will
not achieve their aim in his
lifetime .
“I want to call on all the
agitators for separation and
other acts of destabilisation
to forget it, not in this era,
not in this millennium… I
think they have to wait till
may be the next three or four
millennia for them to do that.
That is, may be the next
generation of officers and
men will allow them at all,” he
had said at a programme in
Abuja.
However, the French
government, which threw its
weight behind Biafra in the
1967 secession bid, has ruled
out any support for the
secession of any part of the
country, particularly Biafra.
Denys Gauer, the country’s
ambassador to Nigeria, told
The Guardian, that France
would not in anyway work
with any group agitating for
the dismemberment of the
nation.
“We are working with
Nigeria and we are
supporting it as the only
country. This is absolutely
clear and I don’t think there
is any kind of future for
Biafra. They are part of
Nigeria and Nigeria has to
remain as the only country,”
he reportedly said.
Speaking against the
backdrop of France’s
previous support for Biafra
during the civil war, Gauer
said Nigeria has evolved since
the civil war.
Gauer said France is working
with Nigeria in its fight
against insurgency, and that
the fight against Boko Haram
has brought the two
countries together, more
than before.
Reacting to the envoy’s
comment, Uchenna Madu,
Leader of the Movement for
the Actualization of Sovereign
State of Biafra (MASSOB), said
the struggle for Biafra “is real
and cannot be stopped by
any man created by God”.
“We in MASSOB do not believe
what he said because that
does not represent the
position of France. France is a
friend of Biafra and even
during the Nigeria/Biafra
war, they assisted us so
much,” the newspaper
quoted him as saying.
“In this current agitation for
Biafra, France has sympathy
for us. We advise our people
to disregard what he said.” source:https://www.thecable.ng/biafra-no-future-says-france 1 Like |
Re: Biafra Has No Future -says France by seunny4lif(m): 1:14pm On Mar 12, 2017 |
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Re: Biafra Has No Future -says France by GavelSlam: 1:24pm On Mar 12, 2017 |
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Re: Biafra Has No Future -says France by pirees: 1:41pm On Mar 12, 2017 |
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Re: Biafra Has No Future -says France by TheBlessedMAN: 1:47pm On Mar 12, 2017 |
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Re: Biafra Has No Future -says France by Mynd44: 4:56pm On Mar 12, 2017 |
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