Worried by several malicious and thought provoking attempts and by pro-Biafra groups like the Movement for the Actualisation of a Sovereign State Of Biafra (MOASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to include Ijaw territories in the maps of Biafra without proper consultations and consent of the Ijaw ethnic nationality.

   The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has distant itself and the Ijaw nation from that fictitious map claiming Ijaw territories as been part of Biafra for there was never a time we were Biafrans. The Old Eastern region was also a contraption that so much enslaved the Ijaw people that was created by those who created this miscarriage of a State called Nigerian.
It should be noted that the Ijaws are not in any way against the genuine aspirations of all peoples including the IPOB to attain self determination or secession as the case may be.

  Ijaws are a distinct ethnic nation even before the 1914 amalgamation that has its own dreams, wishes and aspirations that should not be submerged as footnotes in any other people’s struggle.
We Ijaw people are not Biafrans. Therefore if or when any Ijaw person or group feel a sense of allegiance to Biafra and speak in its favour, let it be known that such statements are the personal opinions of such persons, which does not reflect the thoughts, views and wishes of the entire Ijaw Nation and the Niger Delta
people.

  The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide through the National Spokesman Daniel Williams  Dasimaka issued this strict warning to all the overzealous and misinformed IPOB members to desist from insulting our respected Elders and critical stakeholders especially our mother in the Niger Delta Madam Annkio Briggs who have dedicated so much of her life, time, resources and energy for the past 19 years agitating for the economic and the environmental freedom of the people of Niger Delta. The drivers of IPOB should therefore call their followers to order for such act of bigotry will no longer be tolerated from any body or group of persons.

  For the records, the Ijaw struggle for Self-Determination predates the Biafra agitation. It is a known historical fact that a year before the world got to hear of the term Biafra Republic, Ijaws led by late Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro of blessed memory declared a Niger Delta Republic in pursuit of the emancipation of the Niger Delta people which the progenitor of Biafran Late Col Ojukwu of blessed memory fought against as the then Governor of the Old Eastern region when the going was going good with him in the Nigerian State.
It is also on record that a year before MOASSOB was founded; the IYC through the Kaiama Declaration affirmed ‘our commitment to joint struggle with the other ethnic nationalities in the Niger delta area for self-determination.

   We expressed our solidarity with all peoples organisations and ethnic nationalities in Nigeria and elsewhere who are struggling for self-determination and justice. In particular IPOB,   the struggle of the Oodua peoples Congress (OPC), the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (Mosop), Egi Women's Movement etc.’ Thus our struggle cannot be submerged into the Biafra agitation that came after ours.

   Our position has not changed. We Ijaws stand for self determination in the  Nigerian federation. We stand for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference of equally represented ethnic nationalities to discuss the nature of a democratic federation of Nigerian ethic nationalities or a Referendum to decide our future in this amalgamated marriage.
As our founding fathers noted in 1998, ‘but for the economic interests of the imperialists, the Ijaw ethnic nationality would have evolved as a distinct and separate sovereign nation, enjoying undiluted political, economic, social, and cultural AUTONOMY’. Thus we call on our Biafran brothers to respect our identity. Any attempt to lump Ijaws into Biafra without the genuine consent of Ijaws is not only an insult but a futile attempt at replicating the oppression in Nigeria Biafians claim to resist.
Signed
Daniel Dasimaka
Spokesman, Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide



Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2017/08/ijaws-are-not-biafrans-iyc.html?m=1

Na so. Ewedugerians should pray more to Allah.

Basically Ijaw IYC is just Urhobo UPU. Both are just organisations commited to begging the North for resource control and restructuring inside Nigeria.

Very laughable that two organisations that claim to speak for their ethnic nationalities and support self determination are only interested in begging for their own property.

What will they offer Biafra, apart from their ogogoro?

attackgat:
Basically Ijaw IYC is just Urhobo UPU. Both are just organisations commited to begging the North for resoure control and restructuring inside Nigeria.

Very laughable that two organisations that claim to speak for their ethnic nationalities and support self determination are only interested in begging for their own property.

When I saw the mixture of ogogoro, schnapps and can gulder and Guinness on the table, I knew it was alcohol speaking on behalf of ijaws. TonyeBarcanista was there.

Like Nnamdi Kanu pointed out, "After Biafra Independence any group that want to option out,can do so without a war"
So any true Ijaw son should join hand and liberate their people from slavery.

PIGs will blame it on Afonjas as if they are the leader of IYC.

Chef2000:
Like Nnamdi Kanu pointed out, "After Biafra Independence any group that want to option out without war"
So any true Ijaw son should join hand and liberate their people from slavery.

Will they even think? All they want to do is please their masters up North, while their oil is being drained daily.

Chef2000:
Like Nnamdi Kanu pointed out, "After Biafra Independence any group that want to option out,can do so without a war"
So any true Ijaw son should join hand and liberate their people from slavery.

But the yIGBOs claim and chestbeat that they run the nigerian economy,definitely they are the one enslaving them

yes they are not but their ancestor were.

Yes... ijaw youth get sense, they knew Ipob is a scam. They knew cownu is a scammer. How I wish others understand the game... it's all about Bia&fraud

this masturbation over Biafra is something else

Ijaw youth should go and sit down! They are singing different songs everyday.

They've just given the skul miners something to masturbate on

Afonjas food don done

Everyday, Ijaw Youth Worldwide; Ijaw Youth, Lagos; Ijaw Youth, Sambiasa and the rest of the Edwin Clark/FG-sponsored "We Niger Delta" groups keep telling us Ijaws are not Biafrans.

Go and preach One Neajeriya to Asari Dokubo, Russell Bluejack, or any Ijaw man who can't afford ordinary clean drinking water (despite all the money being siphoned from their region) and see whether your throat will not be slashed with cutlass.

Or better, if you are so convinced that Ijaw are Yorubas and not Biafrans, why don't you conduct a referendum first, even if its a mock one.

Ndi zoo, ndi ala.

attackgat:
Basically Ijaw IYC is just Urhobo UPU. Both are just organisations commited to begging the North for resource control and restructuring inside Nigeria.

Very laughable that two organisations that claim to speak for their ethnic nationalities and support self determination are only interested in begging for their own property.

.

Chef2000:
Like Nnamdi Kanu pointed out, "After Biafra Independence any group that want to option out,can do so without a war"
So any true Ijaw son should join hand and liberate their people from slavery.[/quote

Pigs and idoits are here....[quote author=Chef2000 post=59462624]Like Nnamdi Kanu pointed out, "After Biafra Independence any group that want to option out,can do so without a war"
So any true Ijaw son should join hand and liberate their people from slavery.

My people this are the pigs and idoits cownu was talking about

"We South South" crew at it again

Old Eastern Region we know!

South South we don't know!!

The ijaws have the right to belong where they choose, as a matter of fact there are many ijaws and their leaders claiming to belong in Biafra just like in Biafra there are some Igbo's with dissenting voices.
Referendum will put all to rest

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Biafra is Igbo. Ijaw is Niger Delta. We are just neighbours with common interest mostly.

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All i see from these IYC is igbophobia...Ijaw is not Igbo but they are Biafrans

back and front people today they will say one thing tomorrow they will say another thing

ijaws are not pigs

This would surely make a section of this country throw a big parry...they would heave a huge sigh of relief..

How did Afonjas arrive here so early? Dem dey use airforce one?

victorDanladi:
PIGs will blame it on Afonjas as if they are the leader of IYC.

if u where not a pig,u would stayed off this thread.....

but ur long piggy nose wont let u......


demola ajayi.....

Ijaws are Biafrans and Biafrans are Ijaws. Period!















But that's only possible on Nairaland

Ijaws are yorubas

DocHMD:
Na so. Ewedugerians should pray to more Allah.

Bribe some persons in the non-Igbo SS to denounce Biafra:
the same pattern in the last three months which Bubu has been away. The leadership of the most shophischiwretched group wants the political status quo in Nigeria to remain. Never trust them.

they should conduct election to know where they belong