20 pounds... If they can PROVE they have
more than that money in their account. I see another
south southerner, the person of the former governor of
Akwa Ibom and now Senator of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria Akpabio has suddenly spoken up and to
those who matter and who have the power to make the
nation truly one where each people, Kanuri. Fulani,
Yoruba, Efik etc can be made to feel like they belong
to Nigeria.
Is it coincidence that suddenly the 20 pounds and
treatment of Igbos are on center-stage or is it that
great avalanches and cascades start with one little
shove? Whatever it is, me starting it or not, it is only
fair someone reminds the leaders that special care
must be taken else we find ourselves fighting a Biafra
war part 2. When over 20 appointments have been
made and not even two or three are from the south
East or Igbos properly so defined, you are telling them
that they must seek redress outside Nigeria.
As Buhari makes his decisions, he can choose to either
factor 97 and 5 percent, or factor National Unity and
peace.
Here is the speech by Akpobio)
EXPLOSIVE! Former Governor Of Akwa Ibom State,
Senator Akpabio Speaks On the Nigerian Civil War
13th August 2015 News
EXPLOSIVE! Former Governor Of Akwa Ibom State,
Senator Akpabio Speaks On Biafra You have been very
vocal lately in dismissing and trashing the then federal
military government’s post-civil war efforts at the 3
Rs: Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation.
What don’t you agree with?
AKPABIO: As a young man, you definitely will not
understand me. But I was a victim of the Civil War. I
was one of those who suffered the pains of the war. I
was born sometime in 1962; the civil war came really
into our area in 1967. So, I was probably five or six
years old during the war; and if I had been around
nine years, I would probably have been conscripted.
I saw parents throw their children into pit toilets
because they did not want their positions to be made
known to the enemy. I saw devastation; I saw
kwashiorkor; I saw hunger; I saw thousands of people
and bodies littered everywhere and smelling while
vultures had a field day every day. I saw houses
destroyed; I saw families scattered such that till the
end of the world, they can never gather themselves
together again. There were children who were shipped
away to Gabon, and they can never come back to
Nigeria again because they were small. How would
two-year-olds and three-year-olds ever know where
they came from? They are now proud Gabonese and I
don’t think Nigerians are even asking questions.
So, during the Silverbird Man of the Year Award,
there were pictures that were shown of the Civil War.
Somebody, sitting by me, who is from the West, was
asking if those things were acted: the Kwashiorkor-rid
den children with their swollen tummies, ugly shapes
and bony structures because of hunger and starvation.
The then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon
attempted to explain that he tried everything to avoid
the scenes that were being shown on the screen, that
he did not want the war. The other person who could
have answered him, unfortunately, that is Emeka
Ojukwu, is dead. He said he tried everything to stop
the war from breaking out but it’s only Ojukwu who
could have answered whether he equally did his part in
avoiding the war.
But something struck me: it was said that Gowon
should be commended for initiating the three Rs:
reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction. And I
asked a very simple question, that I came with a
written text but I wasn’t going to read it. I thanked
Silverbird for the award; and I said I did not want to
criticise my leaders because I am also now a leader.
But I asked to be allowed to ask a question: how come
reconstruction started in the West when the war was
actually fought in the East? They started the Third
Mainland Bridge, the National Theatre, the international
airport, and so on, in the West, while the war was
fought in the eastern region. And if we really wanted
to ensure total reconciliation, how come every account
holder in the eastern region was given only £20? It
did not matter whether your father had £10,000,000
or £50,000,000 before the war; you were given just
£20. It was a take it or leave it situation. If your
family survived and there was an account holder alive,
he/she went to the bank, and collected just £20.
Could £20 pounds solve the Kwashiorkor that we
were seeing? Could it reconstruct the houses that were
burnt? Could it produce food? A lot of other things
happened that I did not mention on that occasion.
Don’t forget that it was shortly after the war in 1971
that the policy of indigenisation started, where most of
the foreign industries and companies were sold to
Nigerians, and the war-ravaged eastern regions,
which include the entire South-South and the rest of
them, could not buy, because no one who did not have
money to even feed or clothe himself would have had
money to buy any industry. So, I was just wondering,
as a young man, if that was true reconciliation,
because one would have thought that the government
would have gone to any extent to give them more
money so that they could truly rehabilitate themselves.
They needed money from reconstruction, and I would
have thought that reconstruction would have also
started from the East. I just asked because we were
lucky to have the dramatis persona of the war right in
here still alive: General T. Y. Danjuma, General
Yakubu Gowon, General Obasanjo, General Buhari and
others. It is very rare to see these former heads of
state in just one place, so I had to ask.
I said also that it is important, even for the current-
day leaders, that we continue to take actions that will
unite Nigeria. And we should purge ourselves of
actions that tend to cause pains to Nigerians. For me,
I believe that because of certain policies of the federal
government after the war, the war did not cease in
the eastern region until about 30 years after the war.

Am oblivion of the name biafra. Just another illusion

And now dey are gathering billions of dollars for reconstruction of the North-east.

It's actually dia birth right and yet they Wnt let us go.

We'll go anyway, it's just more time

The hatred and the unstable nature of Yoruba didn't start today, check the history; when BIAFRAN Sodiers advanced from Binin to Yoruba land to enter Lagos the capital but Yorubas unanimously refused them for two weeks. Awolowo said and I quote: Hunger and starvation is one of the important tools of war. Awolowo refused the passage of food from united nation to get to the BIAFRANS.

Honestly, I love this frenzy that the Igbos' are generating... You see when we told Nigerians that buhari was a bad luck to our collective destinies they doubted us, how can an illiterate (certificateless) old man lead a diverse country of over one hundred and sixty million people comprising of over two hundred ethnic groups?

One fellow was asking why didn't the Igbos' make 'noise' during GEJ time only for them to start now. As plausible as the question may seem, one needs to remind everybody that the Igbos' have always been championing the campaign for self determination even during GEJ's time. It has only come out very clear and noticeable this time because of the bone-headed mistakes, and ineptitude of duck-lame buhari.

Jonathan during his term chose to ignore and completely disregard radio Biafra and all forms of ethnic and religious bigotry, in order to prove how detribalized he was; he worked so much in the northwest that the budget going to the north was sometimes higher than that of the south. Now, this is what I call sensible and mature leadership. Oppositely, buhari came and chose to go through the part of ignominy, now the result is what we are seeing now.

For me I'm so happy with the goings on in Nigeria, and sincerely wish this frenzy can continue, because it is only in this state of anomie and confusion laced with ethnic jingoism would the dream for the actualization of greater BIAFRA be made manifest.

That's what u get when u go ahead n fix a very high exchange rate for the Biafra currency. What u guys r saying is that Biafrans left as high as £50,000,000 in nigeria to go suffer.