So recent Biafran protests have got me thinking, but
I have been skeptical about airing my views because
of perceived reactions.

DISCLAIMER: THESE ARE PERSONAL VIEWS, AND I, IN NO WAY CLAIM SUPREMACY OF KNOWLEDGE. FOR THE “GREYS” WHO THINK I AM TOO YOUNG TO SPEAK OF THIS SUBJECT, PLEASE PERMIT THIS CHILD TO SPEAK, THEN CORRECT HIM IF HE IS WRONG. FOR IGNORANCE CAN ONLY BE KNOWN IF IT IS AIRED, AND CAN ONLY BE CORRECTED IF IT IS KNOWN.
My points are as follows:

1. According to worldometers the median age of
Nigeria is 17.8, hence an “average ” did not
experience the civil war.

2.This is the age statistics of Nigeria as at 2014 is as
follows:
0-14 years: 43.2%
15-24 years: 19.3%
25-54 years: 30.5%
55-64 years: 3.9%
65 years and over: 3.1% (indexmundi.com)
In simpler statistics 93% of Nigerians were 5 and
below in 1967.

3. According to Wikipedia, youth age range is
between 18-35. Hence no present day Nigerian youth
saw the civil war.

My first question: since over 90% percent of us
neither saw the civil war nor participated actively,
and our youth were born 10 years after the war,
where is all the hate and agitation from?

4. The major driving force of Biafra is the igboland,
but the Biafran map includes states like Cross river,
Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom state. This
makes Biafra a culturally diverse state. I am igbo and I currently live in Akwa Ibom state, and we share no similarity in custom or language. How then can we live together as “one Biafra” when we can’t tolerate the cultural diversity of Nigeria.

5. The Igbo tribe would become the majority tribe in
Biafra, while the others who constitute the oil
producing states hence the ‘rich boys’ would become
minority. “How can the wealth most especially that
from oil, be distributed, when the majority is in
power and the minority have the resource?”
So therefore, a time may come when the “minority”
may decide to be free, because no man wants to live
in another man’s shadow.

6. Igbos are generally regarded as traders, and the
lifeblood of their markets like Onitsha Main market
and Ariaria international market is found in Lagos
seaport where most of the goods come from. In
Biafra, Lagos becomes another country hence tax
and import/ export levies would increase drastically
and logistics would become more difficult.
The other option is to trade via the Calabar Port,
Delta Port or Rivers Port at Port Harcourt, and Onne.

These ports are only found in the non-igbo states,
hence another potential challenge.

7. What happens to Biafrans that have their
livelihood rooted deeply in non Biafran states? What
happens to the igbos that constitute the majority of
Alaba international market?

Would naturalization take place or would they
liquidate assets and return to Biafra and start
afresh?

8. Finally, the question of ruler-ship. Who rules
Biafra?

Currently, most Igbo people especially those in Abia
and Imo state are dissatisfied with the condition of
their states. They complain of bad government,
massive looting, poor infrastructures etc, and they
are currently ruled by Igbo governors.
If Biafra is formed who would rule then?

I believe it would be the same people that they
complain of, and as you can see the cycle of pain
and complaints would continue.

Problems are fixed by inward reflections not
outward projections and blame shifting.

PLEASE BEAR WITH ME, FOR A CHILD WHO DID NOT SEE THE WAR HAS SPOKEN.

Written by Don Franklyn

Source: www.elsieisy.com/so-if-biafra-is-formed/

Cc Lalasticlala

I was thinking about this. Not to sound ethnocentric, but the 'south east', Igboland, actually buoys some of the human development statistics of Nigeria, counter balancing much of the north.

Am not surprise

Who dey form am? We are not forming it because it has already been formed, we are only restoring a country that was.................. My grandfather had a nation he live in and so do his father, i just want to know the name of the nation and why it was changed to something else when the british came............. I want that prosperous land (and its original name) of my forefathers and not this cursed barren one named by a barren woman

hit like if u kw dis guy is an attention seeker

O.P live those unreasonable deluded Fowls to run around in their make belief worlds. Shey na so South sudan been start now they will pay anything to go back to the Hell they were in.

One day, jst one day,the Biafrans will have common sense like a true Igbo like ____U!

Fantastic write up;

Hmmm. Before talk of Biafra all of this should have been resolved. I am beginning to think Biafra is a fantasy because they can't even get these minorities to follow them. I truly wish Biafran's goodluck.