Ouch!

We don’t recognise Biafran passport – US, UK
January 25, 2016


Eniola Akinkuotu

The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom have said they do not recognise the passports being issued by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

The National Director of Information, MASSOB, Sunny Okereafor, had said two weeks ago that the passport was valid worldwide, adding that the travel document costs N5,000 while its renewal costs N2,000

He had said, “I assure you that the Biafran passport is valid. Except Nigeria, other countries of the world accept Biafran passport and allow our citizens to travel with it. In Europe, North and South America, Biafran passport is accepted. Nigeria is the only country that seizes Biafran passport. Go to neighbouring Ghana here, they will stamp the passport for you. Don’t be confused by the propaganda of the Nigerian government that there is nothing like Biafra passport.

MASSOB appeals to Biafran citizens to procure their passport and use it to travel. If you doubt me, get a Nigerian passport while I have my Biafran passport; when we get to Europe, you will see who they will welcome than the other. Many people with the Nigerian passport have been repatriated, but have you heard of anybody with Biafran passport receiving such ill-treatment?”

However, our correspondent sent an email to the American consulate in Lagos to inquire from the US regarding the claim of MASSOB.

In his response, the Deputy Public Affairs Officer at the consulate, Frank Sellin, said, “The United States does not consider passports purporting to be from a Biafra entity to be a valid legal document for purposes of visa issuance.”

A similar response from the British Government was sent to The PUNCH via email.

The UK recalled that it did not support the disintegration of Nigeria during the 1967 Biafran War and had not changed its stance 49 years after.

A statement by the Press and Public Affairs Officer, British High Commission, Abuja, Mr. Joe Abuku, read in part, “The answer is unequivocally ‘no’. The UK does not recognise the so-called Biafran passport

“The position of the UK Government during the Biafran War is a matter of historical record. The UK Government’s position, which reflected the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity, was to recognise the borders laid down at independence.

“The Biafran War caused great suffering and the UK supported the reconciliation work that followed the conflict. The UK supports the territorial integrity of Nigeria and the Nigerian Government’s commitment to work for a secure and prosperous Nigeria for all Nigerians.”

http://www.punchng.com/we-dont-recognise-biafran-passport-us-uk/


Bad market o.

@Op...How many times will I read this news?
I know it will reach FP because anything concerning them on nairaland attracts high traffic.





Just last week I was on my way to Niamey, what I noticed surprised me....... It was an 18seater bus and about 12 of the bus occupants were Igbos.......

They are just everywhere you go like MTN.......

It is alleged that MASSOB generated over N500 million from the sale of the passport alone. But incidentally or accidentally, it was a PASSPORT TO NOWHERE.

Scam

OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That UK response was a classic Triple round - horse kick.

u guys no de sleep




I tire oooooo....but Y mesef de awake,odaaro ooo

u guys no de sleep




I tire oooooo....but Y mesef de awake,odaaro ooo

Buy your biafra passport in Nigerian naira I wander how many people have been scammed by this scammers

Dilector in gaol abandoned

Biafra!

How can one be scammed into procuring a passport to NOWHERE? Even as useless as somali has become their passports are still being processed for visa! Uwazuruike should be dragged around the village market for being a disgrace!

O jo luge o fe sunkun


Uwazirike peeve leeeeeee ooooooo





Marafaker

Really not everything should be made news,..

Even the folks holding the sentimental booklet of papers know that they can't even use them as a means of Identity , so why rub it in..

But uwazuruike should be tied to a stake & set on fire on a dry & hot afternoon !! Scamming his own people!!!na wah..

Biafra passport indeed. I've never anyone as gullible as the ipob people. That's why no SS ethnicity will ever be part of biafra. Look at them even scamming their own people. If they can do this to their fellow igbos what would they do to us that are non igbos?

xtrophy:
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So, it is now about Yoruba? It is no more about US an UK that outrightly rejected Biafra passport thereby exposing the scam being perpetrated by so called Biafra elites against their own people. There is a saying loosely goes thus " May God not allow the foolish ones go wise so that the wise ones will always have some people to scam". That is the case of gullible Biafra masses and the few elites.

Let them know. The passport ain't recognized like a burnt file

All I can see is igbo people selling their fellow igbos, just to make money,

US,Uk!Why una dey do like this?Una wan give those that bought the passport to have heart attack ni?Biafian!Make una no believe those countries ooo.Somalia,south sudan and syria accept una passport.Can still use them.Dumb-ass people.

kuuljay:
Buy your biafra passport in Nigerian naira I wander how many people have been scammed by this scammers

Bro!If I tell you how the thing dey take pain mi for body,you go think say mi sef follow buy the passport.Some people are so gullible.

I know some idiots will come here to support that same Uwazurike that is sacamming them.

xtrophy:
How does this news prevent a people from seeking self-determination?

Shymm3x post:
.. I honestly don't know why some Yoruba folks can't let these people be.

It seems a lot of folks are oblivious to the fact that Nigeria is bankrupt and it's only a matter of time before it implodes. So if certain folks want to leave the cesspit, either by hook or by crook - why can't you let them be? Or are Yorubas so messed up these days that they don't believe that they can survive without Igbos cos it is starting to look like that?

You have a people who have been stuck in the 60s cos of Nigeria, yet they are the biggest proponent of the shiithole. If that isn't a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome, I don't know what it is. Or what have Yorubas achieved collectively since the 60s cos pictures of all Yoruba states, apart from Lagos aren't nothing to be proud of. Then almost all the states are heavily indebted and it is only going to get worse due to how bankrupt Nigeria is right now.

Anyway, there are tons of Yorubas out there who wouldn't mind donating in whatever capacity to the Biafran cause, if Igbos can develop a proper strategy that won't alienate those in the South and maintain territorial integrity. Igbos need to start reaching out cos apart from the cows and cow jockeys feasting on free grass in the zoo - the country is a disaster.

70% of the yorubas want you guys to be free to go but they are not myopic in their thinking like yours cos they know the end result.Yoruba people are not your problem.The problem you people have is to have an unified body and a voice.I can only see those poverty-ridden and gullible people are the only one fighting.You can't be a millionaire and be involve in such fight.

But where is lalasticlala sef? Day don break oh for Umuleri.

An amazing decision by those governments

Lols Biafrans are shouting Koni da fun Nnamdi Kanu, what a bastard absolute monarch on the making.
Una 5k don enta bush just laughing like a madman I sori 4 una o.

lmao these guys are deluded. 5k for Biafra passport? Even Nigeria passport get more value. Is that how they see themselves?

[size=15pt]LadyF[/size] don book this space sha.