Leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Front, NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo has said that contrary to the perception in most quarters that the name Biafra which was adopted by the then breakaway Eastern region is Igbo, the phrase is Ijaw.

He also noted it was an Ijaw man, who suggested the name at a meeting convened by the late leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu to decide on the way forward for the Eastern region after the 1966/1967 pogrom.

Dokubo, who said this in a statement stated that the late Niger Delta activist, Maj. Isaac Adaka Boro affirmed that Ijaw is Biafra in chapter six of his autobiography entitled: Twelve Day Revolution.

He further said that the ties between Igbo and Ijaw ethnic groups are inseparable, adding that It was another Ijaw Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, who first played the Biafran national anthem during the proclamation of independence on May 30, 1967.

His words: “Ignorance can be a terrible disease but it is curable if the sufferer is ready to humble himself to learn and accept the cure for his sickness. Biafra is a Kalabari Ijaw phrase Bia fulo meaning not properly cooked. The Kalabari of Kula named the estuary of Santa Barbara Bia fulo because of the turbulence of the sea at the estuary. The Portuguese like they did to many other names, words and phrases which they could not pronounce properly named the area Biafra. Later the coastline from the estuary of River Nun to the coast of Gabon was named the Bight of Biafra.

“The doyen of our struggle Isaac Adaka Boro clearly affirmed that Ijaw is BIiafra in chapter six, page 57 of his autobiography ‘Twelve Day Revolution’. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, before the declaration of secession, convoked an Eastern Nigerian consultative Assembly to decide on the direction and way forward for the Eastern Region after the 1966/1967 pogrom against Easterners in the north. The assembly debated on many names put forward by delegates and chose Biafra which was put forward by Frank Opigo an Ijaw.”

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/biafra-is-ijaw-not-igbo-asari-dokubo/

what is this pig saying?

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hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Asari doesn't know history, in fact he's a land grabbing IPOB

Tallesty1:
Asari doesn't know history, in fact he's a land grabbing IPOB

Brownies all putting eyes in things about the eastern part

In a country that makes an undereducated sharia law advocate the president of a secular multi-ethic country, it's a shame that the people who know history the most intimately in this country

Nnamdi Kanu
Asari Dokubo
Femi Kayode

are all seen as people to be fought against. Anyone that knows this history of this thing we call Nigeria will not believe in it's right to exist because it's is baseless and detrimental to our development across all ethnic lines. It was designed to be. Wake up.

Some will not like this at all

Asari have spoken the truth, if u no like am, go hug transformer. Truth remains the truth.

Tallesty1:
What is browny and who's a browny?

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Browny is a NOUN

So it was even an Ijaw man that suggested the name Biafra & the IPOB youth carry the name for hand like tissue paper. We knew Ijaws are much more reasonable than the flaties. Flaties as we all know are always claiming what is not there's. Hehehehe

mascot87:
So it was even an Ijaw man that suggested the name Biafra & the IPOB youth carry the name for hand like tissue paper. We knew Ijaws are much more reasonable than the flaties. Flaties as we all know are always claiming what is not there's. Hehehehe

Na u get your mouth. That is a real life Ijaw man speaking not the ijaw wanabe called barcanista from itsekiri abi na bini or yoruba. One of the aforementioned. Definitely not a ijaw man.

Name the Ijaw man that will not vote or support GEJ?

Tallesty1:
What is browny and who's a browny?

Question

This makes it even simpler...kos I've been looking for how to transcribe Biāfra into Nsibiri which is quite difficult but with the kalabari variant Biafulo or Biafura as my northern Igbo brothers would say,its all now very simple.

God works in rather mysterious ways especially through the Eastern Ijo states