How to kill Biafra
— 19th March 2017

Ever since the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war and the resuscitation of the Biafra dream by Chief Ralph Uwazurike and his Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), the Biafra agitation has, perhaps, not been as strident as it is now. Many attribute the resurgence to the emergence of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Though the formation or leadership of IPOB has been mired in controversy, Nnamdi Kanu, the Radio Biafra director, has given the agitation a lot of punch, especially since his incarceration and ongoing trial for treasonable felony.

For many Nigerians, the agitation is needless, as they feel Nigeria is big enough for everyone. That, exactly, is the belief of yours sincerely, as repeatedly expressed here. The Biafra agitators, however, disagree, saying their decision to opt out of Nigeria was an unavoidable choice due to several years of neglect and deliberate marginalisation. The Biafra hopefuls postulate that those that are too hasty in condemning their quest for self-determination lack understanding simply because they do not feel the pinch since they do not wear the shoe.

Of course, virtually every section of the country cries of marginalisation, much of which is a ruse to mask the hurt of a people so glaringly marked for mistreatment. However, I stumbled upon this anonymous exchange between a Biafra agitator and his Yoruba friend and I feel this can go a long way in proffering a solution to the ills of our crumbling monolith, Nigeria.

Yoruba: Under what conditions would you support “One Nigeria” and let go of the Biafra agitation and let it die down, finally laid to rest for good?

Biafra agitator: Close down Lagos ports and open up Port Harcourt, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri ports.

• Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports, allowing only local connecting flights. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and Port Harcourt to direct international and major connecting flights.

• Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos, Kano and Abuja to Enugu, Port Harcourt and Calabar.

• All Federal Government agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, Port Harcourt and Calabar. Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), etc., shall and must relocate to Port Harcourt, Calabar and Enugu.
• All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to Port Harcourt, Calabar and Enugu.
• All oil companies must relocate their head offices to Port Harcourt, as the oil capital of Nigeria.
• Let the northern children gain admission into federal schools with 300 score points while the South-East children should gain admission with only 20 score points.
• Let all federal road projects in the North/South-West be handled by one local company and the one in the South-East/South-South be handled by Julius Berger and foreign construction companies.
If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented for 50 years, we can try one Nigeria and let’s see if you the North and South-West will like it for a month…

• Also, Yoruba and Hausa needing to get international visas shall travel to Port Harcourt, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights; with shipping and importing their goods, etc.
Yoruba: You can’t be serious, this is wickedness…
Biafra agitator: Really? Don’t you think the south-eastern part of Nigeria has been suffering and enduring this very same wickedness for over 50 years?
Yoruba (quiet for a few seconds): Wow, you are right but it never occurred to me…

Biafra agitator: That’s the problem with One Nigeria, those who are benefiting from it, love it and would love to maintain the status quo. Let each region develop at her own pace, with airport, seaports, industries, major projects open to be developed in any part of Nigeria without government interference or strangulation due to tribalism and nepotism!
Let Nigeria be fair to ALL, irrespective of tribe, religion and place of birth. Let there be true federalism and resources control. Let’s have equal respect for one another, irrespective of where the person comes from in Nigeria. That is what Biafra agitation is all about.

Of a truth, the foregoing may not totally reflect the entire story but it certainly exposes how injustice has led us to where we are today. A truly united Nigeria must redress these ills. Instead, by shutting out the South-East from this government, Nigerian leaders have brazenly told the South-East to go to hell and, to them, Biafra is the ‘hell’ they are willing to go to. Strangely, the same people pushing the people out are intent on keeping them on a leash by force. That is most unfair, a prelude to anarchy.

Take the admission policy into Nigeria’s erroneously named unity schools, where everything points to disunity. Anambra and Imo states students, for instance, must score 139 and 138 per cent respectively to be considered for admission, whereas students from Zamfara and Taraba states require as low as 3 per cent to be admitted into the same school. This political contrivance is only meant to favour the North, dubiously tagged educationally disadvantaged. In other words, no matter how herdsman the brain of the northern student, he is guaranteed admission. Today, they are still saying education is evil (boko haram) and busy destroying everything and everyone while the rest of Nigeria, especially Igboland, bears the brunt of this madness.

For some of us, moderates, Biafra may not be the ultimate dream. However, it behooves Nigerian authorities to do the needful to kill the agitation, which they deliberately neglect to do. To keep Nigeria truly one, the country must be redesigned on the foundation of equity and fairness; it must not pander to the caprices of a particular section that is intent on keeping others down, as no force of arms can cow a determined people for too long.

It is worth reminding Nigeria, too, that Scotland is again pressing for another plebiscite to decide whether to remain in Britain or not and nobody has been killed or jailed for making this demand.

http://sunnewsonline.com/how-to-kill-biafra/#comment-61330

This is true, there is no way Nigeria can continue to be one with a section of the country working hard to excel while the other section are lazy and parasitic.

Apt,...



Very apt!

BankeSmalls:
Absolute rubbish.

u need 2 give urself a break

An interesting piece.

Only bastards are afraid of answering their father's name and continue to promote "by force unity'.

Believe it or not, Nigeria Is A Geographical Expression Binded Together By Oil.. Remove oil in Nigeria today & watch as there won't be anything like Nigeria

How i wish nigerianz live as one but the northerners are making it impossible.Dey know wot to do to keep nigerianz united ad happy..so de only option available is break up..be it tru peace or war.

Op u spoke well but will they listen?
It's a topic for another day


Nigeria is a fraud designed by the born to rule to dominate and riffle other minorities
Nigeria cannot prosper cause the foundation is faulty
Shortcut to being a billionaire is to become a politician in Nigeria
A country where corruption pays and hardwork brings poverty
Everything is upside down
It's all wrong in Nigeria

Why does biafra need to die? Is reality of biafra finally hitting the Ipob? PLEASE don't let biafra die no matter what, it's your right and freedom, fear not, go all the way. Whether you you like it or not, Nigeria will break, so stop backpedaling, biafra you must get.

DocHMD:
Only bastards are afraid of answering their father's name and continue to promote "by force unity'.

how many ibo leaders have sponsor a referendum bill?
what stopped ibos from secision during gej tenure?

My simple question is: Why are they afraid of Biafra?

Rather, it should be how to kill Liegeria

We have made up our minds. Even if Buhari decides to move every good damn thing to Biafran land, sorry , its too late.

DocHMD:
Only bastards are afraid of answering their father's name and continue to promote "by force unity'.

There is no need to kill Biafra, it is dead already. No of the perceived injustices the author made mention of is exclusive to the SE. All Nigerians are aggrieved but splitting up our country is not the dilution

Keep wasting your time dreaming how to kill Biafra when you haven't killed treatment of SE as a non-Nigerian territory and her people as foreigners in nigeria.

Tell me why they won't seek another country of their own?

walemoney007:
how many ibo leaders have sponsor a referendum bill?
what stopped ibos from secision during gej tenure?

The struggle preceded GEJ .it has nothing to do with Nigerian politics.igbo leaders can't sponsor a bill or anything like that because it will be DOA because of or parts of the country.
The struggle is an inherent desire of a people to be left alone.

it is a matter of ' leave me alone, I have no similarities with you ! Be on your own let me be on my own' simple.

kropotkin2:
There is no need to kill Biafra, it is dead already. No of the perceived injustices the author made mention of is exclusive to the SE. All Nigerians are aggrieved but splitting up our country is not the dilution

A people are saying 'leave me alone, I have no similarities with you' get thee far away from me.simple!

why is it that igbo think everybody is stupid.they should move all commercialization to the south east because we want to stop baifra,the writer drink,who even told him we want to stop baifra,we want them to move to isreal

bukifemi1:

How to kill Biafra
— 19th March 2017

Ever since the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war and the resuscitation of the Biafra dream by Chief Ralph Uwazurike and his Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), the Biafra agitation has, perhaps, not been as strident as it is now. Many attribute the resurgence to the emergence of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Though the formation or leadership of IPOB has been mired in controversy, Nnamdi Kanu, the Radio Biafra director, has given the agitation a lot of punch, especially since his incarceration and ongoing trial for treasonable felony.

For many Nigerians, the agitation is needless, as they feel Nigeria is big enough for everyone. That, exactly, is the belief of yours sincerely, as repeatedly expressed here. The Biafra agitators, however, disagree, saying their decision to opt out of Nigeria was an unavoidable choice due to several years of neglect and deliberate marginalisation. The Biafra hopefuls postulate that those that are too hasty in condemning their quest for self-determination lack understanding simply because they do not feel the pinch since they do not wear the shoe.

Of course, virtually every section of the country cries of marginalisation, much of which is a ruse to mask the hurt of a people so glaringly marked for mistreatment. However, I stumbled upon this anonymous exchange between a Biafra agitator and his Yoruba friend and I feel this can go a long way in proffering a solution to the ills of our crumbling monolith, Nigeria.

Yoruba: Under what conditions would you support “One Nigeria” and let go of the Biafra agitation and let it die down, finally laid to rest for good?

Biafra agitator: Close down Lagos ports and open up Port Harcourt, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri ports.

• Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports, allowing only local connecting flights. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and Port Harcourt to direct international and major connecting flights.

• Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos, Kano and Abuja to Enugu, Port Harcourt and Calabar.

• All Federal Government agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, Port Harcourt and Calabar. Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), etc., shall and must relocate to Port Harcourt, Calabar and Enugu.
• All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to Port Harcourt, Calabar and Enugu.
• All oil companies must relocate their head offices to Port Harcourt, as the oil capital of Nigeria.
• Let the northern children gain admission into federal schools with 300 score points while the South-East children should gain admission with only 20 score points.
• Let all federal road projects in the North/South-West be handled by one local company and the one in the South-East/South-South be handled by Julius Berger and foreign construction companies.
If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented for 50 years, we can try one Nigeria and let’s see if you the North and South-West will like it for a month…

• Also, Yoruba and Hausa needing to get international visas shall travel to Port Harcourt, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights; with shipping and importing their goods, etc.
Yoruba: You can’t be serious, this is wickedness…
Biafra agitator: Really? Don’t you think the south-eastern part of Nigeria has been suffering and enduring this very same wickedness for over 50 years?
Yoruba (quiet for a few seconds): Wow, you are right but it never occurred to me…

Biafra agitator: That’s the problem with One Nigeria, those who are benefiting from it, love it and would love to maintain the status quo. Let each region develop at her own pace, with airport, seaports, industries, major projects open to be developed in any part of Nigeria without government interference or strangulation due to tribalism and nepotism!
Let Nigeria be fair to ALL, irrespective of tribe, religion and place of birth. Let there be true federalism and resources control. Let’s have equal respect for one another, irrespective of where the person comes from in Nigeria. That is what Biafra agitation is all about.

Of a truth, the foregoing may not totally reflect the entire story but it certainly exposes how injustice has led us to where we are today. A truly united Nigeria must redress these ills. Instead, by shutting out the South-East from this government, Nigerian leaders have brazenly told the South-East to go to hell and, to them, Biafra is the ‘hell’ they are willing to go to. Strangely, the same people pushing the people out are intent on keeping them on a leash by force. That is most unfair, a prelude to anarchy.

Take the admission policy into Nigeria’s erroneously named unity schools, where everything points to disunity. Anambra and Imo states students, for instance, must score 139 and 138 per cent respectively to be considered for admission, whereas students from Zamfara and Taraba states require as low as 3 per cent to be admitted into the same school. This political contrivance is only meant to favour the North, dubiously tagged educationally disadvantaged. In other words, no matter how herdsman the brain of the northern student, he is guaranteed admission. Today, they are still saying education is evil (boko haram) and busy destroying everything and everyone while the rest of Nigeria, especially Igboland, bears the brunt of this madness.

For some of us, moderates, Biafra may not be the ultimate dream. However, it behooves Nigerian authorities to do the needful to kill the agitation, which they deliberately neglect to do. To keep Nigeria truly one, the country must be redesigned on the foundation of equity and fairness; it must not pander to the caprices of a particular section that is intent on keeping others down, as no force of arms can cow a determined people for too long.

It is worth reminding Nigeria, too, that Scotland is again pressing for another plebiscite to decide whether to remain in Britain or not and nobody has been killed or jailed for making this demand.

http://sunnewsonline.com/how-to-kill-biafra/#comment-61330

ojlifa:
[s]why is it that igbo think everybody is stupid.they should move all commercialization to the south east because we want to stop baifra,the writer drink,who even told him we want to stop baifra,we want them to move to isreal
[/s]

Afonja...you cannot and can never reason with them!

we no won reason with you,you say you be baifra we be zoo,you say you no want us,we tell you thank you ,then we self tell say we no want you.una say una be jew say na isreal be your house,now we dey tell una we agree,make una quick move,tell us when the movement go start,because if una think say we go give una 1 naira,make una know that formate no work,Nnamdi just chop una money

sean1000x:


Afonja...you cannot and can never reason with them!

ojlifa:
[s]we no won reason with you,you say you be baifra we be zoo,you say you no want us,we tell you thank you ,then we self tell say we no want you.so say you be jew say na isreal be your house,now we dey tell una we agree,make una quick move,tell us when the movement go start,because if una think say we go give una 1 naira,make una know that formate no work,Nnamdi just chop una money[/s]

Dumb Afonja...no wonder Osun and Oyo are in last category in WAEC results

i no get time to dey abuse,when you finish abeg tell us when migration to isreal dey start

sean1000x:


Dumb Afonja...no wonder Osun and Oyo are in last category in WAEC results

walemoney007:
how many ibo leaders have sponsor a referendum bill?
what stopped ibos from secision during gej tenure?

IPOB and MASSOB preceed GEJ's tenure. It is not in your place to tell Igbos when to secceed or not. You are yoruba, it shouldn't be your business.

kropotkin2:
There is no need to kill Biafra, it is dead already. No of the perceived injustices the author made mention of is exclusive to the SE. All Nigerians are aggrieved but splitting up our country is not the dilution

Count how many times you've talked about Biafra i'm sure you've mentioned it about 300 times since last year compare that to how many times you've mentioned your REALLY DEAD father in the shallow grave.

Another afonja who didn't sleep because of Biafra

Biafra has come to stay....in line with freedom and declaration of independence this has to be..... it reads


When in the Course of human events it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them
with another and to assume among the powers
of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prof Miganigal

Story for the gods

You can't kill BIAFRA

Why not take a gatlin gun and raze the whole of Biafra land

walemoney007:
how many ibo leaders have sponsor a referendum bill?
what stopped ibos from secision during gej tenure?

It is obvious you were born in 2015, Because you don't know about one Benjamin Ownuka, Google is your friend.