see this post also >>>>>>
https://gistpage.com.ng/thread/post/03-04-17-biafra-remove-itsekiri-land-from-map-to











The Itsekiri National Youth Congress, INYC,
has called on the agitators for a sovereign
state of Biafra to remove Itsekiri land from
the map of the Biafra.

This was contained in a communiqué issued
in Warri, Delta State by the President of the
INYC, Esimaje Awani yesterday.

He warned that, “Itsekiri and its territories
should not be included in any IPOB or Biafra
plan.”

He stated that Itsekiri were an indigenous
ethnic group of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region
of Delta State presently resident in Warri
South, Warri North and Warri South West
Local Government Areas bordering the
Atlantic Coast of Nigeria as their homeland
with their only neighbours being the Bini to
the North, the Ijaw to the South, the Urhobo
to the East and the Yoruba of Ondo State to
the Northwest.

According to Awani, from about 1490 – 1884,
the Itsekiri had an independent political
kingdom known as Warri Kingdom that was
not subordinate to any of the World Powers
in Europe or any African Kingdom.

He added that it was in 1894 when the Niger
Coast Protectorate was established that it
came under the protection of Her Britannic
Majesty vide the Treaty of 1884.

He further explained that by another Treaty
of 1894, the Itsekiri remained under the
British until the Colony and Protectorate of
Southern Nigeria was created and in 1914,
without consultation with the Itsekiri people,
Lord Lugard decreed Nigeria into existence
and made Warri Kingdom (Itsekiri homeland)
part of this enterprise.

Awani pointed out that by the map of the
Republic of Biafra of May 1967, Edo and Delta
states of Nigeria was never envisioned as a
part of Biafra by the legendary
Chukwuemeka Dim Ojukwu, saying that the
current inclusion of present Delta State,
including the Itsekiri National territories of
Warri Kingdom without due consultation is
preposterous, totally unacceptable and
ultimately invalid.

His words,“IPOB and Biafra have their rights
of agitation for freedom of self determination
as enshrined in the United Nations
declaration, but other minority ethnic groups
not duly consulted and their approval secured
should not be dragged along to avoid the
mistake that led to the civil war.

“The magnanimity of Itsekiri in allowing
Igbos celebrate the Igbo Cultural Day in our
land should not be taken for granted as we
urge IPOB to de-list Itsekiri territories and
Warri areas from its proposed map.”


https://gistpage.com.ng/thread/post/03-04-17-biafra-remove-itsekiri-land-from-map-to

Hmmmm


OK

I will not utter a wor