NIGERIA, AND NOT BIAFRA WAS THE COUNTRY BIRTHED AT INDEPENDENCE IN 1960!

The Truth and Nothing But the Truth About 30-Month Biafra Secession of 1967-1970 As meticulously and diligently Documented By the WATCHMAN (Zion B-B C Newsletter, Nigeria), To Dissuade Young Igbos from Precipitating Further Bloodshed of Innocent Nigerians! (Ezekiel. 33: 1- 33).

THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR:
(1). The Biafran Sesession War waged against Nigeria from 16th July, 1967 to 12th January, 1970, by a section of the Nigerian Army and citizens of the then Eastern Region, under the leadership of Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, was a compounded treasonable felony, in view of the fact that Nigeria was under the martial law through an initial coup de tat against the entire nation, led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu on 15th January, 1966!

(2) In the early hours of 15 January, 1966, several eminent Nigerian politicians, including, the Prime Minister and Premiers of the Northern and Western Regions were murdered in cold blood when soldiers of the Nigerian Army revolted in Kaduna, Lagos Ibadan and Enugu in a pre-meditated and well-planned coup!

(3) Here are some excerpts of coup leader, Major Nzeogwu in a broadcast on the 16th January, 1966: "We seized power to stamp out tribalism, nepotism and regionalism.... There were five us in the inner circle and we planned the details. On Saturday morning the officers and men thought they were going out only on a night exercise. It was not until they were out in the bush they were told the full details of the plan.....It was a truly Nigerian gathering and only in the army do you get true Nigerianism.... They did it for the good of their country.... We all started out in the same spirit but......."

(4) It was a bloody coup which took the lives of Northern and Western leaders but which spared those of the Eastern Region, including the first President, Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe!

(5) According to the Republican Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chapter I, General Provisions, Part I (2), "The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall not be governed, nor shall any person or group of persons take control of the Government of Nigeria or any part thereof, except in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution," but Major Nzeogwu and his coupists seized power with impunity!

(6) Elder Statesmen, Enerst Ikoli, and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, of blessed memory would be fondly remembered for the dignified and noble roles they played alongside their fellow nationalists in the persons of late Herbert Macaulay, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Anthony Enahoro, who negotiated Nigeria's Independent status with the British Colonial Masters without shedding ONE DROP OF HUMAN BLOOD!

NIGERIAN NATION:
(7). Nigeria was birthed on the concept and principles of unity of people of diverse tongues, tribes, cultures/castes, who were determined to dwell together and harness their diversity into democratic prosperity/dividends and not on a myopic or narrow-minded philosophy of unitary governance of a selfish few, over the majority mass of other vulnerable citizens.

( Nigeria at Independence turned out to be the confederate of very peaceful people comprising of at least 250 tribes and over 500 languages who co-existed in love, happiness, mutual trust and understanding which progressed into inter-tribal marriages and pro-creation of inter-regional/inter-communal offspring’s as nucleus of the Nigerian dream of the founding fathers until 15th January, 1966, when Nigerian Army Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogu and his fellow coupist destroyed and shattered the erstwhile fabric of peace, tranquillity serenity, stability and conviviality among the good people of this great and promising nation, through a bloody coup - this FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THIS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN NATION!

KADUNA NZEOGU:
(9) The late Major Nzeogu's parents begat him in Kaduna where they migrated and prospered as traders. He grew up in Kaduna and due to his great affinity with Northern colleagues at school and later in the army, they named him after "Kaduna" his birth place, (though an Igbo by tribe), the then capital city of the Northern Region of Nigeria but unknown to them, he would someday rebel against his Fatherland by killing those he professed to love dearly!

(10) In recent contemporary global history, foreign immigrants by birth in some European countries had turned out to be traitors to their hosts! Both France and Germany, in 2016, and London and Manchester in 2017, have suffered terrorist attacks which claimed scores of innocent lives through the hands of ungrateful immigrant settlers/citizens who bit the fingers that fed them!

(11) That coup de tat by Kaduna Nzeogwu and other officers, mostly of the Eastern extraction was the SEED PLOT of animosity which had turned the North against the South - especially, South East, till date because fatalities of the TREASON, were Northern and Western Region indigenes - while political leaders of the Eastern Nigeria who were spared has its consequences and ripple effects in a counter coup by army officers of the Northern extraction in July 1966

THESE TRUTHFUL DOCUMENTATION IS PUBLISHED FOR THE PRESENT CROP OF A NEW BIAFRA SECESSION AGITATORS AND POSTERITY TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST!

(12) Why Would The Igbos Reject The Truth? Can They Re-write The Nigerian History? Inordinate ambition led the Igbos to shed innocent blood six months into Nigeria's independence and also to embark on a suicidal mission of secession in 1967, when their overall plan fell like a pack of cards!

(13) General Aguiyi Ironsi , Military Head of State introduced the hard line vertical style of UNITARY command system of government instead of devolving some measure of power to his Regional Governors whom he treated as mere puppets who must receive autocratic orders from him as the feudal lord alone. After his demise in the Second coup, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, then Governor of the Eastern State, pursued an Igbo agenda of secession instead of employing RESTITUTION TACTICS and Over TWO MILLION Nigerians died in the 30-month-old BIAFRA WAR!

(14) YOUNG IGBOS ARE STILL AGITATING FOR SECESSION INSTEAD OF A POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING THAT WOULD FAVOUR THEM THROUGH THE CREATION OF A NEW STATE FOR SOUTH EAST GEO- POLITICAL ZONE! WHY WOULD ANY SANE PERSON WISH TO RESURRECT AN INORDINATE CAUSE THAT DESTROYED OVER TWO MILLION LIVES - 50 YEARS AFTER?

(15) To majority of patriotic Nigerians, a political re-structuring of financially stronger federating States in the form of devolution of power, for them to contribute to the centre and reverse the present trend of revenue sharing formula; and to others, the country should re-adopt the regional system of government as now expressed in the SIX Geo- Political zones through the scrapping of the 36 State Structure! WON'T MAJOR NZEOGWU STIR IN HIS GRAVE OVER A REVERSAL TO REGIONAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT?
HOW MANY IGBOS SUPPORT SECESSION APART FROM NNAMDI KANU AND RALPH NWAZURIKE?

(16) Ninety-nine point nine per cent of Igbos have denounced secession because it is not good for BUSINESS! All the billions of naira in their bank accounts were garnered from doing business with 170 million Nigerians! WHAT WOULD BE THE POPULATION OF A NEW BIAFRA? ONE THOUSAND OR ONE MILLION? Would the Igbos carve out Biafra From Nigeria or Sahara Desert as the ISIS did in Libya/Syrian Deserts?

EMMANUEL IWUANYANWU:
(17) A prominent Igbo, business entrepreneur and politician, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has been speaking from both sides of the mouth: in one breath, he says, the Igbos had invested so much in Nigeria and would therefore oppose secession of any group of people - whether they be Arewa or Oduduwa; and in another breath, he says, he was proud to be a Biafran, which claimed an ordinary identification!

(18) We disagree with that postulation! Biafra is synonymous with SECESSION from the nation of Nigeria between 1967-1970 in which over TWO MILLION innocent human beings - including vulnerable women and children died untimely; it is also synonymous to the introduction of CANIBALISM into that part of the nation when elders who survived had to feed on the flesh of their CHILDREN, like in Biblical Israel during a terrible period of FAMINE! (2 Kings. 6:24-29).

BIAFRA IS ANATHEMA!
(19) Biafra rings out a sound of discord, it is an ARCHAIC DOCTRINE that should be abandoned in the archives! Protagonists of a Biafra nation are the naive and disillusioned Igbo youths who did not experience the agonizing pain of war and who need a new orientation that Nigeria would remain ONE INDIVISIBLE NATION FOREVER AND EVER ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSIVE WILL OF GOD.

(20) The following were the last comments of Chief Iwuanyanwu at a recent National Unity Summit, organised by Arewa Ambassadors Congress of Nigeria in partnership with Youth Assembly of Nigeria: "Biafra is not about secession. It is a name of a particular people in Nigeria from the South East. Therefore, it is not an offence to say that I am a Biafran. There was no victor, no vanquished after the civil war. I am impressed with Yakubu Gowon because he IMPLEMENTED ALL THE AGREEMENTS REACHED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. IGBO WERE NOT DEPRIVED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR." WHAT ABOUT THE NIGERIAN MASSES!

(21) In all of these arguments - for and against - none of the agitators ever bothered to consider the ripple effects that such acrimonious war would add to the plight of the common Nigerians who would suffer the consequences of another civil war in the country while they are yet to recover from the hurts and scars of the dying economic recession! EVERYONE IS MARGINALIZED!

(22) A second republic law maker and elder statesman, Dr Junaid Mohammed, recently accused President Buhari of marginalizing the North in favour of the South West in areas of Key appointments and development projects like roads without constructing one single toad in the North and without meeting the aspirations and basic needs of northerners!

(23) Recommendations of the 2014 National Conference in respect of the South East Geo-Political Zone which states among other things that an additional state should be created for the South East to be at par with others with SIX States should be revisited without delay!

CIVIL DISTURBANCE AGAIN?
(24) Must IPOB/MASSOB and Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), disrupt social/commercial activities of other Nigerians and national security on 30th MAY 2017? A timely warning against any form of planned protests in some States of the Federation by pro-Biafra organisations was issued on Friday, 26th May, 2017 by the Nigeria Police, who promised to deal decisively with defaulters who might breach security and undermine law and order.

(25) Misguided Igbo youths should be reminded that just as they could claim the freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association under the Constitution, so could other millions of Nigerians whom they planned to deprive of their constitutional rights of free movements and access to public/private facilities on the day in question!
NIGERIA DOES NOT NEED DIVERSIONARY BLOODSHED WHILE GRAPLING WITH THE REMNANTS OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY!



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.