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Setaje:
The Black Man's Propensity To Always Fight The Wrong Battle.
CASE STUDY: (BIAFRA)


As a young Nigerian Woman, I have always wondered if there is something inherently wrong with the black mind. I have often tried to understand what exactly is our utmost desire and why most of the time, our emotions are much greater than logic.

The Biafran struggle is not an Igbo struggle but also a black man's struggle. Our wants most of the time are largely driven by our emotions at that moment and never for the good of humanity. The Biafran dream is a pipe dream that can never be achieved unless the agitators channel their anger to the right direction. As different as we are in Nigeria, we have so many similarities that makes us stand out. A Northern Nigerian is very different from the people in Niger and Chad like wise an average Nigerian seems to stand out in a group of different Africans. The difference is the Nigerian spirit.

I don't believe in co-incidences. It is an Atheist definition of Destiny. We are Nigerians because it was meant to be. We are in the same Country due to a much greater power and reason beyond human comprehension. Our differences is our beauty. Our differences is what makes Nigeria colorful. An average Nigerian has the same hopes and struggles as a "biafran". We all have the same dreams. We all experience the same kind of pain and annoyance. No Nigerian has it easy because he belongs to a particular tribe and even the hausas that ruled Nigeria for many years, their people have nothing to show for it. We Nigerians from different tribes need each other because we are fighting the same struggle. We need each other because we compliment each other. The hausa man is very comfortable in agriculture, the Igbo man is very comfortable in his business, just provide a good environment for his business to thrive, the yoruba man loves knowledge. Many other minority groups are linked to the three major tribes. Add all this strength and you will get a prosperous economy. What is life without food, business and knowledge?

Nigeria is in a bad state because the citizens are fighting the wrong battle. Just as other black nations Like South sudan, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, South Africa and their killing of foreigners. Etc. Whatever an igbo man is going through is the same thing for a yoruba man and an hausa man. No free food, no free shelter and no free health care. Each ethnic group has it representatives in the federal level, state level and local government level. In jonathans government the igbos were well represented yet their leaders could not help in speeding up the completion of Niger bridge or the erosion menace in the south east. Who do you blame for this? The government or your government? Isn't it going to be the same friends and relatives of the "Zoo" that will rule in Biafra? The yorubas had nothing to show for years with obasanjo as the president. The only sense of belonging to an average Nigerian is when their people of the same ethnic group are in the government. That is a misplaced sense of judgement. Equal representation does not mean development.

So What exactly are the Biafran agitators fighting for? What have they put in place in their economy that an average igbo man would look up to? What would happen to the businesses and properties outside the east? Would food become cheaper by having biafra? Would houses become cheaper? Would roads be constructed? Would the Niger bridge be built? Would erosion stop? Would the igbos stop living the south east in their thousands because the government is doing nothing.

•If the ipob youths both in Nigeria and abroad can come out to demonstrate against the Igbo leaders the way they demonstrated against the Nigerian government for the detention of Nnamdi Kanu, that is the beginning of our revolution.

•If kidnappers start kidnapping politicians and their wives and children for a huge ransome, instead of kidnapping ordinary Nigerians who work tooth and nail to get to where they are with no help from the government whatsoever, that is the beginning of our revolution.

•If Bokoharam started years ago by killing the Northern politicians that have deceived their youths, stolen their common wealth and use religion to deceive them into not aiming high in life. That would have been the beginning of our revolution.


But, like the black man and his inherent nature to always fight the wrong battle, we would keep making the same mistake. What you cannot get out of Nigeria, you cannot get it in Biafra.

This long write up but you circumvented the main issue on which the piller of Biafra is built. The inalienable right of people to chart their own destiny. You must first get freedom before you think about what to do with that freedom. Instead, your long write up is all about how to justify the fraudulent amalgamation of 1914 perpetrated by the British armed robber called Lugard.


I'm an Igbo man asking for my freedom and you are asking me why I haven't made things confortable myself in my jail-cell first?

Sorry but I don't have that sort of slave mentality !!

tonychristopher:
You spoke well...there must be a middle ground . I just hate violence ..look at Syria look at Iraq look at Sudan

Is that what you want


There must be a non violent and diplomatic approach for this Biafra thing biko nwanne madu

Freedom is not cheap, it costs lives. If Nigeria cannot grant Igbos a referendum, we will fight to be free.

6Dvision:
I laugh whenever I hear the biafrans talking abt how soon thy will get their country back, the question is how?, cause I can tell you Nigerian government will not even hear u out d international community has better things to worry abt Dan wild animals trying to run back to jungle, and war my friend is not an option cuts we thrashed you before (Nigeria) and will still do it again.
Like I have before, the world has already been drawn and cannot be changed, where do u expect to be fit in? The Atlantic ocean is free though u can start there.
Peace.

Go and tell your Government to thrash Boko Haram first before you start dreaming about how you will thrash Biafra. The Biafran war that Nigeria would not even have had money to fight if Britain, Russia, Egypt and the Arab league had not stepped in to give Nigeria massive support? I laugh.

tonychristopher:
I know a lot of my people who know me will be surprised by my position ...I do not understand what this Biafra thing is ...I mean how can some dude in London will come and start tormenting trouble for us Igbo by establishing a pirate radio that it's aim is to talk down on people both Igbo and non Igbo. To me this Nnamdi KANU isn't the freedom fighter I envisage . you can't want a country on the alter of insulting your neighbours and even your self. To me I see it as infantile and childish approach . Ojukwu never insulted anybody he had an agreement with them

But this KANU approach is something else . I have not listened to him and I do not think I have that time to listen to him. Pls whoever is reading this shouldn't get it twisted ...we can't have it the way of Sudan or that of south Ossetia nor that of east Timor nor that of Eritrea and Ethiopia. We can also have it the way of north and south Korea . I know that Igbo are assets to Nigeria though they won't want to agree with that and Nigeria is asset to Igbo though we igbo won't admit that but the fact is that we have a bigger market and eco space to exploit Biafra shrinks this market from 180 million to 60 million and this we have to understand

If we can have a multi lateral and billeteral understanding between the emerging nations that will be OK instead of going this Biafra way. Biafra is very OK and I as an Igbo dude support it . what I am against is having a pyromaniac in charge of Biafra . this we have to look before we leap.

We as a country have many non violent approach and they varies left for me I think we can go confederation or united nation way. What do I mean ..we can do it like UAE where Dubai, Abu dabi which are different countries but maintain single military and security and imigration..this is workable or we can have it united kingdom way where Wales, Ireland and other independent countries like Scotland have their independent paliarment but with same currency and visa regime .


We must guarantee free movement between independent states , we must guarantee the bond and brotherhood between the constituent nations . we can't fight ourselves again but as we do this we have to develop independently . if north want sharia and Islamic economy so be it , if west want monarchial capitalism so be it and if igbo wants Republican capitalism so be it. The bottom line is that we won't fight and we have to find a way out of quagmire. We may even have independent passport in this unity if it will ever come but there must be automatic residency and business permit in constituent nations


One of the first law of nation is : SELF PRESERVATION


These are few options available and let us rest on this online Biafra and tribal bashing


Que Sera Sera ...what will be will be


If Biafra will be it will be ..if it won't be it won't be

But if it be we have to also know that good neighbour matters and left for me I think confederation of states like USA, UK and UAE is the best . Africa and the world is watching and waiting for Nigeria to crumble

We can't crumble we have to find peaceful ways to get things done


Good morning all

You are talking as if you are new to Nigeria. What do you think freedom is? A situation where you praise those holding your freedom? Countries like South-Sudan and Eritrea had to fight bitter wars, lost millions of people before they could be independent but what you interested in is who Kanu insults or doesn't insult. You should even be happy it is mere insults for now and not yet action. Boko Haram are blowing everywhere up and killing people every day but your Government is considering negotiation and amnesty for them. Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are insulting and protesting but the same Government is arresting and shooting them. Do you see the hypocrisy? When it comes to the issue of Biafra, this is the right of a people to choose their destiny. It is a personal insult on all of us that a white man can come all the way from Europe to tell us what our country is and to bastardise us with the name "Nigerian". Did you come to the world to fufil the destiny of Lord Lugard or your own destiny? To think about the Nigerian market is to think small, Nigeria is mut a tiny dot on the world map. We Igbos are thinking far beyond Nigeria. I want a Biafra where people are producing things that Japanese, Canadians, Norwagian etc are coming to buy from me. There you are thinking about Nigerian Naira.

Biafra is about people who want to be free to shape their destiny, people want to breathe fresh air, try new things, create new awareness. Biafra is not for people who think small and can't see beyond Nigeria. You talked about confederation? Forget it. It will never happen in Nigeria. The Northerners are totally against it because it will destroy their power base. The northerners would rather figh a war than give anyone confederation. Confederation is why the civil war was fought. It was confederation that Gowon signed in Aburi, Ghana but he would not implement it which directly led to Ojukwu declaring Biafra.

Godbless Biafra

Chinachriss:
Yeah, it lacks credibility cos our leaders are mute on Biafran issue. let them tell PMB eyeball to eyeball what they want, then we will know that osetigo.
But will they do that? After all, they are being settled by the federal govt at the end of the month.
Someone said I was selfish. Hahohahaho! laughing in Shanghai.
Until, our governors and senators and others under the payroll of PMB start supporting Biafra, then your Biafra is still a mirage.

You are askng politicians who feeding fat off Nigeria to support Biafra? It is even them that are more anti-Biafran than any body else. Biafra is about the common man, not greedy politicians

EUROBOMBER:
The truth is that Nigeria is a very great nation if we can be united and love one another.

We just have to be sincere and address some issues to move forward.

Nigerians like you have been saying this for 100 years. I'm sure if I come back after another 100 years, they will still be saying the same. How can people who have nothing in common unite? It's like asking "Tom and Jerry" to become brothers. Waste of time

Earthkumy:
Red Alert: Biafra Millions March on the 06-11-2015. Biafrans are you ready?

Oh yes we are ready, how many of us can the terrorist Government of Nigeria arrest or shoot?

LordMecuzy:
The real igbos are thinking about their businesses and profits here in Abuja even in Lagos... Many online biafra agitators are jobless. Thanks


God bless Imo my home

This maybe news to you but Biafra does not include Abuja, Lagos, London, America or all the foreign places Igbos are found

naijapips02:
aturu rere ere. Biafrans and igbos are So much different.

Did Emeka your best friend teach you that? You Yorubas are having BP over a Biafra that doesn't concern you

naijapips02:
Biafrans are whiter than white and whiter than snow. Igbos are Ndi isi ojii.

True, some igbo youths have been brainwashed with the biafran hullabaloo, But That's just it......them and their miserable lives. Don't rope an entire tribe into a struggle because of some misguided folks.

You wouldn't find it funny If I say that all Hausas are boko haram, would you? Or all yorubas are alayes.

it's quite unfortunate that few of my igbo brothers have been brainwashed, But they are totally on their own.

Please do take Note.

Another Yoruba man in Ibadan

dustmalik:
Until you start attacking armed forces establishments, blowing yourselves up, in the name of Biafra, we will never take you seriously. Take a cue from Boko haram - they don't make noise on the internet.

If you have to say something like that just because of the white mans fabrication called Nigeria, it's time you started asking your self if you're not really the African barbarian the White man always thought you are.

nikkiking:
Nnamudi kanu the brain washer.

Rip to those ready to die for actualisation of Biafran.

But it is your precious Nigeria that is going to kill innocent people not Nnamdi Kanu

lygn19:
Please u guys should try not to be using the tribe igbo when talking about Biafra, use Biafrans instead so that any f00l looking for where to start a tribal war would know where to direct it thanks.
We well meaning igbos are tired of your bullshits, and unending tribal wars on Nairaland, tribal wars that u guys cant even win that's what annoys me the most all you keep saying is the zoo must fall why they keep kicking ur asses

You are a well meaning Igbo who had put the interest of the Yoruba and Hausa man above the interests of your own people? (All in the name of one Nigeria?)Something they would never do for you? You may well meaning, but definitely not for Igbos.

When it comes to issue of Biafra, I would like talk about it from the perspective of the Igbo man that I am. As much as Biafra has always been about the emancipation of the Igbos and like minded minorities that Igbos share a kinship with, I want to speak only for my tribe. It's not for me to speak for other tribes. However, by 'Igbos', I mean all Igbo speaking people and Igboids. This stretches from the Ikwere land of Portharcourt to all Igbo of Rivers state to the 5 SE states to Delta-Igboland or Anioma people to the Igbanke Igbo speaking community of Edo state. And of course, the Igbos of the lower Benue and the Igbo speaking communities of cross River. All these are what I would call "The greater Igbo federation".
My people "Mma Mma nu"

My people, I don't know anybody who does not like freedom. Nigeria has represented a prison since the days that the White man came to our lands to this day. Below I outline my 5 top reasons why the greater Igbo federation should embrace the freedom that Biafra has to offer. Please note that I support the peaceful creation of Biafra through a referendum in which any of the groups I have mentioned above may choose to accept or reject Biafra. However , I also support a violent way of getting Biafra if the oppressesive Nigerian Government refuses to grant us a referendum. There will be no forceful adoption of anyone into Biafra like the way Nigeria was created.




[1]Nigeria was a fraud from inception because we, the indigenous people of the land, were not asked if we want Nigeria. We were Frog-marched at gun point by Lugard into his zoological Republic and we have been there for over a hundred years. How long are we going to be there before we decide what we want? Another hundred years? The time to decide is now

[2] History: We have had 100 years of unity and 55 years of nationhood to see if Nigeria can work. Take a look around you, is Nigeria working? One civil war, millions dead,massive Government ineptitude and corruption, economic stagnation,tribalism and nepotism. Yet someone will say that Nigeria is best for us. Only a fool stands on quick sand for too long. Nigeria is a tragedy and only a fool continues with a tragedy in the vain hope that things will change when all indices point to the contrary. A wise person tries something different or something new.

[3] Igbo Unity: The very existence of Nigeria has destroyed the unity of the greater Igbo nation. We have been used as a 'divide and rule' punching bag so much that some people now answer the name of their artificially created states rather than who they are. In Alabi Isamas book "Tragedy of victory" he recounted a story about when the massacres of Igbos started in the north in 1966. Two Ukwuani women were in a bus in Kaduna when the Bus was stopped at an Army check point that had been erected to find Igbos. The women were brought down by officers because they 'looked Igbo'. Despite the protest of the women that they were not Igbos but Igboid people from the Midwest, the officers searched them, find their work ID cards with their Igbo surnames, then gunned both women down on the spot. It doesn't matter who says they are Igbo or not, wether you are Ika or Ndoki, Ikwere or Ukwuani, you will still suffer the same fate as any Igbo from anywhere. Be it politically, economically or otherwise. In the eyes of a Nigerian, you are Igbo. That is why Biafra is very important to bring us back to the fold and unite us. "If it walks like a Duck and quacks like a Duck, it is a duck"

[4] Resource control: The reason why Nigeria practices the evil known as unitary Governance is because the north do not want anyone to control their resources. Funnily, this same North is richer than the South in terms of solid mineral deposits. But in the norths greedy quest for power, it destroyed the enabling environment that would have seen international investors with the technical know-how, troop in to mine the resources for their benefit. Today, the entire North has become known for sectarian violence and terrorism which has made it a no go area for investors who not only afraid for their investments, but their lives too. So the North heavily depends on the south. In Biafra, there will be only provinces. No states and no Governors. There will be no executive president. There will only a ceremonial president and a prime minister. Every province will control their resources and get at least 50% of what accrues on their land. Ikwere province will control their resouces as will Ndokis,as will Aniomas. I'm an Anambra man with oil and Gas deposits, I also want 50% of it. I say this because nobody will ever control their resources in Nigeria. The North would rather go to war than see this happen. The resources of the south is the life blood of the North so anybody hoping for resource control in Nigeria is wasting their time.

[5] A person without sovereignty is a nobody. Sovereignty is the difference between a master and a slave. For how long are we going to keep listening to the whims and caprices of the Yoruba or Hausa man? What brings us together? Oh I forgot! Lord Lugard! We must take back our sovereignty. We must take back our right of choice. We are an autonomous people, why are we being governed in a strange land called Abuja? Igbo nation, how long will you allow the Yoruba man or Hausa man to decide your destiny? I enjoin all of us to embrace the pathway way called Biafra. We have all it takes to become great people. We have the resources, we have the human potential. So why must it be the zoological Republic Lord Lugard instead of our very on Biafra. Support Biafra so that we may have a new dawn and a new begining.

Godbless you all

Godbless the greater Igbo federation

And Godbless Biafra

The Zoo must fall!!!


Biafra can never be as big a scam as the fictitious creation of the White man called Nigeria

One thing I will never understand about Nigerians is they understand the need for people like Zik, Awolowo, Bode Thomas and other nationalist to fight for Nigerias independence from Britain. But the same Nigerian just doesnt understand the right of Igbos to fight for their independence from Nigeria. Hypocrisy

Adminisher:
Biafra is dead on arrival. It will go nowhere. There is no money anywhere to even actualize it and there is no brain power to superintend it's formation. This is not spare parts business or srll8ng fuel. There is no money to chart borders, no money to delineate assets and no money to defend the territory. The Ibos don't have cooperative organizational ability to actualize any thing political.
The noise is just to provide therapy for lost Ibo young people who disgracefully followed the hapless Goodluck Jonathan and his band of criminals who stole their future and they are still praising them. It is only within the low political IQ of SE youth that you vote as a bloc tribalisticall, lose elections and then try to redraw the borders of the same country.

If however you want to go on this road of destruction, then prepare well. No career, no business and no marriage for people who take the cudgel against NigerIa. Your assets also would eventually be owned again by the indigenous people of the areas you are currently living as you automatically lose your citizenship.

For Biafra itself you need fortifications Boko Haram is to the north. Traditional foes in Ikot Ekpene axis will not allow any encroachment and you need to explain your sea route ownership diplomatically to the Ijaw.

Nigeria also reserves the right to actively and covertly subvert the economy and security of the illegal region .
So if you want to go Biafra, prepare for failure and you won't get what you had before back when you fail.

The only illegal union here is the one the British armed robber called Lugard came from Britain to convince you that you have.

simplycarro:
Why is it always difficult for the Biafrans to be sensible? Your agitation for Biafra is nothing but a direct consequence of GEJ electoral defeat.
Be honest for once!!

So you never heard of MASSOB before GEJ?

gretblue:
Been staying in the east for a while now.The so call Biafra noise is limited to Nairaland forum with their paid e-warriors.You hardly hear people from this region talking or discussing Biafra in their various domains.

We are talking about East Nigeria not East China

Igbo president? What is that? I want my own country and you're talking about Igbo president? Biafra is far more important than 1000 Igbo presidents! Im in a jail-cell and I want my freedom and you are asking me to settle for being head of the cell?

Who ever wrote this made so many mistakes it's just incredible. I have often said it here on Nairalabd that over 80% of Nigerians born after the war don't know the history of Nigeria. All they know is 'one Nigeria' without knowing the meaning of 'oneness'.

The guy said that it was Igbo officers that killed mainly western and Northern leaders in the first coup. This true, but coups are usually sectional things. We have had 'middle belt coup' with Dimka, we had a 'SS coup' with Orkah and so on. People die in coups and it is regrattable.

He said that Ironsi conducted a coup, how can Ironsi conduct a coup when he was the one that put down the coup? Why would Ironsi be fighting the same coup he is conducting? This is madness

He said that Biafra was all about Ojukwus ambition. So Biafra had nothing to do with the over 50,000 easterners men,women and children that were massacred all over Nigeria mainly in the north? So Biafra had nothing to do with the sectarian violence that had engulfed Nigeria and the political unrest of the time? Everything was just about Ojukwus ambition?

He said that Ojukwu declared Biafra because he didn't want Gowon to be head of state but what the ignoramus failed to mention was that Ojukwu went to Aburi, Ghana and signed an agreement with Gowon and in that agreement, Ojukwu promised to recognise Gowon as long as Gowon kept to the Aburi agreement. It was Gowon that broke the agreement which forced Ojukwu to declare Biafra.

Another thing the ignoramus does not know is that Ojukwu received the mandate from all the Chiefs of the 20 provinces in the eastern region to go ahead and declare Biafra.

He said that Ojukwu wasted lives. My father was a captain in the Biafran Army. My father will tell anyone who cares to listen that he and his men did not fight and die for Ojukwu. They fought for their freedom from the opressive Nigerian state. That a person does not want to be a Nigerian is not by force.

A lot of people talk nonsense without the education of history.

Biafra is not about Ojukwu or Nnamdi Kanu or any particular man. Biafra is all about the right of a particular people to free themselves from the colonial instrument of oppression called Nigeria.

Non of us were ever asked if we want to be Nigerians, we were all forced into it at gun point by Lord Lugard. Why is it that in this 21st century, we must still answer this strange name imposed on us by the White man? We cannot think for ourselves? The fabrication of Lugard called Nigeria is the best we can do? That is unacceptable to me as an Igbo man!

I want my freedom as an Igbo man and I must have it because it is my God given right to decide if I am Nigerian or not

God bless all the lovers of freedom and self determination

And may Godbless Biafra!

What are you actually selling?

Chinachriss:
This quest lacks comprehensive credibility. What is our Igbo leaders saying?

Igbo leaders? Igbos don't have leaders. The only leader the Igbos ever had was Ojukwu. What do you mean that the quest lacks credibility? On what credibility did Lugard create Nigeria?

I can't live in a place like this. If they gave me this as my accommodation, I will just take my things and return to my home state

size40:
Where and where is even this acclaimed Biafra land? To me there is no part of this country called Biafra land. Even Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Abia and Ebonyi are all Nigerian territory. Even the areas these people claimed to have does not belong to them. IMO, Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi are owned and controlled by the federal govt of Nigeria.

Because Lord Lugard came from Britain to bastardise you with the name "Nigerian' abi? You will have to go and find Lugard to produce the document where Igbos signed to part of the zoological Republic of Nigeria.

Chinachriss:
What would become of our investment and property if eventually Nigeria gets dissoluted?


I woudn't say I don't believe in the Biafran project but don't you think we would thrive better in Nigeria? As much as I know, we are peripatetic and seem to blend well into our hosts' culture. This is the fact. We have many Igbo- Yoruba speakers than Yoruba- Igbo speakers. The same is applicable to every other ethnicities in Nigeria

We have established ourselves across the length and breadth of Nigeria. The number of Hausa- Yoruba investment in South East is infinitesimal when compared to the glut of Igbo investment scattered in Other geo-political zones in Nigeria.

Then the question now is:
WHAT WILL BECOME OF OUR INVESTMENT IF WE FINALLY GET BIAFRA?

No amount of Igbo investment in Nigeria is worth the freedom of us Igbos. What is the point of your investment if you are a slave? What have we Igbos gained in Nigeria? In 55 years, all we got is economic and political subjugation. Will investments bring back the millions that Nigeria killed in the war? You don't have sovereignty, you don't have political power, you don't have freedom and you are talking about investment.

Investment gbakwa oku!

Xpaz:
First.
I'm Not Against Regionalism and Federalism.
But after seeing what has being going on on Naira land where some peoples Expansionist plan has been reviewed.
I decided to Thank d North for Not Approving the Recent Confab report.
now what I'm I trying To say?
What I'm trying to say is if there Must be regionalism/Federalism
It Must be According to Ethnic line
Therefore We must Say no to Anything That is not Ethnic Regionalism/Ethnic Federalism.

There are over 300 ethnic groups in Nigeria. Are you saying there should be 300 regions?

It is a reflection of what Nigeria is as a nation. This will never happen in Biafra.