₦airaland Forum

Coldshisha:
Abia State might lack progress but not Lagos and SouthWest

Coldshisha:
Currency devaluation isn't a index for economic progress... Chinese RMB is a case study

Anyways I honestly don't expect someone celebrating the release of dangerous criminals at State CID to know this facts

ygowon:
And Biafra struggle continues. The country will continue to be troubled. Las las, it will affect eveeybody

Ugokelvin007:
Mumu.. Igbo's made Lagos n other productive cities even in abroad..biafra must be restored

Mixedfruit:
The Origin Of the Name “BIAFRA” and why South-South and South-East Must
Unite.
"Written By Russell Bluejack"
I write as an Ijaw son from Bonny and Nkoro in Rivers State. Ijaw is my tribe, but
Biafra remains my national consciousness. I have noticed an inexplicable and
unnecessary division in the South-East and South-South in analogy to the
reinvigorated quest to restore the Sovereign States of Biafra.
I think our people in these sister regions should reflect on these political and
divisive ascriptions and rediscover themselves.
We are neither South-South nor South-East. We are the people of the Eastern
Region, a people politically and economically impugned by our enemy in their bid
to break our solid SOLIDARITY. We were too formidable for our enemies.
Some of our people think Biafra is an Igbo thing because they are ignorant of the
origin of the name. Let me do justice to the origin of Biafra.
THE ORIGIN OF BIAFRA
Biafra is not aboriginal to Biafrans, since it was birthed out of the need to work
together and escape the pogromists, rapists, land invaders, and religious
fundamentalists called Fulani.
The leader of the Eastern Region, Dim Ojukwu, an educated military officer,
assembled stakeholders from Ijaw, Obibio, Efik, and other tribes that constituted
the region in his bid to come up with a name that would reflect the
heterogeneous ambience of the region.
Chief Frank Opigo, an Ijaw traditional ruler that hails from today’s Bayelsa,
suggested BIAFRA, and this went down well with everyone in attendance, for it
referred to the water body that covers the entire region. What Ojukwu sought
after was a name that would not be exclusionary to any of the tribes (Ijaw, Ibibio,
Itsekiri, Urhobo, Annioma etc) in the region. Biafra became the baby of that quest.
Biafra, having come from a non-Igbo stakeholder, became the national
consciousness of both the Igbo and non-Igbo constituents of the Eastern Region.
Thenceforth, the need to actualise the nation of their dreams, the Land of the
Rising Sun, became the aspiration of every easterner.
The failure of Nigeria to heed the Aburi Accord reached in Ghana for restructuring
stoked the fire of the agitation for freedom. The Sovereign States of Biafra was
declared, but it was short-lived because of avoidable internal wranglings that
spiralled into the loss of the Civil War.
The incongruity in the Eastern Region was the result of the feud between Ojukwu
and Dr. Kenule Benson Saro-Wiwa, an illustrious Ogoni son and Ojukwu’s military
mentality and disposition.
WHY THE STRUGGLE FAILED IN THE 60s.
Popular perception has it that the struggle for emancipation from perceived and
obvious oppression by Nigeria was scuttled by the Civil War. That is part of the
truth, not the whole. Biafra was rocked by internal wranglings.
Two prominent figures in the region, Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa, became estranged
friends over an issue that should have remained personal. In one of our serious
meetings, I was made to understand this side of the story. Legborsi, Emmanuel, a
very prominent Ogoni son who doubles as a formidable member of my team,
THE SOUTH-EAST/SOUTH-SOUTH COALITION FOR BIAFRA,
opened up the Pandora Box concerning the real cause of their feud.
Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa were caught in a love triangle, with Princess Amina, the
daughter of the then Sultan as the magnetic force. As scions (sons of very
wealthy parents), they had the needed charisma to steer the imagination of the
Sultan. Gowon, a senior military officer, joined the fray, but found himself as an
underdog, financially and academically, for the duo of Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa
were of both fabulous financial and transformative academic standing.
Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa, once friends, now rivals, had to slug it out. The laurel at
stake was Amina’s affection. Saro-Wiwa, dishonestly struck a cord in Amina’s
emotion and carried the day.
The Sultan, according to the veracious story, could not find his daughter and had
the innocent Gowon, the suitor he abhorred, to blame for it. A triangle of hate
became the result of this misdeed by Saro-Wiwa: Gowon hated both Ojukwu and
Saro-Wiwa; Ojukwu hated Saro-Wiwa for edging him out in the most dishonest
manner; and Saro-Wiwa burned in annoyance over the contest.
An Ikwerre elder, nonagenarian, corroborated this story when I met him. He told
me that the struggle hit the rock then because of two reasons:
(1) the feud between Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa
(2) the militarised mentality of Ojukwu’s.
The elder thinks that if Ojukwu, though well educated and exposed, were a
civilian, he would have appreciated the need to dialogue with other stakeholders
before going to war.
If the stakeholders had been told what each constituent would benefit from the
emerging nation, the leaders would have had what to say to their people to excite
them to take the struggle seriously. Ojukwu, on the other hand, wanted these
stakeholders to convince their people to fight first and discuss later.
This did not go down well with them. Some, however, saw the need to fight. The
festering relationship between Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa led to a huge sabotage.
The bottom line of the accounts of Legborsi and the elder is that our people were
not united. Our disunity caused by personal grouse and lack of tact cost us that
war. It is incontrovertible that we would have won the war had our house not
been in disarray.
THE URGENT NEED FOR OUR UNITY NOW
Several years have gone by, yet the socio-economic and political inconcinnities
that gave rise to the agitation then still stare us in the face. As a matter of fact,
there is no gainsaying that if our fathers had reasons to fight then, there are more
reasons to fight now.
The situation today is worse than it was then. Oppression, socio-economic
exclusion, and glaring prejudice meted out to the South-South and South-East, the
real economic mainstay of this contraption called Nigeria, have reached
unbelievable and unimaginable proportions.
Even Ojukwu could not have conceived the precarious level of hate shown to us
by the sons and daughters of Uthman Dan Fodio. The unfair treatment we are
shown should make our unity imperative. Our personality issues and lack of tact
gave them the happenstance to divide us and make us conquerable. We, the
South-East and South-South people, are the victims of their jihadist rituals. Our
women get raped, our lands invaded, our crops killed, and our men butchered.
The Igbo, Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Annioma, Ibibio, Efik etc have always lived
together in love and conviviality. A critical observation of our values and culture
reveals our common ancestry. We dress alike, eat alike, behave alike, and worship
alike. How different are we, brothers and sisters? Let us come together and fight
this monster.
They have sent their soldiers to occupy our two regions out of fear of our
imminent reunion. Exasperated by their inability to stop us from uniting, they have
taken to poisoning our children under the pretense of immunization devoid of the
viva of the health departments. In their bid to hold on to power at all cost, they
flouted the constitutional proviso concerning absence of the President.
Their hatred for us led to the embargo placed on our Igbo brothers and sisters,
which makes it difficult for any of them to become President of Nigeria. We and
our Igbo brothers and sisters are the real victims here. We have to come
together, sit together, discuss together, reach documented agreement, and escape
together.
Our unity is the only leeway out of this fortress called Nigeria. Is it not shameful
that whereas we have all the resources the Gambari are the ones exercising
power over them all? Our Igbo brothers and sisters own both oil and the business
environment that sustain this oppressive dungeon called Nigeria, but travel to the
East and you will weep. They killed the Bill seeking the relocation of company
headquarters to regions where the raw material is fetched. They killed the Bill
seeking compensation to develop the Eastern Region. Whatever comes from the
South-East and South-South dies on arrival.
If bills that seek better welfare packages for our regions always die, who is that
mad person that is telling you that we can restructure this dangerous citadel that
they claim belongs to them? Was it not the failure of Nigeria to heed restructuring
agreement that sparked off the Civil War? The only way out of this quagmire is
the unity of South-East and South-South. Let us unite and live in peace and
harmony. Our sister regions need respite from rape, massacre, genocide, pogrom,
alienation, discrimination, and prejudice.
Let us keep our unreal differences aside and face the enemy together. They will
continue to defeat us as long as we remain divided. Our division is their strength,
but our unity is their weakness. Jasper Adaka Boro, Dr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Sen.
(Dr.) Obi Wali are some of the great men this fake nation has killed gruesomely.
We have not found Mazi Nnamdi Kanu even as I write. Do you see how they hate
us? The python that danced in the East has become a crocodile smiling in the
South-South.
Brothers and sisters, Saro-Wiwa was guillotined by Nigeria after a kangaroo
judgment. Boro was used and shot. Obi Wali was butchered like a condemned
chicken. Our beloved leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is nowhere to be found
because of his liberating activities. Nigeria is a place where it is a heinous crime
to speak up against oppression and neo-slavery.
Nigeria has become too dangerous for Christians. Nigeria has become too stuffy
for anything that breathes. We have to go, brothers and sisters. We have
overstayed in this prison.
We do not even know who signed the 1914 amalgamation, since all our
nationalists were either adolescents, toddlers, or unborn at the time. Nigeria is the
property of Britain’s under the management of the Fulani. Let the South-South
and South-East come together and rebirth Biafra. They hate us and we hate
ourselves.
Let love and understanding lead the way this time. Let us dialogue and end our
differences once and for all. The enemy has become vicious. We should become
more tactical now. May God bless us all as we heed this clarion call. May God
bless the entire constituents of the Old Eastern Region.
"Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker, revolutionary writer, university tutor, and
socio-economic and political analyst that writes from the creeks in the coastal
part of Biafra".

Coldshisha:
Yes they begged

They start what they can't finish and run like Ojucrook and Kanu

Coldshisha:
Isn't it shamefull for over 50 years you have neither Biafra or a Nigerian President

Just noise and burning of your own city

Soon now your people would arrive Oshodi


.

BSsniffer:
Flatin0 males in their true form doing what their bush ancestors did thousands of years ago.

Few days down the line this cannon fodder cretin will have the contents of an AK emptied into his flatskvll, natural selection taking it's due course and ridding the earth of weak, rettarded males. It's a biological imperative that stupid people suffer and die.

Coldshisha:
Isn't it shamefull for over 50 years you have neither Biafra or a Nigerian President

Just noise and burning of your own city

Soon now your people would arrive Oshodi


.

Brimstone77:
read this trash you wrote above and tell me if you made any sense....

BSsniffer:
Flatin0 males in their true form doing what their bush ancestors did thousands of years ago.

Few days down the line this cannon fodder cretin will have the contents of an AK emptied into his flatskvll, natural selection taking it's due course and ridding the earth of weak, rettarded males. It's a biological imperative that stupid people suffer and die.

maasoap:
Value of the currency doesn't determine how strong or weak an economy is, Japan has weak currency but not weak economy. Sometimes you devalue to promote exports and discourage imports

ygowon:
hahahaha! See this one. Let me educate you. When your sinking Nigeria cannot get much forex (dollar), because it does not export anything but needs forex to import almost everything, the scarcity of the forex puts much pressure that the official rate is not followed.
In order to balance things and discourage importation as well as encourage exportation, the currency is devalued.
The question is, what is being produced in Nigeria today for export even now that it is not secured? Boko haram and co have chased investors away already. Dangote has invested 60% of his wealth abroad. Otedola same and so for other smart Nigerians.
Insecurity in Nigeria can not help your sinking country dear. Innoson and some manufacturers have left Nigeria already but only maintain their office to deceive people like u

Effects of Devaluation
A significant danger is that by increasing the price of imports and stimulating greater demand for domestic products, devaluation can aggravate inflation. If this happens, the government may have to raise interest rates to control inflation, but at the cost of slower economic growth.
Another risk of devaluation is psychological. To the extent that devaluation is viewed as a sign of economic weakness, the creditworthiness of the nation may be jeopardized. Thus, devaluation may dampen investor confidence in the country’s economy and hurt the country’s ability to secure foreign investment.


Tell your economic teacher that you are a disgrace. When Fulani gives you a position tomorrow out of bigotry, that's how u will mess the nigerian economy just as buhari is messing things like he did in 1984 and u expect me to be in the same country with u? Never!

Coldshisha:




Ikonso do juju pass this Na.. still just one bullet Na bye bye

People can see how these miscreants are burning their own cities soon they would pack their Ghana must go bags to obodo Lagos to come and be insulting Tinubu as they once blamed Awolowo


.

Coldshisha:




Ikonso do juju pass this Na.. still just one bullet Na bye bye

People can see how these miscreants are burning their own cities soon they would pack their Ghana must go bags to obodo Lagos to come and be insulting Tinubu as they once blamed Awolowo


.

Kingspin:
Unknown gunmen kill army.
Army kill unarmed civilian.

Think am

CharlotteFlair:
Yorubas, both men and women alike have been stripping in public before the fight even started, or are you too young to know this?

BSsniffer:
Made more sense than the current state of your life.

Coldshisha:
Yes they begged

They start what they can't finish and run like Ojucrook and Kanu

Mixedfruit:
The Origin Of the Name “BIAFRA” and why South-South and South-East Must
Unite.
"Written By Russell Bluejack"
I write as an Ijaw son from Bonny and Nkoro in Rivers State. Ijaw is my tribe, but
Biafra remains my national consciousness. I have noticed an inexplicable and
unnecessary division in the South-East and South-South in analogy to the
reinvigorated quest to restore the Sovereign States of Biafra.
I think our people in these sister regions should reflect on these political and
divisive ascriptions and rediscover themselves.
We are neither South-South nor South-East. We are the people of the Eastern
Region, a people politically and economically impugned by our enemy in their bid
to break our solid SOLIDARITY. We were too formidable for our enemies.
Some of our people think Biafra is an Igbo thing because they are ignorant of the
origin of the name. Let me do justice to the origin of Biafra.
THE ORIGIN OF BIAFRA
Biafra is not aboriginal to Biafrans, since it was birthed out of the need to work
together and escape the pogromists, rapists, land invaders, and religious
fundamentalists called Fulani.
The leader of the Eastern Region, Dim Ojukwu, an educated military officer,
assembled stakeholders from Ijaw, Obibio, Efik, and other tribes that constituted
the region in his bid to come up with a name that would reflect the
heterogeneous ambience of the region.
Chief Frank Opigo, an Ijaw traditional ruler that hails from today’s Bayelsa,
suggested BIAFRA, and this went down well with everyone in attendance, for it
referred to the water body that covers the entire region. What Ojukwu sought
after was a name that would not be exclusionary to any of the tribes (Ijaw, Ibibio,
Itsekiri, Urhobo, Annioma etc) in the region. Biafra became the baby of that quest.
Biafra, having come from a non-Igbo stakeholder, became the national
consciousness of both the Igbo and non-Igbo constituents of the Eastern Region.
Thenceforth, the need to actualise the nation of their dreams, the Land of the
Rising Sun, became the aspiration of every easterner.
The failure of Nigeria to heed the Aburi Accord reached in Ghana for restructuring
stoked the fire of the agitation for freedom. The Sovereign States of Biafra was
declared, but it was short-lived because of avoidable internal wranglings that
spiralled into the loss of the Civil War.
The incongruity in the Eastern Region was the result of the feud between Ojukwu
and Dr. Kenule Benson Saro-Wiwa, an illustrious Ogoni son and Ojukwu’s military
mentality and disposition.
WHY THE STRUGGLE FAILED IN THE 60s.
Popular perception has it that the struggle for emancipation from perceived and
obvious oppression by Nigeria was scuttled by the Civil War. That is part of the
truth, not the whole. Biafra was rocked by internal wranglings.
Two prominent figures in the region, Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa, became estranged
friends over an issue that should have remained personal. In one of our serious
meetings, I was made to understand this side of the story. Legborsi, Emmanuel, a
very prominent Ogoni son who doubles as a formidable member of my team,
THE SOUTH-EAST/SOUTH-SOUTH COALITION FOR BIAFRA,
opened up the Pandora Box concerning the real cause of their feud.
Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa were caught in a love triangle, with Princess Amina, the
daughter of the then Sultan as the magnetic force. As scions (sons of very
wealthy parents), they had the needed charisma to steer the imagination of the
Sultan. Gowon, a senior military officer, joined the fray, but found himself as an
underdog, financially and academically, for the duo of Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa
were of both fabulous financial and transformative academic standing.
Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa, once friends, now rivals, had to slug it out. The laurel at
stake was Amina’s affection. Saro-Wiwa, dishonestly struck a cord in Amina’s
emotion and carried the day.
The Sultan, according to the veracious story, could not find his daughter and had
the innocent Gowon, the suitor he abhorred, to blame for it. A triangle of hate
became the result of this misdeed by Saro-Wiwa: Gowon hated both Ojukwu and
Saro-Wiwa; Ojukwu hated Saro-Wiwa for edging him out in the most dishonest
manner; and Saro-Wiwa burned in annoyance over the contest.
An Ikwerre elder, nonagenarian, corroborated this story when I met him. He told
me that the struggle hit the rock then because of two reasons:
(1) the feud between Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa
(2) the militarised mentality of Ojukwu’s.
The elder thinks that if Ojukwu, though well educated and exposed, were a
civilian, he would have appreciated the need to dialogue with other stakeholders
before going to war.
If the stakeholders had been told what each constituent would benefit from the
emerging nation, the leaders would have had what to say to their people to excite
them to take the struggle seriously. Ojukwu, on the other hand, wanted these
stakeholders to convince their people to fight first and discuss later.
This did not go down well with them. Some, however, saw the need to fight. The
festering relationship between Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa led to a huge sabotage.
The bottom line of the accounts of Legborsi and the elder is that our people were
not united. Our disunity caused by personal grouse and lack of tact cost us that
war. It is incontrovertible that we would have won the war had our house not
been in disarray.
THE URGENT NEED FOR OUR UNITY NOW
Several years have gone by, yet the socio-economic and political inconcinnities
that gave rise to the agitation then still stare us in the face. As a matter of fact,
there is no gainsaying that if our fathers had reasons to fight then, there are more
reasons to fight now.
The situation today is worse than it was then. Oppression, socio-economic
exclusion, and glaring prejudice meted out to the South-South and South-East, the
real economic mainstay of this contraption called Nigeria, have reached
unbelievable and unimaginable proportions.
Even Ojukwu could not have conceived the precarious level of hate shown to us
by the sons and daughters of Uthman Dan Fodio. The unfair treatment we are
shown should make our unity imperative. Our personality issues and lack of tact
gave them the happenstance to divide us and make us conquerable. We, the
South-East and South-South people, are the victims of their jihadist rituals. Our
women get raped, our lands invaded, our crops killed, and our men butchered.
The Igbo, Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Annioma, Ibibio, Efik etc have always lived
together in love and conviviality. A critical observation of our values and culture
reveals our common ancestry. We dress alike, eat alike, behave alike, and worship
alike. How different are we, brothers and sisters? Let us come together and fight
this monster.
They have sent their soldiers to occupy our two regions out of fear of our
imminent reunion. Exasperated by their inability to stop us from uniting, they have
taken to poisoning our children under the pretense of immunization devoid of the
viva of the health departments. In their bid to hold on to power at all cost, they
flouted the constitutional proviso concerning absence of the President.
Their hatred for us led to the embargo placed on our Igbo brothers and sisters,
which makes it difficult for any of them to become President of Nigeria. We and
our Igbo brothers and sisters are the real victims here. We have to come
together, sit together, discuss together, reach documented agreement, and escape
together.
Our unity is the only leeway out of this fortress called Nigeria. Is it not shameful
that whereas we have all the resources the Gambari are the ones exercising
power over them all? Our Igbo brothers and sisters own both oil and the business
environment that sustain this oppressive dungeon called Nigeria, but travel to the
East and you will weep. They killed the Bill seeking the relocation of company
headquarters to regions where the raw material is fetched. They killed the Bill
seeking compensation to develop the Eastern Region. Whatever comes from the
South-East and South-South dies on arrival.
If bills that seek better welfare packages for our regions always die, who is that
mad person that is telling you that we can restructure this dangerous citadel that
they claim belongs to them? Was it not the failure of Nigeria to heed restructuring
agreement that sparked off the Civil War? The only way out of this quagmire is
the unity of South-East and South-South. Let us unite and live in peace and
harmony. Our sister regions need respite from rape, massacre, genocide, pogrom,
alienation, discrimination, and prejudice.
Let us keep our unreal differences aside and face the enemy together. They will
continue to defeat us as long as we remain divided. Our division is their strength,
but our unity is their weakness. Jasper Adaka Boro, Dr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Sen.
(Dr.) Obi Wali are some of the great men this fake nation has killed gruesomely.
We have not found Mazi Nnamdi Kanu even as I write. Do you see how they hate
us? The python that danced in the East has become a crocodile smiling in the
South-South.
Brothers and sisters, Saro-Wiwa was guillotined by Nigeria after a kangaroo
judgment. Boro was used and shot. Obi Wali was butchered like a condemned
chicken. Our beloved leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is nowhere to be found
because of his liberating activities. Nigeria is a place where it is a heinous crime
to speak up against oppression and neo-slavery.
Nigeria has become too dangerous for Christians. Nigeria has become too stuffy
for anything that breathes. We have to go, brothers and sisters. We have
overstayed in this prison.
We do not even know who signed the 1914 amalgamation, since all our
nationalists were either adolescents, toddlers, or unborn at the time. Nigeria is the
property of Britain’s under the management of the Fulani. Let the South-South
and South-East come together and rebirth Biafra. They hate us and we hate
ourselves.
Let love and understanding lead the way this time. Let us dialogue and end our
differences once and for all. The enemy has become vicious. We should become
more tactical now. May God bless us all as we heed this clarion call. May God
bless the entire constituents of the Old Eastern Region.
"Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker, revolutionary writer, university tutor, and
socio-economic and political analyst that writes from the creeks in the coastal
part of Biafra".

Coldshisha:
Who is your economy teacher... Hope not drop out Nnamdi Kanu

Devaluation of currency means more local production and diversification of local economy and not dependant on foriegn goods

Akpu people can't understand because everything to them is China made

Brimstone77:
am I suprise



NO!!!




Trash always make sense to senseless people!!! Probably it made sense to you...

Coldshisha:
Yes they begged

They start what they can't finish and run like Ojucrook and Kanu

ygowon:
Meanwhile, so far, the Nigerian army have killed about 5 civilians of which 4 are women and 1 man.


Then, at the sight of the Nigerian army, the residents run and go into hiding

mastertek:
UGM, the God sent forces from heaven to liberate his innocent children from from the hand of wicked & evil Nigerian government & their security agent.

When will UGM come to Southwest, we really need them in Southwest, especially in Ibadan where custom & police are killing our innocent soul everyday.

We need UGM in Lagos that will take good care of politicians, political thug, police, lastma, NURTW worker & street thug that's are making life unbearable for innocent people

Mixedfruit:
The Origin Of the Name “BIAFRA” and why South-South and South-East Must
Unite.
"Written By Russell Bluejack"
I write as an Ijaw son from Bonny and Nkoro in Rivers State. Ijaw is my tribe, but
Biafra remains my national consciousness. I have noticed an inexplicable and
unnecessary division in the South-East and South-South in analogy to the
reinvigorated quest to restore the Sovereign States of Biafra.
I think our people in these sister regions should reflect on these political and
divisive ascriptions and rediscover themselves.
We are neither South-South nor South-East. We are the people of the Eastern
Region, a people politically and economically impugned by our enemy in their bid
to break our solid SOLIDARITY. We were too formidable for our enemies.
Some of our people think Biafra is an Igbo thing because they are ignorant of the
origin of the name. Let me do justice to the origin of Biafra.
THE ORIGIN OF BIAFRA
Biafra is not aboriginal to Biafrans, since it was birthed out of the need to work
together and escape the pogromists, rapists, land invaders, and religious
fundamentalists called Fulani.
The leader of the Eastern Region, Dim Ojukwu, an educated military officer,
assembled stakeholders from Ijaw, Obibio, Efik, and other tribes that constituted
the region in his bid to come up with a name that would reflect the
heterogeneous ambience of the region.
Chief Frank Opigo, an Ijaw traditional ruler that hails from today’s Bayelsa,
suggested BIAFRA, and this went down well with everyone in attendance, for it
referred to the water body that covers the entire region. What Ojukwu sought
after was a name that would not be exclusionary to any of the tribes (Ijaw, Ibibio,
Itsekiri, Urhobo, Annioma etc) in the region. Biafra became the baby of that quest.
Biafra, having come from a non-Igbo stakeholder, became the national
consciousness of both the Igbo and non-Igbo constituents of the Eastern Region.
Thenceforth, the need to actualise the nation of their dreams, the Land of the
Rising Sun, became the aspiration of every easterner.
The failure of Nigeria to heed the Aburi Accord reached in Ghana for restructuring
stoked the fire of the agitation for freedom. The Sovereign States of Biafra was
declared, but it was short-lived because of avoidable internal wranglings that
spiralled into the loss of the Civil War.
The incongruity in the Eastern Region was the result of the feud between Ojukwu
and Dr. Kenule Benson Saro-Wiwa, an illustrious Ogoni son and Ojukwu’s military
mentality and disposition.
WHY THE STRUGGLE FAILED IN THE 60s.
Popular perception has it that the struggle for emancipation from perceived and
obvious oppression by Nigeria was scuttled by the Civil War. That is part of the
truth, not the whole. Biafra was rocked by internal wranglings.
Two prominent figures in the region, Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa, became estranged
friends over an issue that should have remained personal. In one of our serious
meetings, I was made to understand this side of the story. Legborsi, Emmanuel, a
very prominent Ogoni son who doubles as a formidable member of my team,
THE SOUTH-EAST/SOUTH-SOUTH COALITION FOR BIAFRA,
opened up the Pandora Box concerning the real cause of their feud.
Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa were caught in a love triangle, with Princess Amina, the
daughter of the then Sultan as the magnetic force. As scions (sons of very
wealthy parents), they had the needed charisma to steer the imagination of the
Sultan. Gowon, a senior military officer, joined the fray, but found himself as an
underdog, financially and academically, for the duo of Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa
were of both fabulous financial and transformative academic standing.
Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa, once friends, now rivals, had to slug it out. The laurel at
stake was Amina’s affection. Saro-Wiwa, dishonestly struck a cord in Amina’s
emotion and carried the day.
The Sultan, according to the veracious story, could not find his daughter and had
the innocent Gowon, the suitor he abhorred, to blame for it. A triangle of hate
became the result of this misdeed by Saro-Wiwa: Gowon hated both Ojukwu and
Saro-Wiwa; Ojukwu hated Saro-Wiwa for edging him out in the most dishonest
manner; and Saro-Wiwa burned in annoyance over the contest.
An Ikwerre elder, nonagenarian, corroborated this story when I met him. He told
me that the struggle hit the rock then because of two reasons:
(1) the feud between Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa
(2) the militarised mentality of Ojukwu’s.
The elder thinks that if Ojukwu, though well educated and exposed, were a
civilian, he would have appreciated the need to dialogue with other stakeholders
before going to war.
If the stakeholders had been told what each constituent would benefit from the
emerging nation, the leaders would have had what to say to their people to excite
them to take the struggle seriously. Ojukwu, on the other hand, wanted these
stakeholders to convince their people to fight first and discuss later.
This did not go down well with them. Some, however, saw the need to fight. The
festering relationship between Ojukwu and Saro-Wiwa led to a huge sabotage.
The bottom line of the accounts of Legborsi and the elder is that our people were
not united. Our disunity caused by personal grouse and lack of tact cost us that
war. It is incontrovertible that we would have won the war had our house not
been in disarray.
THE URGENT NEED FOR OUR UNITY NOW
Several years have gone by, yet the socio-economic and political inconcinnities
that gave rise to the agitation then still stare us in the face. As a matter of fact,
there is no gainsaying that if our fathers had reasons to fight then, there are more
reasons to fight now.
The situation today is worse than it was then. Oppression, socio-economic
exclusion, and glaring prejudice meted out to the South-South and South-East, the
real economic mainstay of this contraption called Nigeria, have reached
unbelievable and unimaginable proportions.
Even Ojukwu could not have conceived the precarious level of hate shown to us
by the sons and daughters of Uthman Dan Fodio. The unfair treatment we are
shown should make our unity imperative. Our personality issues and lack of tact
gave them the happenstance to divide us and make us conquerable. We, the
South-East and South-South people, are the victims of their jihadist rituals. Our
women get raped, our lands invaded, our crops killed, and our men butchered.
The Igbo, Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Annioma, Ibibio, Efik etc have always lived
together in love and conviviality. A critical observation of our values and culture
reveals our common ancestry. We dress alike, eat alike, behave alike, and worship
alike. How different are we, brothers and sisters? Let us come together and fight
this monster.
They have sent their soldiers to occupy our two regions out of fear of our
imminent reunion. Exasperated by their inability to stop us from uniting, they have
taken to poisoning our children under the pretense of immunization devoid of the
viva of the health departments. In their bid to hold on to power at all cost, they
flouted the constitutional proviso concerning absence of the President.
Their hatred for us led to the embargo placed on our Igbo brothers and sisters,
which makes it difficult for any of them to become President of Nigeria. We and
our Igbo brothers and sisters are the real victims here. We have to come
together, sit together, discuss together, reach documented agreement, and escape
together.
Our unity is the only leeway out of this fortress called Nigeria. Is it not shameful
that whereas we have all the resources the Gambari are the ones exercising
power over them all? Our Igbo brothers and sisters own both oil and the business
environment that sustain this oppressive dungeon called Nigeria, but travel to the
East and you will weep. They killed the Bill seeking the relocation of company
headquarters to regions where the raw material is fetched. They killed the Bill
seeking compensation to develop the Eastern Region. Whatever comes from the
South-East and South-South dies on arrival.
If bills that seek better welfare packages for our regions always die, who is that
mad person that is telling you that we can restructure this dangerous citadel that
they claim belongs to them? Was it not the failure of Nigeria to heed restructuring
agreement that sparked off the Civil War? The only way out of this quagmire is
the unity of South-East and South-South. Let us unite and live in peace and
harmony. Our sister regions need respite from rape, massacre, genocide, pogrom,
alienation, discrimination, and prejudice.
Let us keep our unreal differences aside and face the enemy together. They will
continue to defeat us as long as we remain divided. Our division is their strength,
but our unity is their weakness. Jasper Adaka Boro, Dr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Sen.
(Dr.) Obi Wali are some of the great men this fake nation has killed gruesomely.
We have not found Mazi Nnamdi Kanu even as I write. Do you see how they hate
us? The python that danced in the East has become a crocodile smiling in the
South-South.
Brothers and sisters, Saro-Wiwa was guillotined by Nigeria after a kangaroo
judgment. Boro was used and shot. Obi Wali was butchered like a condemned
chicken. Our beloved leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is nowhere to be found
because of his liberating activities. Nigeria is a place where it is a heinous crime
to speak up against oppression and neo-slavery.
Nigeria has become too dangerous for Christians. Nigeria has become too stuffy
for anything that breathes. We have to go, brothers and sisters. We have
overstayed in this prison.
We do not even know who signed the 1914 amalgamation, since all our
nationalists were either adolescents, toddlers, or unborn at the time. Nigeria is the
property of Britain’s under the management of the Fulani. Let the South-South
and South-East come together and rebirth Biafra. They hate us and we hate
ourselves.
Let love and understanding lead the way this time. Let us dialogue and end our
differences once and for all. The enemy has become vicious. We should become
more tactical now. May God bless us all as we heed this clarion call. May God
bless the entire constituents of the Old Eastern Region.
"Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker, revolutionary writer, university tutor, and
socio-economic and political analyst that writes from the creeks in the coastal
part of Biafra".

BSsniffer:
Buhari may be an incompetent political leader but he has paid his dues on the battle field, Nnamdi Cownu is a runaway coward.