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For weeks now, the issue of Biafra agitation has been at the front burner in the polity. Every vendor’s stand has been turned into a theatre of arguments by persons who spend hours analysing the fresh Biafra movement being championed by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). Almost every known and unknown columnist has written in support or against Biafra’s resuscitation and detention of Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

I embarked on this intellectual exercise to express my thoughts about Biafra agitation and where the struggle is heading, especially where spin doctors who are known agents of divide-and-rule have gone back to their age-long tactics. The major target of these divide-and-rule elements which tend to cry more than the bereaved is to Igbonise the struggle of Biafra restoration by using the instrumentality of the media to tag Biafra agitation Igbo “affair”. The irony of the debate is that majority of those divide-and-rule advocates are non-Biafrans. I think the future or restoration of Biafra should strictly be left for peoples of region to decide.

I would like to expose some of the antics of these divide-and-rule agents, who are only out to create division amongst us. The following thought-provoking questions would help in highlighting my submission: Why is it that the Hausa/ Fulani which comprise major ethnic groups in Northern Nigeria are always seen as one indivisible people, rather than Hausa and Fulani? Why do we have South-South as a geo-political zone carved out of old Eastern region, but nothing like North-North in Northern Nigeria? How did the creators of this South-South mantra invent the word that is not in line with known cardinal points in geography? Why is there Niger-Delta in the South but nothing like North-Sahara in the North? Why is there only one Northern Governors Forum, but South-East, South-West and South-South Governors Forum in the South?
Why do we have Northern Elders Forum(NEF) but hardly Southern Elders Forum?Someone should put on his thinking cap by now.

Yoruba as one of the major tribes in Nigeria has roots in North-Central states of Kwara and Kogi—which are outside Yoruba-dominated region of South-West. Yet, the Yoruba in Kogi and Kwara are seen as full-fledged Yoruba-speaking people with their customs and traditions. There is nothing like Kogi and Kwara Yoruba.

In line of this thought process, why would divide-and-rule propagandists keep referring to the Igbo in Delta and Rivers states as Delta or Rivers Igbo with sole purpose of creating division between them and their brothers and sisters in the South-East?

The unfortunate angle in this scenario is that so many of our brothers and sisters born after the civil war bought into this gimmick unknowingly until now. The emergence of Radio Biafra has help to deconstruct this mountain of falsehood and deflate the balloon of fallacies bandied by divide-and-rule campaigners who now termed undiluted and unalloyed truth emanating from Radio Biafra as “hate speeches”, what an irony!

I have asked these questions several times without getting reasonable answers: why do we have BBC Hausa Service broadcasting in the Northern Nigeria and there is no BBC Yoruba Service and Igbo Service or Ijaw Service broadcasting in the West or East? Who is afraid of Radio Biafra? Could the difference between BBC Hausa Service and Radio Biafra be that one is propagating divide-and-rule antics cum born-to-rule ideology, while later is championing restoration of rights of Indigenous people of Biafra via self-determination as enshrined in the United Nations Chatter? Where were those anti-Radio Biafra elements when Radio ‘Chanji’ setup by the APC apologists in the North before the presidential election with sole aim of inciting Northerners against President Jonathan?

Former President Jonathan lost the last presidential election as a hero but the campaign that preceded the election unified the entire old Eastern region for once since after the Nigeria-Biafran war.
It is on record that Igbo sacrificed a lot to ensure re-election for Jonathan during the campaign not because of government survive but as result of the umbilical cord intertwining them with other ethnic nationalities of old Eastern region.

For our brothers and sisters in the so-called South South; Who murdered Ken Saro Wiwa; who killed Isaac Adaka Boro; Who ordered the invasion and massacre of thousands of innocent people of Odi in Bayelsa State?
The time has come for all lovers of freedom and prosperity in old Eastern should to stand up and be counted. There is a time when silence is no longer golden.

Godfullsam:
The writer is SICK and needs medical attention as soon as possible.

Bevista:
If the purpose of this writeup is to coopt the ND region into your misguided agenda, then you better get it very clear that you lot are completely on your own in this struggle and we wish you well.

The ND shall determine at the appropriate time if we want to remain in the Union or if we will go our own way.

The Biafra struggle is an IGBO struggle and no Ibibio man shall be a part of it.

Maxi112:
bro speak for ya self alone, dnt speak for us.... I am from ND I support biafra

Bevista:
If the purpose of this writeup is to coopt the ND region into your misguided agenda, then you better get it very clear that you lot are completely on your own in this struggle and we wish you well.

The ND shall determine at the appropriate time if we want to remain in the Union or if we will go our own way.

The Biafra struggle is an IGBO struggle and no Ibibio man shall be a part of it.

ckmayoca:
Define Niger Delta pls. Everyone just shouting ND like ondo is not ND sef and lagos don join.

Godfullsam:
The writer is SICK and needs medical attention as soon as possible.

Bevista:
Then you should also speak for yourself alone. I support Biafra as long as it has nothing to do with my state or tribe.

The Biafra struggle is a selfish one - simply because they are hoping to take advantage of the Oil & waterways of the ND. If they are tired of Nigeria, let them go and stay in their landlocked country.

kozmokaz:
he actually spoke nothing but d truth..!!


d truth is also bitter But surely must b told!!!!


more feathers to ur cap bro....

wen a referendum is conducted: we will know better !!

#yetoreferendum!!

size40:
MY people, the ethnic majorities in the old Eastern region have nothing in common with the Igbos other than living in the same region then.The same way they carved out south-south was equally the way they carved out Eastern region then. Have we asked ourselves how Northern, Eastern and Western all came about? Nigeria was divided into 3 regions then for administrative convenience. Apart from the Igbos, no other region that still lay strong claims of ownership of another region the way the Igbos does to south-south as if the Edo's and Deltas of today didn't come from the old Western region. The Igbo's have even layed claim to a place that never existed in the old Eastern region. As it is today, whether anybody likes it or not. Nigeria is a country of six regions which each of them can stand as a country on their own

size40:
Who told u that if referendum is to be conducted today in Nigeria whether it is organized by the Nigerian govt or the UN that our own leaders from the south-south won't be there to decide their own future! Or u think only the Igbos will pertake in d referendum alone thereby excluding those they want to forcefully claim their territories? Guy, u better go sleep if this is all u people have been thinking all these while

Bevista:
If the purpose of this writeup is to coopt the ND region into your misguided agenda, then you better get it very clear that you lot are completely on your own in this struggle and we wish you well.

The ND shall determine at the appropriate time if we want to remain in the Union or if we will go our own way.

The Biafra struggle is an IGBO struggle and no Ibibio man shall be a part of it.

explorer250:
sorry we south south igbos want biafra. We are not part of niger delta republic or is it by force to become a minority because of niger delta?

Millerz:
Grow a brain! it is none of your business what people choose to call themselves. Not everything is "divide and rule". The U.S.A and Russia have been going to the moon whole you're dragging lands and ethnicities in the 21st century.

The black race is doomed.

Nwaonyeke042:
Ndigbo cannot be 'laying claim' to what we are part. We are not visitors in the SS: the Igbo nation has more people indigenous to the SS than any other ethnic group.

Bevista:
Then you should also speak for yourself alone. I support Biafra as long as it has nothing to do with my state or tribe.

The Biafra struggle is a selfish one - simply because they are hoping to take advantage of the Oil & waterways of the ND. If they are tired of Nigeria, let them go and stay in their landlocked country.

Bevista:
If the purpose of this writeup is to coopt the ND region into your misguided agenda, then you better get it very clear that you lot are completely on your own in this struggle and we wish you well.

The ND shall determine at the appropriate time if we want to remain in the Union or if we will go our own way.

The Biafra struggle is an IGBO struggle and no Ibibio man shall be a part of it.

Nwaonyeke042:
Ndigbo cannot be 'laying claim' to what we are part. We are not visitors in the SS: the Igbo nation has more people indigenous to the SS than any other ethnic group.

explorer250:
i hate it when people are mischevious. Go to google and type the map of igboland so that you can educate yourself. Do you think that igboland ends in the five se states? I am from rivers state and i am an IGBO MAN. What of porthacourt? Do you know that azumini in abia state touches the ocean or do you want a map?

And let me tell you this IBIBIO IS LANDLOCKED it is only ORON people that habits the coastlines of ak and cr states.

size40:
MY people, the ethnic majorities in the old Eastern region have nothing in common with the Igbos other than living in the same region then.The same way they carved out south-south was equally the way they carved out Eastern region then. Have we asked ourselves how Northern, Eastern and Western all came about? Nigeria was divided into 3 regions then for administrative convenience. Apart from the Igbos, no other region that still lay strong claims of ownership of another region the way the Igbos does to south-south as if the Edo's and Deltas of today didn't come from the old Western region. The Igbo's have even layed claim to a place that never existed in the old Eastern region. As it is today, whether anybody likes it or not. Nigeria is a country of six regions which each of them can stand as a country on their own

kozmokaz:
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bro d referendum will tell u better:::: "south south" won't wanna stay in Nigeria.. I challenge u to carry out ur own research and quote me wrong if u can!!!


also bro... am having a feeling Nigeria will also loose d middle belt to Biafra ... those guys don suffer for d hand of d north too much

Chigold101:
he is sick because he spoke something different from what you want to hear.
You hate hearing the truth. It bites you on ur ass and hunts your soul.
You must learn how to live with this pain because Biafra has come to stay.

Bevista:
You can continue in your delusion. Whatever you do within, make sure you don't come near Akwa Ibom State.