Their next 'biafra' will NOT be like South Sudan

Brig-General BENJAMIN ADEKUNLE

Please allow me to tell the EXACTLY as it will be, should they start any bullshit 'biafra' again.


IT WILL BE VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE WAY WE ARE WITNESSING SOUTH SUDAN TODAY.


I remember, there was a 'biafra' war that wiped out every member of my family at age 6, I tried to move on, but they remind me of it in these forums everyday.

IS IT HARD FOR THEM TO EMULATE PMB?

A Biafran lawyer recently sued President Muhammadu Buhari over his WAEC school certificate, probably thinking that the President forged his WAEC like they do in Biafra. The President did not go about shouting or wailing or screaming that he has immunity from prosecution, instead he got himself some lawyers to handle the issue in court!

But what do we have from the troika of the Fayoses, Sarakis and Ekweremadus? One is claiming immunity for his bank accounts while one is hallucinating about some cabal hijacking the Presidency as if we didn't know that he leads a cabal that has hijacked Kwara State for donkey years and also wants to hijack the Nigerian Senate, and the other is now busy writing foreign embassies and even the UN, claiming that President Buhari wants to silence him, and I surmise that he has forgotten that in those countries to which he is writing letters, crooks and forgers don't lead their Senates; in fact, they are arrested with handcuffs!

Biafra Nationhood: Unfinished Decolonization-American Heavyweights Picks up Biafra Cause

Biafra, dominated by the great Igbo race, enjoyed sovereignty before Great Britain commenced exploitative colonial rule over Nigeria under the racist banner of Rudyard Kipling’s “the White Man’ burden.” Britain asserted authority over Biafra based on the tyrannical doctrine that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

​The Berlin West Africa Conference, 1884-85, and the Berlin General Act symbolized colonial lawlessness by treating Africa as a carcass to be divided up among European vultures.

​Restoration of Biafra’s sovereignty is justified under international law and practice—especially with the ongoing ethnic-inspired killings and persecutions of Biafans by Nigeria’s elected military dictator from the North touting sharia law, President Mohammdu Buhari.

NIGERIA - A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE

I do not favour a divided Nigeria for numerous reasons. However, Nigeria seems to be naive about the present trend of events in Eastern Nigeria and the monstrous risk it brings to the table. The call for a breakout State is getting louder and more desperate especially among the youth, who in most countries always constitute the engine of successful uprising. They are more reachable on all variations of social media and have the energy and drive. The movement is getting organized worldwide with branches in many countries as seen on the internet. Let’s remember Tunisia, Georgia, Ukraine, Egypt, Libya, Yemen etc.

I have inquired directly from some moderate and educated activists, on the root cause of these sentiments in favour of a breakout or Biafra. Of all voices, the single common reason I heard from all was the hate-like attitude gaining popularity mainly among our Yoruba brothers and sisters. There were less complains of such slant directed towards the Hausas. It is alleged that an average Yoruba adult attaches strong negative sentiments to the phrase “Igbo man”. The remonstrance goes that Yorubas see Igbos as dominating the real estate business nationwide, trying to dominate commerce in the country and trade only in fake goods. However, the same Igbos I spoke to hold that the terms “Oluwole” and “Tokumbo” are not of Igbo origin and claim that the Yorubas are more fraudulent but louder. In all, this is a very unhealthy strapping debate for citizens of “one nation”. I will be immensely delighted if all I heard from these activists is false.