The Case For Biafra Restoration

By Obi Ukwuoma

The massacre of Igbos/Biafrans across the Northern Nigeria started way back in 1945 in Jos, where more than 150 Igbos/Biafrans were brutally slaughtered for no reason. That is about thirty-one years after the fraudulent amalgamation of Islamic north and Christian south by the British. Prior to the Civil War in 1966 pogrom, over sixty thousand civilians were brutally murdered because they were Igbos/Biafrans and Christians living in the north. "One by one, the Igbo people who were sheltered in the Emir's Palace were dragged out with hands and feet tied. An unsharpened knife was used on purpose in cutting the neck to ensure a slow and painful death. Goats do not receive such wicked treatment during slaughter; neither does a chicken. Tired and in pain, the victim gave up the ghost while asking for water in Igbo language: 'Nye m Mmiri,' literally expressing 'Give me water.' Families watched as they each gave up the ghost. Since then, the Hausa-Fulani people have adulterated the expression into 'nyamiri' as a form of mockery to the Igbos." The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are the remnants of people that survived the genocide of 1967""70, where more than 3.5 million Biafrans were brutally slaughtered by the Nigerian State. These remnants of Biafran people have not only resided in every nook and corner of the said Nigeria but also have scattered all over the planet earth in quest for green pasture. Those who understand the true meaning of freedom fighting know that IPOB is here to get Biafra and nothing more. Those who read history know that every successful freedom fighting have always started from outside. The method, strategy, and mode of its execution have never been seen anywhere on this planet earth, and that is why Biafra is going to be restored. Buhari remains the last standing samurai/pharaoh of the uneducated northern oligarchy with the boldness to attempt to implement the Hausa-Fulani Islamic agenda to the shores of Atlantic Ocean, but he must fail. The leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has always said, "They would kill us, we will kill them, and then Biafra will come."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781640794849

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The Case for

Biafra Restoration

Obi Ukwuoma

ISBN 978-1-64079-483-2 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64079-484-9 (digital)

Copyright © 2018 by Obi Ukwuoma

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Original Sinner

Chapter 2 - Discontent with Nigeria

Chapter 3 - Biafra as a Religion

Chapter 4 - Islamization Agenda

Chapter 5 - Hope for Biafra under IPOB

Chapter 6 - Buhari as Pharaoh

Chapter 7 - Biafra Genocide

Chapter 8 - Why Biafra?

Chapter 9 - Lesson Learned, 1967–70

Chapter 10 - Time for Reckoning

Conclusion

Random Thoughts

References

About the Author

Biafra National Anthem

Land of the Rising Sun

Land of the rising Sun, we love and cherish

Beloved homeland of our brave heroes,

We must defend our lives or we shall perish,

We shall protect our hearts from all our foes,

But if the price is death for all we hold dear,

Then let us die without a shred of fear.

Hail to Biafra, consecrated nation,

Oh fatherland, this be our solemn pledge:

Defending thee shall be a dedication,

Spilling our blood we’ll count a privilege;

The waving standard which emboldens the free

Shall always be our flag of liberty.

We shall emerge triumphant from this ordeal,

And through the crucible unscathed we’ll pass;

When we are poised the wounds of battle to heal,

We shall remember those who died in mass;

Then shall our trumpets peal the glorious song,

Of victory we scored o’er might and wrong.

Oh God, protect us from the hidden pitfall,

Guide all our movements lest we go astray;

Give us the strength to heed the humanist call:

To give and not to count the cost each day;

Bless those who rule to serve with resoluteness,

To make this clime a land of righteousness.

Introduction

An African proverb of Igbo extraction tells us that he who is not present when one is buried, when asked to exhume the body, always starts from the leg. The two darkest episodes in the history of Africa are the Transatlantic slave trade and the Berlin Conference of 1885, which opened the way for the Europeans’ scramble and assault on Africa. Prior to these two sad events stood the existence of Biafra for over five thousand years. In other words, Biafra had been in existence for too long before the amalgamation of northern and southern protectorates by Frederick Lugard for the British government in 1914 and named the area Nigeria (River Niger and the area surrounding it). By this massive inorganic man-made contraption comes with it untold hardships of competing different values, religion, and customs. The irony of the so-called amalgamation was that it was executed by Britain to benefit the people from the northern part, mainly the Muslims. In the same northern areas, British indirect rule flourished. On the other hand, in the more advanced south regions, the same British colonizers introduced warrant chief system, which did not work well especially among the Igbos.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are people indigenous to the geographical space south/southwest of River Benue. The 1885 map of Africa clearly shows Biafra in it before Britain wickedly erased it in 1914 by their criminal amalgamation of southern and northern protectorates. Biafra was an old civilization dating as far back as five thousand years prior to both Greek and Roman civilization. The people of Biafra enjoyed a civilized society long before the colonialist invaders started parading on its shores. Biafra was known to have a well-developed and distinct culture, an advanced system of jurisprudence, political structure, and established value systems that were original, deep, and rich. The Biafran nation is made up of different clans, among which are Anaang, Efik, Ekoi, Ibibio, Igbo, Urhobo, Idoma, Isoko, Igbanke (Igboakiri), and Igala. They all traced their origin to one progenitor and have a population of over 70 million people. They believed that all men are created equal under the goodness of Chukwu Okike Abiama (God) and that all have the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness bestowed on them by their Creator.

In October 1, 1960, Nigeria gained its independence from Britain. This fragile experiment did not last long before the northern Islamic elements in 1966 murdered thousands of southeasterners, mainly Igbos, for no good reasons only because of their ethnicity and religion. Prior to this, in 1945 to be exact, the first documented killings in hundreds of the easterners, mainly the Igbos, occurred in parts of Northern Nigeria. In 1966, more than 160,000 people were murdered in cold blood in Northern Nigeria without any provocations. The same thing happened in Western Nigeria. All over Nigeria, the southeasterners, mainly the Igbos, were massacred to the point that those left packed their belongings to safety in the southeast.

In May 30, 1967, the then governor of eastern region, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, with the Consultative of Southeastern Stakeholders, declared the state of Biafra. By this singular act of Biafra Declaration, Gowon, the Nigerian military head of state from the north, saw an opening to finish up their organized genocide on Biafran people. On July 6, 1967, Yakubu Gowon declared war on Biafra, contrary to Aburi Agreement with Ojukwu. The principles of the Biafran revolution were courageously enshrined in the famous Ahiara Declaration document of June 1, 1969. The document was written by the National Guidance Committee of Biafra in a deliberate effort to remind Biafran people to remain resolute as ever, and it was delivered as a speech by Biafra head of state, General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. In essence, Biafran revolution believes in sanctity of human life and the dignity of human being. It means standing up against genocide, believing in rights to life, property, and progress. As a matter of fact, all the principles of Ahiara Declaration were true then and are equally true today—what has changed are the method and mode in achieving it (IPOB). The war was fought for three years, and over 3.5 million Biafrans (many of them children) were massacred and starved to death by combined forces of Britain, Russia, Egypt, and other Arab countries. On January 15, 1970, the Biafran delegation, headed by Major General Effiong, surrendered to the federal troops.

It is indeed very sad to note that many of the ills that propelled Nigeria to degenerate to the civil war have never been addressed. Many of those problems have even been compounded by lack of good roads, lack of drinking water, lack of decent education systems, lack of youth employments, lack of decent hospitals, acute corruption, lack of electricity, etc. Forty-five years later, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), through Radio Biafra headquartered in London, was formed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu with Mazi Uche Mefor, Barrister Emma Nmezu, and others. Through Radio Biafra London, IPOB was organized and formed all over the world with the aim to restore the sovereignty of the state of Biafra. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu became the director of Radio Biafra and also the commander in chief of Biafra Armed Forces (position conferred on him by Biafra Military Veterans at Enugu in May 30, 2014. By 2015, IPOB have registered their members in over eighty-eight countries in the world. In the interim, Radio Biafra London has become the mouthpiece that speaks the truth to power without fear or favor. Radio Biafra is anchored by Deputy Director Mazi Uche Mefor after Director Nnamdi Kanu was kidnapped by Buhari’s DSS men on October 14, 2015, in Lagos. The radio and TV broadcast reach all corners of the globe through various platforms—Internet, satellite, FM and AM radio, cell phone, etc.

During the 1990s, it started dawning on me, thinking about the way out of this Nigeria experimental quagmire, because nothing seemed to be working. The words of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu came to me that Biafra will one day come to exist as long as Nigeria politicians continue to treat them like second-class citizens. With every passing day, my doubt about continuous oneness of the contraption called Nigeria continued to mount, compounded by massive corruption and senseless killings all over the country. In the 2000s, I started searching online to see if I could get in contact with people who are ready to talk about the restoration of Biafra. By the way, we do not have anything in common with Hausa-Fulani—not language, not religion, not culture, not even food! In 2009, during my regular online search, I surprisingly ran into Radio Biafra London. I listened to the broadcaster Mazi Nnamdi Kanu for a while. I could not believe the authenticity and genuineness of his powerful message to the Biafran people and the world. That an African (Igbo man for that matter) could muster courage with honor, spirituality, and truthfulness to go beyond all conventional wisdoms and political correctness, to call a spade a spade without fear or favor, undoubtedly got into my spine. After three weeks of listening to him on Radio Biafra, I had no doubt in my mind that the savior of Biafra had arrived. From that point on till date, I cannot stay for a day without tuning in to Radio Biafra London to listen to the Gospel of the Restoration of the Sovereignty of Republic of Biafra.

In its final efforts in the Biafra restoration engineered by IPOB worldwide, the issue of Biafra has become a huge moral burden on Nigeria, Africa, and the entire world. IPOB worldwide movement has become largely entrenched in the minds and souls of Radio Biafra listeners, friends, and sympathizers. News, information, and knowledge received from Radio Biafra worldwide, anchored in London, are unparalleled in Africa’s news context and exhibit one of the best in the world. That is why the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has said consistently that he would destroy the Zoo, Nigeria, with the truth. The belief is that Biafra as a cause is a clarion call for freedom, a rallying point for a people so hated by the devilish corrupt Nigerian politicians but loved by Chukwu Okike Abiama (God). The fact of the matter is the irrepressible spirit of the Biafra agitation cannot be crushed by Buhari and his military and police killing agents. Buhari’s inability to comprehend the global UN principle and convention of self-determination can never be an excuse for his vindictiveness and inhumane killing actions against the peaceful Biafra agitators on a daily basis. Buhari, who usurped power in a military coup in 1983, who was a party in the assassination of General Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi in 1966, has recently vowed that he would kill Igbos again if they seek for their freedom. The world must hear us now, and clear, because we cannot continue in this caged uncivilized absurdity referred to as Nigeria. They would kill us, and once we avenged with Ogu, Biafra will come. In the language of our forefathers: Agwo eghuru na-aguzu aguzu ma naatu. In other words, A python takes its time before it strike; that’s why it never misses when it strikes.

Southeast governors, senators, house members, and other elected officials should come out and stop playing to the gallery with focus directed at Abuja to the detriments of their own people. They should come out and stop enhancing or supporting the killings of their own people maka ihi ego. Hausa-Fulani will never love you no matter what because you’re already an infidel. These elements of our politicians, including the so-called Ohaneze, should come out and speak with one voice and demand the immediate release of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and other political prisoners. The last time I checked, the governors are the chief security officers in each state. They should then seek to stop the killings of peaceful Biafran agitators in their respective states!

Yet there are many Biafrans, doubtful Thomases, scattered all over the world and have refused to acknowledge the fact that they were sent there to help in the restoration of Biafra in the first place. To many of them, the name Biafra still generates that fear, aura instilled into them from many years of misinformation and disinformation by the Nigerian state, championed by Hausa-Fulani and their Yoruba enablers. They have refused to come to terms that Nigeria has failed as a state, and the only hope forward is to join hands in the restoration of the state of Biafra. Many of our folks, both home and abroad, have failed to realize that every successful freedom fighting in the whole world has been planned from outside. The agitation for the independent state of Biafra is not different from that of Catalonia in Spain. It is not different from Eritrean or South Sudan from Sudan. Further, Biafra agitation is not different from that of Western Sahara or that of the Palestine—on both Buhari has supported. Agitation for self-determination is enshrined in the United Nations Charter; it is an entrenched principle of international law. The current Nigeria head of state, Buhari, must seek to understand that and also seek to respect the rule of law before his wickedness and devilish activities consume the entire country Nigeria.

Chapter 1

The Original Sinner

T he leadership of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has agreed that we must step up and intensify an all-out attack on the British Government (not the British People) on social media so that they will stop supporting Nigeria to hold down Biafra. We must force the British Government to capitulate from their stranglehold on Biafra (IPOB, January 5, 2017).

Around the world in retrospect, five of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire in the last 150 years include the following:

The Boer concentration camps of 1899–1902,