THE BIG PICTURE: Why do you need the Igbos in Nigeria? This is not to be responded by any Easterners [Biafrans] but the WEST and NORTH.The BIAFRANS would only respond to articles they deem necessary for or against them.

I will admit that my Igbo sibblings are very talented and very enterprising. I will aslo admit that if Biafra were to actualized Biafrans can survive without Nigeria. However I opposed the Balkanization of Nigeria for so many reasons. Instead of balkanizing Nigeria I think we all should put our efforts togather in freeing our people from the bondage they are held to by our political leaders.

Many of us live here in the US and have seen how their diversity have been source of strength for them. Instead of a sources of weakness as in the case of Nigeria. I think Nigeria will be a better country with our Igbo brothers as sisters given the opportunity to apply their creative talents. Unfortunately our leaders continue to make policies that robb us those chances. So instead of advocating seperation we should be advocating throwing out the bums out of our political process.

Another reason I oppose Biafra is that if you let Igbos go, it will become like state creations. Every little tribe in Nigeria today wants their own state just to creat enough jobs for the stupid politician. I will admit that one of the most stupid and ill thought out policies of the civil war by Gowon was the state creations. If you compare Northern, Eastern, Western and Midwestern regions of pre civil war to all the States created during and after the war. You will notice that Nigeria have lost so many grounds.

Today many state want to turn High school buildings into a University, Compare that to the mistique UNN Nssukka used to have. In those day if you were accepted to Nssukka you know that you are one of the very best. Today we have University which can not compare to teachers college of old. What is wrong in making Nssukka into a University that can have student population of 60,000 and have multi campuses instead of wasting funds and spaces in Building Universities that can never be well funded. That is the casualty of Balkanization of state creation.

Aren't you contradicting your stand on one Nigeria with this long live Arewa Republic logo? Do you want the Biafrans shariarized into Arewa Republic too? I don't get you.

You really have not made any salient point why continuosly pogromed, maligned, raped, and plundered Biafrans should continue to be forced to remain in Nigeria.

The Biafrans are known for their zest, zeal, and accomplishments in quality education. Now, if the Nigerians are embroiled in inferior one-room classroom style/quality education, how does that concern the Biafrans and their quest for freedom?
And you also want the Biafrans to remain under Nigerian bondage so that you can assuage your ego of being called a multi-ethnic country? don't you see how very superficial your reasons are?

Kaduna, each tribe was a nation unto themselves as designed by God, the Creator, until the British showed up to forcefully lump them together with intent to oppress, suppress, and plunder. The Igbos have always been a distinct and capable nation (and so are the Eastern minorities), and they want to continue as thus. Now that you claim to have gotten western enlightenment, its your duty to head back to your Arewa Republic, tell them to tighten their belts, and start working to pull themselves by own their boot-straps, as the work horse cum the golden goose is leaving without a backward glance.

My chemistry teacher used to say those days tha an atom was indivisible, now we know that scientists are actually capable of splitting atoms.Now about an indivisible country, I have never seen that before.My question to you is, who is responsible for the lack of freedom and injustice in that country?

Brother Bature could your people really submit to the leadership of an infidel who does not believe in sharia ? if not are we to pepertually remain your subjects?Even now we are about to transit from an uncouth dunce to a carreer thief as leader is this the price we must pay for remaining in an indivisible country ?

Now, the Biafrans have decided that they are exercising their inalienable rights to Nationhood into action, since it is their democratic entitlement under the rule of laws of the United Nations of the world.
They have refused to be held down any longer by the "barbaric and retrogressive" engineerings and practices of the Arewa people.
They are moving on as a nation that they have always been, to peacefully realize their God-endowed potentials for growth and progress, unperturbed.

I am a complete believer in the issue of self-determination I completely favour of it. I admire the drive and entrepreneur spirit that Igbo's have I was in Uganda and Kenya a few weeks ago and our Igbo's brother were trading and engaged in business and doing very well for themselves I felt nothing but joy to see these individuals succeed in a distant land.

Thus with the right policies in place at home only God himself would know the limit to what our Igbo's brother's would attain.

However as much as I favour of Igbo's leaving this would also apply to the entire south of Nigeria, the yoke of the federal Government should be removed, with this done everyone Igbo's Yoruba's Deltan’s even the north central should be left to their own devices and let us all develop at our own pace in peace and quiet.

I put this together very quickly s later I will elaborate or more points

I was actually hoping that you would give us cogent reasons why Igbos should remain in Nigeria. What you gave instead were reasons why we as Igbos should leave. We thank you for your support. I suppose this is what happens when even non-Igbos finally honestly deal with the issue of forced Igbo inclusion in the Nigerian disaster.

It would defy logic to argue for the continued detention of Igbos in Nigeria, wouldn't it? Could this be why people like Tunde Onabanjo, Ade Olajide, and other Yorubas who are very logical in their thinking are not being challenged to make that dumb case? Is it that we do not want to embarass them by asking them to defend the indefensible? Can anyone imagine the eloquent Seun arguing that the victims of genocide must forever be forced down and detained by the perpetrators of the genocide?

My question to you now is, if you agree as you do that breakup is the best thing, why are you not campainging for it more aggressively? What is the holdback? Don't you think that the more people that speak up now, the quicker we shall get to that promised land? Why is it just we Biafrans that are carrying the cross at this dangerous stage? Are you Nigerians waiting for yet another holocaust of the Igbos?

There's more for us all to gain in the overall, as ECOWAS countries, and as African countries in general. The glory of pacesetting Biafra will bouy her neighbors into active, healthy, and progressive competitors which can potentially transform them from third world aids/grants recipients to Nearly Developed countries.

I have posited on a different thread that neither the prospect of a future holocaust nor the scars from the previous ones are the driving forces behind the present urgent and strident clarion calls for “abandon ship”. We have risen from the ashes of the pogroms, overcome most of the damage and have demonstrated in very eloquent manner that Igbo blood is no longer fair game. It’s obvious also that this statement boldly enacted very recently in Owerri, in Aba, along the Port-Harcourt – Enugu expressway etc. have been noted by the blood thirsty vagabonds from the Sahara. They have taken counsel.

Why then do we want out and quick? Essentially on account of the age old aphorism that the greatest of all instincts is self preservation, in this case not from the raging fiends up north and to the west, but from a life that holds no promise and over which we cannot exercise any control. The ship is about sinking.

It is all about the prevalent corruption, the ineptitude, the abject hopelessness, the pervading inertia and of course the corrupting influence of this culture of business as usual on the general polity. I am indeed worried when I walk into a bank and see Igbo youths (under thirty years of age) unable to fill bank tellers without assistance in order to deposit the millions they make daily. It’s a source of concern. We are losing entire generations of Igbo men to illiteracy. Before you take me to task on whose fault that is. I’ll tell you: the rest of Nigeria. By relegating Igbos to the periphery of society with no opportunities to lead meaningful lives in the armed forces, in the civil service, in the corporate sectors, Igbo graduates parade the streets as a most glaring discouragement for the younger ones to follow suit. It started gradually, from an all boys’ school turning co-ed, and then into an all girl’s school. Like a bad dream, it crept into the higher instructions. Alvan Ikoku College of Education is no different in gender composition from the erstwhile WTC’s. And what about the University of Nigeria? Seeing is believing. All the traditional male hostels up campus in Nsukka have since been taken over by the females. Where are the males? In the Universities of Ariaria, Ogbete, Otu, Ochanja and of course along the air routes of Taiwan, Singapore etc. What type of society is that going to be?

I dwelt on the younger generation first because we still have a chance of saving them. But the older ones would serve to demonstrate the potent force that Nigerian corruption is. Where would I start, Chukwumerije, Comrade Walter Ofonagoro? No, may be with a once “conscience of the masses” Dr. Chuba Okadigbo reduced to nothing more than one-of-them-thieving-men-in-flowing-robes. If that breaks your heart, what do you make of Dee Sam Mbakwe taking part in the 3 million man march for Abacha’s self perpetuation? As if that is not enough, what has Jim Nwobodo been reduced to? At some point in his inglorious days in the Abacha era, his name was linked to a missing stand-by generator in the national stadium. Is this the same man who was chairman of the Rangers International, gave us the then best TV station in the land, ASUTECH, laid the groundwork for the rural electrification, etc.? Yes, one and the same. But they are all acting as if the virtuous lives of service they led earlier were mistakes. Badness and evil pay in Nigeria. Goodness doesn’t. Good people constitute a separate endangered species. That’s bad, really bad. Are these the same people that took their tutelage under such sages as Akanu Ibiam, Michael Okpara, Nnamdi Azikiwe etc.? I worry about what could become of us with a continued stay in Nigeria and for this I submit we want out. Its time to count the losses and dust off.

I wish to say that I agree with all that has been said so far ie. That Biafrans should be allowed to stay on their own. Evil communication corrupts good manners, and if we carry on eith this unholy alliance we stand the risk of loosing all our trade mark virtues.

For instance how can I hone my skills in my brnch of engineering when the Nigerians think power failure and fuel scarcity is normal.

Vitalis I haven’t just started asking for a concerted effort to restructure that place, if you check on the old message board of Nigeria world I believe under the title Sharia Madness returns June 22 2000 I made a case for the Nation to split up, I admit I have not been as vocal as Seun with regards to this, there is no excuse I should have been, hopefully from here onwards we can make a concerted effort to attain this

Thanks

Let's part amicably. But Biafran's beware, sometimes you have to prepare for war if you want peace. Aremu thinks by chanting his mantra on the causes of the civil war we'd all go into hiding. Far from it fat man, this is year 2ks and you ain't seen nothing. Tell you friends we Biafrans are sick of your ineptitude and prodigious life style.
Umu nnem,

The opposition has a lot of guile and we must do our level best to match them this time diplomacy for diplomacy and machine gun for machine gun as done in Enyimba most recently when the rascals killed our people in Kaduna. Kalu out-foxed them in their own game by going to Sokoto to shake hands shortly after while our boys oiled their weapons. Ever wondered why the philistines mobilise so easily in their blood-thirsty frenzy? The clue lies in the fact that they always have a little radio in their kiosks and off course when they make some of their chants in mid afternoon you know it's time for human sacrifice. Lesson for us here is : Be informed, be prepared and be available.

Don't let us mistaken your silence on this issue as timidity.

I am still very much around and just chilling for now. See me see trouble o, if I talk na wahala, if I no talk na wahala.

As for Muda, he may be affiliated to the North by birth, parentage, marriage, residence or business. But surely, he exhibits Igbo characteristics

We support MASSOB, but let no one believe that we are followers of Ghandi and MLK. We have not given a Ghandian or Lutheran mandate to Uwazuruike either. We shall prevail, and we shall actualize Biafra BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Nigeria will NEVER operate against Biafrans with impunity or under a guarantee from Biafrans that there will be no violence directed at Nigerians. If it is non-violence that Nigeria wishes for, let Nigeria listen to and deal with Uwazuruike intelligently, and let Nigeria do so non-violently. No murderer of Biafrans should go to sleep at night knowing that he will be alive the next morning. None. We are seeing to that as we speak. Obasanjo and others who have murdered Igbos in cold blood will be made to answer.