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“Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.” --Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Fellow Biafrans, We greet you all on this special occasion, the commemoration of the birth of our dear nation, Biafra. In the words of the Patrice Lumumba that illustrious son of Congo and Africa; “All of you, my friends, who have fought tirelessly at our sides, I ask you to make this May 30, 1967, an illustrious date that you will keep indelibly engraved in your hearts, a date of significance of which you will teach to your children, so that they will make known to their sons and to their grandchildren the glorious history of our fight for liberty.” We salute BiafraNigeriaWorld for rising to the challenge of countering the malicious and pungent propaganda orchestrated by the tiny cabal that owe their wealth and relevance to the failed Nigeria State. It was Thomas Jefferson who wrote that, quote: “The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of news-writers who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers.” Unquote. It is interesting to note that Yoroba born Reuben Abati has yet to publicly apologise to Biafrans for his appalling write up on Biafra where he was shown to have blatantly altered the dates and sequence of events in order to justify the gruesome murder of innocent Biafrans in 1966. Perhaps he needs to be reminded of the Motto of his employer “truth is contant”. Yet in all the anti Biafra ranting it is becoming clear even to the most cursory observer that their Nigeria much more than Biafra is the product of a knee jerk reaction; “a mere geographic expression” sustained by an unhealthy fear of an ever present danger of disintegration. The older Nigerians lacking in courage and candour have failed to admit their moronic thoughtlessness is seeing and seizing the opportunity that the painful birth of Biafra presented to Africa. Only two weeks ago the prime minister of Kosovo had this to say about the secession of Montenegro: The people of Montenegro have expressed their will to live in an independent country, sharing with others in the region the aspiration to join the European Union. Before the end of the year, Kosovo will join Montenegro as a new state and these new countries will be an important factor for the stability of the whole region. In 1967, one Anthony Eromosele Enahoro arguing against Biafra in London opined that: “If secession by Ojukwu and his group is accomplished, Nigeria will most probably disintegrate…. and a chain reaction will be set up all over Africa. Africa would end up in petty little principalities. Each successor 'mini state' would be sovereign enough to acquire foreign protectors and purchase arms. Such a situation, with its inevitable dislocations and frictions over boundaries, trade and division of assets, would produce wars.” In another three and a half decades and after being forced into exile from his integrated Nigeria, Enahoro had seen a flicker of the Biafran light. In a speech at Yoroba Tennis Club, Lagos in July 2, 2002, Enahoro now concurred with Obasanjo: “Given our traumatic experience, I suggest that the following question is pertinent: should the constitution allow for the ultimate change of secession? In the past, this issue has been treated as a taboo topic but the absence of thought and debate on the matter is a poor substitute for judgement. Obasanjo has helpfully opened discussion on it in his book This Animal Called Man, wherein he stated that any future constitution of Nigeria must provide for a right of secession. This is but a recognition of the reality that, short of brute force, the only way that different nationalities can be kept together in the long term is by their will to stay together.” For a man who was vehemently opposed to the formation of the old Midwest, this must be the mother of all shifts! The late Beko Ransome Kuti a Yoroba liberation activist in one of his last interviews with the Achebe series thinks rather very highly of their united Nigeria when he opined thus: …rather than pretend to be chasing “the Nigerian dream” -- which to me does not exist. People just got whatever advantage they could from that notion and nothing more! After all within the Yoruba ethnic group, we can fight among ourselves, we can cheat ourselves, but at least we will not be able to say we are not Yoruba! But anyone can pretend to be ‘Nigerian’ while pursuing his own selfish interests…from what I have already told you! At a point in time, it was eminently clear that there was nothing like “Nigeria,” and that everybody had to find his own salvation the best way he could. It was at this point that we started encouraging people to take their ethnic origin more seriously. Even within the Campaign for Democracy, we were encouraging each group to begin to defend its own area. And I know we encouraged the Yoruba youths to form something. It was at the early stage of that that I was arrested and put in prison….You cannot tell everybody, I am sorry; but you are all Nigerians! Unity! One Nation, One God! I mean, whoever says that is just pretending, because what people are doing is not what is being preached.
The point is that Biafra in concept and practise is light years ahead of Nigeria as a clearly thought and carefully planned alternative to the chaotic mess that is Africa. Believe not those who pretend they have a more workable alternative. If that was the case, they have woefully failed to prove it in about four decades. When last did you hear the now well-worn untruth about Biafrans not being united? We assert that it is nothing but a ruse devised to ascribe importance to the handful of Biafran reprobates cheaply promoted and marketed by the Yoroba and Awusa Fulani press. The fact of the matter is that no entity in the West coast of Africa enjoys as much unity as Biafra. Some anti Biafran fools are hopeful afresh referendum on Biafra will throw up a result different from that held on the 26th of August 2004. Maybe they believe a referendum on Biafra is something they can rig ŕ la the farce that is called general election. In their erroneous thinking a few Ghana must go bags will make Biafrans vote against Biafra. To show how wrong they are one only need to cite the case of Ukpabi Asika, the embodiment of anti Biafra Nigeria. Even the Yoroba press could not help but report that ALL natural rulers of Biafra stock boycotted his “state funeral” in Onicha Biafraland. We call for least three minutes of silence at 1800hrs GMT on the 30th of May 2006 in memory of the noble men and women of Biafra who paid the supreme price in our quest for nationhood. We remember Attorney Ralph Uwazurike and other gallant MASSOBians who are presently being unlawfully incarcerated in Nigeria. You have all made history for in the words of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), “The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters”
We salute Biafra Foundation (BF), Biafra Nationalist Union (BIANU), Biafra Liberation Movement (BLM), Biafra committee for Immediate Action (BCIA), the Biafra Justice Committee (BCIA), Nsigbidi Chronicle and the Ikenga Think Tank (ITT). Following in the famous paths of our forbears you have proved to be the useful kindred abroad. Your effort was the reason Buhari the shariarist paid his way to New Jersey in 2004 to lecture his audience on the dangers of Baifra. Buhari is so caring and loves the Igbo that he and his cousin Ike Nwachukwu terminated all the industrial projects Dee Sam had embarked upon for the upliftment of Nde Igbo.
We thank Amnesty international and Human Rights watch who have been keeping a close tab on the persecution of Biafrans by Nigerians.
Hail Biafra, Hail the land of the Rising Sun!
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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Long live the Federal Republic of Biafra!! Just as the Sun will rise from the East, so is your majesty guaranteed under the Rising Sun.
Biafrans will never forget the events that led to your birth. Hail Biafra!!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday May 27, the Association of Biafran Christians (ABC) and all Biafrans present honored Biafran heroes past, present and future with a mobilization conference in Los Angeles, California. The goal of the discourse was the rebirth of Biafra, which went limbo since January 15 1970.
It was indeed an uplifting occasion to the peoples of the East and the Mideast, otherwise called the Biafrans, whose so-called compatriots of other races have sentenced to unmitigated estrangement, and whom their Naziria nation is in full throttle to extinct.
Naziria, dubiously named Nigeria, is the graveyard of Igbo and her cognate neighbors. It is the pandemic Frederick Lugard’s mistress god mothered after the river Niger of her coarse fascination. But then, Naziria should not be romanticized as Nigeria; certainly not by its Biafran casualties, and not by its savage Nazirian beneficiaries either, assuming they still retain the least speckle of humanity in them.
On the one hand, to hail this rogue federation, Nigeria, is the same as desecrating all the supreme sacrifices of Biafra’s fallen heroes and heroines. On the other hand, to begin to label this bandit country by its sterling name, Naziria, is nothing more than paying overdue respect to the same fallen heroes and casualties of our first Biafra.
The amalgam of 1914 wasn't Nigeria, it was Naziria, and it took a question of time for polite Nigeria to manifest essential Naziria. It began three decades after in 1945 Jos ethnic cleansing of the Easterners and Mideasterners. By the time the pseudo-country finally became the Federal Republic of Naziria in 1960, its character and destination were all too manifest both to the predator and the quarry alike.
Those who gave their lives that pathetic cowards, later enshrined as Nazirian heroes, namely: Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, Theophilus Danjuma, Olisiego Obusonjo, Anthony Enahoro, Obafemi Awolowo, et cetera, could not wrangle all Biafrans to their fast multiplying crematoria across Naziria and even within Biafra did not die in vain.
Here are some few scenarios that throw the weight of Biafran heroes’ tragic humanitarian work in bold relief: Yakubu Gowon provided for and protected all Northern Nazirian criminals who disemboweled pregnant women, slaughtered babies and beheaded men, altogether numbering about 50,000 Eastern/Mideasterners in a single year, 1966.
Muritala Mohammed was famed for wiping out the entire male folk of Asaba, and conducting genocide on Biafrans who surrendered to him in Awka and Onitsha during the war. Theophilus Danjuma smashed General Aguiyi-Ironsi's brains on a road in Ibadan, and till today saved a bullet for Ojukwu, the Biafran warlord.
Obafemi Awolowo stole about 6 billion pounds from the war-wracked Biafrans for the Nazirian coffers. Enahoro recommended decimating the Biafran population through abject starvation. And finally, Olisiego Obusonjo calls the government representatives of East/Mideast felons, and has lashed out an unending scourge called Chris Uba against Anambra State.
United Nation's definition of the crime of genocide includes cultural extinction of a peculiar people; the Biafran fiasco and resultant conundrum should convict Naziria on first degree charges of genocide in the World Court. Naziria should be sanctioned to pay reparations to Biafra, and Biafra should then be provisioned by the United Nations to secede from Naziria.
To romanticize Naziria as Nigeria therefore isn't only tantamount to spoofing the invaluable and incalculable heads and limbs, which heroes and heroines threw in to put out the holocaust, but smacks of insensitive self-abuse as well. In the final analyses, to refer to the rogue nation for what it basically is, Naziria, is the least regard Biafrans could have of themselves, at least for now.
All Biafrans should refer to Nigeria as Naziria. Others, Nazirians or not, should follow suit; such being the only justifiable thing to do to this monstrosity Britain contrived to blight the manhood of the entire black race.
Surely, before Hister, sorry Adolf Hitler, began Nazi Germany in the beginning of the 1930's, the same infamous Nazi dots were already connecting here in the armpit of Africa, courtesy of imperial, nay Petite Britain.
It will not be well with Britain at all, also because they would not repent of their villainy. Hope is the basic expediency you could give people, in this respect, peculiar peoples. But that is exactly what Britain is adamant to deprive the Biafran peoples. Biafra's fate cannot rest in your foolish hands oh Britain! Biafra's fate is in her nimble limbs, and you know what else? She has already overcome your disgusting sleight of hand, which manipulates the span of her peace and the reaches of her endeavors. Yea, Beloved has overcome! Retire in shame.
After her eventual epic triumph over Nazirian occupation, Biafra should be renamed Beloved. The name Biafra is bereft of meaning, yet she could bear it for now. What does it actually mean, besides the defunct Bight of Biafra on the map of Naziria? The word is one of the imperialists's numerous jawing across Africa, of which self-preserving African nations like Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Ghana, and so forth cast off at some points through their nationhood. After victory, Biafra should be christened Beloved or some other name that unifies her confederate ethnic nationalities.
Time is far gone for all Easterners and Mideasterners, from Calabar through Port Harcourt and Enugu to Agbor, to launch at least the home coming of our hearts and minds from a parasitic federation that lives off Biafran material and human resources. A country errantly called Nigeria though it overreached its true self as Naziria forty years ago with the holocaust against the Biafrans, which the Gowon regime gleefully presided over for four sore and upended years.
Physical mass return may still wait, and may never be total as desirable. After all that which severs, though re-fixed shall fall short. But spiritual return is the absolute answer to Biafra's soul searching against the groundswell of allied Nazirian siege. She should begin now to rework all her ethnic and personal interrelationships. Blend in her differences. Hold her ethnic nationalities in unmatchable esteem way above outlandish neighbors.
Biafrans, work vigorously to rebuild your nation with the understanding that outlandish rapprochements, with the Nazirians, that jeopardize mutual relations in East and Mideast can only serve up your wholesale liquidation in their cannibalistic platters.
The Nazirians are skunks, cheats and sneaks. None of the Biafrans: Rivers, Crossriver, Delta, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Bayelsa, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, or Abia states has gained from having coalesced with Fulani, Hausa, Yoruba, Bini and so forth. Instead these Assyrians and Philistines of Naziria have continued unrelentingly to disconnect your ecology, siphon and flare your oil products, confiscate your estates, impede your commerce, frustrate your future, deny your welfare, and police your freedom.
Any sibling nationality that has so much as gained half as much as she has lost in consorting with any of the Nazirian criminal ethnic nationalities should go ahead and scream her objection to this treatise! Haven't all of you been hurting one way and another? Haven't your own leaders brainwashed, and Naziria instigated your deep-rooted aversion to one another; so much that you have inadvertently and prodigally bankrolled your quasi-compatriots' junketing and squander mania; your quasi-compatriots whose difference to the White neo-colonialists is they are uncivilized and blacker than you.
Your ethnic groups are hard working and spare. Unlike the Nazirians, you are all beautiful and resourceful people. Why should you then allow Naziria, pettiness, past mistakes, slithering aliens, and sleek clansmen to monumentalize mutual animosity and distrust amongst you? Arise Biafrans! Gravitate to self-galvanization in your second and final effort.
CID OGUAGHA
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39 years after Biafra, Africa, particularly Nigeria remains a loose screw, world's certifiable carpet beggars and the caricature of the world. "HAIL BIAFRA, THE LAND OF FREEDOM"
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Just when you think that these people have come to their senses about the futility of their biafra and have been cured of all associated maladies, they go and show that the madness is more serious than originally thought.
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Daud, I don't know the planet you are living in. The question I want to ask you is, for over forty years, just tell me one good thing that Nigeria will say it has achieved? Why are you burying your head on the sand, try and smell the coffee, it will never get better in Nigeria. I will tell you the truth, the only people who have sense are those who stand up and fight injustice against them and their people; who fight for their right.
Whether you or anybody likes it or not, we are not dealing with men anymore but with God. God never buries his head on sand, nor does he advocate injustice, nor does he support corruption, nor does cover up the truth and tells lies to advance his evil plans. Don’t say you weren’t told the time is nigh; closer than you think.
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___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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Yes, we remember the well-made uniforms. It was a soldiers atire.
God bless Biafra and the Champions of Biafra. The great Dick Tiger served his nation well. Today, young Biafrans are ready, waiting to wear the Rising Sun badges to protect the borders of the Republic of Biafra.
Hail Biafra!!
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quote:Furthermore, the Center's Board of Directors does recognize the Biafran Foundation as the principal representative of the Biafran Nation external to the Country and shall endeavor when opportunity arises to work closely with the Biafran Foundation members to advance a peaceful and non-violent path toward a new political future for the Biafran Nation--a future chosen freely by the Biafran people and their allies.
___________________ God bless Chukwuma Nzeogwu! Posts: 104 | From: Utrecht, The Netherland | Registered: Dec 2002
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