The
restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra is eminent and unstoppable. The
world is yet to understand (know) how determined the Indigenous People Of
Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the bid to
restore the ancient kingdom of Biafra on earth.
The
restoration process is ongoing and unquestionably unshakable by any force on
earth. At first it may look impossible but we can assure the world that Biafra
must come to reality no matter the obstacles we face on daily basis. The state
of Biafra has always remained a project that must be accomplished.
We don't
intend to retreat nor surrender because Biafra is the only hope, Humanity have
and Black Continent at large. An ideology that has never been destroyed by the
barrels of bullets and bombs. However, no mortal man born of a woman can quash
the fire burning in the indigenous people quest to freedom. All we need is to
remain resolute, relentless, formidable, persistence and fearless before our
enemies.
The
Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) led by Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not
relenting in the quest for the sovereignty of Biafra. The quest for the blessed
nation of Biafra remains sacrosanct and inevitable. Biafra is a divine quest
and we will rather settle for less in Nigeria. It is time to take you around
the history with - Prof. Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe.
“I want to
see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no
missionary, no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Igbo from having even
one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves
and when our troops march into the centre of Igbo territory, we shoot at
everything, even things that do not move” (Benjamin Adekunle, Commander, 3rd
Marine Commander Division, Nigerian Army to French Radio Reporter).
“All is fair
in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don’t see why we should
feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder”, (Chief Obafemi
Awolowo, Nigerian Minister of Finance, July 28, 1969).
“Until now
efforts to relieve the Biafran people have been thwarted by the desire of the
central government to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of
the Igbo people that surrender means wholesale atrocities and genocide. But
genocide is what is taking place right now and starvation is the grim reaper.
This is not the time to stand on ceremony, or go through channels or to observe
diplomatic niceties. The destruction of an entire people is immoral objective,
even in the most moral of wars. It can never be condoned”, (Richard Nixon,
during the presidential campaign, September 9, 1968)
“Federal
troops killed, or stood while mobs killed, more than 5000 Igbos in Warri,
Sapele, Agbor” (New York Times, 10th January, 1968).
“Its (mass
starvation) is a legitimate aspect of war (Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian
Commissioner for Information at a press conference in New York, July 1968)
“Starvation
is a weapon of war, and we have every intention of using it against the rebels”
(Mr Alison Ayida, Head of Nigerian delegation, Niamey Peace talks, July 1968.)
“The Igbos
must be considerably reduced in number”, Lagos Policeman quoted in New York
Review 21 December, 1967.
“One word
now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards
secessionist Biafra: genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word
which fits Nigeria’s decision to stop international Red Cross and other relief
agencies from flying food to Biafra (Washington Post editorial, July 2, 1969).
“In some
areas in the East, Igbos were killed by local people with at least the
acquiescence of the Federal forces, 1000 Igbo civilians perished in Benin in
this way” (Max Edward Reporter, reporter on the ground – New York Review, 21
December 1967).
“After
federal forces take over Benin, troops killed about 500 Igbo civilians after a
house to house search with the aid of willing locals” (Washington Morning Post,
27 September, 1967)
“The
greatest single massacre occurred in the Igbo town of Asaba where 700 Igbo males
were lined up and shot as terrified women and children were forced to watch”
(London Observer, 21 January,1968)
“Federal troops killed or stood by while mobs
killed more than 5000 Igbos in Warri, Sapele, Agbor (New York Times, 10th
January, 1968).
“There has
been genocide on the occasion of the 1966 massacres, the region between the
towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, federal troops
having, for unknown reasons, massacred all the men” (Paris Le Monde, 5th April,
1968)
“In Calabar,
federal forces shot at least 1000 and perhaps 2000 Igbos, most of them
civilians” (New York Times, 18th January, 1968).
“Bestialities
and indignities of all kinds were visited on the Biafrans in 1966. In Ikeja
Barrack, (Western
Nigeria) Biafrans were forcibly fed on a mixture of human urine and faeces. In
Northern Nigeria numerous housewives and nursing mothers were violated before
their husbands and children. Young girls were abducted from their homes,
walking places and schools and forced into intercourse with sick, demented and
leprous men” (Mr Eric Spiff, German War Correspondent, eyewitness, 1967)
“650 refugee
camps, contained about 700,000 haggard bundles of human flotsam waiting
hopelessly for a meal, outside the camps, was the reminder of an estimated four
and half to five million displaced Kwashiokor scourge, a million and half
children, suffer(ed) from it during January; that put the forecast death toll
at another 300,000 children. More than the pogroms of 1966, more than the war
casualties, than the terror bombings, it was the experience of watching
helplessly their children waste away and die that gave birth to, a deep and
unrelenting loathing. It is a feeling that will one day reap bitter harvest
unless” (Frederick Forsyth, British Writer, January 21st 1969).
“The Nazis
had resurrected just here as Nigerian forces” (Washington Post, editorial, July
2, 1969). “The loss of
life from starvation continues at more than 10,000 persons per day over
1,000,000 lives in recent months. Without emergency measures now, the number
will climb to 25,000 per day, within a month and 2,000,000 deaths by the end of
the year. The new year will only bring greater disaster to people caught in the
passion of fratricidal war, we cant allow this to continue or those responsible
to go free” (Senator Kennedy appeals to Americans Sunday November 17, 1968)
“Myself and
the same UNICEF representatives went on to convey something of what lay behind
this intransigence: Among the large majority hailing from that tribe who are
the most vocal in inciting the complete extermination of the Igbos. I often
heard remarks that all Nigeria’s ills will be cured once the Igbos have been
exterminated from the human map.” (Dr Conor Cruise O’Bien, 21 December, 1967,
New York Review)
“And there,
with the shift of power, the nation hoped that the bloodletting would cease --
but no. A progressive pogrom of the Igbo erupted in October the same year, a
hunt for Easterners of all ages who were unfortunate enough to have heeded the
call of the new regime to return to their places of work and residence in the
North, reassured that all was well. They were gruesomely mistaken. Not merely
from the North but from every corner of the nation, the Igbo fled homeward,
wheeled contraptions every kind bearing their dismal remains and possessions
into Igboland. The trainloads of refugees from the North bore pitiable cargoes;
some survivors with physical mutilations, some women in such a state of shock
that they clung to the severed heads of their spouses or sons, cradling them on
their laps. Even within Lagos, the hunt for the Igbo continued unabated, in
their homes and at roadblocks." - Nobel
Laureate, Wole Soyinka from his memoir “You Must Set Forth At Dawn.” The Random
House Publishing Group; New York: 2006
"Beginning
on 29 May 1966 to 12 January 1970, the composite aggregation of the Nigeria
state – military officers, the police, Hausa-Fulani emirs, Muslim clerics and
intellectuals, students, civil servants, alimajiri, journalists, politicians,
other public figures – planned and carried out the Igbo genocide. This is the
foundational genocide of post-(European) conquest Africa. It is also Africa’s
most expansive and devastating genocide of the 20th century. A total of 3.1
million Igbo people, a quarter of this nation’s population at the time, were
murdered during those harrowing 44 months. Most Igbo were slaughtered in their
homes, offices, businesses, schools, colleges, hospitals, markets, churches,
shrines, farmlands, factories/industrial enterprises, children’s playground,
town halls, refugee centres, cars, lorries, and at bus stations, railway
stations, airports and on buses, trains and planes and on foot, or starved to
death – the openly propagated regime - 'weapon' to achieve its heinous goal
more speedily. In the end, the Igbo genocide was enforced, devastatingly, by
Nigeria’s simultaneously pursued land, aerial and naval blockade and
bombardment of Igboland, Africa’s highest population density region outside the
Nile Delta. The genocidists also destroyed, sequestrated or looted the
multibillion-dollar Igbo economy, one of the most advanced and enterprising
conurbations in Africa of the era. Africa and the rest of the world largely
stood by and watched as the perpetrators enacted this horror most relentlessly
and ruthlessly. Africa and the world could have stopped this genocide; Africa
and the world should have stopped this genocide..."
In conclusion,
the sovereign state of Biafra remains sacrosanct and inevitable. We will stop
at nothing until the nation of Biafra is restored. The British government and
collaborators must pay for the atrocities they committed against the
Biafra people. The genocide and massacre must be atoned for. All hail Biafra.
Written by:
Mazi Dimkpa
Ikenna Ikenga Amadioha-Gbo
For: Rivers
State Media (Igweocha Province)
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