ENUGU—A pro-Biafra group, Biafra Zionist Movement, BZM, announced,
yesterday, that it had commenced the process to launch the struggle for a
State of Biafra with the international community, saying that the
formal declaration of the new Biafra Republic had been slated for
November 5.
This came as Conference of Igbo Youth Organizations, CIYO, warned
that Ndigbo “would no longer watch in silence while our brothers and
sisters are slaughtered like animals” in the Northern States.
National President of BZM, Benjamin Onwuka, at a briefing said what
prevented the realization of Biafra republic over the years was the
inability to get the support of world powers, like the United States of
America to back the project.
“As we approach the end of 13 years since the mobilization and
struggle for Biafran Independence began under the aegis of MASSOB and
other groups, the people of Biafra have not made much effort in
realizing our dreams because the struggle has been internalized since
1999,” Onwuka said.
He expressed regrets that the international community did not know
the aspirations of the Biafra people, saying “Biafra must therefore be
internationalized because the forces preventing the dreams for our
independence are vested in the United Kingdom.
Biafra can only be achieved when we secure the support of the United
States of America; the day USA comes to our side, that day we shall be
free from Nigeria; the story of South Sudan where a bloody civil war was
fought for over 24 years is a typical example.”
Meanwhile, the Igbo youths in a statement endorsed by 10 youth
leaders, including the National Coordinator, Igbo Youth Grand Alliance,
Dr. Uchenna Uchehara, who read it after their emergency meeting in
Owerri yesterday said: “Events of the past few months in Nigeria have
become very disturbing to stakeholders, especially the Igbo nation that
played a major role in the founding of Nigeria and inspite of the
tragedies of the Biafran war, resolved to give total support to one
united Nigeria”.
They lamented that the ugly experience of Ndigbo in Nigeria had been
the persistent and unprovoked killings of Igbo citizens outside Igbo
land.
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