BIAFRA: THE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW NATION, WHY WE FIGHT.

Biafra was birthed because of a non stop pogrom against Ndigbo in Northern Nigeria, which inspired the need to find a safe homeland where Ndigbo will be safe and free. It led to the 1967 to 1970 civil war as the Nigerian government refused to let Ndigbo leave Nigeria and waged a brutal war of attrition to prevent it. They frustrated the Colonel Odimegwu Ojukwu led effort to find a safe and secure homeland where Ndigbo will no longer by slaughtered at the whiff of Northern Nigerians. Although the shooting hostilities ended in 1970 but the restive spirit for Biafra lives on and have recently been rekindled by the effort of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is leading the current effort through IPOB and ESN. 

ICHEOKU commends his bravery, courage and doggedness and prays for God's protection and guidance as he navigates the boat of freedom for Biafran people through the sharks infested waters of international politics as well as internal Nigerian Fulani Janjaweed armed forces, who are once again fighting to frustrate his effort. Nigeria knows that they are so empty without Ndigbo and that they cannot survive without Ndigbo, the reason they are fighting so mad to prevent the Biafra sun from rising again. But they may not be as lucky this time as they were in the 1960s as the world has since transcended from the geopolitics of the 1960s and now have so many other variables that could actually influence things. In other words, BiaExit is uploading.

During the previous war, Britain was able to also mobilize forces of Europe, America and Egypt and together, they helped Nigeria crush the Biafran resistance. But their primordial argument for ensuring the indivisibility of Nigeria may not be as persuasive today as it was then when James Harold Wilson held sway at 10 Downing Street. Some other countries of the world will certainly  take a special interest in the issue should the presently deteriorating situation eventually snowball into another shooting war. It is also worth noting that the media has since changed and the space for narrative has become more widened to accommodate non official account of what is going on, the last Israel and Hamas conflict considered. Put in another way, it will not be a one-sided war, reportage or propaganda this time around as it was during the previous war and it will not end as the previous one, as it will definitely have a different outcome this time around. 

After the civil war, the then Nigerian government declared "no victor, no vanquish" in its attempt to pull everyone back together as one Nigerians. But unfortunately, it was a mere insincere lip service hogwash as successive Nigerian government failed to live up to the expectations that Ndigbo are fully integrated as bona fide citizens of Nigerians. Ndigbo have been continuously marginalized in every sphere of Nigeria, including infrastructural developments, leadership of Nigeria, appointments, business opportunities, colleges and schools for their children, job opportunities for their well educated and supremely qualified wards who are displaced by Fulani dimwits, many of who cannot even spell their names, read written text nor even pronounce words correctly. How can any sane person preaching oneness of Nigeria explain or expect any Igbo person to understand that the entire government of Nigeria has no Igbo person heading any of its arms and branches including its five security agencies.

So how can Biafrans be expected to continue to live in such an anti Biafrans toxic political union, watching people they are better than lord it over them in every aspect of society. It is this unending brazen marginalization of Ndigbo that birthed MASSOB, IPOB and ESN, groups which are now once again fighting to restore Biafra since Nigeria does not want Ndigbo as part of them in the true sense of it. After the civil war, Ndigbo did not want to talk about Biafra anymore but were forced to talk about Biafra through unmitigated marginalization and complete shut out from Nigeria. Now, Biafra has become a daily talk in Igboland rekindling the Biafran spirit once again and Nigeria is now fighting back to once again snuff it out. Ndigbo were forced back to Nigeria, but after coming back to Nigeria, they are still not accepted as Nigerians but are being continuously treated as unworthy strangers not deserving of a say or place or position of authority in Nigeria. 

This is the crux of the matter, the reason for the current season of reinvigorated Biafra, the ongoing feverish agitation and restiveness in the Igbo land Southeast. ICHEOKU says the agitation can only grow louder as the people are feverishly impassioned and wildly sensitized that no amount of intimation or massacre will silence them any longer. They have lost it and the continuing massacre of Ndigbo are blood letting too much to bear. Nigerian government and their British collaborators must be prepared to completely exterminate very Biafran otherwise they will not achieve their objective to silence them again and deny them a rightful quest for their own separate homeland. It is a matter with limited choice as only two meaningful choices actually exist, either it is resolved peacefully or through the hard way, but either way, only one outcome will be acceptable, the freedom from oppression of Biafran people. This is the only water that could quench the current burning desire in Biafra land for their own separate, safe and free homeland and an exit out of Nigeria. The die is cast. 

May 30th each year is the day set aside to honor and commemorate all Biafrans dead, millions of them, lost in various genocides against perpetrated by Northern Nigerians. To date over 7 million Biafrans have lost their lives as a result of the wickedness of Northern Nigerians led by the uncircumcised Fulani Philistines, including their Janjaweed soldiers, police, security services, herdsmen, bandits, terrorists, kidnappers, hired killers, marauders as well as those who died because of Fulani government policies which denied Biafrans means of livelihood. Biafrans who perished in the war are also included and the killings of Biafrans are continuing as the author presses the keyboards for this article. So, it is time Nigeria and Britain let Biafrans go in peace or they will be forced to let them go in pieces, an otherwise avoidable tragedy. But the same United Kingdom which left the European Union peacefully apparently now desires to see millions of Biafrans blood spilled before allowing them to have their own exit from Nigeria. What a blood suckers they are. Shame on them.