Biafra

In this New Year 2019 we should take some time to restate some of the basic points on the current movement for Igbo independence from Nigeria.

Mr. President, 

This open letter is necessitated by issues of urgent national importance not unconnected with your 3 minute pre-recorded broadcast to Nigerians this Monday, the 21st day of August, 2017, where you stated that Nigeria's unity is settled and not negotiable.

Nigeria has a frightening history of precariously balancing herself on the cliff’s edge from time to time.

Many people are rightly aggrieved in Nigeria. Not just Igbos. In fact most Igbos who have been able to overcome the tragedy of and fallout from the Nigerian Civil War do not agitate for a separatist state.

Since the colonial era, a phobia has been haunting Nigeria: the phobia of Igbo domination. All over Nigeria, there is fear and suspicion by all ethnic groups and they blame it mostly on the Igbo scapegoats while some of the Igbo blame their own leaders.

“There are two basic questions that must be answered by all Nigerians. One, do we want to remain as one country? Two, if the answer is yes, under what conditions?” – Chief Bola Ige

Introduction

Background of contrasts


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