The new leader of the Actualisation of the Sovereign State
of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, has delared that Nigeria will cease to
exist by December 2015.
Kanu, who spoke at a gathering
of members of defunct Biafra, including scores of its aged war veterans,
vowed that he would not rest until the republic is realised.
He
spoke at the maiden commemoration of Biafran Day at Ngwo Enugu State,
in remembrance of the events of 1967 when the late Igbo leader, Dim
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra.
Kanu,
the Director of Radio Biafra, used the occasion to unveil a multi-
million naira cenotaph in memory of Biafra fallen heroes killed during
the civil war.
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He warned the Nigeria Federal Government not to constitute a cog in the wheel of progress of the proposed republic.
Decrying
the situation in the country, he said, “It is the watershed in the
history of the geographical expression called Nigeria. It is the
aftermath of the mistake of the amalgamation of the Northern and
Southern protectorates by Lord Lugard”.
Kanu further
regretted that 47 years after Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra,
the reasons that led to his decision were still evident in Nigeria.
He decried the sufferings and agony being faced by common Nigerians as a result of corrupt and bad governance in the country.
He
insisted that Nigeria is doomed and driven by world acclaimed selfish
and corrupt leaders, who does not believe in the well being of the poor
masses.
He pointed out that as long as the intention
and purpose of the amalgamation of North and South were designed to
cheat the South, the nation would never move forward, “because any
country that makes injustice its watch word can never prosper.”
According
to him, no amount of National Conference can solve Nigeria’s problem
because of deep-rooted hatred among the different nationalities in the
country.
Kanu further maintained that the only panacea
to Nigeria’s problems is to split it into different regions, calling on
Igbos to embrace and keep faith with Biafra, which he assured, will
definitely come to reality.
“There is no going back, by
December 2015, Nigeria would have ceased to exists; we shall fight
until we get Biafra, if they don’t give us Biafra, no human being will
remain alive in Nigeria by that time; we shall turn everybody into
corpses; you better go and buy your coffin.”
He
regretted that despite the declaration of the “no victor, no vanquish”
after the Nigeria/Biafra civil war in 1970, successive governments,
including the present Goodluck Jonathan’s led administration had
continued to deliberately marginalise and make life unbearable for the
Igbo nation and its people.
He, therefore, called on
all genuine Igbo people across the globe to rise up and join the crusade
of putting in place the Biafran Republic, adding that it was time for
the Igbos, to pull out of Nigeria, which he described as a failed
nation, where nothing works.
Kanu noted that it was
unfortunate and painful that 47 years after the civil war, the Nigerian
Federal Government had bluntly refused to pay soldiers who fought on the
side of Biafra all their benefits and entitlements, whereas, all their
counterparts in the North and Western parts of the country had received
theirs.
The Radio Biafra boss said despite all odds,
they remain eternally grateful to the Biafra leader, late Ojukwu, and
others who laid down their lives for the struggle.
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