Re: SV: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Why do we dissipate so much time and energy to discuss a non-existent state called Biafra? There are enormous documentary evidences in the achieves and many libraries in universities home and abroad that Biafra is a non-existent state in Nigeria. 

We should not pay attention those who ran away and granted asylum in foreign countries whose children were told harrowing experiences they went through before they escaped. Their children never heard  the full story of how a a handful of the Igbo in the Nigerian military in January 1966 staged a coup against a civilian government and selectively killed Nigerian leaders who were not of their own ethnicity.  And thereafter their own people, the Ndigbo jubilated and acted in the most despicable manner in the North that led to the pogrom and subsequently the civil war and defeat of the Biafra warlords in 1970. 

Never again  will the Igbo nationality wage such a senseless war against Nigeria.   

Biafra does not exist and it will never resurface again. 

SO 

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On Jun 2, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:

Officially, Biafra is a xenophobic Igbo country that hates other ethnic group in Nigeria. It is a Biafra that celebrates the Nazi-like supremacy of the Igbo over other ethnic groups in Nigeria. The loving memories of the South-South ethnic nationalities that you envisaged would be brought back was recorded by Philip Effiong thus, "In May 1968, Port Harcourt fell to the federal troops. ...//.. The problems posed by the collapse of the periphery towns around the Igbo heartland caused enormous problems of human suffering and rehabilitation.

Refugees from the minority areas were not readily welcomed into the Igbo heartland. In fact, a number of refugees, particularly those coming from Uyo, Ikot Ekpene and Abak , were attacked and killed as they tried to cross into Aba and other Igbo towns (p.226, Nigeria and Biafra : My Story, By Philip Effiong)." The non-Igbo ethnic groups of Biafra were never trusted and were actually branded as saboteurs and traitors. Does it make sense for the Igbo to leave multi-ethnic Nigeria to create Biafra first before consulting others to build a multi-ethnic Biafra?

S. Kadiri 
 

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Any consultation around the new "Biafra" as you stated would be a non-starter. I doubt if the name brings loving memories to the South-South ethnic nationalities.

Sbaba

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Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 9:33:48 AM
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The inclusion of the South-South ethnic nationalities into the new Biafra must follow the process of consultations and consensus.

CAO.

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