IPOB remembers millions of South Easterners killed during civil war

By -

(Nigeria) On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the sovereign nation of Biafra, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has prayed for and remembered millions of South Easterners killed in the 1966 to 1970 civil war.
IPOB spokespersons,  Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya in a statement on Tuesday, said "The Directorate of State, DOS of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, do remember today, May 30, 2017, as the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the sovereign nation of Biafra.
"We also use today’s anniversary to remember millions of Biafran heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate price between 1966 and 1970 in the hands of the genocidal Government of Nigeria headed by Yakubu Gowon, armed and supported by the British Government.
"The dead Biafrans also include the two million Biafrans massacred by some current leaders in Nigerian today  and their Northern colleagues at Owerri in 1968. In addition, we remember the thousands of Biafrans killed by some of those leders between July 2015 and May 2017 where he used state military apparatus to accomplish his orgy for Biafran blood.
"We recall that the Nigerian government-supported genocide on Biafrans started as early as June 22, 1945 in Kano and was repeatedly and frequently executed by the Biafra-hating Hausa-Fulani killers in the Northern parts of Nigeria from then on. The situation worsened for the Biafrans in 1966 when some military officers overthrew the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa-led Nigerian government with their intention of installing Chief Obafemi Awolowo as the new Head of Nigerian government.
"The coup was erroneously dubbed an “Igbo Coup“ even though majority of the coup plotters were not Igbos. Thus the stage was set for the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Biafrans beginning from July 29, 1966 with the assassination of Major General J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi at Ibadan by a group of Northern soldiers among whom are some of our current leaders in Nigeria.
"For over nine months, thousands of Biafrans were killed on daily basis all over the Northern and Western regions of Nigeria and on May 27, 1967, the Eastern Region Consultative  Assembly met and agreed to separate Biafra from the killing fields called Nigeria. In their solemn resolution they declared in paragraph-a thus:  
“a. Mandate His Excellency Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,
Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, to declare at the earliest practicable date Eastern Nigeria a free, sovereign and independent state by the name and title of the Republic of Biafra.”
"On May 30, 1967, Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra by stating as follows: “Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles, recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of "The Republic of Biafra."
"On July 6, 1967, Nigeria with the open support of British Government invaded Biafra and for three years carried out genocide that resulted in the death of over 30 percent of then Biafra’s population of 14 million citizens.
"Although key actors and their fellow genocidists have not been prosecuted for war crimes, Biafrans cannot forget the deaths of their citizens most of whom died from starvation because of the land, air, and sea blockades enforced by the British military plus the aerial bombardments of schools, hospitals, markets, churches, old peoples‘ homes, and other civilian targets perpetrated by the British military through their Egyptian mercenary pilots. 
"Today, we remember our gallant forces who fought against all odds to prevent complete annihilation of the Biafran people which was the objective of the murderous Nigerian forces as advised by the British Government. We are proud of our dead heroes and heroines. We promise them that their deaths shall never be in vain because we shall eventually restore the nation of Biafra.
"We assert that nothing on this planet earth can quench the resolve of a determined people. Biafrans are determined to restore their nation and, this time, we shall do so through the instrumentality of a United Nations-mandated and supervised Referendum. Happy 50th Anniversary of the declaration of the nation of Biafra.
Long live Biafrans and long live the blessed land of Biafra," the statement added.
 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

UBTH @50: Obaseki hails institution’s role in strengthening Edo healthcare

By -
Image
(Nigeria) Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has commended the staff and management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, for their unwavering commitment, dedication, and hard work in providing high-quality healthcare services to the people of Edo State and Nigeria in the past fifty years. Obaseki, at a dinner organized in honour of the Committee of Chief Medical Directors of Nigeria, at the Government House, Benin City, reassured the government’s continuous partnership and collaboration with the federal government-owned health institution to strengthen the health system and ensure quality health delivery to Edo people. The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Philip Shaibu, reeled out the gains of the government’s reforms in the health sector, commending the medical centre for bolstering the government’s efforts at transforming Edo State into a health hub. He said, "We came into a wilderness where you have to cut a part for yourself and fix it. We held...
Read more

Osun: S'Court ruling affirmed power resides with the people - Diri

By -
Image
*Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri (Nigeria) Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said the ruling of the country’s apex court on the Osun State governorship election was an affirmation that power in a democracy resided with the people. Governor Diri, while congratulating Senator Ademola Adeleke in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, on Wednesday, expressed joy that the Supreme Court sealed the mandate freely given to the governor by the Osun people. The Bayelsa governor also said the verdict reflected the current mood of the country where those whose stock-in-trade is to promote electoral violence and subvert the will of the people have no place in our electoral system. He expressed the hope that introduction of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, will instil more confidence in the electoral process, urging the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deepen Nigeria’s democracy by also introducing electronic votin...
Read more

NBC has no powers to impose fine on broadcast stations --Court

By -
Image
(Nigeria) The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been restrained by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, from imposing fines on broadcast stations in the country. Trial judge in the matter, Justice James Omotosho also set aside the N500,000 fines imposed on March 1, 2019, on each of 45 broadcast stations. The court made the orders in its judgment a suit by the Incorporated Trustees of Media Rights Agenda, MRA, which had sued the NBC. Justice Omotosho held that the NBC, not being a court of law, had no power to impose sanctions as punishment on broadcast stations. The court further held that the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, which gives the commission the power to impose sanction, is in conflict with Section 6 of the Constitution that vested judicial power in the court of law. He said the court would not sit idle and watch a body imposing fine arbitrarily without recourse to the law. He said that the commission did not comply with the law when it sat as a complainant and at...
Read more