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By Collins Ughalaa KSC<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The re-arraignment of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra<\/div>\n
(IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, June 27, 2021, has reinforced the<\/div>\n
events and idealization of Biafra. There are indications that Kanu was<\/div>\n
arrested a week earlier in a secret operation by Nigeria’s security<\/div>\n
agents and their collaborators. But for the re-arraignment and<\/div>\n
subsequent press briefing by the Attorney General of the Federation and<\/div>\n
Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, Nnamdi Kanu’s ordeal might<\/div>\n
have remained unknown, at least for some days longer.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
As Biafra continues to dominate the airwaves, we must pause and ask<\/div>\n
ourselves some salient questions. What is Biafra? Is Biafra an event, a<\/div>\n
place, a people, or an idea? The failure to understand Biafra<\/div>\n
contributes largely to the misconceptions, misinformation, opportunism<\/div>\n
and whatnot that we now contend with in the quest for Biafra. Some<\/div>\n
people have argued that Biafra is an event and an idea, and we agree<\/div>\n
with them. When the British colonial masters arrived in Nigeria, they<\/div>\n
identified three majority groups: the Hausa\/Fulani Majority in the<\/div>\n
North, Yoruba Majority in the West, and Igbo Majority in the East, and<\/div>\n
administered the country along those lines. No group was identified as<\/div>\n
Biafra – and Biafra was not part of the negotiations for Nigeria’s<\/div>\n
independence in 1960 – until the ugly events of post-independence<\/div>\n
Nigeria. “Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist<\/div>\n
state in West Africa that existed from May 1967 to January 1970″ and was<\/div>\n
\u201cformed as a result of the nationalist aspirations of the Igbo people<\/div>\n
of Nigeria, leading to the Nigerian Civil War\u201d.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
We should not make the mistake of confusing Biafra with names like<\/div>\n
Od\u00f9duw\u00e0. The Yoruba believe that Od\u00f9duw\u00e0 is their progenitor. Also<\/div>\n
called O\u00f2dua, the Yoruba regard him as their divine king who held the<\/div>\n
title of Ooni, the first ruler of the the unified Ife. He is venerated<\/div>\n
as the hero, warrior, leader and father of the Yoruba race, Olofin<\/div>\n
Adimula, Olofin Aye and Olufe. Put together, Od\u00f9duw\u00e0 is a Yoruba<\/div>\n
historical figure. On the other hand, Biafra had no particular history<\/div>\n
with Ndigbo prior to 1967 when Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra.<\/div>\n
It was not a person but a name suggested by an Ijaw man, Chief Frank<\/div>\n
Opigo, and adopted by Ojukwu, as a child of necessity. It is not the<\/div>\n
progenitor of the Igbo race either.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
However, the events of Biafra predate Nigeria\u2019s independence. A<\/div>\n
newspaper in 1945 had reported about ethno-religious tension in Jos,<\/div>\n
during which Hausa-Fulani people were said to have targeted Igbo people<\/div>\n
and left three hundred Igbo people dead and wounded. \u201cAt Jos in 1945,<\/div>\n
a sudden and savage attack by Northerners took the Easterners completely<\/div>\n
by surprise, and before the situation could be brought under control,<\/div>\n
the bodies of Eastern women, men and children littered the streets and<\/div>\n
their property worth thousands of Pounds reduced to shambles\u201d, said<\/div>\n
the newspaper report.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The event of Biafra was not just the Nigeria\/Biafra war. The political<\/div>\n
turmoil in the Southwest in 1964\/1965, where Samuel Ladoke Akintola and<\/div>\n
Obafemi Awolowo locked horns, is believed to be the beginning of the<\/div>\n
crisis in Nigeria. There was widespread electoral malfeasance in the<\/div>\n
Western Region election for the office of the Premier. Violence broke<\/div>\n
out over the outcome of the elections and soon spread throughout the<\/div>\n
country. People fled the Region. In response, the Federal Government<\/div>\n
declared a state of emergency and placed the Western Region under<\/div>\n
martial law. By January 1966 the political crisis in the West reached a<\/div>\n
crescendo. On 15 January 1966, there was a military coup d’\u00e9tat by<\/div>\n
mutinous Nigerian soldiers led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel<\/div>\n
Ifeajuna.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Aguiyi Ironsi, then General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Army,<\/div>\n
emerged the Head of State. Ironsi\u2019s emergence as the Head of State was<\/div>\n
interpreted in some corners to be a conspiracy by the coup plotters, who<\/div>\n
were led by Igbo officers, to allow General Aguiyi-Ironsi to become the<\/div>\n
Head of State. This misinterpretation also led to the belief by the<\/div>\n
North that the coup was an Igbo coup targeted against the North. This<\/div>\n
distrust is what led Nigeria to where she is now, still struggling for<\/div>\n
breath. By July 1966 there was already a retaliatory coup by Northern<\/div>\n
soldiers, killing General Aguiyi Ironsi and several officers from the<\/div>\n
South. The coupists named General Yakubu Gowon as the Head of the<\/div>\n
Federal Military Government.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
By September 1966, about 30,000 Ndigbo were reported killed in the<\/div>\n
North. Things deteriorated very fast, and in January 1967, Yakubu Gowon,<\/div>\n
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Region,<\/div>\n
headed to Aburi, Ghana, in search of solutions to the crisis in the<\/div>\n
country. Sadly, the Federal Military Government under Gowon reneged on<\/div>\n
the agreements reached in Aburi, otherwise called the Aburi Accord.<\/div>\n
Gowon rather unilaterally declared the creation of several new states in<\/div>\n
the Southeast Region to whittle the effect of the threat for secession<\/div>\n
by the Eastern Region.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On 26 May 1967, after consultations with community leaders in the<\/div>\n
Eastern Region, Ojukwu decreed to secede from Nigeria. On 30 May, he<\/div>\n
declared the independence of the Republic of Biafra, citing the killing<\/div>\n
of Ndigbo in the post-coup violence as reasons for the declaration of<\/div>\n
independence. \u201cNow, therefore, I, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka<\/div>\n
Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the<\/div>\n
authority, and pursuant to the principles, recited above, do hereby<\/div>\n
solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called<\/div>\n
Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial<\/div>\n
waters shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name<\/div>\n
and title of The Republic of Biafra\u201d, Ojukwu declared.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Though the war ended in 1970, the events of Biafra lingered, and<\/div>\n
sometimes took sociopolitical, economic and religious forms. The<\/div>\n
declaration of Biafra was a child of necessity which the Gowon<\/div>\n
government helped to birth. Biafra was a response, a solution to the<\/div>\n
ugly experiences of Ndigbo in Nigeria. Nigeria is a country that<\/div>\n
preaches equality but practices inequality, a country divided along<\/div>\n
ethnic, religious, social, educational, economic and political biases.<\/div>\n
This is why Biafra as a beautiful idea holds so much attraction to<\/div>\n
Ndigbo. The problem in the current circumstance is that a lot of people<\/div>\n
misinterpret Biafra and see the solutions to the Nigerian malady in the<\/div>\n
past \u2013 the declaration of the Republic of Biafra on May 30, 1967 \u2013<\/div>\n
and insist that Biafra must be free. Biafra is of the mind, a<\/div>\n
representation, the idealization or pursuit of freedom, equity and<\/div>\n
fairness, rule of law, faith, truth, prosperity and unity, etcetera.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Every Nigerian – whether Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Fulani, Ijaw, connects<\/div>\n
with the idea of Biafra, because the ideals Biafra represents are<\/div>\n
universally accepted. Biafra opportunists have rather forced the false<\/div>\n
narrative on Nigerians. A lot of Nigerians believe that anyone agitating<\/div>\n
for Biafra must be agitating for secession. This is why Biafra has not<\/div>\n
got any closure yet. This is also why the Federal Government believes<\/div>\n
that the solution for Biafra lies in military actions. Those who create<\/div>\n
this misunderstanding about the idealization of Biafra are Biafra<\/div>\n
opportunists who have hijacked the struggle for freedom, justice,<\/div>\n
fairness and equity, rule of law, prosperity, love, industry, faith and<\/div>\n
unity, which are the hallmarks of Biafra. These opportunists, largely<\/div>\n
driven by pecuniary reasons, mouth Biafra but create the confusion that<\/div>\n
Biafra means secession.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Nigeria should cease listening to the opportunists but must listen to<\/div>\n
the true leaders of the people. Ohanaeze Ndigbo has been at the<\/div>\n
forefront of the call for a restructured Nigeria where the ideals of<\/div>\n
justice, fairness and equity, freedom, prosperity and unity are<\/div>\n
realizeable. In January 2021, Prof. George Obiozor, President General of<\/div>\n
Ohaneze Ndigbo, told journalists in Enugu that \u201cNdigbo in all<\/div>\n
indications see restructuring as the most preferred option\u201d.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On June 12, 2021, Southeast leader met with the Federal Government in<\/div>\n
Enugu. Rising from the meeting they rejected the agitation for secession<\/div>\n
and reiterated their commitment to peace, unity and stability of the<\/div>\n
country. \u201cWe are committed to one united Nigeria. We have always<\/div>\n
mentioned that all our leaders are committed to this and that is why we<\/div>\n
read it everywhere. We are for a united Nigeria of fairness, equity and<\/div>\n
equality of freedom. Those who dish out hate speeches from our region,<\/div>\n
the threat of violence or secession do not speak for the South East. I<\/div>\n
repeat we the South East people are not for secession, we don\u2019t<\/div>\n
support it; we don\u2019t call for it”, said Governor Dave Umahi on behalf<\/div>\n
of Ndigb.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The events of Biafra cannot be given closure until the idealization of<\/div>\n
Biafra is achieved. That is to say that the only event that will give<\/div>\n
closure to the events of Biafra is when our leaders begin to do justice;<\/div>\n
when there is fairness and equity; when there is real \u2013 not imaginary<\/div>\n
\u2013 unity and faith in Nigeria and her potentials; and when there is<\/div>\n
freedom for all Nigerians.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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