BIAFRA AS A CONSCIENCE PARTY – By M.M.Mbanaja.

  
“Conscience is an open wound, only the truth can heal it” – Uthman Dan Fodio (1754-1817) “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana,

The only reason that all the Northern and some Yoruba elites get jittery when they hear of Biafra is fear of loosing Nigerias oil wealth.

Biafra is not just an attempt by greedy Igbo to breakup and dominate the oil wealth as most night school educated Northerners and their Yoruba co-travelers will assume, it is a dream for every reasonable Nigerian who quest for freedom,equity and fairness.

In 1957, the Aristocratic Saduana of Sokoto refused the independence of Nigeria because he insisted the North was not ready. But the North was ready when he got what he wanted, and more, before Nigerian Independence in 1960. The British overlords, in order to assuage Sultan Bello’s fears and put Nigeria in the Northern control, created in 1959, 312 seats for the Nigerian National Assembly without any election or new Census. Out of this 312, the North was allocated 174 and the South 138 in the anticipation of the Parliamentary Political System being put in place for Nigeria’s independence. Sultan Bello asked for 50% of the seats in the National Assembly, he got 55.7%. Suddenly, an apartheid system was put in place as the majority South, became the minority and the minority North became the majority. This is where the future of Nigeria was unmade, and the seed for the destruction of the Nigerian unity was sowed.

This development gave unburnished confidence to Sultan Bello who declared on October 12, 1960, in an interview with The Parrot, just days after independence the following words:

“This New Nation called Nigeria, should be an estate of our great grand father, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South, as conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.”

This aristocratic arrogance of the North that has continually given them this ‘’born to rule’’ attitude to behave as house slaves to the British must stop in our time

Biafra stands to ensure that each Region or zone within her territory should be able to enunciate its own economic plan without a few cabal at the center being able to overrule them. Hence we have a very fair and attractive deal in the Biafran charter for the entire SE/SS in a democratic setting called United states of Biafra(USB) where every province will control the resources in their domain.

Nigeria as is presently, will not survive much longer, due to lootocracy has replace patriotism, no single love for nation which incidentally the government of Buhari has demonstrated over the past six months in power. 

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This time bomb called Nigeria must be peacefully separated now else the presumed empire of the North will collapse with a consequent crisis that will consume more lives than the first war of genocide and off course we all know where the battle field is already.

It is therefore pertinent to say that every Nigerian with conscience would like to see the existence of not only Biafra but other responsible countries emerging from the current arrange that has failed with no mekwatarism.

As the Biafran avatar and Nostradamus of out time put it at Aburi in 1966 “It is better that we move slightly apart and survive, it is much worse that we move closer and perish in the collision.”