Biafra 50 years after: Igbo leaders lament marginalised
UMUAHIA—FIFTY years after the declaration of Biafra the issues that led Ndigbo to make the declaration cannot be said to have abated rather the issues, have patently become worse. Though at the end of the resultant 30 months war, it was declared a no-victor-no-vanquish situation but the reality on ground have always indicated that Ndigbo has always been regarded and treated as a conquered people.
In aspects of the Nigerian polity, economy, politics, Ndigbo has been openly marginalized rubbishing the no victor no vanquish declaration. This is in addition to the pogrom they suffered. Instead of the Federal Government to harness some good things from the Biafran side such as the innovative ingenuity of Ndigbo they threw away the bath together with child and no doubt, Nigeria is worse off it. The continued marginalization and discarding of the genuine ideas from the Ndigbo is among the reasons for the continuous agfitation of Biafra, 50 years later. According to the leader of Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Uchenna Madu, “the existence and sojourn of the people of Biafra can be likened to the affirmation of Jesus Christ himself when he compared the Hebrew children to the salt of the earth noting that the earth, would be worthless without its salt”.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/biafra-50-years-igbo-leaders-lament-continued-marginalisation/
In aspects of the Nigerian polity, economy, politics, Ndigbo has been openly marginalized rubbishing the no victor no vanquish declaration. This is in addition to the pogrom they suffered. Instead of the Federal Government to harness some good things from the Biafran side such as the innovative ingenuity of Ndigbo they threw away the bath together with child and no doubt, Nigeria is worse off it. The continued marginalization and discarding of the genuine ideas from the Ndigbo is among the reasons for the continuous agfitation of Biafra, 50 years later. According to the leader of Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Uchenna Madu, “the existence and sojourn of the people of Biafra can be likened to the affirmation of Jesus Christ himself when he compared the Hebrew children to the salt of the earth noting that the earth, would be worthless without its salt”.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/biafra-50-years-igbo-leaders-lament-continued-marginalisation/
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