BUHARI WAGING ANOTHER WAR AGAINST BIAFRANS - Ezeife · Says killing Biafra agitators designed to depopulate Ndigbo. · Army relocates Headquarters to Aba . Says Biafra is inevitable.
Thursday February 18, 2016
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Harvard-trained
economist and former governor of old Anambra State, Okwadike
Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of waging
another war against the people of the South East geopolitical zone.
He described the President’s ill-treatment of the region as a
continuation of the 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war, which Buhari was a key
actor.
The elder statesman however warned South Easterners, especially, pro-Biafra agitators against resorting to self-defence against the country’s security forces.
Ezeife, in a position statement on pro-Biafra agitation, made available to The AUTHORITY, said that indulging in self-defence, as advocated by some members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) is not only senseless, but also an invitation to the military and police to decimate Ndigbo’s youth population.
The elder statesman however warned South Easterners, especially, pro-Biafra agitators against resorting to self-defence against the country’s security forces.
Ezeife, in a position statement on pro-Biafra agitation, made available to The AUTHORITY, said that indulging in self-defence, as advocated by some members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) is not only senseless, but also an invitation to the military and police to decimate Ndigbo’s youth population.
He said: “At this stage, it does not make any sense to talk about
self-defence. If (armed) self-defence is attempted, it can only lead to
more depopulation of South East youths.
“Buhari will continue fighting Biafra or now, Ndigbo - for as long as God gives him breath. Let us not give him any semblance of excuse or justification; let us not give him the opportunity to further slaughter our youths. Thinking persons should, in the circumstance, see any effort at self-defence as suicidal!”
Reacting to a recent statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria/Biafra war continues,
“Buhari will continue fighting Biafra or now, Ndigbo - for as long as God gives him breath. Let us not give him any semblance of excuse or justification; let us not give him the opportunity to further slaughter our youths. Thinking persons should, in the circumstance, see any effort at self-defence as suicidal!”
Reacting to a recent statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria/Biafra war continues,
Ezeife said such utterance removed
“doubts about the President’s disposition to the South East,” adding
that what this implies to the President and “others like him” is that
depopulating the South East remains a legitimate strategy.
He said: “This means that reducing the population of the South-East
remains a legitimate strategy. The war continues for as long as those
like him, who fought in the war, remain alive. Thus, we must take, as
war dead, the casualties at the Aba School Compound, days ago, where
unarmed members of Indigenous Peoples of Bi afra (IPOB), were gathered
and were dealt with: 50 persons in all, with 10 dead on the spot.
“We have no way to know yet how many of the wounded have died. One
wonders whether, even in wars, there are no rules of engagement.
“Armed policemen and soldiers, shooting-to-death innocent or, at least, unarmed individuals, can only be seen, properly, as crime against humanity, even worse than pogrom!!! Body language may be more commanding than express orders or commands!!!”
“Armed policemen and soldiers, shooting-to-death innocent or, at least, unarmed individuals, can only be seen, properly, as crime against humanity, even worse than pogrom!!! Body language may be more commanding than express orders or commands!!!”
While commending IPOB leaders for doing the right thing by taking the
Biafran cause to the United Nations (UN), Ezeife enumerated the
circumstances which gave birth to the agitation for Biafra as the
absence of South Easterners in the President’s first 40 appointments.
He named other sins Buhari had committed against the South East as the removal of the appointment of an Igbo in NIMASA three days after announcement; failure to appoint a South
He named other sins Buhari had committed against the South East as the removal of the appointment of an Igbo in NIMASA three days after announcement; failure to appoint a South
East
person to even the sixth and least protocol position in government in a
six geopolitical zone structure like the position of the Secretary to
the Government of the Federation (SGF); absence of any Igbo person in
the
National Security Council and dumping other dangerous Boko Haram
prisoners in Ekwulobia Prison, in Anambra State despite massive protests
from the people.
Others, according to him, are Buhari’s failure to give key ministries to
the South East persons; spilling the blood of Eastern youths, the most
recent in Aba; imputatively disrespecting the rule of law by the
continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu after a court of competent
jurisdiction had ordered his release on bail; the body language of
undisguised hatred for Igbo demonstrated through the recent handcuffing
of Olisa Metuh, while other accused persons, whose cases were more
heinous, were swaggering into the court.
He added: “These are the ingredients of injustice, marginalisation and
humiliation which can make life not worth living for an Igbo man in
Nigeria. They are signs of the Igbo being rejected in Nigeria.
“These are the reason why I said that Buhari is stoking the fire of MASSOB and Biafra and pushing the South East out of Nigeria. For as long as they persist, Biafra is inevitable. No two ways about it!!!”
“These are the reason why I said that Buhari is stoking the fire of MASSOB and Biafra and pushing the South East out of Nigeria. For as long as they persist, Biafra is inevitable. No two ways about it!!!”
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