The
leader of Biafra Independence movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike,
yesterday, recalled how the absence of Igbos in the key Political
appointments made by former Nigerian military Heads of State and
presidents, led him to float movement for actualization of sovereign
state of Biafra, MASSOB.
Uwazuruike recalled that on August 7, 1999 (when he was president
of Igbo National Council Of Chief) he made public the communique of the
group’s National Delegates Conference that was mandated to work out the
modalities and pursue the immediate actualisation of sovereign state of
Biafra based on the principle of “non- violence” adopted by the Indian
people in their struggle for independence.
The
Biafran nationalist leader, speaking through a member of the Biafra
Elders-in-council of BIM, Mazi Chris Mocha, advised Igbo leaders, who
for any reason were indisposed to lend support to this cause to stay out
of it, warning that any attempt by any Igbo leader to sabotage the
objective of actualising Biafra as an independent State would incur the
wrath of the Igbo community.
Uwazuruike
recalled that before the Obasanjo administration in the 2000s, Nigeria
had been reduced diplomatically to a Hausa-Fulani country, pointing out
that all the important foreign missions like those in the United States
of America, Germany, China, Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Canada, South
Africa, India, Brazil, etc were usually manned by them and in few
instances with a sprinkle of Yoruba people. He complained that Igbo
ambassadors were always posted to obscure corners of the globe like
Equatorial Guinea or Mali.Source: SUN NEWS
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