IGBO/ BIAFRAN “DISEASE”

IGBO/ BIAFRAN “DISEASE”

By Balami Lazarus.

The arrest and subsequent refusal of the Department of State Security (DSS) to bring Nnamdi Kanu to court on the 26th July 2021 has generated a lot of reactions in many quarters and this has rise the hope for the will to be Biafrans.

Therefore, the agitation and demand for the state of the republic of Biafra has become highly concentrated, saturated and contagious that has translated into what I will term as Igbo/ Biafran “Disease”.

I stand to say is long overdue to letting the indigenous people of Biafra have their independent sovereign nation. The United Nations Charter on such matter stipulated that any group of people that has agitated for fifty (50) years and above within a certain country should be granted such demand for self-determination and Nigeria is a signatory.

Historically, we were forced and clamped together without our will and consent to form present Nigeria on the 14th January 1914 by the British colonial masters.

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The best thing for our national unity is to have a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) involving all the ethnic nations with clear terms of reference one among such should be a restructuring of the polity, or true Federalism or let us have a Referendum For or Against.

All these are to avert future catastrophes like the rise of the resistant army, guerilla groups, or full-blown civil war. For me, and if I am in a position of the President without a second thought particularly in the case of Biafra long they should have gone peacefully while some Nigerians are against or afraid of this separation.

To some readers of this piece, I am either crazy or not a serious person. But my suggestions and position is one of the principles of Wu-Shu an ancient Chinese martial art that teaches and practices the act of aversion of conflicts in a reasonable matured ways/ manner to achieving peaceful co-existence, unity, and understanding among the people to live in harmony.

Balami, a Publisher/ Columnist.