Ralph Uwazuruike likens the ‘Biafran people’s’ stay in the Nigerian-state to accepting slavery, corruption, poverty, marginalisation, inequality and instability
Leader of the Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) expresses his believe in the actualization of the Biafra struggle
He recalled that he had in November 1999, internationalised the Biafra struggle by applying to the then UN Secretary General, Mr. Koffi Anan for self-determination of Biafra Ralph Uwazuruike says nobody or group of persons can stop the actualisation of Biafra as an independent nation because the struggle can never be wished away.
The leader of the Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) yesterday, August, 28, likened ‘Biafran people’s’ stay in the Nigerian-state to accepting slavery, corruption, poverty, marginalisation, inequality and instability. According to the Sun, Uwazuruike in a statement issued by his director of information, Chris Mocha, expressed his believe in the actualization of the Biafra struggle.
He said: “If I will not get Biafra, I wouldn’t have come out to start talking about it in the first place; and my purpose of studying non-violence method for years in India would have been defeated,” he added. The BIM leader recalled that he had in November 1999, internationalised the Biafra struggle by applying to the then UN Secretary General, Mr. Koffi Anan for self-determination of Biafra.
He said he applied for the people of Biafra, consisting of the five Igbo speaking states and with large populations in Rivers, Delta and Cross River states numbering about 40 million be admitted, registered or in the alternative be treated as an unregistered nation in any of the organs of the world body.
“I also wrote that the life and properties of Ndigbo be protected during and after the self-determination of Biafra and to dismantle all the toll-gates mounted on erosion devastated roads across South-East and Niger Delta areas,” he recounted.
“We are firm that Biafra can never be wished away.” He said the Biafra was struggling to gain her independence from Nigeria through non-violence method stressing that it was not in the interest of Nigerians and the international community to have a prolonged civil war in which over two million innocent lives had been lost.
The BIM leader said that such war could have been avoided by granting Biafra state. He appealed to world leaders and all other peace- loving people of the free world not to look the other way while a grand conspiracy is being perpetrated against the Igbo.
In a related development, the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday, August 29, called on the entire world to come to its help over alleged clamp on its members by the Nigerian government.
The group in its plea said the federal government and the security agencies have been programmed to “stiff” lives out of its members through a house to house search and arrest.
The group in a statement said the security members have also failed to charge all its members arrested to court or allowed family members to visit them while in custody.
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