Pro-Biafra separatist group, Biafra Zionists Federation, (BZF), on Wednesday in Enugu asked the people of the defunct Eastern Region not to sit at home on May 30 as directed by Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), and the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB).
BZF said instead of sitting at home, the people of the area should join them in the occupation of Enugu Government House, which they claimed will be converted to Biafra State House on May 30.
President of the group, Benjamin Onwuka, told newsmen that a new Biafran Republic will be formally launched on the said day.
Onwuka further urged other pro-Biafra groups including IPOB and MASSOB to join them in actualising the Sovereign State of Biafra.
It could be re-called that the pro-Biafra groups, IPOB and MASSOB had in different statements urged the people of the defunct Biafra to sit at home on May 30 in commemoration of the declaration of Biafra in 1966 by late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
While faulting the strategy being adopted by the IPOB, Onwuka said: “You can’t get Biafra by sitting at home; there is a saying in the Bible that, ‘faith without work is dead’; you must act so that the United States of America can hear you.
“I’m saying it loud and clear; don’t listen to IPOB; we have been doing it since 2003, what have we achieved with the sit-at-home? Has it worked? They should also stop all these protests in London, New York, China and the rest of the world. They have freedom of expression in those countries, and that is the highest you can get from them. Has any leader in those countries say anything about Biafra? So, these protests by IPOB is a waste of time.
“Making protest in Rome and London is noise making. We have to concentrate on America’s support. IPOB has not won Bifrans any friendship across the world from their sit-at-home and protests.”
He called on Biafrans, “wherever you are in the world, wherever you are in Nigeria or Africa to come back home on or before May 30.
“There will be public holiday on May 30; I’m appealing to all market traders, are you in Enugu, are you in Onitsha, are you in Lagos, are you in Alaba, are you in Ariaria Market Aba, Ogbete Enugu, wherever you are, bear it in mind business without security is nothing.
“I’m bringing everybody to Enugu, let everybody come, we shall win because we have US backing. So, all schools, should remain closed that day. We shall restore our educational system as soon as we declare Biafra.
“Please don’t sit at home, we have done it for 15 years, no significance; all your investments in Lagos and Abuja are nothing without Biafra,” he said.
No comments:
Post a Comment