With 70m People Biafra Big Enough to Be a Sovereign Nation – IPOB

With 70m People Biafra Big Enough to Be a Sovereign Nation – IPOB

Posted by Sylvester on Monday, September 19, 2016 0

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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday said that with the population of over 70 million people and a total area of over 29,400 square miles, Biafra was big enough to be a sovereign nation. IPOB said there are nations that are significantly smaller than the area both in size and in population, adding that Biafra is almost as big as Gambia and Sierra Leone put together, and is bigger than Togo or Rwanda and Burundi combined, and is four times the size of the Republic of Israel.

Apparently reacting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent call on Nigerian youth corps members to tell their brothers to forget about Biafra because according to him, Nigeria is big enough to accommodate all and sundry, IPOB’s spokespersons, Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya contended that they do not need Buhari to lecture them on the resources in Biafra land because they are already aware of them. According to the statement,

“For us in Biafra, we cherish and give the greatest priority to human resource, unlike Nigeria which operates a rentier economy with heavy dependence on Biafran oil and gas resources, adding, the excuse that Nigeria is big enough and therefore Biafrans are bound by the sheer size of Nigeria to be part of it, is not logical”.

 The statement added: “It was because of the control of oil in Biafraland that Britain in 1968 alone supplied hundreds of armoured personnel carriers, APCs, 10,000 machine guns, 20 million rounds of ammunition, 3,000 bayonets, 10,000 rifles with grenade launchers, 15,000 pounds of explosives, 21,000 mortar bombs, 42,500 Howtizer rounds, 5,000 submachine guns and deployed other weapons of mass destruction in one year alone, to the killing fields in Biafraland.

“Without this one-sided military support from the British to Nigeria while at the same time denying Biafra access to weapons, even Buhari himself knows that there was no way in a billion years Nigeria could have defeated Biafra in a war and we want to make it abundantly clear that the assertion by Buhari that Biafrans must stay together with the rest of Nigeria is not enforceable under any known law on this planet earth”.
 “The right to self-determination is not synonymous with war or violence. Buhari should therefore, not juxtapose self-determination with war because the two are not interchangeable.
The least he can do is to use the instrument of Referendum to test the resolve of Biafrans in their quest for the restoration of the nation of Biafra. We will also like to remind Buhari that the sovereignty of a nation is not premised on size”.