"...Why don’t we have Electricity, why don’t we have water, why don’t we have industries, why don’t we have functioning schools, why don’t we have jobs, IN OUR OWN LAND today? We have manpower; we have human resources. We have brain-power—enviable, world-renowned and world-proven talents that Nigeria wants to kill us for. We have material and natural resources, enough to rank among the wealthiest in the world. We can live in proper security. Why don’t we have Hope? Ask yourself, why? Then, listen to the answer.
"In Biafra, as Biafra, we will have all these things that are really ours, and more. Then, gone will be these awful endless days and woe-full times of depravity that force us to live many rungs below the level of even wild and rabid animals. And, Biafra is just waiting for us to actualize. Getting our Biafra does not depend on Nigeria; it does not depend on the world. We are a Nation, a Race. We are entitled to Self Determination Rights; such rights are God-given; though even the UN now agrees. But, until we assert our right—this right of Self Determination—long may we suffer and grovel and pine away needlessly. So, it really depends on us. Affirm to yourself today that you will join us in the struggle to assert Biafra’s right of sovereignty and independence, thus to lift you and all out of the hell-hole called Nigeria / one-Nigeria which has been sucking us down into the bottomless pit. Vote for Hope: accept and adopt Self Determination leading to Biafra Actualization. Vote for Biafra: lift yourself and us all out of the doldrums. Be Biafran: achieve and accomplish those magnificent things that we have proven capable of. Biafra is really the answer!"
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VOBI 11 20 09: ARE THEY WAKING UP AT LAST, OR WHAT?

             When we read in Vanguard Newspaper of November 14 2009 a statement credited to the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Chief Ralph Uwechue: “Igbo marginalization can break up Nigeria” we couldn’t help but experience a fleeting moment of satisfaction and even relief. At last, an Igbo leader is stepping up to the plate; at long last an Igbo leader is showing some spine and may be even balls. May be an Igbo leader will stand up and speak truth to corrupt power; may be Igbo leaders will rise from their moral death beds; may be; just may be.

The statement by Chief Uwechue is really not such an earth shattering revelation, or even such a big deal especially as everyone knows that Nigeria is already dead and just waiting to be buried, and especially as Chief Uwechue is still talking about building the “Nation” called Nigeria, whatever that means. However, the mere fact that Chief Uwechue pointed at just a tiny fraction of the horrific bad faith which the Sokoto Caliphate, and the Hausa Fulani Yoruba oligarchy have displayed towards the Igbo in the half a century existence of so called independent Nigeria is worthy of note. That such a tiny and non-threatening statement evoked even the slightest notice by anyone tells us a lot about the depth of despair the Igbo has suffered in Nigeria. Can you imagine what would have happened if the Cardinals and Bishops in all our churches, world-acclaimed international writers and intellectuals...     More...
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