…Agitating Igbo groups form Biafra Peoples National Council
— 6th June 2016
… Call on Commonwealth of Nations to expel Nigeria
From Chidi Nnadi, Enugu
IGBO groups agitating for a sovereign state of Biafra may have begun a major move to actualising their dream by streamlining efforts and re-strategising.
The Igbo groups, in the new effort, have formed a unified body called Biafra Peoples National Council (BPNC) which the leaders believe would expedite action in actualising Biafra.
The new body does not however include Chief Ralph Uwazuruike’s Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) or faction of MASSOB and detained Nnamdi Kanu’s Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The groups and leaders who formed BPNC include Uchenna Madu faction of MASSOB; Felix Obioha, Eastern Peoples Congress; Austin-Mary Ndukwu, Biafra Liberation Council; Osita Chukwuagbanarinam, Salvation People- Biafra; Jackson Nebechukwu, Ekwenche Organisation. Others are Adiele Chikadibia, Biafra Nations Youth League; Rev. Dr. Stanley C. Ajah, Biafra Revolution Organisation; Prince Oliver Chidozie, Biafra Liberation Crusade; Mr. Ayers Shimobi, Biafra Movement for Sovereignty; Godwin Offor, Biafra Regional Emancipation Movement; Joseph Ohanenye, Bilie Organisation and representative of Biafra in the Diaspora, Dr Chukwuma Egemba.
In a communique signed by all their leaders, after the All-Biafran Conference (ABC) organised by the Organisation of Emerging African States (OEAS) in Accra, Ghana from May 27 to 31, the newly formed BPNC would form a collegiate parliament comprising representatives of Biafra ethnic nationalities and pro-Biafra organisations.
They also agreed that “Biafra shall be a state founded on equity, fairness, justice, participatory democracy and egalitarianism and even development.”
To achieve this, they also agreed that the administrative and political capital of Biafra should not be concentrated in one location but spread across the Biafran land.
“These capitals shall include but not limited to; executive, legislative, judicial, cultural, economic, science and technology, agriculture and defence,” they disclosed, agreeing to draw up a legal framework for the new Biafra state.
Leaders of the new group frowned and condemned “the attitude of the Commonwealth of Nations towards the senseless, cruel, inhuman, degrading and extra-judicial killings of more than 700 unarmed civilians of Biafran origin and pro-Biafran activists by various security apparatus of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its militias under the disguise of Fulani herdsmen.”
Accusing the Commonwealth of playing double standards by not invoking sanctions on the Federal Government, they called on the body to “immediately begin a process of expelling the Federal Republic of Nigeria from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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