Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
THE BIAFRA freedom movement
surely dictates the terms of the freedom of the people of Biafra from Nigeria
despite the savagery of the feudal Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led genocidist Nigeria
occupation and the overseeing ruthlessness on the ground by that league of
quislings-of-occupation alternatively known as heads of regime of the
administrative regions.
The movement insists on a referendum: nothing else, including bogus regime-elections, to democratically secure the next crucial phase of the restoration-of-independence process.
“Election” exercises in occupied Biafra have in the past been distinctively fraudulent and immensely contradictory as the Fulani lead-occupiers with no tradition of democratic discourse or engagement whatsoever in its own culture or brutish history of terror, conquests, occupations, expropriations, decadence and genocide, not to mention genocidist Nigeria itself which has had no credible election throughout its history, would bizarrely posit to organise elections in (occupied) Igboland that has enjoyed an advanced republican democratic tradition for over 1000 years. Thus, for the Igbo in occupied Biafra or in the diaspora in Nigeria, the way forward couldn’t be clearer: boycott all “elections” organised by genocidist Nigeria.
The movement insists on a referendum: nothing else, including bogus regime-elections, to democratically secure the next crucial phase of the restoration-of-independence process.
“Election” exercises in occupied Biafra have in the past been distinctively fraudulent and immensely contradictory as the Fulani lead-occupiers with no tradition of democratic discourse or engagement whatsoever in its own culture or brutish history of terror, conquests, occupations, expropriations, decadence and genocide, not to mention genocidist Nigeria itself which has had no credible election throughout its history, would bizarrely posit to organise elections in (occupied) Igboland that has enjoyed an advanced republican democratic tradition for over 1000 years. Thus, for the Igbo in occupied Biafra or in the diaspora in Nigeria, the way forward couldn’t be clearer: boycott all “elections” organised by genocidist Nigeria.
BESIDES, “election” time in Nigeria
is time-of-death. It is also time-of-destruction, time-of-desolation,
time-of-waste, time-to-waste... Vile genocidist operative Olusegun Obasanjo captures the characterisation of this season most
vividly, if not horridly, in a February 2007 proclamation at Abeokuta, west
Nigeria: “it’s do or die” (all-africa.com, 11 February 2007), a haunting
disposition echoed readily by co-genocidist Muhammadu Buhari who paints a
characteristically morbid portrait of
“dog-and-the-baboon-would-all-be-soaked-in-blood” (The Vanguard, Lagos,
15 May 2012) to attest to the extent of violence he would unleash during this
appointed time-of-death.
Biafran people don’t do “it’s do or die” nor
“soaked-in-blood”. Tufia kwa! Either of these is predictably genocidist Nigerian
stuff – as Biafrans have known, most devastatingly, in the past 52 years, with
3.1 million of their people murdered, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, and tens of
thousands others additionally murdered since, 13 January 1970-present day, by
this most gruesome band of murderers in African history since 1908.
BIAFRANS, on the contrary, do freedom. Freedom is inalienable. One does not ask for it; one takes it! The 50 million Igbo know they
have to take their freedom as they head to the referendum to proclaim this
liberatory choice. This is the choice the rest of the world awaits eagerly.
(John Coltrane Quartet, “Acknowledgement” {part-I of A Love Supreme suite} [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 9 December 1964])
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