Thursday 29 January 2009

BIAFRA PEOPLE

DO YOU REMEMBER THE BIAFRA WAR IN NIGERIA?
With a treason charge still hanging on his neck, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, is not perturbed just as he is not ready to drop the Biafran struggle. Instead, he would prefer to go with the wind of the struggle if Ndigbo are not accorded a rightful place in the Nigerian state. This is when he appeared on my show Today-The BBS SHOW on BEN TV SKY 184


Ayoub mzee with Chief Ralph Uwazuruike- Leader of the Biafra people
In an interview that lasted for more than 1 hour, Uwazuruike looked at the Biafran project, his travails, and his people, Ndigbo, in the present day Nigeria, saying that he would rather prefer to die than to abandon Biafra when Ndigbo are still being marginalised.
" Nigeria is not supposed to be one country and when you talk of a state there must be homogeneity among them. There must be cultural identity. We are pretenders, and that is our problem, even those (Igbos) in government, they know that they were not accepted, but just because of their selfish interest they pretend".