LEADER of Biafra National Council (BNC), Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, has said he believes in Biafra that includes Efik, Ijaw, Igbo, Oron, Ibibio, Anang, and Ogoni as declared on 30th May, 1967.
According to Dokubo, the Republic of Biafra is achievable with collective interest.
Dokubo spoke when he visited the leader of Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.
“I believe in the Biafra declared on the 30th of May 1967, that’s the Biafra I know and that Biafra includes Efik, Ijaw, Igbo, Oron, Ibibio, Anang, Ogoni, etc. If others want to join us, they are free to do so, as every region will control their resources.
“I do not believe in Niger Delta Republic, but Biafra; Ndigbo, Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio and Anang people cannot win it alone; it will be through our collective strength that our enemies will be crushed. Let us not be distracted by anybody.
“Anybody who does not want us to come together is not in the Biafra struggle; anybody who insults Biafrans, insults part of the Biafran struggle.
“We are moving on to freedom and there is nothing that is going to stop us; it is very close; we shall hold hands, they will beg us to be free.
“They brought Boko Haram, they brought their herdsmen, RUGA and Water Resource Bill, they manufacture all the evils in this world, but they are not going to stop us from this great mass liberation; we are not going to make the mistakes our fathers made.
“We have been killed in millions, detained, brutalized for Biafra in the last 21 years of our New Biafra struggle; this is the last of the struggle and I want every one of us to know, let us not begin to count those things that divide us, let us look at the things that unite us; it is not everybody that will be involved in this fight and in this struggle.
“They told us Goodluck was not good and they removed Goodluck. Are they better than us? My brothers and sisters, to achieve Biafra, we need our collective strength. You are stronger than me. You are underestimating your power. We need the collectivity strength of any one of us here and that is when enemy will be afraid of us,” Dokubo said.
Uwazurike had described Dokubo as a fearless warrior, stating, “As we collectively march towards our independence, every tribe must be respected, as no one will be subservient to another.
“If we must work together, it must be by agreement and consensus where everybody must respect the other.
“Between 1967-1970, the entire Eastern Region was one region, that is Biafra; now, things have changed; we have to respect each other; the component parts of each other and whoever that is talking must know what he is talking.
“Those who want to engineer bad blood and feelings to destroy our struggle should desist, the Ijaw, Ibibio, Anang, Edo and the entire South South geopolitical zone must be respected.”
