...Back Niger Delta Avengers
ENUGU— Over eight pro- Biafra groups
rose from a meeting in Accra, Ghana,
weekend, demanding for immediate
expulsion of Nigeria’s membership from
the Common Wealth of Nations following
what it described as serial extra judicial
killings of pro-Biafra activists during last
Monday’s Biafra Anniversary in the south-
east and parts of south-south geopolitical
zones.
This was even as the Movement for the
Actualization of the Sovereign State of
Biafra, MASSOB, weekend,threw its weight
behind the Niger Delta Avengers,NDA,
whose unrelenting onslaught on crude oil
pipelines and installations in the Niger
Delta region has plunged the NNPC
production capacity to below 800,000BPD.
A communique signed and made available
at the end of the conference by MASSOB
and Biafra Liberation Council, BLC,
leaders,Uchenna Madu and Austin-Mary
Ndukwu respectively on behalf of eight
other pro-Biafra groups frowned at the
delay by Common Wealth of Nations to
expel Nigeria, noting that the body rose to
the occasion in 1995 by suspending
Nigeria due to her deplorable human
rights records including the execution by
hanging of Ogoni nine activists including
Africa’s Playwright,Ken Saro-Wiwa and
the continuous detention and murder of
MKO Abiola.
The communique read: ”The conference
rejects Common Wealth of Nations blatant
and double standard on the extra judicial
killings of pro-Biafra activists who were
going about their daily activities or
peacefully exercising their right to
demonstrate. We hereby demand
immediate expulsion of the Federal
Government from Common Wealth of
Nations in compliance with the Harare
Declaration and norms and principles of
respect to peoples human right.
“It is the right of Common Wealth of
Nations to respect its founding principles
which it did over the unjust execution of
nine Ogoni activists and which it must do
now over the illegal arrest, incessant
torture,detention and imprisonment of the
Director of Radio Biafra,Nnamdi Kanu;
leader of Biafra Zoinist
Movement,BZM,Ben Onwuka and
Chukwuebuka Ikenwa among others.
“We strongly warn that failure to expel
Nigeria from the Common Wealth of
Nations will be a ‘carte blanch’ for the
Buhari administration to continue
unabated pogrom of extermination of
people of Biafra origin. It will also be a
free pass for the forceful islamization of
Christian people of Biafra and the
extermination of the members of the
christian community within the confines of
Federal Republic of Nigeria and
Biafraland”.
Meanwhile,MASSOB had in a separate
statement weekend, revealed that the
activities of Niger Delta Avengers is a
natural confirmation that Biafra stretches
towards the Gulf of Guinea.
“The natural inhabitants and indigenous
people of these lands are Biafrans by birth
but Nigerians by citizenship. MASSOB
has made it open that we want Biafra.
Though we choose non violent approach,
we shall also support every genuine and
legitimate methodology and approach
chosen by any group towards Biafra self
determination.
“Because of our non violent approach, the
Nigerian security forces have killed
thousands of MASSOB members and
other group members since 1999 when the
current struggle started. These extra
judicial killings of non violent and
unarmed Biafra agitators have gone
unchecked by the Nigerian government
and international watchdogs against
human rights abuses, brutalities,
genocides and pogroms including United
Nations.
“The western world seems not to react
against the ethnic cleansing of our people
because of economic and diplomatic
interest in Biafra natural treasures. They
kept their hypocritical eyes closed against
the fate of over 60 million Biafrans.
“Nigeria and her likes understand the only
language of violence. Today, Buhari’s
military soldiers are being disgraced,
economic power block being dismantled,
diplomatic relations being shattered, his
government in disarray and even himself
is confused because of the activities of
Biafran agitators in the Eastern region
and what the Niger Delta Avengers are
doing in the South -South region. "
