Pro-Biafra groups demand Nigeria’s dismembership from Commonwealth

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. "