THE ISLAMIC AGENDA AND WHY BIAFRA MUST BE RESTORED NOW
Islam reminds us of Biafra daily. Tafawa Balewa as a true
Muslim, called on his people and traditional rulers; the Sultan of Sokoto and
the Emirs of the Northern Nigeria and they started the education and
development of their people though mostly Islamic Education. Awolowo called on
the Alafin, Obas of Yoruba land and their people, they started the free
education project. While Azikiwe was still thinking Pan Africanism. Islam
through the friendship of these two became pronounced in the North and West of
Nigeria. Hence the Biafrans were seen as unbelievers and infidels that must be
conquered. That quest which failed under Uthman Dan Fodio, failed and will
continue to fail. They worked at it through commerce, politics and education
but our people resorted to resisting it to the extent that communities had to
contribute money to train their graduates while the Nigerian State funds from
our oil palm business were used to train the Northerners and Westerners. They
lied that the income was coming from groundnut and Cocoa. Please what is
stopping them from staying and developing their resources while we go to our
free land of destiny - United State of Biafra? This efforts by the Biafrans
yielded great result in addition to what we already had on ground. We had
graduates from the 17th Centuries while the rest of Nigeria (North and West)
started producing graduates in 18th centuries.
Before the 17th centuries, we had many Teachers who were
trained by the Portuguese Missionaries even before the arrival of the British
Missionaries in Coastal Biafra; presently Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Bayelsa.
My grandfather was the foremost Teacher and Chief in Ogoniland. Chief Nkane
Detenwa. His sons Chief Reuben Nkane and Chief Emmanuel Nkane all took to this
their father's noble profession as Educationists.
We had Ekwenga Trading post, equivalence of the present-day
Gulf of Guinea, we had sixteen companies operating in over Sixteen (16)
seaports at Ikot Abasi, Teenama, Kono, Opobo, Bonny, Port Harcourt, Nembe
(Brass), Bodo, Okrika and many other Jetties and Beaches where goods could land
directly from the Atlantic Ocean.
The British assisted the Northerners/Westerners who took
away our wealth because the British saw that our people were as exposed and
experienced as they were in international business, so they needed some
neophytes, newbies and ignoramuses in business, hence they closed the Ekwenga
trading post and moved to present day Lagos, a lagoon that is 200km away from
the Atlantic Ocean, no wonder goods are expensive in Nigeria due to high cost
of clearing at the Ports in Lagos. Let them tell the world what exactly they
are doing in Lagos. Why did they return to Bonny when the need of exporting the
crude became eminent to them? They took the Capital of Nigeria from Calabar to
Lagos. Our people still were in Lagos at the time and quickly developed it to
what it is today.
In religion, our people are tenaciously held to that of
their fathers Abraham, the Portuguese re-emphasize it, the British had no
option but to adopt it as the only way to penetrate our people after struggling
for many years to use military might which failed woefully, Nigeria will never
learn.
Islam believes in killing unbelievers, Biafrans are the
unbelievers they see in Nigeria hence, they have been killing our people till
date. We believe in God and do not kill but surrender to being killed. However,
in the late 90s some of our Chiefs and Youths joined Islam and began to carry
arms, e.g. Asari Dokubo. Hence the Militia and the Freedom fighters carried
arms but you will notice they did not kill like the Fulanis but consciously
reminded the world that the environment was polluted while the British Shell
and allied companies look the other way and continue to drill our oil.
President Yar’adua a different breed of Fulani highly supported by His
dependable Ijaw born Vice President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan dialogued with
them and ended a near war in 2007.
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Written by:
Legborsi Emmanuel
(TBRV Writer)
For: The Biafra Restoration Voice - TBRV
Edited by:
Mazi Alex Nwagbo
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