Biafra heroes’ day: Why we must honour our heroes and heroines

Mayrock: Set self on fire to protest for Biafra children

By Kelechi Okorie

For Biafra Choice Writers

Biafra Heroes’ Day remains sacrosanct, unique and holy for all Biafrans around the world, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom. It is a day to honour our fallen heroes and heroines that paid the ultimate prize with their blood for our survival. They defended us when the Fulani (and their slaves, the Hausa) in consort with evil Britain wanted to obliterate us (Biafrans) from the face of the earth.

Thank God, we are still standing today. 

On the day, May 30, there will be sober reflection; prayers; Sit-At-Home for those in Biafraland and wider zoo; while those in Diaspora march in their various countries of abode; and meditation on the three year-genocidal war that Nigeria waged against Biafrans in which over 5 million Biafrans were killed in pretense to keep Nigeria one in 1966-1970.

Those are not the only reasons we are staying at home. It is on record that the extermination of Biafrans has been the battle cry of the Fulani and their other Nigerian slaves like the Hausa. Since the British concocted the wicked contraption they called Nigeria, there have been massacres of Biafrans. Before independence, there were massacres of Biafrans and after, it had continued.

The most recent, we remember the Asaba  massacre of 1967; we remember the Owerri Church massacre by Muhammadu Buhari and co in 1968; we remember the 2016 Nkpo genocide in Anambra, State; the National High School killing in Aba; and elsewhere. We are not forgetting most recently, the Biafrans’ killing in (Port Harcourt), during the Trump Solidarity rally etc.

Not to be forgotten as well is the 20 years old Jewish, United States of America (USA) citizen and University Undergraduate, Bruce Mayrock, who set himself ablaze on the lawn of the United Nation’s (UN) Headquarters on 30 May, 1969. He did so to show his dissatisfaction with the UN standing by and doing nothing while Nigerian devil’s incarnate, Yakubu Gowon, starved children and women to death in Biafra.

Every people in the world have always set aside a day or days to honour their dead, especially their heroes. But it is only in the evil contraption called Nigeria that people (Biafrans) are killed because they choose to honour their dead. The US, for instance, has their Armistice Day, which is a day they celebrate the signing of the armistice that ended the World War 1 hostilities between the Allied Nations and Germany in 1918.

This Armistice Day is observed by all Western countries like France and Britain. It usually starts from 11 O’ clock in the morning – the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

This is why Biafrans are getting prepared to celebrate this season, and thank God for their fallen heroes for their active service in making sure Biafra is on everyone’s lips.

Biafrans are not unaware of some blacklegs who use Biafran names. There is, for instance, the likes of Joe Igbokwe, an armed-robbery kingpin in Anambra who was chased out of Biafraland, but who is now in Lagos speaking against Biafrans. This is why all genuine Biafrans must ignore the Fulani-slave, an Abuja based lawyer, a demented commentator who goes by the Osuagwu Ugochukwu. He was reported as having warned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against honouring Sit-At-Home order. The myopic activist is among many other fools “Igbo-Biafran ‘efulefu’” who never faulted the murderous Nigerian armed forces that have been murdering innocent Biafrans in the streets.

So, Biafrans, must prove to the world how civilize and fanatical they are about Biafra restoration. IPOB, under the command of Nnamdi Kanu, appeals to the conscience of all Biafrans to observe the Sit-At-Home order. Civil Servants, Traders, Road Transporters, all manners of workers, must stay off the streets. Labour Unions, Churches, Banks, Workshops, Recreation Clubs, Schools, etc., must shut down. The world is now watching to see how steadfast we will be in remembering and honouring our heroes and heroines.

 Biafra or Nothing!