QUIT NOTICE: PREPARE TO LEAVE OUR LAND – IPOB DECLARES [see video]

• Author:             Ikenna Ozulumba Mbaegbu 

•  Co-Author:       Ugochinyere Onyechere

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has reacted to the threat made by the Northern Youths Coalition for all southerners to vacate their land within three months or there would be consequences. IPOB has said since that seems to be the case, they too should also prepare to leave their own land and oil wells which they have monopolized over the years with immediate effect. What does this imply? Is the stage for war now been set? Believe you me, another war is now looming in the contraption called Nigeria and I think Separation is the best option before it is too late.

In reaction to this ultimatum that was publicly declared by the northern youths coalition, many Biafrans have already started fleeing the northern area to save their dear lives without even waiting for the expiration date of the warning. Would you blame them? Those animals in human form called Hausa/Fulani people always mean business, especially when they issue a threat, they normally carry it out without a waste of time.  

Although the zoo government has reacted to this rapacious demand by the northern youths and ordered the arrest of the people behind this threat, no arrest has been made since then, as they freely walk on the streets with their shoulders raised high and with impunity, still maintaining their stand over what they had said. 

One of those fleeing the area when interviewed said that they had no confidence that the Nigerian government would protect their lives and properties given to the recent activities of the northern youths who masquerade as Fulani herdsmen and killing people at will, yet the zoo government has done nothing to arrest or put a stop to this malady in the country. How can they stop them from killing people anyway since those who are backing them up are still the so-called Northern elders who are the same people holding the mantle of leadership in the evil concoction called Nigeria? This is indeed laughable!

In reaction to this “quit notice” issued out by the young people of the northern Nigeria, the Apex Yoruba Sociocultural Organization, “AFENIFERE” of the western region of the zoo country said that this threat equally affects their own people as the northerners may not differentiate between the Biafrans and the Yorubas  during their incessant attacks. 

Referring to the warning issued by the IG of police, to bring into the police custody those involved in the evil plot to push out the Southerners out of their land, the Afenifere group also said that such declaration by the zoo police should not be paid much attention as the same “IG” of police (Inspector General of Police) who gave out this order never did something to stop his Hausa/Fulani brothers when a riot broke out between the Yorubas and the northerners in recent time. Rather, he only arrested and detained the innocent Yorubas and that is not in any way shape or form a fair play.

This aforementioned group of the Yoruba caption also called for the disintegration of the country since the three regions that made up this evil creation by the British can no longer stay together as one. Saying that heaven did not fall when other countries such as Sudan and the rest of them split. Ours will not be a different case. 

The group also urged Biafrans not to neglect the statement issued by the Northern youths so as to avoid the repetition of what happened in 1966 – the massacre of Biafrans in the northern areas which had led to the Biafra/Nigeria war. At this, they concluded by saying that Biafrans should not trust the federal government to protect them as those at the corridors of power happen to be the same northern cabals who masquerade as the northern elders, the same people who finance and indulge those youths on their killing spree since Muhammadu Buhari APC-led government took over power.

As the saying goes, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. You may need that hand one day.” In regard to this adage, it is important we Biafrans notify the northerners that those oil wells in Biafra land which they have occupied over the years through the help of the British government are not in any way their properties but ours. We, therefore, demand that they vacate them as well! While Biafrans residing in their land vacate to Biafra land, we, the Indigenous People of Biafra also request that every northerner in our land should leave with immediate effect or face the outcome which will be more disastrous than their own threat. Biafrans all over the world must shun this act, by boycotting any attempt of the Hausa/Fulani people still being in control of our oil. Henceforth, they should halt abruptly any operation of their exporting of our oil away from Biafra land. 

We also enjoin the world media houses to be on the role of bringing this evil committed against Biafrans to the limelight. The Nigerian government must stay clear off our properties! We as a people are tired of this forced marriage planned and hatched out by the British government, another set of evil bloodsuckers!

The recent call by the northern youths for the eviction of Biafrans living in their land is just a proof that this country seriously requires division. There is no more evidence to ascertain or clarify this. The fact remains that there is a great chaos in the area. Pandemonium has taken over in the land. The center can no longer hold. Trust me, the center ceased to hold since the creation of Nigeria in 1914 by the British white devil called Fredrick Lugard. This is a turbulent and fast-moving world. There is no more room for questions because the picture is clear here. We need division in Nigeria so as for stop all these killings. We need disintegration of the country so as to keep up with this “Turbulent and Fast-Moving World.” Let every people that made up this abominable damnation called Nigeria go their separate ways so as to manage their own affairs since they cannot understand one another due to their different belief systems and socio-cultural backgrounds.

The northern youths had declared it prompt and plain that they are tired of being in the same country with Biafrans. We are glad that they have suddenly realized that all these while they have been staying with enemies and started calling for separation. How best should we have known what had been going on in their minds if not through this ultimatum? We must not be in a hurry to forget that “out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” The fact here remains that the Hausa/Fulani people no longer want us together with them and is a welcome development for us.

Those Northern cabals have concluded their evil plans to exterminate Biafrans again in greater quantity. But this time around, they are going to fail woefully! The world should bear us witness because this time, it is going be a different case altogether. The threat publicly announced by this so-called northern youths group is not something that we Biafrans can easily wave away because it is obvious they mean business here. They always do. To understand this better, recall that nothing has been done by the zoo federal government to arrest those behind this threat and this only proves that it is a general agreement by the northerners to massacre us again. We the Indigenous People of Biafra, therefore, welcome it. Let them bring it on! We are ever ready to deal with that which they call for. We are Biafrans and we will always remain Biafrans. We do not fear our enemies. This is our land and we will always fight to protect it!

To conclude this essay, I leave you with the following words of Chukwuemeka odumegwu Ojukwu, “We are humans. We live. We fight, fight because the decision to be free is a decision taken freely and collectively because to become involved in the violent struggle for freedom is the only honor left to an oppressed people threatened with genocide because in the final analysis, the only true bulwark against death is to live.”

 Editor:            Prince Richmond C. Amadi

Publisher:       Udeagha Obasi 

For:                   Umuchiukwu writers.