The quest for the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra has taken
another dimension as Rivers State Media tour another community in Rivers State
to take a glance at our people view in the struggle for freedom. The land of
the rising sun, the epicentre of the earth, a blessed land is inevitable and
unstoppable. IPOB Bororiki in Igweocha region has made their stand, is Biafra
Referendum or nothing.
The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) led by Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu;
is doing marvellously well in enlightening our Riverine brothers about their
brethren in Alaigbo. Our unity is paramount to us, days of ignorance is over.
We have known the truth about the hate speeches propagated by Yoruba Gutter
Media against our Igbo brothers. Biafra has risen to height that no mortal man
can destroy her up spring. IPOB must continue propagating this gospel of truth.
Most specially, in uniting our Coastal brethren (Upland) and Riverine brethren
to this noble quest to freedom. IPOB Borokiri will leave no stone unturned
until our freedom is achieved.
We are using this medium to call on all Borokiri Indigenes, both those
in Nigeria and diaspora to join this moving train to secure the futures of our
generation and unborn generation. The Nigerian state and her foreign
collaborators don't give a toast about our plight. Let's unite in one voice to
liberate our people from this suffering we are into. May Chukwu Okike bless the
leadership of IPOB worldwide. May no harm before us, we shall live to achieve
our dreams. Biafra referendum is unstoppable and inevitable.
KNOW THY HISTORY
There was a Biafra before 1967 which lost its sovereignty to colonial
powers. “Early modern maps of Africa from the 15th-19th centuries, drawn by
European cartographers from accounts written by explorers and travellers,
reveal that the original word used by the European travellers was not Biafra
but Biafara, Biafar and sometimes also Biafares.” Now let me correct one
impression about the meaning of Biafra as some believed it is a name given by
Portuguese explorers. Biafara people are already known and addressed as Biafara
people before they came in contact with the first European merchants.
The word Biafra has its generics from “Ephraim” as pointed out by Martin
Simon Ukegbe (a religious activist who suggested that the new Republic of
Biafra of 1967 be called the Christian Democratic Republic of B”Ephrayim) the B
there signifies the bay or bight so the word Biafara or Biafar has its root
from B”Ephraim but the Europeans at that time called it Biafar-Biafara or
Biafares. Researchers hold the view that the region is inhabited by descendants
of Ephraim.
Mitchell map of 1839 stated that
the important estuaries from where the rivers flow into the ocean is called
Ephraim town which is located 60 miles from River Nun which is in the
south-south Nigeria today. The river is named after Nun the father of Joshua of
the tribe of Ephraim. Biblical meaning of the name “EPHRAIM” is “God has made
me fruitful in the land of my affliction”.
The question now is who are the most afflicted, deprived and mostly
killed in the contraption called Nigeria “Biafra people” who are the most
fruitful, blessed by nature and skills within the contraption called Nigeria
“Biafra people” before 1967-1970 genocide war against Biafran people they have
been killed in their thousands by the Northerners and Westerners 1966, during
the war, all the public facilities where completely destroyed, that includes
Schools, Hospitals, Markets, Power plants, Churches, Post offices, Biafra land
(south-east Nigeria and some part of South-south) where desolate with no life
sustaining amenities, after the war in1970, Awolowo the finance minister gave
£20 to every Biafra no matter the amount you have in your bank account, and
declared all their properties outside Igbo land abandoned property, including
Port Harcourt where Ikwerre Igbos denied their Igbo identity with the intention
of annihilating and breaking the spirit of Igbo to make them perpetual beggars
and people of no hope for the future. The rest are history today which you can
confirm for yourself.
Today an average Igbo man that has his Igbo identity are far much better
than every other Nigeria from all perspective, you can disprove that if you
think otherwise. Biafran Ethnic Nationalities: Ibos (Igbo speaking Biafrans),
Ijaws (speaking Kalabari, Edoid, Izon language etc) others includes:
Ibibio-Efiks and Ogojas, and this Great Nation has been coexisting thousands of
years ago as Biafra people many centuries before losing her sovereignty to
colonial powers before being balkanized into various countries like Guanine
Bissau, Cameroon, etc, the Archaeological evidence and African Ancient map
stands as a proof that Biafra people are a nation and are Indigenous people
Origin and meaning of Igbo/Ibo as a language and people: (this part is written
in Igbo Biafra perspective and all other Biafra Ethnic Nations shared same
experience and linkage with their Igbo brethren.
The name BIAFRA, is a nomenclature the people of the old Eastern region
in the contraption called Nigeria, was identified with, well over decades of
years before the advent of Fredrick Lugard and his fellow colonialists that
conceptualized the amalgamation theory of Nigeria.
The original, untainted map of Africa, has Biafra conspicuously
contained with no description of any country known as Nigeria. This further
portrays the originality and superiority of Biafra as a nation over and above
Nigeria even as clearly inscribed on the floor of the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) in London. There is a display of a list of nations including
Biafra that had existed dating back to the 17th, 18th and down to early 19th
centuries. Up till date, those historical inscriptions on the floor of the BBC
are yet evidenced without Nigeria included.
The nomenclature Biafra, was given to a class of the Israelites who
historically journeyed on their way from Egypt to Canaan the promised land.
They conspired with Aaron to build a golden calf which served as their god
(idol) to abridge the vacuum created by the absence of Moses whose anticipated
return from Mount Sinai got delayed. According to biblical accounts, he was
there for forty days and forty nights to obtain the tablets of the 10
commandments of the Almighty God, for the children of Israel during their
encampment in the wilderness. There subsequently journeyed from the wilderness
to Ethiopia and then down to Agulu, the present day Agulu-Eri in Anambra State,
Biafraland.
This set of Israeli immigrants into this part of the world, were
christened Biafrans because of their behavioural instincts patterned after God.
The name Biafra means 'Bia furu ndi neme ka Chineke' (Come and see those that
behave like God). From time immemorial, Biafra has been a nation peopled by
godly class of human species just like their Creator (Chukwu Okike-Abiama).
They are descendants of Jacob, God's chosen among the nations of the earth,
directly from the tribe of Eri.
The sacredness attached to the name Biafra, is such that darkness cannot
comprehend and at the mention of the name, within the spiritual and physical
spheres, the devil and all his cohorts, stutter, scramble, tremble and flee to
avert the conflagration, particularly within their camps in the contraption
called Nigeria.
Within the Nigerian electronic media platforms, call-in to any of their
audience participatory programs where Biafra name is mentioned, cause waves of
abrupt/ unsettling reactions. The brown-envelope and compromised journalists
will just get the Biafran calls truncated as such gravely neutralize their evil
activities.
The Biafran nomenclature scares the devil and his agents. It is a name
whose bearers should be glad they are associated with anywhere because of the
enormous blessings embedded therein, quite unlike Nigeria the citizens are
ashamed getting identified both within and without, due to the evils associated
with that name.
Millions of people around the world today, want to identify with
Biafrans ostensibly due to the diverse rich endowments these specially blessed
children of God are associated with. Biafrans, be proud of your identity and
firmly stand in the struggle for your total emancipation from this slavish
contraption of the British called Nigeria and all that she represents.
NO BIAFRA NO PEACE.
Written by:
Mazi Dimkpa Ikenna Ikenga Amadioha-Gbo
For: Rivers State Media (Igweocha Province)
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