LEADER of Biafra Independence Movement and movement for the
actualization of sovereign State of Biafra (BIM-MASSOB), Chief Ralph
Uwazuruike, yesterday, explicitly revealed what he told the former United
States President, Mr. Bill Clinton after the organization introduced an
international dimension to its struggle to actualize Biafra.
The new Biafran leader said the movement soon after
dispatching a letter of application to the United Nations on November 1st 1999,
which followed an invitation to the then president to include in his itinerary
during his expected visit to Nigeria, a visit to Biafra.
In a statement to mark the 19th years of the founding of BIM
MASSOB on September 13, 1999 and signed by his personal Assistant on Media
Matters, Mazi Chris Anierobi Mocha, Uwazuruike told Bill Clinton that
BIM-MASSOB represented the interest of over forty million Biafrans, formerly
referred to as the south east zone in Nigeria. The Biafran Leader drew the
attention of the American President to the atrocities of the Nigerian Civil War
in which no fewer than One Million people lost their lives, stressing that the
injustice for which the war was fought had worsened today as the defeated
Biafrans are still regarded as enemies in Nigeria.
“It was due to these reasons that the civil war was fought
and it will not be in the interest of Nigerians and the International Community
to have a prolonged Civil War in which people died, such war Uwazuruike said
could be avoided”
Uwazuruike insisted
that, what the people of Biafra which consisted of the Five Igbo Speaking
states of the south east and with large populations in Rivers, Delta, which is
one of the Geo political zones of the Country and numbering about forty million
peoples want presently is Independence from Nigeria devoid of Violence.
He drew Clinton’s
attention to the 1995 violence in Ogoni land which claimed the lives of its
people including Ken Saro Wiwa, a situation the Igbos want to avoid.
He pleaded the U.S President,
Clinton to persuade his Nigerian Counterpart, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to tow
the line of reason and “LET BIAFRA GO” insisting that “the Biafran people do
not want to be part of the evil contraption called Nigeria”
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