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It wasn't insecurity when Nigerịa military went to Head Bridge Onitsha, Nkpor, Aba Community High School, Emene, Igweocha and Umuahia and opened fire on peaceful protesters waving flag and chanting songs and kịlled thousands of youths.
You declared python dance 1,2 and 3 on peaceful protesters and yet your mind didn't tell you that you are creating insecurity. You abducted thousands, kịlled some and got some imprisoned without trial and you didn't know that such actions breed insecurity of the highest level.
You didn't think that nothing breeds insecurity like corruption and injustice.
You kịlled people and had their bodies littered everywhere on the streets of the North. They went to Aburi for peace agreement and you reneged on it, and went on to levy war against them.
You kịlled people and had their bodies littered everywhere on the streets of the North. They went to Aburi for peace agreement and you reneged on it, and went on to levy war against them.
Today as we celebrate #BiafraHeroesDay2020, we give honour to whom honour is due.
We say thank you & God bless you to all individuals and groups who contributed in one way or another in making 30th May of every year the date for #BiafraRemembranceDay.
We say thank you & God bless you to all individuals and groups who contributed in one way or another in making 30th May of every year the date for #BiafraRemembranceDay.
@MaziNnamdiKanu & #IPOB popularised & energized #BiafraHeroesDay.
The organisation that first proposed #BiafraHeroesDay from the earliest available references I could find is a group known as the BIAFRA FOUNDATION based in the USA in the year 2002.
The organisation that first proposed #BiafraHeroesDay from the earliest available references I could find is a group known as the BIAFRA FOUNDATION based in the USA in the year 2002.
It must be admitted that Chief Ralph Uwazurike had already started the Movement For The Actualisation Of Biafra (MASSOB) in 1999 in Ijesha, Lagos.
The first available record of #BiafraHeroesDay event held in Nigeria was organised by Chief Ralph Uwazurike led MASSOB in 2004.
The first available record of #BiafraHeroesDay event held in Nigeria was organised by Chief Ralph Uwazurike led MASSOB in 2004.
WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:
Do u knw that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;
Majority of key ministries goes to SE.
Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, d officers from d region killed this same Balewa
Do u knw that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;
Majority of key ministries goes to SE.
Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, d officers from d region killed this same Balewa
2. Out of all d most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from d north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.
In the end, an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers,
In the end, an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers,
3. ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes. This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966
