Thread by @ElochukwuOhagi

We Must Sit Around The Biafran Table As Equals

If we think that the best way to get Biafra is to pet people from Akwa Ibom, Efik or Ijaw to make them feel happy, so that they can keep believing in Biafra, then we are not serious.

There must not be soft pedalling in this journey for the restoration of Biafra and anything we cushion as we move towards this journey will come to haunt us.

Every Ijaw, Efik, Urohobo, Ogoni etc must understand that this is a struggle.

Have you asked why many that rose the ladder of authority from the Riverine areas in IPOB especially those living in the zoo do fall out? It is because of the preferential treatment they got from most of you. They climbed to the top very cheaply.

You see anyone from there that joined the struggle as an egg that must be pampered and you end up pampering him or her into self-destruct. What he or she does will be exaggerated and magnified. He or she rises to authority not that he merited it, but because he is from the

Riverine and has done what many failed to do.

This is why Russell Bluejack messed up. He started writing and most of you threw yourselves to him. Everything about him was taken care of. Within time the guy devised an avenue to steal from our people.

Everything became a means to gain money fraudulently for himself. He will wake up and say he wants to have a meeting on Biafra Restoration with people that matters in Ijaw and will need money for drinks. Our people will donate thousands of money. And he was living big.

This criiminal will later try the same with the invasion of MNK's country home.

Immediately after the attack started he wrote that he wants to send militants to come and rescue MNK but will need money for mobilization. Again our people started donating to this rogue.

He made money out of the pains of our leader. This criiminal will later start bashing Ndi Igbo, Biafra, IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

What of the one from Urohbo? Magnus Oraka started broadcasting and all of a sudden told our people how he wants to organize a crusade for Biafra

restoration in Urohbo. He will make a budget of 2 million naira. Within days our people have made the two million available. Some put him on salary while others took care of his data. He got all this because he is from the Riverine. This criiminal will later appear in a video

with alcohol in his hands, drunk and insulting ndi Igbo. That was after he just rented two canopies, a few seats and not up to ten people for the crusade. He was asked to explain how he used the money and all hell broke loose.

If we must restore a sane society we must stop being emotional about it. No one should be begged to be in Biafra. No part of Biafra should be begged to consider being in Biafra. They must be allowed to make their choices. #Referendum

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has said times without number that every unique people in Biafra will be in charge of their territory. They will have their own parliament and govern themselves using their own language. They will take charge of their resources.

This is the only thing we need to use in Educating people about Biafra. You don't need to present them with Palmwine or Kola to beg them.

We must create the attitude that even if a part of Igbo land decides that they don't want to be part of Biafra we move on without them.

In as much as we want to restore Biafra like that of our fathers in 1967-70, we must understand that should the Riverine Biafrans decides otherwise and so be it.

We must be equals in Biafra. We must not create wife-husband relationships in Biafra.

We must give posts on merit and not because of where one comes from. There must not be a replication of the Nigeria quota system in Biafra. No part of Biafra should feel that they are the wife and another husband. We must go to the table as equals.

I see some of them coming to spew trash about Biafra as unintelligent and I don't try to beg them to believe in Biafra. I have read some of them say we should consult them first and I ask them who consulted us. Why should we consult you for your own freedom?

You should be able to hear the cry of freedom and embrace it.

I am surprised to hear some of us try to say the issue between Okwuluora and Ibom Air will bring problems in Biafra. I really don't understand some of us. Ibom Air humiliated and intimidated their customer and he

called for a boycott of the airline and some of you came out to start shivering. Some said he should use the right channel. And I ask what is the right channel. What made protest a wrong channel? Others cried that such will bring a problem between Igbo and Akwaibom.

Do you mean to say if Air Peace does such a thing to an Akwaibom man I will side with Air Peace because it is owned by an Igbo man? If any man wants to get angry that a victim of intimidation called for a boycott so be it.

I was even surprised reading an apology from Okuluora to these misguided individuals that embraced Ibom Air simply because it is owned by Akwa Ibom.

I will keep saying it. I support Biafra for both the hinterland and coastal regions, but I am not desperate about it.

There will be a referendum and they can choose to be on their own.

Igbo land is a great land. Igbo land is not just only South East. Igbo land transcends southeast into the so-called South-South and Middle belt. These lands are rich in both mineral and human resources.

They have much access to the ocean. I think we must have the mentality that states that Biafra must be restored with or without any persons, group or people.

Let me end it here.

Elochukwu Ohagi The Philosopher, Teacher, And Activist, 2023.