The President of the Anambra
State chapter of pan Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief
Damian Okeke, has revealed what the late warlord, Odumegu Ojukwu thought was
the meaning of Biafra.
Okeke disclosed that Ojukwu once
told the organization that Biafra is “like a fully loaded trailer descending
the Milikin Hill in Enugu and nobody knows where it would land.”
Speaking in Awka, the state
capital, Okeke said the body is using the struggle for Biafra to achieve equity
and justice.
He said, “As far as I am
concerned, we are using Biafra to ask Nigeria to do the needful because that is
the vehicle we should use to get our rights.
“What is happening to us today
has gone beyond marginalization. We should work together to get what will
benefit the Igbo and the important thing is to get what belongs to us in
Nigeria.
“I recall when Ohaneze once asked the late
Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, what was really the meaning of
Biafra and his answer was that it is like a fully loaded trailer descending the
Milikin Hill in Enugu and nobody knows where it would land.
“What we have in mind are equity
and justice. If we get our rights in Nigeria, what else are we fighting for?
“Ohaneze Ndigbo had severally
made it clear that members of IPOB and MASSOB are our children. We are all
working towards the betterment of Igbo nation.
“I want to say that the
leadership of Ohaneze, the governors of the South East states and many other
Igbo elders are jointly on top of the situation of the quit notice to Ndigbo by
the Arewa youths.”
Recall that the Ohanaeze
Chieftain had dismissed the call for secession, saying Igbos cannot
exist alone.
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