Propaganda
#1: Biafra
is only about the Igbo-speaking people mainly in the unconstitutional
Southeast geo-political zone of Nigeria.
There
has been systematic pidgeon-holing of Biafra into Igbo by the Lagos-Ibadan
media. In doing this, they implanted into the subconsciousness of both foreign
and local observers that the quest for Biafra is an “Igbo thing.“ But they
failed to inform their audience that the man who piloted the affairs of Biafra
after General Odimegwu-Ojukwu travelled to Ivory Coast was not from
the Igbo-speaking area of Biafra. The Lagos-Ibadan media intentionally failed
to let the world know that, during the war of genocide on Biafra, there were
high-ranking military and civilian Administrative Officers who were not from
the Igbo-speaking area of Biafra working for their nation of Biafra.
Fortunately, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) through the media arm –
Radio Biafra London (RBL) – has exposed this lie being peddled by the
Lagos-Ibadan media. Now, the entire world has come to know that Biafra is not
all about the Igbos. As a matter of fact, Igbo is only a language spoken by
some people in Biafra. IPOB through RBL has proven beyond reasonable doubt that
Biafra is a people and Igbo is just a language.
Propaganda
#2: Igbos
do not love themselves.
This
is another lie from the pit of hell peddled by the Lagos-Ibadan media. It
is on record that the Igbo-speaking people of Biafra and known for identifying
their people from different villages and grooming them into successful business
tycoons. Also, Igbo-speaking Biafrans are known for setting up Town, Community,
and Village meetings in far away places outside of their homelands. On the
other hand, there have been very disastrous and gut-wrenching communal clashes
between Ife and Modakeke or between Tivs and Jukuns. There have been genocidal
clashes between Katafs and Fulanis or between Beroms and Munchi
people. Despite these communal clashes that have led to the loss of hundreds of
thousands of lives, the Lagos-Ibadan media have remained mute but rather keep
hammering on the notion that Igbos do not love themselves. Thanks to Chukwu
Okike Abiama for the emergence of IPOB and RBL. Now, we know that
Igbo-speaking Biafrans love themselves and they also love other Biafrans who
are not from the Igbo-speaking area of Biafraland. This propaganda by the
Lagos-Ibadan media has once more been defeated and thrown into the abyss.
Propaganda
#3: Igbos
love money more than anything else including their freedom, and they love money
more than other tribes love money.
This
propaganda was initiated immediately after the end of the genocidal war waged
on Biafra by Buhari and his Northern brothers. The Lagos-Ibadan media
championed this fallacy and kept bringing it into cartoons and comedies and
successfully made it a national mantra. However, events in the contraption
called Nigeria have proven unarguably that those who stole Nigeria blind were never
from Igbo-speaking area of Biafra. Umaru Dikko, Tafa Balogun, Bola Ahmed Tinubu
a.k.a. Jagaban, T. Y. Danjuma, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Sani Abacha, Atiku
Abubakar, Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari, and the list goes on and on, are some
of the numerous names of those who stole stupendously from the public treasury.
These “Ali-Baba’s“ were never prosecuted but rather celebrated, and one of them
is presently the president of Nigeria. We are glad that IPOB and RBL have
exposed them for who they are and comprehensively deconstructed this propaganda
by the Lagos-Ibadan media. The Lagos-Ibadan media always paint the
Igbo-speaking Biafrans in a bad light but see nothing wrong in the thieving
people from the Western and Northern areas of the British criminality called
Nigeria.
Propaganda
#4: Igbos
will dominate other tribes in Biafraland, hence these other tribes should
distance themselves from the restoration of Biafra.
This
was the propaganda used to divide Biafra and cause mutual suspicion and
hatred between the Igbo-speaking people of Biafra and their kit and kin who
speak other languages in Biafra. The Lagos-Ibadan media cunningly avoided
revealing the facts that the Hausa-Fulani alone own 90% of the oil resources in
Biafraland including those they claim will be dominated by the Igbo-speaking
people. They also denied their audience the opportunity to learn that the
seaports in Biafraland have been concessioned to only Hausa-Fulani
people. Furthermore, the Lagos-Ibadan media refused to tell the world that Ken
Saro-Wiwa, Isaac Adaka Boro, Chief Harry Marshall, Chief A. K. Dikkibo, Chief
Alfred Rewane, and so many other illustrious sons of Biafra were all killed by
Hausa-Fulani or Yorubas. Even recently, Olusegun Obasanjo massacred almost
every human being in Odi community in Bayelsa State. Again, IPOB and
RBL have exposed this propaganda by the Lagos-Ibadan media. The
Igbo-speaking people of Biafra have never dominated any group. Instead, the
Hausa-Fulani and their Yoruba counterparts are the groups dominating others
including the Igbo-speaking people of Biafraland.
Propaganda
#5: The
safety of investments/assets of Igbos in other parts of Nigeria will not be
guaranteed if Biafra leaves Nigeria. Hence these asset owners should not be
part of Biafra restoration process.
This
is a scare-mongering propaganda aimed at putting fear into those Biafrans
who have invested heavily in cities outside Biafraland. The Lagos-Ibadan media
are spreading false information that Biafrans would lose their investments if
they support the emergence of the nation of Biafra. But they failed to inform
their audience that there is hardly any prominent Hausa-Fulani man, including
Muhammadu Buhari, who does not have a house in London. Same thing for every
single wealthy Yoruba man. Why is it that their properties are not in danger in
London and why is it that it is only properties of Igbo-speaking Biafrans that
will be in jeopardy in what remains of Nigeria when Biafra is gone? The
well-researched work of IPOB and RBL has taught Biafrans that their assets and
investments are very secure in Nigeria even after the exit of Biafra. Biafrans
were informed by IPOB and RBL that the reason why some properties were lost by
Biafrans after the war of genocide was that the case was between the individual
asset owners and the Nigerian state. But in the case of the independent nation
of Biafra, it will be a case between Biafra and the country that attempts to
tamper with the assets of Biafrans. For instance, if Oduduwa makes any move to
jeopardize the assets of Biafrans in Lagos, it will be a case between the
nation of Biafra and the nation of Oduduwa and surely victory shall be that of
Biafra. Hence the Biafran asset owners will have nothing to worry about.
Therefore, the propaganda by the Lagos-Ibadan media has fallen flat, courtesy
of IPOB and RBL.
Propaganda
#6: Igbos
have intermarried with people from other parts of Nigeria, hence no need for an
independent Biafra nation because of this inter-marriage.
This
is one of the most grotesque of all the propaganda orchestrated by the
Lagos-Ibadan media. There are many marriages that are intercontinental, yet one
country did not collapse into the other because of that marriage. Even the
great Nelson Mandela married the former First Lady of Mozambique. Why did
Mozambique not collapse into South Africa because Mandela has now married their
former First Lady? Should inter-marriage between Biafrans and other people
prevent Biafrans from seeking their independence? Governor Adams Oshiomole
married outside Nigeria, therefore, that country from which Oshiomole married
should be taken over by Nigeria! What a shame to the Lagos-Ibadan media!!
Propaganda
#7: Igbos
want Biafra because of oil and gas in the so-called Niger-Delta/South-south.
The
Lagos-Ibadan media have used this propaganda to sow a seed of discord and
suspicion between the Igbo-speaking Biafrans and their brothers and sisters in
the so-called Niger-Delta or South-South. But they corruptly denied their
audience the fact that the oil and gas resources have been controlled by the
Hausa-Fulani from inception till date. They also refused to enlighten their
audience that oil and gas also exist in the Igbo-speaking area of Biafraland.
If the Igbo-speaking people of Biafra are after the oil and gas of their kit and kins,
what of the Hausa-Fulani who have been stealing this oil and gas resources in
broad daylight since 1956? Major infrastructures were built in Lagos and Abuja
with money from oil and gas in Biafraland. These infrastructures are still
maintained till date with money from oil and gas from Biafraland. It,
therefore, means that the Lagos-Ibadan media don’t want Biafra because they
want the Hausa-Fulani and their Yoruba counterpart to maintain the status quo
of continuous stealing of the oil and gas resources in Biafraland. But
this will not happen again because IPOB and RBL have educated Biafrans enough
that we will no longer be deceived by this blatant lie by the Lagos-Ibadan
media.
Propaganda
#8: Seeking
Biafra nation means war, in other words, Biafra restoration is equivalent to
war hence Igbos should remember what happened to them between 1967 and 1970.
This
is another way of imparting morbid fear into Biafrans by reminding them of
the genocide meted out to them by Muhammadu Buhari and his Hausa-Fulani
brothers between 1967 and 1970. But what the Lagos-Ibadan media failed to
understand is that the world has changed a lot from 1970 till date. Several
countries have emerged without war. The Indigenous People of Biafra are
pursuing the restoration of their God-given nation of Biafra in the most
civilized manner. For this reason, IPOB remains peaceful and law-abiding. The
government of Buhari has tried every means possible to provoke IPOB members
into violence, but they have failed. Biafrans are not warmongers and do not
want war. Biafrans will never be drawn into any war. Therefore, the attempts by
the Lagos-Ibadan media to associate Biafra restoration quest with war is dead
on arrival. IPOB and RBL have taught us that we do not need to engage Nigeria into
any war for Biafra to come. The reason is that Biafra restoration is divinely
ordained and is unstoppable, hence war is not necessary.
Propaganda
#9: Biafra
is land-locked and therefore not viable as a sovereign nation.
This
is the most laughable of all the propaganda by the Lagos-Ibadan media.
First of all, it is not true that Biafra is land-locked. Secondly, there are
land-locked countries that are performing much better than Nigeria that has
access to the sea. The performance or viability of a country is not based on
access to the sea. Somalia is not land-locked, but it is a failed state. On the
contrary, Zambia, Lesotho, and Botswana are peaceful countries with economic
and political stability. Biafra is heavily endowed with human resources which are
the greatest gift any nation can have. Therefore, this hogwash on being
land-locked by the Lagos-Ibadan media is like singing off-key in music and
which does not resonate with any rational thinking.
Propaganda
#10: So-called
Igbo elites do not support the Biafra restoration process, so why should the
masses continue working towards the restoration of the nation of Biafra.
This
very lazy argument falls flat on the ground that nation-building is not an
affair exclusively reserved for the elites. The Lagos-Ibadan media should
understand that Biafra restoration process is a “bottom-up“ process in the
sense that the masses are the key players. The Indigenous People of Biafra is a
mass-movement comprising ordinary Biafrans from all walks of life. IPOB is not
an elitist organization but a grassroots movement. On the other hand, the
Lagos-Ibadan media are good at sampling a few Biafran turncoats especially
those from the Igbo-speaking areas known for wheeling and dealing with the murderous
Muhammadu Buhari. By the way, who are these elites? Is the Lagos-Ibadan media
defining Igbo elite as somebody who can read and write in the
employ of Nigeria or is it somebody who lives in Lagos and Abuja with a
chieftaincy title? So where were these elites when Gowon went scot-free after
the massacre of over five million Biafrans? In which country on earth are a
bunch of good-for-nothing collaborators referred to as elites? Is the Lagos-Ibadan
media implying
that those in the leadership of IPOB are not educated enough or financially
comfortable enough to be considered to be elites? The
Lagos-Ibadan media will soon find out that, at the appropriate time, these
turncoats will proceed on self-exile while the masses will occupy Biafraland.
Therefore, the so-called elites are of no consequence in the scheme of things
in Biafra restoration process. The Lagos-Ibadan media must know that IPOB and RBL have
educated, enlightened, and energized the masses extensively and they are ready
to restore their nation with or without the so-called elites.
Signed:
Barrister Emma Nmezu
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokespersons for IPOB
Spokespersons for IPOB
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