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Embattled President Muhammadu Buhari has declared war on Biafra agitators, saying that he will fight them with all Federal resources.
President Buhari made the declaration as seven civil society organisations yesterday expressed alarm at the immoral activities of "political traders" and other merchandizing groups concerning pro Biafra agitation in Nigeria, which gathered currency in October 2015.
Buhari made statement during an interview by Martine Dennis on Al Jazeera while he was in Qatar last week.
He was asked about the shooting of unarmed pro-Biafran protesters in Aba, Abia State on 9 February this year and Dennis suggested he could watch the video. But Buhari pointedly refused to watch and then said the pro-Biafrans "should not be joking with Nigerian security".
In a statement made available to Elombah.com, the CSO's accused unnamed "political traders (including sitting governors and political appointees), hired community and market based associations and religious bodies as well as socio-cultural organizations of Igbo extraction of immoral silence over the killing of Biafrain agitators by Nigeria security agents.
"We have observed that these conscientiously mortgaged groups and individuals have since October 2015 when Prince Nnamdi Kanu (POC: prisoner-of-conscience)) was arrested and detained over pro Biafra struggle; turned themselves into "merchants of the dead and butchers of conscience"; by criminally enriching themselves and engaging in sundry immoral politics at the expense of the blood of dozens of their murdered fellow Igbo citizens and liberties of hundreds of others maimed and incarcerated till date", the groups said.
"Others found to have maintained till date "silence of the graveyard" over the burning issue, for reasons best known to them, are majority of the civil rights leaders or frontline activists of Igbo or Southeast extraction, who are dominant in Southwest zone particularly in Lagos State. It is on indisputable record that half of the civil rights and pro democracy organizations in the area are founded or led by citizens of the Southeast extraction. These "docile comrades" and their groups are quickly followed by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), which had maintained the same "silence of the graveyard" on the issue since October 2015."
Speaking to Aljazeera television during his last visit to Qatar, president Buhari recalled that over two million lives were lost during the Nigeria civil war between 1967 to 1970 on the demand of a Biafran state.
He said "At least two millions Nigerians were killed in the Biafra war. And for somebody to wake up may be they weren't born. Looking for Biafra after two millions people were killed, they are joking with the security and Nigeria won't tolerate Biafra."
He was asked about the shooting of unarmed pro-Biafran protesters in Aba, Abia State on 9 February this year and Dennis suggested he could watch the video. But Buhari pointedly refused to watch and then said the pro-Biafrans "should not be joking with Nigerian security
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