Five Reasons Why Biafra May Not Be Actualised

The agitation for Biafra tends to be on hibernation, following some tragic incidents that characterized certain protests by pro-Biafra agitators within the northeastern region of the country.

There are injunctions kicking against protests by the Biafran agitators, the police and other security agencies have warned against Zionist  protests in various cities across the nation, especially those marred by violence.

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Beyond the ban on protest marches across the nation, one gets a feeling that Biafra as a dream might as well be put to rest, and this is due to the various facts that stare us in face.

Recent developments in the country and certain historical facts, tend like the handwriting on the wall to hint of possibilities that Biafra will not be achieved and Nigeria will remain ever united.

Here are five facts that considerably stir doubts with regards to the possibility of attaining a sovereign Biafra republic.

1. Too many hands spoil the soup

Initially all that was known of the quest for Biafra was a push by the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

There were several face-offs between the pro-Biafra group and the authorities. On one major occasion, 16 members of the group were killed, following a combined raid involving the Army, police and SSS.

In that particular raid at MASSOB offices in the commercial city of Onitsha, 83 members of the group were said to have sustained bullet wounds, while over 500 others were arrested.

In a similar development, six members of MASSOB were sentenced to jail in Asaba for wearing regalia of the defunct Biafra and proclaiming to be members of the group.

The Biafra push was very powerful then, but one would argue that the emergence of Radio Biafra, the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), and now the Biafra Independent Movement (BIM), amongst others, has made the Zionists more formidable.