Indigenous People of Biafra

Det Udenrigspolitiske Nævn 2013-14 UPN Alm.del Bilag 69 Offentligt

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA

19th December, 2013

From: Executive Council of Indigenous People of Biafra

To: United Nations Committee on Human Rights

Heads of State of All Countries

EXPIRATION OF NIGERIA’S AMALGAMATION PROCLAMATION AND RESTORATION OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BIAFRA

In 1914, the British Government under the recommendation of Frederick Lugard amalgamated the southern and northern regions of areas bordering with Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Benin republic, and proclaimed the amalgamated geospace as a country with the name Nigeria. This amalgamation was executed without the consent of the indigenous people that constitute these regions. According to the proclamation documents, the amalgamation was conditioned to have a lifespan of 100 years (expiring on December 31, 2013) after which any of the amalgamating regions or peoples would have the right to opt out. For the past 100 years, the indigenous people of Biafra who are part of the constituents of Nigeria have suffered untold hardship, threats to their culture, tradition and their way of life combined with political and economic emasculation, and annihilation of her citizens by the Hausa/Fulani- Yoruba dominated Nigerian government.

The attached chronology is only a microcosm of the constant blood-letting being visited regularly on the Indigenous People of Biafra by the rest of Nigeria under a lawless society driven by intense hatred and desire to annihilate the remnants of the Indigenous People of Biafra. The number of Biafrans murdered by the people of Nigeria, Nigerian government and their agents are now nearing 5 million. There are no perpetrators brought to justice for all these crimes against humanity. The Judeo-Christian values of the people are today being eroded by combined forces of Islam and Arabia. All efforts made to ensure the implementation of genuine national reconciliation and forgiveness after the cessation of the Biafra-Nigeria war through the convening of Oputa panel were rebuffed. Many perpetrators including present-day politicians and even flag bearers of major political parties refused to attend the panel. Their choice instead, which they have carried out, was to empower their people and agents to continue with the systematic killings and destruction of the places of worship and the businesses of our people at with increasingly alarming intensity. What used to be a secular country is today implementing sharia legal code in 19 northern states under official adoption of Islam as a state religion.

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA

Corruption and carting of state funds is now the order of the day. The Treasury and Justice departments are no longer independent. These and more have rendered Nigeria into nothing but a lawless society. Nigeria since 1970 has retrogressed. The claim that Nigeria-Biafra war was only an economic war has been rendered bare for all to see the emptiness of the falsehood.

In view of the stated expiration date of the amalgamation proclamation and relying on the rights of Indigenous People to self-determination as expressly stated in Articles 3 & 4 of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (September 13, 2007), and with these stated facts as a background, the Indigenous People of Biafra hereby declare that they shall no longer be part of Nigeria but rather exist as a separate country called the Sovereign State of Biafra. In Biafra the Rule of Law, Preservation of ways of life, Independent Justice System, Independent Treasury, the Rights of men and women to live in peace and freedom and the pursuits of happiness are fully guaranteed and form the bedrock of its foundation.

We, the Indigenous People of Biafra, have resolved not to extend the amalgamation and hereby state that Nigeria ceases as a legal corporate entity which represents the Indigenous People of Biafra in any capacity from the 1st of January 2014. The Indigenous People of Biafra is seeking your understanding and cooperation to ensure that loss of lives are minimized and peace restored to all ethnic components that presently make up Nigeria. Examples already abound where Indigenous People formed their own countries and these include constituents of former USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Sudan, and others. Even Great Britain that created Nigeria will soon let Scotland decide their fate. Biafra’s quest shall not be different because her citizens are no less humans than the peoples inhabiting the countries mentioned above. Please support the rule of law and the Rights of Indigenous People by understanding and agreeing that the Indigenous People of Biafra deserve succour from a century of enslavement; that we reserve the right to determine and political and economic future. Thank you for anticipated reactions.

For more information, please visit www.radiobiafra.co or call +44 7831308376 or any of the telephone numbers listed at the bottom of this page.

Signed:

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Nnamdi Kanu Ikechukwu Enyiagu Emmanuel Okafor

Director Principle Administrator Secretary