The debate about the Biafra agitation is still raging in South east Nigeria 50 years after the Nigerian civil war.
Most of the respondents Naij.com spoke to preferred Biafra to Nigeria
While many Igbos resident in the region call themselves Biafrans and are favourably disposed to the creation of Biafra as an independent nation, Igbos resident outside the region who have investments outside Igbo land frown at such agitations.
The division among the Igbos is already playing out in the various groups agitating for Biafra. Both the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have split into factions because of the failure to agree on a common stand as regards Biafra agitation.
Recently, a splinter group emerged from IPOB, with the name Reformed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (RE-IPOB).
The new pro-Biafra group has gone ahead to chose a new leader and listed some personalities to negotiate on behalf of them with the federal government.
“Since the war ended, we have been suffering in Nigeria, we have been marginalised in Igbo land. The average Igbo man is suffering.
“There is no resources given to us. I am not happy to be a Nigerian, I was born an Igbo man and I need Biafra, that is where I am concerned,” Godwin Iweajoku, a business man told .
An ex-marine officer, Ike Woke noted that those agitating for Biafra has every right to demand for what they want.
“If it is a rightful decision, it is welcome. All we need is peace in this country,”
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