by
Eze Eluchie,
Today, 16,764
days after the ‘official’ end of the Biafran genocide on the 15th of
January 1970, the very first person of Igbo nationality to be killed by bullets
of Nigeria Government security forces in the quest for a renegotiation and
restructuring of the Nigerian contraption and the actualization of Biafra, 20
year old Miss. Anthonia Nkirika Ikeanyionwu, will be laid to rest today at
Amaolu, Adazi Unukwu in Anambra State.
Several
others were killed and others maimed by bullets, alongside Miss Ikeanyionwu, in
a vicious crack down by security operatives on peaceful demonstrators in
Onitsha, Anambra State (within the territtory of the erstwhile Republic of Biafra) on 2nd December 2015.
Over
2 million Igbos had been killed during the Biafran genocide which occurred
in the course of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war from 6th July 1967 to
15th January 1970.
The
well publicized comments by Nigeria’s current ruler and former dictator, Alhaji
Muhammadu Buhari, to met out unequal and unfair treatment to peoples who gave
him ‘5% votes’ during the last presidential elections (a category to which the
Igbo nation belongs), has further exacerbated tension along ethnic lines.
May
we not repeat the mistakes of times past.
Let
us peacefully restructure and renegotiate the Nigeria contraption whilst we
can.
Video of one of several atrocities
committed by Nigeria troops during the Biafra genocide:
Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari’s
resolve to unfairly treat areas of Nigeria which gave him ‘5% votes’ during his
(s)election.
Picture: Obituary announcement/Burial
program for the late Miss. Anthonia Nkiruka Ikeanyionwu:
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