Kanu is at present confronting conspiracy trial in an Abuja High Court. However, one Igbo attorney has depicted his arraignment as "a kangaroo trial, without a certified longing to exhibit the tenet of law."
While the lion's share of Igbo adolescents who did not encounter the common war, eat, inhale, rest and talk about nothing else except for the profoundly saw second rate class resident status of Igbo in present day Nigeria and their blazing longing for fulfillment of free status for Biafra, the all the more elderly gathering of Igbo are hesitant to bolster another equipped battle for the acknowledgment of the Biafran dream. The elderly gathering saw the monstrosities went by on Igboland amid the 30-month fratricidal war that guaranteed more than 2 million Igbo lives and pauperized those that survived the war, and were constrained by angry authority approach to start sans preparation to modify their lives. Through dint of diligent work, the Igbo have generally pawed their way back to monetary flourishing in a country where the chances are intensely stacked against them. Consequently the seniors prompt that alert ought to be the controlling word.
This maybe clarifies the solid conviction of Chief Michael Ozua Okoye, an ex-Biafran colonel, who said that Ndigbo couldn't bear to go into another war after the Nigerian common war in which numerous Igbo individuals lost their lives. He expressed that Biafra would in the end be completed time permitting yet not as a matter of course through battling and killing of individuals.
Okoye, who holds the customary title of Ononwu Ndigbo said that most Igbo pioneers who championed and battled for Nigeria's independence had faith in the solidarity of the nation.
He refers to the sample of Eze Igbo Gburugburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, who he noted did not battle a "war of withdrawal but rather war against minimization." He focused on that Ojukwu demonstrated his confidence in Nigeria, when he challenged race as the presidential hopeful of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and later tried to speak to Anambra South senatorial zone at the Senate. In the event that he had won both of the two decisions, he would have been the president of Nigeria or congressperson of Federal Republic.
His words: "I was a colonel in Biafran Army and I realize what we went through amid the war. We can't stand to battle another war. The fomenters are youngsters who were not conceived amid the common war. They ought to go and unwind and implore hard for God's intercession. I believe that Biafra will come at God's opportunity without shedding of blood.
"We can't get Biafra through shooting, battling and murdering ourselves. We battled the war with extraordinary enthusiasm, we even produced our own weapons amid the common war that went on for a long time however we couldn't accomplish anything on the grounds that a few individuals attacked our endeavors. I can't live to see another common war. On the off chance that they begin it again I will flee to some other nation where I will be an exile.
"The tumult for Biafra is great yet I don't need it to prompt another war; let it come calmly. God will give us Biafra without shedding blood again in light of the fact that Ndigbo lost such a large number of individuals amid the common war. Amid the war, Nigerian troopers would execute a pregnant lady, cut her open, draw out the unborn youngster from the womb and similarly murder it; it was repulsive. God will show benevolence toward Ndigbo and give us Biafra calmly. Ojukwu battled like a man and lost his dad's riches in the war yet some Ndigbo didn't need him to succeed."
Okoye, be that as it may, spoke to the Federal Government to mend the injuries of the common war by executing the remaking, restoration and compromise assention guaranteed to Ndigbo after the war.
While educating individuals with respect to the Movement for Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) to tread warily in the unsettling for Biafra, he approached the administration to stop the arraignment of Nnamdi Kanu and set him free, as a show of good confidence.
He encouraged President Muhammadu Buhari to obtain a leaf from the late Umaru Yar'Adua who expressed a desire for peace to the Niger Delta instigators and started dialog with them, which prompted cessation of anxiety in the oil-rich zone and brought back peace that empowered resumption of oil and gas investigation and generation exercises, taking after the beginning of the Presidential Amnesty Program. On this score, Okoye directs that the Buhari organization ought to dialog with Ndigbo for an agreeable determination of whatever may be the grievances of the instigators. this score, Okoye advises that the Buhari
I don't appeal to God for another common war –Ifelobi, war veteran
In the same vein, another war veteran, Chief Joe Ifedobi recognized that there has been minimization yet censured another war, saying that a roundtable discussion would be more profitable than another common war.
His words: "I experienced the Nigerian common war and for anything of that nature to surface once more, I don't bolster it, nothing is more prominent than peace. Older folks ought to alert the youthful ones on the suggestion. The Federal Government ought to listen to the grievances of the fomenters on the grounds that their disturbance means that they feel minimized.
"In any case, for me as a person, who saw it all from 1964 to 1966 and after that till 1970 amid the common war, I don't welcome any tumult that can swing to war. I think we ought to inform those young fellows what brought regarding the common war and the consequences. That is the reason they ought to relax on the grounds that any minute you begin unsettling of this nature, it will bring about slaughter."
Ifedobi proceeds with: "Severance was not even in the Igbo man's motivation. The general population that initially needed to withdraw were the northerners, who yelled "Araba, ba mu so (isolate us, we don't need once more)" after they effectively executed the July 1966 counter upset, in which General Aguiyi-Ironsi was slaughtered. It was the British High Commissioner that brought in their pioneers, disclosed to them the ramifications of cutting out the north as a different nation and exhorted them to drop the thought. That was the reason they reneged on the Aburi Accord.
"Igbo senior citizens and pioneers ought to contact individuals from IPOB and MASSOB and the young fellows who are unsettling for this, to see reason and keep away from any savage disturbance for self-determination that could prompt carnage."
"The adolescents that are doing all these were not conceived amid the war or when the war finished. I realize that the explanation behind all these is on the grounds that the past governments fumbled the nation's financial assets and advancement, making neediness and underestimated the Igbo. My relations were murdered in Onitsha, Abagana and in Nsukka; so the injury of the common war is still crisp in our memory."
"Igbo has been minimized, that is the reason President Buhari must handle the issue of Igbo marginalization. The issue of government character must be fairly used and Igbo must profit by its application. Disproportionate arrangements into every single government establishment and key offices like the Customs, Immigration, the military that support just the north is a main consideration that stirs the flame of ethnic fomentations in the South East and South. The administration must be aware of that in the push to fabricate this country.
"Thus, President Buhari ought to tread with alert and wean himself from his present resolved and unhelpful disposition to the unsettling. Why is the Buhari organization acting like previous president Obasanjo? The legal allowed Nnamdi Kanu safeguard, and he met the conditions. Rather the Buhari administration evaded the safeguard by charging Kanu again to court for treasonable lawful offense which is not bailable in the court. Buhari ought not be deceived by his counsels over the issue of the fomenters. No one who experienced the common war will bolster for the unsettling of Biafra once more.
In tears, 76-year-old dowager, Mrs. Adaku Obidimma, who lost her spouse amid the common war communicated their feeling about the fomentation accordingly: "No one ought to remind me what I have overlooked. Discussing common war resemble reminding me of my affliction, distress, sadness and dismissal. It was in the fourth year of our marriage that the war broke out. I had two youngsters – a kid and a young lady. My spouse was in the Biafran Army. One day he came to search for us. As he was staying with us, he was murdered by a Nigerian trooper. He was simply standing and from no place, a shot hit him and murdered my spouse just before me and my two youngsters.
"For anyone to discuss war once more, I don't care for what the MASSOB or IPOB are doing, attempting to bring about another war; I can't live to see another war since it took God's elegance for me and my two kids to survive the common war. After I lost my spouse, no help came to us from anyplace, even to eat was issue. No, no, no, no one ought to discuss another war."
"My guardians brought forth five youngsters (three guys and two females), two of my siblings kicked the bucket amid the common war while my sister passed on in the war as well. What are we discussing? War is bad and we ought to dishearten it. I realize that things are not functioning admirably in the nation but rather God will one day answer our requests to God. We can't battle war again to get Biafra, unless they need the whole Igboland to be wiped out."
"I need to ask these kids calling for Biafra state to relax and ask their guardians what happened amid the war. They ought not welcome another war, it is we ladies that will endure it most. After the common war, 70 percent of wedded ladies got to be dowagers and we likewise lost our kids. Take a gander at the dissent the other t
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