SAN FRANCISCO, June 06, (THEWILL) – In what appears like a major move towards fast-tracking the actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra, some pro-separatist groups have formed a unified body called the Biafra Peoples National Council, BPNC, as they agreed to draw up a legal framework for the new Biafra state.
Leaders and groups who teamed up to formed the new body include: Uchenna Madu faction of MASSOB; Felix Obioha, Eastern Peoples Congress; Austin-Mary Ndukwu, Biafra Liberation Council; Osita Chukwuagbanarinam, Salvation People Biafra; Jackson Nebechukwu, Ekwenche Organisation.
Others are Adiele Chikadibia, Biafra Nations Youth League; Rev. Dr. Stanley C. Ajah, Biafra Revolution Organisation; Prince Oliver Chidozie, Biafra Liberation Crusade; Mr. Ayers Shimobi, Biafra Movement for Sovereignty; Godwin Offor, Biafra Regional Emancipation Movement; Joseph Ohanenye, Bilie Organisation and representative of Biafra in the Diaspora, Dr Chukwuma Egemba.
However, conspicuously absent in the Biafra Peoples National Council is the Chief Ralph Uwazuruike-led Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, or faction of MASSOB and the detained Nnamdi Kanu’s Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who have been agitating for the creation of the new state.
According to a communiqué signed by all the leaders at the end of the All-Biafran Conference, ABC, organised by the Organisation of Emerging African States, OEAS, in Accra, Ghana from May 27 to 31, the newly formed BPNC would form a collegiate parliament comprising representatives of Biafra ethnic nationalities and pro-Biafra organisations.
While resolving that “Biafra shall be a state founded on equity, fairness, justice, participatory democracy and egalitarianism and even development,” they agreed that the administrative and political capital of Biafra should not be concentrated in one location but should spread across the Biafran land.
“These capitals shall include but not limited to; executive, legislative, judicial, cultural, economic, science and technology, agriculture and defence,” they disclosed.
The BPNC leaders frowned and condemned “the attitude of the Commonwealth of Nations towards the senseless, cruel, inhuman, degrading and extra-judicial killings of more than 700 unarmed civilians of Biafran origin and pro-Biafran activists by various security apparatus of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its militias under the disguise of Fulani herdsmen.”
While accusing the Commonwealth of playing double standards by not invoking sanctions on the Federal Government, they charged the body to “immediately begin a process of expelling the Federal Republic of Nigeria from the Commonwealth of Nations”.
