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LEADERSHIP: Taking a Stand on Zimbabwe

Creating a better world for all sometimes means stepping up to courageously take a stand. Much of the problems we face today exist because most of us sit idly by waiting for others to make the badly needed changes that are piling up. Changes that impact lives and the future of all people.

Dr. Emmanuel Enekwechi Prime Minister, Biafra Government in Exile (BGIE) recently set the example for us all through his leadership message on behalf of the Government Federation of Biafra...

   

July 1, 2008

In the matter of the recent political and social events in Zimbabwe and its handling, the Biafra Government in Exile (BGIE) which represents the people of Biafra, their political hopes and aspirations, declares thus:

1) On behalf of the people of Biafra, BGIE regrets the actions of the ruling party in Zimbabwe in the conduct of what could not pass for free and fair elections.

2) BGIE condemns the government of Zimbabwe and the ruling party for the violence unleashed on the hapless people of Zimbabwe whose only "offense" was to make their political will known using the customary vehicle of suffrage.

3) Africa should hold Robert Mugabe personally and criminally liable for this gratuitous violence against the innocent people of Zimbabwe—his own people.

4) Africa should also hold criminally responsible as accessories all other persons, co-operators, and agents of Robert Mugabe, his political party and his administration, and members of State Institutions under his command who have participated in any way in the harming of the citizenry of Zimbabwe.

5) BGIE chides African Union (AU) for acquiescence in the face of brutality and battery of innocent Africans of Zimbabwe; and for failure to condemn injustice, denial of freedom, and flagrant violation of every principle of democratic election and democratic rule.

It is the hope of BGIE that the obvious fraudulent results of the recent sham elections in Zimbabwe be overturned and that Robert Mugabe and his collaborators be held accountable. 

Signed:

Dr. Emmanuel Enekwechi
Prime Minister, Biafra Government in Exile (BGIE)

AFRICA: Opportunity to Lead the Way - Great Britain

Two messages arrived from Chukwuji Ogbonna and Ethelbert Nwobi and I wanted to share my response with all of you. Read my original post and their responding messages.

No one knows the angst of Biafrans except for Biafrans themselves, as my fellow Biafrans, Chukwuji Ogbonna and Ethelbert Nwobi remind us all in their “Lamentations.” It is not just collective anguish with a capital “A”: such torment in fact feeds down the arteries and veins and umbilical cord down to the individual being, yes, through the capillaries down to the individual biological cell. At once collective and personal, such torment of Biafrans is total—systemic, organic: thorough. No one knows the true angst of the unfathomably oppressed. “Unfathomable,” because, there is no conceivable reason why Biafra and Biafrans should remain oppressed by Britain and Nigeria today—nor in the past, for that matter. So, allow Chukwuji and Ethelbert to ventilate.

While hopeful that “…setting the peoples of Africa free is one of the reasons why Great Britain has voted in favour of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples…” (referring to UN General Assembly A/RES/61/295 of September 12/13, 2007; document A/61/L.67; (http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10612.doc.htm); (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/declaration.html); http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/512/07/PDF/N0651207.pdf?OpenElement, it is rather most likely that GB / UK voted for this Resolution in order not to provoke its own Scottish Nation into an accelerated process of political Independence from UK. It is common knowledge that Scotland is engaged in a determined and systematic Self Determination process, a process which UK has not tried stop or to perish: compare and contrast this with the behavior and policies of UK in faraway but still technically British-colonized Africa, especially Biafra-Nigeria. As the British themselves would say, “What is good for the gander is [apparently NOT] good for the goose…” when it comes to the Scots of UK Versus the Biafrans in the Nigeria geopolitical space.

Tony Blair, the past leader of UK, is quoted to have once said that:

"The state of Africa is a scar on the conscience of the world."
"But if the world as a community focused on it, we could heal it."
"And if we don't, it will become deeper and angrier."
Source: BBC News Tuesday October 2001 15:28 GMT 16:28 UK
You are in UK Politics; “BLAIR: Key quotes”

Consider the hypocrisy? oxymoron? naivete? flippancy? Or, just sound-bites? You be the judge:

1) Does the world have a conscience when it comes to Africa? (Hint: China has just stepped into the same pernicious colonial jackboots introduced 300 years ago by Britain in Africa; UK is carrying out the same colonial policies in Africa—she never really stopped nor left).

2) Whose conscience, really, if there be such—the world’s or UK’s? (Hint: the original injury was caused by Britain. Today, Britain / UK is still the lead-State supporting colonial African puppet and unworkable governments, when such governments would have since died a natural death to allow for the indigenous Nations—Nations such as Biafra—to evolve into their own.)

3) “’World-as-a-community’ focus”? (Hint: the World “Powers” have partitioned the unfortunates [including entire hapless Africa] into “areas of influence”—actually, “possessions” wherein each Power does as it pleases with its own possession, without scrutiny or challenge. There is no world “community”—just fiefdoms. Who can forget US Nixon’s soliloquy [revealed in declassified US government documents] as Nixon literally wrung his hands in utter helplessness while Wilson of UK starved Biafran children, pregnant women, old men and old women, to the tune of mindboggling 2 million or so, in 1968-1970?)

4) “…Heal…Africa…”? (Hint: how can you heal Africa when you are busy causing and sustaining further injuries in Africa, as a matter of policy, while refusing to listen to the pleas of the suffering people?)

5) "And if we don't, it will become deeper and angrier." This one is self-commenting, seeing that Africa’s injuries have indeed “become deeper and angrier”—thanks to the author of these statements who also led his contemporary government in UK’s ongoing malicious policy in Africa.

Tony Blair’s metaphor of “scar” regarding Africa reveals genius.  By genetic predisposition, many Africans form “bad” scars: the scars are called “Keloids.”  I should know: I am African (Biafran, to be precise); and I am a Physician. Keloids, in a sense, may even be regarded as a form of Skin Cancer. They won’t kill you, but they are grotesque; if you cut one out, an even larger, uglier one regrows in its place—same for if you irritate it. Yet, many African cultures master this invasive skin scarring and deliberately inflict and exploit it while skillfully turning it into a beautiful, desirable, appealing live-skin art. Genius: Africa’s or Blair’s? Think about it.

In the modern times, Tony Blair represents that which is completely wrong with UK’s Africa policy, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the case of Biafra-Nigeria. Nowhere is the result as destructive and as catastrophic as in victimized Biafra.  Sadly, even Nigeria, used by the UK government as the ribbing-point of this malevolent policy against Biafra and Biafrans, is in ruins, as a result. As such, if we are talking about “conscience,” allow us to tickle the conscience, not of the world, but first, of Britain / UK.

The question which should be on everyone’s mind, as we return to Chukwuji’s and Ethelbert's apt and shared “Lamentations” is this:

“Just what of Biafra would threaten or jeopardize the British Government’s interest, or the interest of the people of UK?”

Why is the British government, with relish and apparent determination, directly and indirectly killing the Chukwuji’s and Ethelbert's of Africa—the Biafrans? Talk to the World, Chukwuji and Ethelbert. Talk to Great Britain. Where there is conscience, it can be tickled. If there is a conscience…

Oguchi Nkwocha, MD
A Biafran Citizen
California, USA

On behalf of the Nation and People of Biafra

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The Christmas Spirit from the Heart of Biafra

The Christmas Spirit from the Heart of Biafra
...Music, Message and News Analysis
with Dr. Oguchi Nkwocha
Voice of Biafra International (VOBI)
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This is a special holiday gift --- an experience of Christmas through the hearts of the Biafran people. Listen in to this recorded broadcast and follow along below to this moving Christmas message reaching out to all of us across the world...

Christmas fast approaches and the Season already dwells among us. Let us Biafrans now allow ourselves to be caressed by it; let us allow ourselves to be covered by the gentleness, the grace and goodness of this Christmas Season. Let Christmas become us, and we, Christmas. Amen. And, that’s all of us: Biafrans and non-Biafrans alike, for Christmas knows no borders or boundaries. Amen.

Christmas a biala a bia: ka anyi ndi Biafra kwee ka mmuo Christmas wuru mmuo ga a no na ime anyi—anyi na ndi Uwa na ile: Amen!

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Christmas is about Peace .The World is full of strife and struggles; Biafra’s struggle against Evil called Nigeria is one such struggle of Good against Evil. This struggle is ferocious; it is relentless. But, Christmas is a reminder that Struggle, no matter how fierce, will never overcome Peace; Christmas is our assurance that Peace triumphs over Strife--always; Christmas is the proof that Peace is enduring, to the end. So may we Biafrans be reminded this Season: Biafra shall know Peace; Biafra shall be at peace again. Amen. And, so shall the World—our Tormentor included. Amen. 

Christmas wu Udo; Christmas na a si na Udo e merie la Ogu na Nsogbu na ime Uwa ya. Christmas na a si na, na ihe gbasara Ndoli anyi ndi Biafra na i nweta Biafra, na Udo e merie la Ndoli ahu, maka Udo Biafra a nochie la anya Ndoli na Nsogbu Nigeria. Amen. Na ihi Christmas: Udo Biafra; udo Uwa, Udo ebe o wula, ma owughiladi Nigeria. Amen.

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“Goodwill!” is the Spirit of Christmas. Biafra and Biafrans have been so bruised and victimized by Nigeria that we have forgotten the term, Goodwill, and its meaning. We do not even know if we ourselves possess such a normally natural disposition anymore; quite certain, though, that Goodwill is NOT to be in any way or manner associated with our Tormentor, Nigeria. But, Christmas restores the promise and practice of Goodwill: may such be the promise and the practice in Biafra, and by Biafrans. Amen. And, since Christmas Goodwill—the only kind there really is—knows no bounds, may our Tormentor be touched, possessed of and changed by this Goodwill, too. Amen.

“Obioma” wu Mmuo Christmas.  Maka nsogbu na mmegbu Nigeria mere ndi Biafra, o nwere ike wuru na anyi a maghi zi kwa ihe Obioma wu. Ma, Christmas e cheta ra la anyi Obioma, nye kwa anyi Obioma ahu, nke no na mmuo anyi. Obioma ahu wu oke zuru Uwa dum: ya ka anyi wu ndi Biafra ji; Obioma ahu ka anyi na e nye Uwa dum—ma Nigeria kwa. Amen!

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By the tradition of Christmas, Magic makes and becomes Reality; Wishes made come true.  Christmas is a guarantee that Humanity will Wish; more so, that Humanity will find some way to fulfill her own Wishes; and characteristically, that Humanity will deliberately make this Season magical with the “good” Magic, by her magical actions. Biafrans have one collective wish this Christmas: Liberation from Nigeria, that we may finally enjoy our Freedom and Liberty. Christmas is the reassurance that we will deliver on that Wish: we will fulfill that Wish. Amen. In our own Liberty and Freedom, Nigeria may also know her own Liberty and Freedom, as will the rest of the World. Amen. Thus Biafra will make Magic and know the Magic of Christmas; as will Nigeria; as will the rest of the World. Amen.

Christmas wu oge “Ihe Di Ebube”, mgbe anyi na e nweta ihe anyi choro—ihe no anyi na obi. Na oge Ihe Ebube ya, ihe anyi choro, Christmas e nye anyi ya. Otu ihe ka anyi wu ndi Biafra choro na oge ya: Ihe ahu wu Biafra: ka Nigeria si anyi na ahu puo, ka anyi si Nigeria puwa, gaa nweta Biafra anyi. Nweta Biafra ka e jiri gbara anyi Christmas: anyi ma na o mechala e mechaa. Na Nigeria i ha anyi wu Biafra aka, ka anyi nwere onwe anyi,  Nigeria na e nyere onwe nke ya aka ka o nwere onwe ya—nke e meeghi bee e me. O wu “Liberty and Freedom,” onyiye Christmas nyere Uwa dum. Amen.

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This Christmas, it is our Wish that our revered brethren-heroes, the members of MASSOB in Nigeria’s prisons, including their leader, our adored Ralph Uwazurike, and their officials, such as our beloved Uchenna Madu, have their complete and unconditional freedom. It is our Wish that the world over, all similarly unjustly imprisoned persons have their full and unconditional release. In the Spirit of Christmas. In the name of Christmas. This Christmas.

Na oge Christmas ya—na aha na Mmuo Christmas—anyi choro ka a hapu umu nne anyi ndi MASSOB na ile no na mkporo ndi Nigeria aka, ka ha puta na mkporo—ma onye isi MASSOB, Ralph Uwazurike, ma ndi ndu ndi MASSOB, dika Uchenna Madu.  Anyi ji kwa Obi Christmas na a cho ka ndi mmadu ndi owula ndi no na onodu di ka ndi MASSOB anyi no na mkporo Nigeria taa, na ebe owula na ime uwa ya, ka e weputa ha, hapu ha aka. Na ihi Christmas.

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Biafra alive! Because it is God Who makes it so!

Biafra: biri kwa

Biafra, ndu gi! Biafra, ndu gi!! Biafra, ndu gi!!!—na ndu anyi kwa. Maka Chineke nonyere la gi—nonyere kwa ra anyi!

That’s the News Analysis for the week. Thank you.

God bless and keep Biafra, and you, until our next broadcast.

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