Getting set for “Biafran Millions’ March”

Getting set for “Biafran Millions’ March”
By Time Tochukwu

All over Biafraland, everywhere Biafrans have been holding their meetings in the last one month, both at home and abroad, one prominent subject has always been discussed. That subject is tagged the “Biafran Millions’ March”.  It will take place in the coming days. The march, with its planning in top gear, is expected to be the biggest of its kind anywhere in Africa.  As the planning is taking place, the people have called it by different names. There are those who have called it “Igurube” which is Igbo name for locust. They said it is going to be the gathering of millions to finally bury the ghost and demon of Nigeria. Others described it as mega rally. They described it so because, according to them, there have not been anything like it in terms of the number of people that would be there in the whole Africa and would possibly not be anything like it in the next 1000 years.

Others call it “Ura aga n’anya”, meaning that which will takes sleep off the eyes. Those who name it this way said it was because the protest will not only be huge in terms of the number of people that would participate in it, but also because of the duration. According to them, the excitement will not allow the protesters to sleep on the job. For some others, the coming Biafrans’ millions rally is “the first African spring” because it will mark the first truly African revolutionary movement to bring about the first truly African independent state through a mass movement. Feelers from IPOB leadership show that those coming from abroad for the march would be coming with state of the art broadcast equipment to make sure that all aspects and sections of the protest were covered. They explained that there would be hundreds of television cameras from every angle at the venue to provide life-streaming pictures for Biafra Television 24/7 broadcasts.  Radio Biafra also will carry all the happenings life for the world to know. With the magnitude of planning on ground, the organizers said the rally was being billed to achieve “a mega rally that is unprecedented in the history of Africa”.

A Nigerian organizer who craved anonymity, claimed that first, the rally would make Nigerians (government and peoples) to be aware that the issue of Biafra has gone beyond violent suppression by law enforcement agents, and the childish gimmicks government used to derail previous agitation. According to him, one of such gimmicks was the one recently played by the government by holding their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and then trying to blackmail IPOB members that they could not provide two million Naira, for his bail. They had even refused to inform their gullible subjects that Nnamdi rejected them and their court by telling them that he did not recognize their authority because he was not Nigerian but Biafran. Added to that, they did not tell their gullible subjects that what they were engaged in was simply “kidnap and ransom” business.  Another achievement they said the march would bring would be to expose the lies of Nigeria – through its highly compromised and lying Lagos/Ibadan media – that Biafra was no longer popular with the people. They said it would also put to shame saboteurs and quislings who were using the suffering and hardship of their own people to get concessions and benefits from the wicked Nigerian state. The march, they said, have exposed Muhammadu Buhari, the so-called Nigerian president “for the moron he is, who is not competent to govern even a harmlet in the contraption Britain created and called Nigeria”. They said it would go further to make the people give him the Mohammed Morsi treatment as was done in Egypt on July 3, 2013. From all indications, one thing is certain, and that is that after this “Biafran Millions’ March”, Biafraland will no longer be the same; and Nigeria will in no way remain the same; and even the world will begin to look at Africa with a different eye.