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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
DECLARATION OF THE NATION OF BIAFRA: MAY 301967
Fellow countrymen and women, you, the people ofEastem Nigeria: Conscious of the
suprerne authority of Almighty God over ali mankind, of your duty to yourselves and
posterity;
Aware that you can no longer be protected in your lives and in your property by any
Government based outside Eastem Nigeria; Believing that you are bom free and have certain
inalienable rights which can best be preserved by yourselves.
Unwilling to be unfree partners in any association of a political or economic nature;
Rejecting the authority of any person or persons other than the Military Government of
Eastem Nigeria to make any imposition of whatever kind or nature upon you;
Detennined to dissoive all political and other ties between you and the former Federal
Republic of Nigeria;
Prepared to enter into such association, treaty or alliance with any sovereign state within the
former Federal Republic of Nigeria and eisewhere on such terms and conditions as best to
subserve your common good;
Affirming your tmst and confidence in me;
Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that Eastem Nigeria be a
sovereign independent Republic,
Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military
Govemor of Eastem Nigeria, by
virtue
of the authority, and pursuant to the principies,
recited above, do hereby solernnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and cailed
Eastem Nigeria together with her continental sheif and territorial waters shail henceforth be
an independent sovereign state of the name and title of “The Republic of Biafra”. And I do
deciare that-
i. ali political ties between us and the Federal Republic of Nigeria are hereby totally
dissolved;
ii. all subsisting contractual obligations entered into by the Government of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria or by any person, authority or organization or government acting on its
behaif, with any person, authority or organization operating, or relating to any matter or
thing, within the Republic of Biafra, shall henceforth be deemed to be entered into with the
Military Governor of the Republic of Biafra for and on behaif of the Government and people
of the republic of Biafra, and the covenants thereof shali, subject to this Declaration, be
perfonned by the parties according to their tenor;
Headquaters:
Calle, Badaya No.23
Bajo.
01012 Vitona Gastelz. Alava,
Spain.
Tel:
÷34945565994
Fax: +34945565994
Email: [email protected]
Website:
wwwradioblafra.co,
www.!pob.org
UK Office: 30 Sandhngs
Ciose,
Pilkington
Road
London SE 15 35V UK
UK Tel: ÷44 7831308376 or ÷44 2081339976v
US Office: 11033 5. Crenshaw BIvU. ngewooU, CA,90303, US
US Tel: +1 424 224 0434
US Email [email protected]
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
The Directorate of State
25th
May 2017
THE BIAFRAN GENOCIDE 50 YEARS ON
To
•• The United Nations Secretary General
•• The President United Nations Security Council
•. The President United Nations General assembly
•. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
•• Distinguished World Leaders
+ The Chairperson African Union
+ The President of the European Union
+ International Human Rights organizations
Your Excellencies
The indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) as it name connotes are Biafrans resident in Biafraland
and in the Diaspora with the sole objective of exploring and utilizing every available legal
framework and universally guaranteed rules to assert its right to self- determination and to
determining its own economic, political, legal and cultural systems in a sovereign and independent
Biafran nation. The Directorate of State (DoS) of the Indigenous People of Biafra is the institution
responsible for overseeing the day to day affairs of the IPOB worldwide.
Fifty (50) years on, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of “Onyendu Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu”, are on this date the
30th
of May 2017 commemorating the
50th
year centenary of
the Biafran Genocide. The horrors of 1966-1970 are once again very contemporary in the
memories of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). During the period in question, hundreds of
thousands of Biafrans were first slaughtered through a well planned, well coordinated and well
executed pogrom of Biafran people living outside of Biafraland and resident in others parts of
Nigeria. Then millions were murdered by the barrel of the gun while millions more especially
women and children were starved systematically to death in a most brutal form of genocide
ifl
modern African history. As the dust of the terror unleashed upon the IPOB settled, over five million
Biafran lives, HUMAN lives were wasted while Biafran towns, villages and cities were devastated
and in complete ruin. What was the crime of the Indigenous People of Biafra, why would a people
be exterminated in such a mass and with such viciousness? Their crime was their desire and
hunger for liberty and freedom. They desired to live in dignity in the land of their ancestors.
Humanity betrayed its essence as it watched unconcerned and unmoved by the Biafran people’s
suffering while their annihilation unfolds before the very eyes of the world community.
AdministratiHeadquarters:
The Directorate Indigenous Peop’e of Biafra
Postfach 710155, 50741 KöIn Germany
TeI:+49 151756292661
Email:
[email protected]
UK
Liaison Ottce:
160 London Road, Barking IG 11 7EB
TeI:+44 7405964146
Website:
www.radiobiafra.co, www.ipob.org
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
SECOND POST READER:
1. The Souls of the righteous are in the hand of GOD, and there shall be no more torment
touching them. 2. Ifl the sight of the unwise they seem to die, and their departure is taken for
misery. 3. And their going from us to be utter destmction, but they are in peace. 4. For
though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is there hope full of immortality.
5.
And
having been a little chastened, they shall be greatly rewarded for GOD proved them, and
found them worthy for HIMSELF.
We remember our brothers and sisters whose sacrifice kept the dream of Biafra based on
truth, love and justice alive we remember;
Capt. Chukwueke
Lt. E. C. N. Achebe
2/Lt. E. Ogbonnaye
Lt.Col. G. 0. Okonweze
Lt. G. 0. Mbabie
Capt. H. A. Iloputaife
Major I. E. Ekanem
Lt.Col. I. C. Okoro
Capt. I. U. Idika
Major J. I. Obienu
Major J. 0. C. Ihedigbo
Using a lighted candle, raise it up facing the east, we say: “May their courage be our
inspiration and strength.”
Headquaters:
Calle,
Badaya No23 Bajo.
01012 Vitona Gastelz. Alava,
Spain.
Tel: +34945565994
Fax: +34945565994
Email:
directorateofstate;pob.org
Website: www.radlobiatra.co,
wwwipob.org
UK Office: 30 Sandlings
Ciose,
Pilkrngton
Road
London SE 15 35V UK
UK Tel: +44 7831308376 or +44 208133976v
US Office: 11033 5. Crenshaw BIvU, Inglewood, CA.90303, US
US
Tel: ÷1 424
224
0434
US Emafl [email protected]
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
THIRD POST READER:
Fellow Biafrans, we are called upon by the most solemn
admonition to uncertainty of human life and inevitable termination of ali earthly pursuits; for
we gather to pay a last farewell to our heroes, the brave Men and Women who died that we
may live. These last offices and honor paid to our dead provide us an opportunity to express
our sense ofloss and to offer a tribute to their memory, while they enable us likewise to bear
witness to our beliefin the immortality of the
soul.
For Life cut short and vision unrealized; we rernember:
Lt. I. D. Ovuezirie
Lt. I. U. Ugba
Capt. Jonathan Egere
Lt. K. Day Waribor
Capt. L. C. Dillibe
Major Obi
Major 0. Isong
Capt. P. C. Okoye
2/Lt P. K. Onyeneho
2/Lt. P. D. Ekediyo
Lt. S. E. Onwukwe
Capt. S. E. Mmaduabum
Major T. E. Nzegwu
Lt. P. 0. Ibik
Capt. R. Agbazue
Lt. P. 0. Ibik
Capt. R. Agbazue
Using a lighted candle, raise it up facing the east, we say: “May their courage be our
inspiration and strength.”
Headquaters:
Calle,
Badaya No.23
Bajo.
01012 Vitona Gastelz. Alava,
Spain.
Tel: ÷34945565994
Fax: +34945565994
UK Office: 30
Sandlings
Close,
Pilkington
Road
London SE 15 35V UK
UK Tel: ÷44 7831308376 or +44 2081339976v
Email: directoratestateipob.org
Website:
wwwradloblafra.co, www.ipob.org
US
Office: 11033 5. Crenshaw
BvU. Inglewood, CA.90303, US
us
Tel: ÷1 424 224 0436
US
Email peopieofblafragmail.com
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF SIAFRA
FOURT POST READER:
In particular they rernind us that our lives are to be leaved in accordance with DIV1NE
providence and ready to lay it down for the course of Biafra and salvation of humanity, that
we are diligently to work While it is yet day, so that when the call comes to lay down our
tools, we may be found ready to enter into the Kingdom of CHI-UKWU ABIAMA (GOD)
where in HIS Light we shall see Light. We remember the fallen of our Biafran
Armed
services; we remember the victirns ofterror and tragedy. We rernember the millions of
defenseless women, men and childrenbombed in the markets strafed to their death in schools
and hospitals by Sovjet Migs and piloted by Egyptians;
W.O. i ElijahAnosike
S/Sgt. Eworn Ejiogu
W.O.
ii Ndarake Uyah
S/Sgt. Davison Njoku
$/Sgt. Sylvanus Ezekwu
Sgt. Evan Jim Udoh
Cpl. Pius Dike
Cpl. Michael Akwudike
Cpl. Johnson Agwu
L/Cpl. Gabriel Okezie
Using a lighted candle, raise
it
up facing the east, we say: “May their courage be our
inspiration and strength.”
Headquaters:
Calle,
Badaya No.23 Bajo.
01012 Vitona Gastelz. Alava,
Spain.
Tel: +34945565994
Fax: ÷34945565994
Email:
directorateofstateipob.org
Website: www.radioblafra.co, wwwjpob.org
UK Office: 30 Sandlings
Ciose, Pilkirigton Road
London SE 15 35V UK
UK Tel: ÷44
7831308376 or
+44 2081339976v
US Office: 11033 5. Crenshaw BivU. Inglewood, CA.90303, US
US Tel: +1 424 224
0434
US Email [email protected]
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
FIFTH POST READER:
While we sorrow for our loss, let us lift up our hearts in thanks giving for their sacrifice,
fight well fought, life well spent, and work well done;
And let us humbly pray that we may
be given grace, strength and wisdom to enable us perform our duty in partway of Biafta
quest and oflife’s service. May the darkness oftheir loss flot obscure the light of our peace.
They were in love with the land of Biafra and were in love with life. For the agony, the tears,
the mothers and the fathers, for the children who were and the children yet to be. We
remember;
L/Cpl. David Ishikwuma
Pt. Fidelis Onyekwe
Pt. Mba Iroha
Sgt. Celestine Okafor
L/Cpl. William Olani
Pt. Innocent
L/Cpl. Josiah Onyejiaka
W.O. i Joseph Mba
L/Cpl. Mathew Njumike
S/Sgt. Joseph Ibekwe
Using a lighted candle, raise it up facing the east, we say: “May their courage be our
inspiration and strength.”
Headquaters: Cafte,
Badaya No.23 Bajo.
01012 Vitona Gastelz. Alava,
Spain.
Tel: +34945565994
Fax:
+34945565994
Email:
directorateofstateipob.org
Websfte:
www.radlobiafra.co,
www.ipob.org
UK Office: 30
Sandlings
Ciose.
Pilkington
Road
London
SE 15 35V UK
UK Tel: +44 7831308376 or ÷44 2081339976v
US
Office:
11033 S. Crenshaw Blvd. lnglewood, CA.90303. US
US Tel: +1
624 224 0434
US Email
[email protected]
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
SIXTH POST READER:
By the Light of divine countenance we shall then pass without fear in the face of our
adversaries through the valley of the shadow, and at last shall receive the reward of true
virtue, of truth and honesty and acquire the possession of Biafra land and of an immortal
inheritance. For death cannot keep us from the face of CHI-UKWU ABIAMA(GOD), Whose
strong grip will free us from Nigeria bondage and lifi us out of shadows into the Light that
cannot die.
In the nurnberless towns and villages in nigeria and the rest of africa and elsewhere in europe
and asia where we have lived in too many of them we have endured cruel suffering died in
the hands of our fellow human beings just because of who we are we remember:
S/Sgt. Afogboro
S/Sgt. Peter Bassey
Sgt. Robert Bassey
Sgt. Michael Uche
Sgt. Boniface Njemanze
Cpl. Timothy Isienyi
Cpl. Sunday Amaoli
Cpl. Anthony Amaoli
Cpl. Paul Udakwu
Cpl. Fesms Nwaodika
Using a lighted candle, raise it up facing the east, we say: “Some we have forgotteri. Others
are sealed in our memory a wound that does flot heal. May their courage be our inspiration
and strength.”
Headquatets: Calle, Badaya No.23 Bajo.
01012 Vitorla Gastelz. Alava,
Spain.
Tel:
+34945565994
Fax: +34945565994
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.radloblafta.co, www.ipob.org
UK
Office: 30 Sandlings
dose,
Pilkington
Road London
SE 15 3SV UK
UK Tel:
+114
7831308376 or +44 2081339976v
US
Office:
11033 5. Crenshaw BIvU.
Inglewood,
CA.90303. US
US Tel: +1 424 224 0434
US Emall
peopIeofblafragmaiLcom
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA
SEVENTH POST READER:
Generations ofvictims and martyrs; still their blood enes out
from the earth: What can we say? What can we do? How do we bear the unbearable, or
accept what life hasfor our people? We know that ali that was bom must die, but how do we
compare the slow passage of time with the callous slaughter and the starvation of the
millions ofinnocent cut off before their time. They lived with faith and hope .Not ali but
most. And surely most died with faith in God Chukwu Abiama, in life, in the goodness that
even flarnes cannot destroy May we find a way to increase the strength of that faith, that
trust, that sure sense that life and soul endure beyond this body’s death.
We remember;
Cpl. William Agbata
Cpl. Okorie Agwu
Cpl. Wilfted Azubuike
Cpi. Reginald Green
Cpi. Joseph Adaka
L/Cpl. Silas Uzomba
LCp1. Maurice Ibekwe
Pt. Joseph Ibe
Pt. Conelius Uwuoha
Pt. John Ekejuba
Using a lighted candle, raise it up facing the east, we say: “May their courage be our
inspiration and strength.”
Alrnighty and Most Merciful CHUKWUABIAMA, OKIKE (GOD); in WHOM we live and
move and have our being, and before WHOM ali men must hereafter appear to render an
account of the deeds done in the body, we do most eamestly beseech THEE, to impress upon
our minds the solenmities and infamy of this day. May we ever remember that in the midst of
life we are in death, and so live and act our separate parts that we may have no cause for
sorrow or fear when the hour of departure is at hand. And on this we comruit our Being in
pursuit of Biafra Nation that the Souls of those who have died may find rest in YOUR
PRESENCE.
Headquaters:
Calle,
Badaya No.23
Bajo.
01012 Vitorla Gastelz. Alava,
Spain.
+34g45555994
Tel:
Fax: +94s583g9’
Email:
directorateofstate©ipob.org
W.bslte:
www.radioblafta.co, www.ipob.org
UK Offlce 30 Sandlings
dase,
Pilkington Road
London SE 15 3SY UK
UK
Tel: +44 7831308376 or +44
2081339976v
US Office:
11033 S.
Crenshaw Blvd.
Inglewood,
CA.90303. US
US Tel: +1 424 224
0434
US Email [email protected]