It has been established that millions of Britons whose vote sent the country out of the European Union (EU) are ignorant of what the body stands for.
Reports reaching us indicated that although leaders of the campaign to exit Europe are crowing over their victory, it seems many Britons may not even know what they had actually voted for.
But despite the all-out attempts by either side to court voters, Britons were not only mystified by what would happen if they left the EU — many seemed not to even know what the European Union is.
This must be very worrying discovery, for Leave EU campaign – they won because many voters didn’t know what the referendum was about and what was at stake for the UK
A Briton was quoted as saying: “even though I voted to leave, this morning I woke up and I just — the reality did actually hit me. If I’d had the opportunity to vote again, it would be to stay.” [myad]
Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), has confirmed that two prisoners did escape from the Kuje Medium Security Prison but that there was no jailbreak and that Charles Okah did not escape from lawful custody.
The NPS spokesman, DCP Francis Enobore, in a statement on Saturday said that Okah “is still in the prison, safe and sound,” explaining that two inmates escaped from the prison at about 7.30pm on Friday, though not through jail break.
He said that the inmates in question were awaiting trial for culpable homicide and had no relationship with Charles Okah as being speculated.
“Efforts are on in collaboration with sister security agencies and relevant bodies to recapture the fleeing prisoners. The Controller General of Prisons, apart from immediately dispatching a team to the Prison to carry out preliminary investigation, was also personally on ground to have a firsthand information about the incident.
“He directed the team to do a thorough job and expeditiously too in order to establish the circumstances surrounding the escape noting that any staff found culpable would be made to face the full wrath of the law.” [myad]
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai own two properties in Dubai which he paid for under instalmental arrangement long before he became the army chief.
A statement by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, obviously reacting to media report, said that the Buratai family have two properties in Dubai that were paid for instalmentally through personal savings three years ago.
“This, along with other personal assets, has consistently been declared by General Buratai in his Assets Declaration Form as Commander Multinational Joint Task Force Commander and as Chief of Army Staff.
“It is pertinent to state that the Chief of Army Staff does not have any account with Skye Bank as alleged, let alone making deposits in the imaginary bank account to the tune of the amount stated in the write up.”
Colonel Sani Usman said that the General has not been involved in any form of shady or dishonest transaction, not to talk of “contract scam,” saying: “General Buratai was never near either Defence Headquarters or Army Headquarters in 2013.
The full of the statement goes thus:
“The attention of Nigerian Army has been drawn to another round of campaign of calumny against the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai and his family by some unscrupulous elements as contained in Sahara Reporters story titled “Revealed: Buhari’s Chief Of Army Staff, General Buratai, Wives Own Dubai Property”.
They alleged that Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Tukur Buratai, and his two wives are joint owners of a Dubai property that was paid for in one transaction posted on the website.
It is important to know that these baseless allegations were not new.
In March this year, some groups of individuals under the aegis of “Concerned Citizens” tried same smear campaign to their disappointment.
It could not fly, because it is not true.
You will recall early this week, there was similar campaign of calumny by yet another online news medium, The Cable.
Therein, among other things, it alleged that wounded in action Nigerian Army personnel were abandoned by the Army, government and the nation which is not true.
Therefore, the latest round of smear campaign by Sahara Reporters is one of the series of campaigns of calumny by these faceless individuals to malign the Chief of Army Staff and the Nigerian Army.
Yet, typical of blackmailers and mischief makers despite failures, they did not give up, hence they now found a willing accomplice reputed for muckraking like the Sahara Reporters.
The online news medium this evening uploaded another campaign of calumny allegedly based on a petition by obviously fake and non-existent group it described as “Concerned Soldiers and Officers From the North East”.
The allegations contained in the Sahara Reporters write up are baseless and not correct.
It is a fact that the Buratai family have two properties in Dubai that were paid for instalmentally through personal savings three years ago.
This, along with other personal assets, has consistently been declared by General Buratai in his Assets Declaration Form as Commander Multinational Joint Task Force Commander and as Chief of Army Staff.
It is pertinent to state that the Chief of Army Staff does not have any account with Skye Bank as alleged, let alone making deposits in the imaginary bank account to the tune of the amount stated in the write up.
Similarly, he has not been involved in any form of shady or dishonest transaction, not to talk of “contract scam”.
In addition, General Buratai was never near either Defence Headquarters or Army Headquarters in 2013.
It is pertinent to also note that he was never a Director of procurement in Army Headquarters as alleged.
As a matter of fact, the Nigerian Army never had a Directorate of Procurement till when he established one last year when he became Chief of Army Staff.
In a bid to rubbish the hard earned reputation and good name of the Chief of Army Staff, these blackmailers will stop at nothing hence all these kinds of mudslinging.
It is really worrisome that some people could condescend so low to fabricate baseless allegation against the Chief of Army Staff for reasons that could best be described as mischievous.
It is equally worrisome that Sahara Reporters could lend space for this obvious mischief.
We really do not believe that it is because the price is right.
Consequently, the public and indeed all well-meaning persons should disregard this round of campaign of calumny against the Chief of Army Staff and similar ones because they are baseless and unfounded.
For the unscrupulous elements and their cohorts, these campaigns would prod the Nigerian Army and indeed the Chief of Army Staff to continue to serve the nation diligently and with utmost zeal.
What has the United Kingdom just done to itself, its people and the future of its youth? It is difficult to fully understand why a country in taking a decision about its future will decide on a false option that seems to negate long-term interests. And this, just because a total of 17.4 million people out of over 61 million chose to vote against the United Kingdom’s continued membership of the EU. More than 50% of these pro-Brexit voters are actually between the age bracket: 50-70, thus an ageing class of voters has taken a decision to undermine the future of the younger generation. Pro-EU Prime Minister David Cameron said he was “courageous and optimistic” when in January 2014, he tried to justify the need for a referendum.
His words then: “I think the overwhelming majority of the British people say they want to be in Europe but they want some changes to that relationship and they would like to be given a say. It is not something that we should be frightened of. It’s something we should embrace.” Cameron is now a study in political miscalculation and how over-confidence can make a political leader misread the people’s moods and expectations. He has been praised for his “courage” in quickly accepting the people’s verdict and for tendering his resignation, but I guess he won’t possibly be talking about courage. He must be full of regrets for presiding over the United Kingdom’s exit into a nightmare. Britain is better off remaining in the EU.
But on June 23, 2016, the people of Great Britain spoke and their verdict has been accepted as the status quo, except a miracle happens and the current petition by the pro-EU protesters results in a second referendum. As things stand, the people have rejected continued membership of the European Union. The implication is that the majority of the people believe that the United Kingdom is better off on its own. What is quite clear is that this British exit (Brexit) is more about the rise of xenophobia, bigotry and isolationism. It is not new. Britain has always looked backward and in-out in the course of its membership of the EU, oscillating between its commitment to a greater Europe and the need to preserve British identity and sovereignty.
The British public mind has been driven in recent years by loud, perpetual carping about too much control from Brussels, and the need to project Britain first. The ultra nationalists nursed fears about their great country becoming a colony within a EU empire. They are uncomfortable with the apparent globalization of British demographics, turning Britain into a country of many racial colours, with the influx of so many immigrants who are empowered by EU laws to be free citizens of a united Europe.
The call for a referendum on this matter has now given the Brexiteers, who just want their country to be left alone by outsiders, the opportunity they have always wanted. PM Cameron apparently underestimated their resolve. The Leave EU activists campaigned more vigorously, and deployed every possible means including blackmail and sentiments. They had the vibrant support of many political leaders including former London Mayor Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, and fire-eating UKIP leader, Nigel Farage. In the event of an intense campaign that divided the country right down the middle, we witnessed the mainstreaming of xenophobia and bigotry. Labour MP Jo Cox who was murdered by an irate Eurosceptic for her pro-EU stance will be remembered as the symbol of how a straightforward, for or against, political debate turned into hate campaign and a national referendum became an act of terror. There are many lessons to be learnt from this instructively low moment in Britain.
What has happened is actually a referendum on the British establishment and the EU. The EU faces a crisis requiring urgent introspection and reform of its processes, if it must continue to serve its purpose. Britain is not the first country to avoid membership of the EU but whereas countries like Switzerland and Norway can hold out on their own, Brexit comes at great cost to the British. At hand is the triumph of emotions over reason, and the triumph of right wing populism. In many countries of Europe and even at the moment in the United States, the ultra-conservative political bloc seems to be in the ascendancy. Questions are being asked about regional integration and globalization. The basis for this is largely the manner in which regional groupings such as the EU disappoint the people. This is made worse by the failure of the leadership elite and sitting governments. When people are not happy with their governments or their circumstances, they are ready to make any choice that looks like an alternative. Opposition and anti-establishment politicians understand this game too well.
All they need to do is to demonize the establishment, tear the government of the day into pieces, call names and tell the people that the time has come for change. Those who claim that they best know how to save a nation, armed with populist rhetoric in an election time, and have the best support of the people, in the long run stand a better chance of winning. Democracy in that fashion is a play-field of emotions, not facts. It is the same scenario that made Bernie Sanders so popular in the recent Presidential nomination process in the United States, and also led to the emergence of Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican Presidential candidate. Political leaders who don’t want sad outcomes only have to provide good leadership and meet the people’s expectations.
It is also clear that democracy may not produce rational outcomes in so far as it awards triumph on the basis of percentages: in Brexit, the difference is just 4%, 58-42, but the rule of the game is that majority carries the day, and as in most cases, the winner takes it all. But should the economic and political destiny of a people be determined in such formulaic manner? Brexit has left the United Kingdom in a more divided shape that it was before the referendum. The entire country is in turmoil. The taste of change doesn’t quite seem so sweet anymore, less than 72 hours after the vote. Young Britons may no longer be able to move freely across Europe and the experts have predicted rising costs and expectations and greater economic hardship. If Brexit stands, more than half of the population will be thrown into a winter of discontent, wondering why just about 1.3 million voters (17.4 million (for), 16.1million (against) should have been allowed to mislead a country. Many Britons will no longer be able to find jobs so easily across Europe. Hyperdemocracy has resulted in British discombobulation.
But that is democracy: it includes the people’s right to make mistakes, that is – the right of the simple majority to make mistakes at the expense of the minority, who may have lost the vote due to poor turn out or other matters of logistics. Leadership counts. The truth is that the leadership elite in Britain has also not always being too clear about where Britain should stand in relation to the rest of Europe. Even the pro-EU political leaders do not really object to Britain holding on to its national currency, the Pound, as opposed to the Euro, and Britain opting out of the idea of being a Schengen border. Britain also did not join the European Economic Community until 1973, 16 years late. Two years later, there was an exit referendum similar to this one, won by the pro-Europe campaigners. Nothing forecloses the possibility of another referendum in the not too distant future to reverse the present decision. What has happened is perhaps all correctly British, in the final analysis: a nation yet to come to terms with certain modern realities, caught between nostalgia and the future.
This is precisely what the copycat plebiscites should understand, particularly in Africa where some commentators have been saying that some African countries on account of Brexit may begin to raise questions about the relevance of the African Union. The AU is modeled after the EU and it receives substantial funding support from it, but it has not been as remotely relevant in addressing the people’s expectations. In my opinion, there is nothing to fear in terms of a copycat effect in Africa; most Africans are indifferent about the AU anyway, they are not even aware of its existence. But as most development aid received by African countries come from the EU, this may be negatively affected with the exit of a major country like Britain, and a post-EU Britain may also be compelled to adjust its trade relations, immigration rules, and development support for countries in Africa. This, I think, is all there is to it at this end.
Closer home, the more strident call is for a referendum on the Nigerian union. In the last few days, I have for example, seen a strange Nigerian invention called “Biafrexit”. This must be a joke, symbolically thrown up by those who must know that no Nigerian government will allow such a vote. The Brexit vote was not about disintegration, even if Scotland is now insisting on its independent right to be part of the EU; rather the vote was more about national and economic identity. Nigeria is still at the level of debates: we can hold as many conferences as we like, adjust the Constitution at mutually agreed terms, but a referendum that could lead to the dissolution of this country is not what we need, and it is certainly not the lesson from Brexit. [myad]
A former leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Chief Kemeizompoukomumor Ayuba, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against allowing groups of militants springing up everyday to mess up the region and the nation’s economy.
This was even as he asked the President to dialogue with the groups in the interest of peace and national co-existence.
Ayuba, who styled himself as one of the founding leaders of MEND, in a statement, said that those who opposed to dialogue are not doing the present administration any good.
He stressed that if the present situation is not well handled by the President, it could snowball into a major crisis, adding that the crisis has both spiritual and physical undertone.
He said that what the militants, especially the Niger Delta Avengers, are demanding are not different from what they fought for between 2001 and 2009 before they were acceded to the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
“I’ve been thinking since the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta region started and investigations revealed that this problem is both spiritual and physical; if not well handled there will be disaster in no distant time. Development of the region must be seen as a priority.” [myad]
More than 1.5 million people have signed a petition calling for a second referendum, after a shock vote to pull Britain out of the European Union (EU).
An official website of the parliamentary petition at one point crashed due to the surge of people adding their names to the call for another nationwide poll following Thursday’s historic vote. “We the undersigned call upon HM Government to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 60 percent based (on) a turnout less than 75 percent, there should be another referendum,” the petitioner said.
The “Leave” camp won the support of 51.9 percent of voters, against 48.1 percent in favour of remaining in the European Union.
Turnout for Thursday’s referendum was 72.2 percent.
Signatories to the petition appeared to be mostly in Edinburgh and London, both of which voted heavily in favour of “Remain.”
There is no obligation in British legislation for referendums to have a minimum share of the vote or a minimum turnout, as in some other countries. But EU rules say nothing about a member state that has already begun negotiations to leave the bloc changing its mind and reversing that decision under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
University of Strathclyde professor, John Curtice outlined two hypothetical scenarios in which a second referendum could take place: “if Boris Johnson is running the government and it is taking a long time to be implemented, two years down the line we could have another poll showing people actually want to reverse the decision and remain in.
“Then there could be a situation where the opposition party in a general election have a mandate to hold a new referendum,” he added.
But he said there would be no immediate effects from the current petition except for a formal discussion in parliament, which is required for any petitions that have over 100,000 signatures. – ‘You can’t have neverendums’ – The result of Thursday’s vote revealed stark divisions between young and old, north and south, cities and rural areas, and people with and without a university degree.
By 1400 GMT on Saturday some 1,554,000 people had signed the petition on the official government and parliament website — more than 15 times the number required for a proposal to be discussed in parliament.
On Friday, a House of Commons spokeswoman said the website had been taken out of action temporarily due to “exceptionally high volumes of simultaneous users on a single petition, significantly higher than on any previous occasion.”
The parliament’s Petitions Committee, which considers whether such submissions should be raised in the House, is to hold its next meeting on Tuesday.
The idea of a second referendum was raised during campaigning for Thursday’s vote.
UK Independence Party leader, Nigel Farage suggested last month that a close Remain win would build up resentment and not be the end of the matter.
“In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way,” he told the Daily Mirror newspaper.
The Sunday Times newspaper backed the idea of a second referendum, “once the first has forced Brussels to undertake a more serious negotiation. In a real crisis the EU has always stepped back from the brink,” the “Leave”-supporting broadsheet said. But “Leave” figurehead Johnson downplayed the idea of a new vote. “I’m absolutely clear, a referendum is a referendum. It is a once in a generation, once in a lifetime opportunity and the result determines the outcome,” he said. “If we vote to stay, we stay, and that’s it. If we vote to leave, we vote to leave, that’s it. You can’t have neverendums, you have referendums.” [myad]
At least five people were confirmed to have died in a bomb blast on Saturday on a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu that was swiftly claimed by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab militants, police said.
A police official, Ibrahim Mohamed said: “what we know is that there were at least five victims, including three security guards, and that six others were injured.”
The Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement distributed through online social networks.
The assault was led by a suicide attacker driving a car laden with explosives, the Shabaab said in a statement distributed through the Telegram smartphone app.
The attack began at 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) with a powerful blast followed by heavy gunfire. At
7:00 pm, as night fell in Somalia, sporadic gunfire could still be heard, witnesses said.
The Shabaab swiftly claimed responsibility for the attack, saying in a statement on the Telegram smartphone app that the jihadist gunmen had “managed to fully take control of the hotel.”
“The attack started with a heavy blast carried out by a brother who drove a car loaded with explosives. Gunmen fought their way into the hotel, and we believe that casulaties were inflicted in the enemy’s ranks,” the Shabaab said. [myad]
Etisalat Nigeria has launched back-to-school programme in the Nigeria’s North East which has been devastated by the dangerous activities of Boko Haram over the years, demonstrating its commitment to the welfare of children, who have been described as leaders of tomorrow.
Through its recently concluded Community Schools Support Programme for the North-eastern part of the country which was executed in collaboration with Abuja Global Shapers Community, a non-governmental outfit, and governments of north eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. It was aimed at supporting on-going efforts at bolstering pupil enrolment into primary schools, especially in the north-east.
It involved the delivery of educational materials such as school bags, school uniforms, exercise books and writing materials to primary one pupilsin 10 primary schools across the three states.
The benefitting schools are Borno-owned YerwaPractising Primary School; Abbaganaram Primary School; and Bulumkutu Primary School. Katuzu Community School,Gashua; Central Primary School, Potiskum; and LawanKawuri Primary School, Geidam arein Yobe State. Wuro Hausa Primary School, Yola Town; Community School, Demsa; and TudunWada Primary School, Mayo Belwa are in Adamawa State. The back-to-school initiative is part of efforts to rebuild the north-east region which in recent years, has been affected by insurgency with the benefiting states as worse hit with unprecedented degrees of destruction, economic downturn and loss of lives.
Beside the destruction of physical structures and paralyzing economic activities in the affected states, the insurgency widened the educational gap between them and the rest of the country. For instance, as at 2013, 52 percent of males and 61 percent of females aged six and above in the north-east had not received education. Currently, the figure has risen to about 85 per cent with a glaring risk of losing more generations in terms of education.
The Permanent Secretary, Yobe State Ministry of Education, GremaModu said: “One of our greatest problems now is education particularly enrolment. In this part of the country, we always lament poor enrolment; parents do not want their wards in school. Before the insurgency, we had this stigma of being educationally backward and this is due to some social, cultural and religious factors. We had been working on parents to allow their wards go to school. Some state governments had to embark on free feeding just to encourage pupils to go to school. All the gains appear to have been lost to the insurgency as most parents do not want their children in school anymore.” Meanwhile, Global bodies like the United Nations through its relevant organs and the World Bank, as well as countries like the UK, USA and Japan have all pledged one form of commitment or the other to the cause of rebuilding the region. These efforts are significant, but not adequate as they aim basically at infrastructural development and de-radicalisation of the region. Locally, Etisalat Nigeria is making efforts aimed at proffering home-grown solutions, one of which is the Community Schools Support Programme.
The Vice-President, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Ibrahim Dikko, hinges this on the company’s corporate culture of adding value to communities through sustainable initiatives.
“The north-east is the most vulnerable region in the country today and we owe it a duty to support its rebuilding. It has gone through a lot of fierce challenges in the past years, a situation that has led to failures in almost all the spheres of life there. For us, this is a period to stand by them and contribute in some very strategic ways towards its reconstruction. We identify education as a primary concern in that it is the building block for the sustainable development of the people and the economies of the region.”
Etisalat’s foresight was echoed by the Permanent Secretary, Borno State Ministry of Education, Hassan Mustapha,during the Maiduguri leg of the programme.
“Today, if we are not mindful of the education sector, tomorrow, we will have incompetent lawyers and as a result, people will lose their liberty, we are going to have incompetent doctors and as a result, people will lose their lives, we are going to have incompetent engineers and as result, bridges will collapse, roads will fail. If we are to be called a civilised society, we should take time and make sacrifices for the future. This is the lesson Etisalat is teaching us.”
With hundreds of children now equipped to embrace education and return to school through the support of Etisalat and its partners, it will be safe to assume that the process of rebuilding the north-east has begun. [myad]
The Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) has said that it is yet confirmed that there was jailbreak at Kuje Medium Prison on Friday night.
The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Francis Enobore, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that there was an “incident” at the prison on Friday night but added that it had nothing to do with Charles Okah.
“We are yet to find out if any inmate escaped or not.
“However reports making the rounds that Charles Okah, the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), escaped during the jailbreak is false. Yes there was an incident yesterday, but Okah was not involved; he is still in custody.
“I have been in touch with our men in the prison facility and there is nothing like that.”
Enobore said that the Controller of Prisons had ordered an investigation into the matter.
“We want to know if anybody escaped and if yes, what are their identities.
“We will release a statement once the preliminary investigation is concluded.”[myad]
Of course, Muhammadu Buhari, the reigning President of ONE Nigeria, or any of those who fought or witnessed the civil war of between 1967 and 1970 to KEEP NIGERIA ONE (emphasis mine), would be the last to be part of any talk about balkanization of Nigeria, much more on the same old issue of Biafran Republic which gave rise to the war itself. The civil war of 1967-70, according to record, was engineered simply by the ambition and grievances of one man: late Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojunwu, the Ikemba of Nnewi, even though he was able to make his personal grievances as that of the Igbo as a people. When the war broke out, he fled the country, abandoned the same people he declared war to gain a country for, to their fate. And the rest is now history. Indeed, the same history appears to be repeating itself, where the grievances of a few Igbo people, mainly the young ones who are not even in Nigeria; who are not residing and mingling with the mainstream Igbo in the South East and or South South, are being floated as the grievances of the entire ethnic group, upon which the same Biafran Republic is being agitated for. Idea has been canvassed by those estranged Igbo youths who are enjoying themselves outside Nigeria, that the rest of Nigeria needs Igbo more than Igbo need Nigeria. And with what had just happened in Britain where majority of its citizens voted to exit the European Union, a few of those loud-mouthed Igbo youths have renewed and intensified their agitation for the Republic of Biafra. Yes, if I were the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as vibrant as I am, I would start the process of allowing the Igbos to determine their fate by themselves, either wrongly or rightly. This is what I would do: first, I would constitute a committee, made up of respected Igbo leaders, including, of course, some members of the restless Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), the Ohaneze, the Niger Delta group and other like them to draw the map of the would-be Republic of Biafra. The work of the committee would be closely monitored by International bodies like the United Nations, the ECOWAS, the African Union, the European Union and similar others. Secondly, the committee would go round, especially, the six states in the South South to collate the number of people that want each of the states to go with the five states in the South East to form the Federal Republic of Biafra. Thirdly, the first committee would be dissolved, though with the international observers/monitors still retained, while another committee is constituted to take a census of the people residing in the states that want the new Republic. This process will then be followed immediately with conducting votes to determine the number of those who want the new Republic created. With such process, the map of the Biafran Republic would be known, based on the states that want such republic; the true picture of the desire of the majority of the people in the South East and or South South would be known scientifically. Even if eventually the majority of the people choose to go for the new Republic, conditions would be set out clearly by my government, on the terms of separation. First, all the Igbo people operating businesses in the now new Nigeria (the North which they so hate, the South West and perhaps part of the South South) would forfeit such businesses to Nigeria. Record has it that Igbo people have made it big in the North and the South West, so much that they control over 65 percent of the top businesses in these regions. It is even said that Igbo people virtually own Abuja, the Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and that they are in charge in Lagos and as in far North as Kano and Sokoto. The Igbo will also be made to forfeit their big mansions that dominate almost all parts of the new Nigeria; from North to South West. As a matter of fact, all the Igbos in the new Nigeria will be made to go to their new country, the Federal Republic of Biafra, and can only come to Nigeria after obtaining visa, which will be made tough to obtain. After the separation, I will then concentrate on how to rapidly develop Nigeria. I will attract people with various enticing offers, to go into agriculture, like President Buhari is already doing. I will make sure that industries that process farm products into various packages are established. I will rehabilitate Ajaokuta Steel project as well as Itape Iron Ore, and other Iron and Steel projects in the North and the South West. I will revive textile industry all over the country. With the Igbo out of the way, I would have done away with the most difficult, cunning and noisy part of the country, and then find the joy of the peace of mind to concentrate on tidying up the country. I, as President of Nigeria, would save the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, from the accusation by the agitators for the Republic of Biara that he, Cameron, denied them (Biafrans), the right to choose their own nation and that he shows that they (Biafrans) are inferior because of the colour of their skin.
And as one of the agitators quoted wrongly for a right purpose, it would be to Igbo people: “like a depressed wife that bluffed her way out of her husband’s house (divorce) and does not know how to get back into the house again” when she discovered her follies!
Far from it that David Cameron is directly telling Biafrans that because they come from an inferior race, they do not deserve to exist as a nation of their own choice.
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