Recently, Vice President Kashim Shettima at the United Nations General Assembly, known as UNGA80, affirmed that the Nigerian government i...
Recently, Vice President Kashim Shettima at the United Nations General Assembly, known as UNGA80, affirmed that the Nigerian government is wholly supportive of the two-state solution for Palestinians in Israel. Quoting his speech, he stated:
"We do not believe that the sanctity of human life should be trapped in the corridors of endless debate. That is why we say, without stuttering and without doubt, that a two-state solution remains the most dignified path to lasting peace for the people of Palestine. For too long, this community has borne the weight of moral conflict. For too long, we have been caught in the crossfire of violence that offends the conscience of humanity. We come not as partisans, but as peacemakers. We come as brothers and sisters of a shared world, a world that must never reduce the right to live into the currency of devious politics. The people of Palestine are not collateral damage in a civilization seeking order. They are human beings, equal in worth, entitled to the same freedoms and dignities that the rest of us take for granted."
The vice president of Nigeria in the person of Kashim Shetima made a very commendable and wise address but on the other hand leaving the people of Biafra right in his backyard who have suffered the worst genocide in the world and are still being massacred, killed extra-judicially by the Nigeria state for demanding the same freedom that the Palestinians are demanding from Israel, What a Hypocrisy?
The case of Biafran freedom from the jungle cage called Nigeria is more transparent than that of the Palestinians because the people of Biafra have nothing in common, in terms of value system, culture, and beliefs, with the rest of the components that make up the geographical entity called Nigeria.
Therefore, it's time for the United Nations and world leaders to take active steps to balkanize Nigeria and grant Biafra its desired sovereignty through a well-supervised referendum. Biafrans deserve to be free from forced amalgamation.
Written by
Mazi Udodi
For Imo State Media Team
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