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| Members of the Movement for the Survival of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) during their rally to mark the 17th anniversary of the movement, yesterday, in Awka, Anambra State. |
AFTER waiting in vain for sixty
fruitless years after Biafra, what the Igbos see in Nigeria is a country that
probably have another chance to be a united and peaceful. What they need and
want for the country now, is the ultra-modernisation and reopening for full
commercial use by the Igbo nation and others, of the Igbo ports of Port
Harcourt, Bonny, and Opobo; their road, rail and air links to inland Igbo
commercial centres of Agbor, Asaba, Onitsha, Nnewi, Owerri, Enugu, Azumini and
Aba and, by so doing, the economic and financial re-empowerment of the Igbos,
starting with the underservedly impoverished southern Igbo communities of
Ikwerre, Etche, Bonny, Opobo, Obigbo, Ali-Ogba, Ndoni, Ahoada, Egbema, etc.,
collectively known as the
