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Prof. ABC Nwosu, a former minister of well being, has acknowledged that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the management of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) don't hearken to elders.
He instructed Vanguard that the group didn't even take permission from Odumegwu Ojukwu earlier than looking for separation from Nigeria.
The former Minister acknowledged that it must be the elders directing the course of Biafra whereas the youths comply with and never the opposite approach spherical.
Nwosu mentioned: “IPOB, MASSOB, I class them as neo-Biafran motion. They are neo. Many of us had been in secondary college when Nigeria turned unbiased. I used to be on the University of Ibadan within the disaster after the coup and fled to University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
“The set earlier than me graduated in 1967 however these of us who had been to graduate after them had been all within the Biafran Army and didn't graduate till 1971. So we all know in regards to the true Biafra and the neo Biafra.
“The true Biafra was declared by General Odumegwu Ojukwu who had authority over Eastern Region. And that authority was given to him by then Eastern Nigeria Consultative Authority and I can inform you that the identify Biafra was advised not by Igbo, it was advised by non-Igbo within the Eastern Region.
“So I learn about that and the civil struggle and the way it ended. What has occurred is that due to the marginalization, due to the best way the Igbo had been left to lick their wounds, as a result of, as a substitute of making an attempt to assist them to rebuild after the struggle, every little thing was piled on them.
“But God has helped them by their very own qualities to re-emerge and settle themselves. Many are nonetheless grumbling about it and, due to that grumbling which has turn into so evident among the many youths, the youths have now discovered their expression within the neo- Biafra motion.
“The distinction is that the youths have refused to take steerage from the elders, those that had been half and parcel of Biafra. Those who had been a part of the coup are nonetheless alive. Those who fought the struggle as commanders are nonetheless alive; it's only not too long ago that the chief, Ojukwu, died.
“MASSOB did not take permission from Ojukwu even if they related with him very well. I am not sure that if Ojukwu were alive, that perhaps Kanu would have taken directive from Ojukwu. So this is the basic difference.”