A new militant group, Adaka Biafra Marine Commandos has emerged and released a powerful statement urging all pro-Biafra agitators to remain firm in the struggle to actualized the sovereign state of Biafra.
Below is a copy of the statement emailed to our newsroom here in the French capital of Paris.
''We the embattled, yet battling peoples of Biafra wish to call on all our peoples across our beloved Biafran nation and the Diaspora to stand firm in our just struggle to liberate our entire homeland from the hands of those who have held us captives since 1970 when the independence of our glorious Biafran nation was extinguished, how-be-it temporarily. We urge you to be resolute, patriotic and zealous to maintain our independence after many of our compatriots had paid the supreme price in defence of a strong nation in which all citizens were equal regardless of ethnic identity nor creed.
Biafra was a nation built on absolute justice for all our peoples. Today we are back to the trenches, creeks and rivers across our great nation to restore our most hallowed freedom and values.
We therefore call on all Biafrans to come together in these few steps in our glorious march to freedom and liberty, to be more patriotic, steadfast and resolute even more than our forebears who suffered the pains, deprivation and paid the supreme price to ensure that this land of the rising sun forever remains free.
We honour and salute the valour and gallantry of our brothers in various organisations who have resolved to march on these tortuous and perilous paths to freedom. We mourn with our brothers in IPOB (Indigenous Peoples of Biafra) who for over one year have lifted high the flag of our independence, making sacrifices that even Hitler would be happy that, alas, God has created a people tougher than his as they use their blood to water the plants of freedom. We assure you that your sacrifices will not be in vain. It will be crowned with the independence of our great Biafran nation.
We greet our brothers in MASOB, The Biafran Zionist Movement, IPOB and particularly, efforts of the Niger-Delta Avengers who have put back our just struggle in the front burner of international opinion. We salute your courage, valour, gallantry and accomplishments. But we must warn you brothers: the enemy is now dangling very ridiculous settlements in order to return to our land to viciously exploit our resources to satisfy their extravagant appetite. Brothers, and compatriots, these will only last for a time and after that they will continue in the viscous cycle of death, pain and deprivation. We must go back history lane: when our fathers demanded for a separate, independent state, they set up the LordWellinks Commission who threw at us the crumbs called Niger Delta Development Board. Where are the benefits of that board today? They later created a Niger Delta River Basin Authority and several others. Wherever they found gutters and drainages became a river basin authority.
During the glorious Biafrans struggles for independence, they created states to divide our ranks in our fight for liberty. After that Ompadec, NDDC, the Niger Delta Ministry and the most ridiculous of all, the dubious Amnesty Programme.
Today, we should reflect back and ask ourselves what benefits and gains have we got from all these? Today, they are dangling at us unfreezing of accounts. How much did the Dangotes, the Tinubus, theDantatas, the Atikus steal from our resources? Why were their accounts not frozen? Rilwanu Lukman was an oil minister and had lucrative oil blocks; Dan Etete was an oil minister and also had lucrative oil blocks, why is Etete’s block having issues and being verified? Brothers, they will give you, like the devil, their father with the left hand and rob you with the right hand.''
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