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January 3 2026 | The Biafra Times 

By: Mazi Chika Edoziem 

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My New year address to the Biafran people today is the last call to duty and action to every Indigenous person of Biafra because we are standing at the threshold of a momentous historical event in our life as a people. By way of historical context, when Nigeria created the conditions that eventually led to the Biafran Genocide of 1967-1970, and after the near annihilation of our people as a race, the Biafran people in their usual magnanimity tried to forgive but NOT TO FORGET the Nigerian and British attempt to exterminate our race by subsuming our interest as a people to the general interest of all within the confines of the contraption called Nigeria. 

When Biafrans agreed to return to Nigeria irrespective of the deprivations they were subjected to, notwithstanding a deliberate policy of Economic emasculation, in spite of all the deliberate strangulating National policies put in place to reduce our viability as a race, and despite the fresh sores in our memories of the millions of our children, mothers and loved ones starved to death, we agreed to return to Nigeria not because of the promises and agreement of the famous three Rs Reconciliation, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction which more than fifty year later was fulfilled in its deliberate blatant breach. The decision of our leaders then to return as part of the contraption called Nigeria was borne out of our known value system of “OFO na OGU.” Nigeria and its handlers were given a second chance to amend its ways and toe the part of reasoning.

For over thirty (40) years, our people waited patiently for Nigeria to exorcise itself of the demon that pushed it into committing a genocide against the Indigenous People of Biafra. Rather than retrace its steps, Nigeria upped its policy of dispossessing us of our dignity and humanity. Blinded by its desire to suppress and subjugate the Biafran people, Nigeria forgot or neglected the guiding principle behind OFO na OGU. It was during the forty years waiting period that MASSOB and similar Biafran groups rose to demand for fairness and equity. The Nigerian establishment true to its nature responded with brutality and repression. 

What Nigeria failed to realise at the time it was massacring Biafrans in the name of stopping the just demand for fairness and equity by the Biafran people was that Nigeria and its handlers fail into the trap of the fundamental Principle of OFO na OGU. Instead of amending their ways, and blinded by greed, they missed a golden opportunity to make restitution for their crimes against Biafrans. It is true that the internal contradictions within the MASSOB movement prevented it from leveraging on the support both of our people and of the land itself. IPOB rose from the ashes of MASSOB when the later failed to recognise the enormous mandate handed over to it by the ancestors of our land. The formation of the Indigenous People of Biafra Movement by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was a sacred duty, springing from the unfulfilled expectations both from our people and from our ancestors.

I have briefly gone through this historical path in other to assure the Biafran people and our friends and supporters that the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (THE DOS) is very much aware of the enormous responsibility upon its shoulder. We are alive to the great expectations of our people and we are not oblivious of the innate thirst and hunger of a people whose only desire is to live in peace and in freedom in a Sovereign and a Free Biafran Nation.

To Political Representatives and Appointees of Biafra extraction

It is this weight of responsibility upon the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra and standing still upon the same principle of OFO na OGU that I call first upon all those of Biafran extraction our “POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVES” in the Nigerian National Assembly (comprising the Sente and the House of Representatives) together with every political appointee of the Biafran extraction to activate actions in the floor of both chambers for the peaceful separation of the Biafran territory from the rest of the Contraption called Nigeria. This call has become very imperative because of the wrong perception or belief in certain quarters that IPOB is not working in consonance with the political representatives from Biafraland. I chose to make a public call to our political representatives so that MMUO na MMADU will hear my voice and bear us witness that on this day the 1st day of January we have carried out the directive of our ancestors. What the political representatives do with this mandate is entirely up to them. I want to however assure them that once they have done the needful by simply moving a motion on the floor of both the Nigerian Senate and the House of representatives for the peaceful separation of the Biafran territory from Nigeria, they have our back and IPOB will take up the battle from that point.

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The second equally very important call that I am making on today’s address goes to the Biafran people home and in the Diaspora. It is a fact that not everyone will be bold enough to come out publicly to demand for the freedom of our people. However, the freedom that we seek is for every Biafran born and yet unborn. It is with this overstanding that I call upon our people to come out of their docility, come down from the high fences upon which many of them have been sitting for a very long while now and support the Biafra restoration movement being propelled by the IPOB. 

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To Biafra Intellectuals 

My next call goes to our intellectuals. The fight to ensure that our people live in dignity and honour, and be able to develop the talent that CHUKWUOKIKEABIAMA has endowed them with for the benefit of mankind is much your fight as it is the fight of IPOB. I ask you today therefore to join the global family and enrich our struggle with your intellect and ideas. it is at times like this that we miss the likes of Professor Odenigbo of the blessed memory and others who did not wait to be “consultants” but chose to be active participants in the liberation project of their people. 

My last call goes to every group that “GENUINLY” desire the freedom of our people, that do not harbour ulterior motives or has detrimental agenda to the wellbeing of the Biafran people and Nation to join the IPOB global family in our existential battle as a race for as the Igbo adage goes “IGWE BU IKE.”

For the avoidance of doubt, my call to all and sundry to join hands with IPOB for the final push to the finishing line of our objective must not in any manner be misconstrued. I am simply acting in accordance with the direction of the ancestors of Biafraland. To those of you to whom I have extended this hand of brotherhood today, you now have a window of opportunity to be counted for good or bad. Be rest assured however, that the ship of freedom has alz ready set sail and nearing it's destination which is a FREE INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN BIAFRAN NATION.

Publisher: Cj Benjamin