Negotiate With Pro-Biafra Agitators – Ozekhome Tells Buhari

Mike Ozekhome (SAN)
Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), on Monday said that the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government should refrain from use of brute force in finding a solution to the renewed agitations for Biafra Republic by certain groups in the country.

There has been series of protests in some parts of the country by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over the continued detention of the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

Ozekhome, while giving examples of countries that forcibly broke up in the past, said the federal government must urgently look into why the Igbos are calling for secession even after the end of the Biafra Civil War. According to him “The United Nations Charter and the African charter of Human and Peoples Right both recognise the rights of people of the world for self determination as to how the world will co-exist and live together”.

“In the past, countries that did not separate peacefully broke up violently. Remember the former Soviet Union USSR, remember the former Yugoslavia, even of recent we have the case of South Sudan and Sudan. In other words, man by nature wants to be independent from the control of others. That is why I think it is better to negotiate separation rather than a forcible break up”.

“The federal government must look into why this people still feel they do not belong to Nigeria after the 3 Rs (Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation) declared by General Yakubu Gowon in January 1970 when the civil war ended”. “Why do the Igbos still feel that they are at the periphery of national affairs and that they are not actually accommodated? These fears, these aspirations, these idiosyncracy meanings have to be looked into. Putting it down by sheer brute force will not end it,” he said.
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Yes he will negotiate.... But let him remember that the 5% people won't settle for less this time around.... Secondly he should negotiate with confirmed IPOB head of directorates and not Uwazuruike, okorocha and co. Thirdly he should grant our quest for freedom, it is not so hard to grant...

Biafra or Death... You must give us one

Uhmmm...

I Pray God to make this President Buhari heed to the words of wisdom.

And that negotiation must be anchored on peaceful separation or disintegration,kpom kwem!

I trust PMB, he will never negotiate with criminals?

We don't negotiate with criminals and miscreants

Voices of reason are steadily speaking up. Buhari, the modern world order is bigger than you and the repressive state, Nigeria, that you represent! It will not be long before you get a marching and humiliating order from global bodies.
You've boxed yourself in a corner

Buhari shuld allow Biafrans to go peacefully.

The source of the news is highly reliable. It is from Prof. Okey Ndibe, a veteran Nigerian journalist and author.

brize:
Yes he will negotiate.... But let him remember that the 5% people won't settle for less this time around.... Secondly he should negotiate with confirmed IPOB head of directorates and not Uwazuruike, okorocha and co. Thirdly he should grant our quest for freedom, it is not so hard to grant...

Biafra or Death... You must give us one

Nwa Chineke

A na-agwo o na-ere.

LFJ:
I trust PMB, he will never negotiate with criminals?

and we at IPOB, dont negotiate with terrorists, Buhari is a confirmed terrorist.
El Rufai confessed himself.

Biafra or death no going back

EasternLion:


and we at IPOB, dont negotiate with terrorists, Buhari is a confirmed terrorist.
El Rufai confessed himself.

Pin heads like you spouting garbage in the public dormain, will never help us realise our dream of Biafra. What is the essence of being able to write and read? Jesus Christ!!

Eziachi:
Pin heads like you spouting garbage in the public dornain, will never help us realise our dream of Biafra. What is the essence of being able to write and read? Jesus Christ!!

Lol.......

Buhari will never negotiate.

1. As a bigot. 5% is too small to be negotiated with.

2. As a Fulani, these territories belongs to their father Usman Dan Fodio; the first terrorists to make pools of blood in northern nigeria.

3. As a true Moslem, he will rather fight Jihard than negotiate with infidels.

4. As a soldier, whcih "bloody civilians" will dare to challenge him?

5. As a Nigerian, it will be better to wipe off the Biafrans and close their history from the face of the earth

but this is the fact, Biafra shall be free. If not now, later.

QuotaSystem:
Nobody is negotiating nothing. That was the plan.

Anything Ndigbo wants politically, it must earn through hard work, diplomacy and reconciliation.

Did you get your education through "hardwork" or the silly quota system?

Anyway; Biafra we want, Biafra we shall get!

He is willing to negotiate with terrorist but not with Biafra.

Negotiate with who if I may ask this attention seeking man !!!

Negotiate ko adjudicate ni!
Let Buhari negotiate with this hate group/tribe and kiss his govt goodbye.
Ibos are stray cats that cannot be satisfied, they want to scuttle this govt.

some people are afraid of the Buhari Administration succeeding in making Nigeria better.

Biafra is on its way, land of the rising crime!

With all this now, when will an Igbo become the president of Nigeria, which region in nigeria will trust the south east region again, who will bring his multibilion investment to the south east?? they have succefully relegated them selves again, for the sake of peace don't call for or start a war the outcome will be dissapointing to you guys, need I remind you that if the Hausa/Fulani should come out and protest like these in population they are X10, in destruction X52 in aggressiveness X70, what if the yorubas buy new kobokos imagine the flogging which will lead to formatting/loss of Brains.
Biafra I know is not coming in the next 6000 years. Just go back to ur dens.

Ozekhome or whatever the lawyer's name is a PDP ally. He was in GEJ's election campaign train even though he claims to be an activist. He is currently playing his script of his sponsors (PDP). How come no PDP member or sympathizers have spoken out against this Biafra craze? bar Ebonyi State Governor.

Biafra the land of the rising sun. The home of Wise and industrious Men.
Our Freedom is inevitable.
I am Biafran.

Femolacaster:
Biafra is on its way, land of the rising crime!

We still Want Biafra. Either in Peace or in Pieces.


If Your gworo chewing body odour president doesn't negotiate then you guys should start getting ready for another Civil war. I would rather die as Biafran than Live as Nigerian. Our freedom is here.


Long live Biafra.

Rubbish. This is nothing but PDP operating from the shadows. TAN has just been transformed into IPOD. One only needs to scratch the surface to see who the sponsors of these protests are. Had Jonathan/PDP won, would these have been any IPOD or Kanu??

Pdp should call their thugs to order so human beings can go about their lawful businesses unhindered.

Biafrans don't negotiate with terrorist, shariaists and Kidnappers. Dullard Buhari is all these rolled into one and ICC will have him jailed. Hope he has learnt enough from Omar Bashir of Sudan on how to hide from international arrest warrants.

Bobbystanley:


We still Want Biafra. Either in Peace or in Pieces.


If Your gworo chewing body odour president doesn't negotiate then you guys should start getting ready for another Civil war. I would rather die as Biafran than Live as Nigerian. Our freedom is here.


Long live Biafra.

I wish you people goodluck!