DECLARATION OF BIAFRA REPUBLIC:
“Fellow countrymen and women, you, the people of Eastern
Nigeria:
Conscious of the supreme authority of Almighty God over all
mankind, of your duty to yourselves and posterity;
Aware that you can no longer be protected in your lives and in
your property by any Government based outside Eastern
Nigeria;
Believing that you are born free and have certain inalienable
rights which can best be preserved by yourselves;
Unwilling to be unfree partners in any association of a political
or economical nature;
Rejecting the authority of any person or persons other than the
Military Government of Eastern Nigeria to make any imposition
of
whatever kind or nature upon you;
Determined to dissolve all political and other ties between you
and the former Federal Republic of Nigeria;
Prepared to enter into such association, treaty or alliance with
any sovereign state within the former Federal Republic of
Nigeria and
elsewhere on such terms and conditions as best to subserve
your common good;
Affirming your trust and confidence in me;
Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your
name, that Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent
Republic,
Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by
virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles, recited
above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and
region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her
continental shelf and territorial waters shall henceforth be an
independent sovereign state of the name and title of “The
Republic of Biafra”. And I do declare that-
i. all political ties between us and the Federal Republic of
Nigeria are hereby totally dissolved;
