They are not prepared to settle for crumbs and neither do they fear death, conflict, defeat, incarceration, butchery or persecution. They are imbued with a spirit that cannot be suppressed and
The more they cry ‘’Biafra’’, the more the spirits of the millions that were slaughtered on the Biafran side during the civil war are invoked.
The more they cry ‘’Biafra’’, the more the souls of the hundreds of thousands of their people that were butchered during the pogroms in the North in the mid-60s and thereafter are remembered.
The more they cry ‘’Biafra’’, the more they remember how their fathers were stripped of everything after the civil war and how they have been denied the opportunity to rise to the highest office in the land.
The more they cry ‘’Biafra’’, the more they acknowledge and recognise the bitter fact that the Buhari administration regard their kith and kin as nothing more than third class citizens and pitiable prisoners of war.
The worst thing that the Nigerian authorities can do is to treat them with levity or contempt. They are angry, they are fed up, they refuse to be enslaved, they want a brighter future and they have come to realise that they have nothing to lose.