Dr. Ngozi Orabueze, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the United States of Biafra, has said that the prolonged marginalization and ongoing persecution of Christians in the South-East have driven Biafrans to demand an exit from Nigeria.
In an interview with American author and blogger Robert Spencer on Friday, shared on X, Orabueze explained the factors behind Biafra’s push for independence.
According to her, Biafrans in Nigeria have continued to suffer the issue of marginalisation and persecution, which led to the breakout of civil war in 1967.
She explained that wanton killings of Christians in the South-East region have become the cardinal reason for continued calls for Biafra independence.
In her words, “Biafrans cannot stay in a country that integrates terrorists into security agencies.”
Dr. Orabueze said that Simon Ekpa, the Prime of USB, was arrested by the Finnish government two weeks before the Biafra Independence declaration in November 2024 on what she described as “flimsy excuse of inciting terrorism.”.
She said: “Currently, our prime minister of the USB is being detained and incarcerated by Finnish authorities on a very flimsy excuse that Simon Ekpa is insisting on for Biafrans
“How can you incite people that are begging to live? The Finnish government arrested our prime minister, and the Nigerian government did so through their foreign minister.
“Recently, between December 2024 and today, we’ve had over hundreds of Christians killed in Biafra land by the Fulani terrorists and the reintegrated terrorists wearing Nigerian military uniforms.
“This is what the Christians have gone through in Nigeria over the years; there’s no solution, there’s no comment from the government, and everybody turns a deaf ear, and that was part of the reason why the United States of Biafra has declared their independence because we cannot continue to live in a country where the government has reintegrated known terrorists into the police, into the military, and sent them down to the Biafra territory to kill anyone that talks about Biafra.
“Biafrans are begging to leave; we do not want to live in a country that reintegrate Boko Haram.” It is our right to choose our leaders. “It is our right to go home and develop the Biafran nation. By the declaration we’ve done, we will go home and practice our religion. “We are pursuing our freedom to serve and defend our land and our people.”
