Friends this is an excerpts from Brigadier Victor Banjos Broadcast to Mid-West, NOTE: Brigadier Banjo was the Commander of the Biafran Invasion Force. He made this broadcast over Radio Nigeria, Benin on August 14, 1967 at 20.00 GMT. According to the report Ojukwu was very upset about it and it was used as one of the reasons he was eventually shot on September 25, 1967 at Enugu. Remember Ojukwu said the reason why he killed Victor Banjo, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Philip Alale, Sam I. Agbam was because they wanted to remove him, remove Gowon and install Chief Obafemi Awolowo as the Prime Minister then. This is part of what Victor Banjo said in his broadcast to Mid-West: “The people of Biafra have a right to fight a Government that has constantly treated its people to the most savage forms of brutality and persists in denying these people its fundamental human rights while claiming to represent other interests. It is my view that the people of Biafra were prepared to remain part of the nation into which they have for so many years invested their resources of manpower and material and with which they had the closest social ties. Provided the people of Biafra could live within such a nation under a Government that truly represents all sections of its people and truly tries to pursue such measures as are designed to promote the welfare of all Nigerians irrespective of tribe or religion (sentence as broadcast). It is the remnants of the old Nigerian Army that broke away in July that now threatens the Nigerian nation. This Northern army is now under the power and control of a group of Northern feudalists who have as their aim the total conquest of Nigeria. The Federal Military Government, having been brought to power and control by that army, is playing to that end. Hence policies are inevitably directed towards achieving the objectives of the Northern feudalists who control that army. It is my idea that the peaceful settlement of the Nigerian problem will be readily achieved when that fragment of the Nigerian Army now at the disposal of the Northern feudalists has been completely disarmed.”
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:50:31 +0000
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