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“By
far, the most important legacy of military rule has to be the radical
political transformation of Nigeria through the prosecution of one
of Africa’s most tragic civil wars”. This
statement, issued by the Biafra Memorial Project (BMP) Committee,
was part of a resolution which has proffered a practical means to
revisit the Biafran issue for the ultimate good of the Nigerian
nation.
The statement acknowledged that the radical stance of the Movement
for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), in
spite of the unrealistic ambitions of its founders, has brought
back the unresolved issues of the Civil War to the center of national
consciousness. The BMP release further opined that “re-emergence
of the Biafran issue should not be seen as just a national security
matter that must be forcibly squelched. It should instead be seen
as a call to revisit a relevant era of our past which can help to
accelerate national healing and the revival of erstwhile can-do
mentality that Nigerians had in the immediate post-Independence
era”.
The statement advised the “Nigerian nation to solemnize the
traumatic experiences of the Civil War through the declaration of
a national holiday for the sole purpose of remembering the human
tragedy of that era.” |
