Special guest of honour, Prof. Adebanji Akintoye ; keynote speaker, Prof. Pat Utomi; chairman of the occasion, Prof. Anya O, Anya; guest speaker, Prof. Wole Soyinka and royal father of the day, Ezeora/Akajiovo Igbo, His Majesty, Eze Chukwuemeka-Eri during the ‘Never Again’ conference on Nigeria civil war 50 years after, organised by Nzuko Umunna and Nd’Igbo Lagos… in Lagos
To mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, two separate and significant events took place. In Lagos, Nzuko Umunna, an Igbo intellectual group and Nd’Igbo Lagos reached out to their Yoruba counterparts and held the ‘Never Again’ conference at MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos. In the Abuja event, a communiqué signed by Senator Bassey Henshaw for South-South, Dr. Isuwa Dogo for Middle Belt, General C.R.U.
“If this is true, we would want to know if registration by NIMC can make anybody a citizen of Nigeria without having any place of birth in the country or parents who are Nigerians.” Meanwhile, in the ‘Never Again’ conference in Lagos, Prof. Banji Akintoye, who insisted on the restructuring of the country, also lamented marginalization by the current administration.
“Meanwhile, some people belonging to the would-be minority conquerors are loudly threatening to overrun and seize the ancestral homelands of the said peoples of the Nigerian Middle Belt and South, and are actually pushing for the conquest with their acts of destruction of farms and villages, acts of wanton killings of people, acts of kidnapping, acts of intimidation, and the act of bringing of masses of their ethnic kinsmen from countries beyond Nigeria to seize and possess land by force and...
The elder statesman canvassed steps needed to accomplish a new order of existence, saying the Nigerian ethnic nation threatening other Nigerian ethnic nations and engaging in invasion, destruction, disruptive and barbaric rampages in the homelands of other Nigerian ethnic nations and that has been mobilizing external forces to assist the conquest, subjugation and ethnic cleansing of other Nigerian ethnic nations must immediately stop and renounce the agenda to the satisfaction of all Nigerians...
Meanwhile, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, advised the government to deploy wisdom in addressing the clamour for secession. Citing the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , for instance, Soyinka identified several other nations that separated such as Myanmar, Pakistan, Chechnya and the most recent Britain, which is on the verge of leaving the European Union , also known as Brexit.
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