Leader of Biafra Independent Movement (BIM ) Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday, disclosed that the present economic recession in Nigeria that has brought untold hardship on Nigerians, among other teething challenges facing the country, has justified his struggle to abandon the country and actualize the independent state of Biafra for over 17 years now.
Chief Uwazuruike also observed that the prediction by the United States’ military about possible break up of Nigeria some years back is on course as he foresees the end of the entity called Nigeria soonest, noting that people cannot continue to coexist in a country that has failed the test of time with nothing working for the wellbeing of the citizenry.
The BIM leader in a statement by the Director of Information, Mazi Chris Anierobi Mocha, said that the resultant effect of the US Army’s prediction included the unabated insurgency in the North, Herdsmen’s menace, militancy in Niger Delta, Separatist agitations for Biafra Republic, the economic recession that had brought sufferings, Poverty and untold hardship on the citizenry and endless the looting spree by officials in government establishments.
He noted that back in year 2000, the US had predicted that Nigeria would break up in in 15 years which correspondent to 2015 but the report was highly criticized by Nigerian leaders
He added, “That nothing is working in Nigeria today has justified my Biafra struggle for independence. I cautioned Nigerian corrupt leaders who criticized the US Army’s prediction of Nigeria’s possible breakup in 2015 as prophets of Doom, never to rejoice because the breakup of Nigeria into six Republics is not yet over, it is just around the corner”.
Chief Uwazuruike recalled that in an article written by Director of the African Security Research Project in Washington DC and Guest Columnist of All Africa globe media Mr. Daniel Volman, this Nigerian scenario was predicated upon a possible war from 2013 noting that the article observed that it was the first time the African scenarios were included as part of Pentagon’s plan to create a new military command for Africa called the United States Africa Command (US-AFRICOM)
According to him, “The United States military had, in May 2008, conducted a war games test called Unified Quest 2008, to ascertain how its military respond to a war in parts of African including Nigeria and Somalia. The five-day game was designed to look at what crisis might erupt in different parts of the world in 5 to 25 years and how the US might respond
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