The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has revealed that the kingdom of Biafra existed over 500 years before colonial masters from Britain carved out Nigeria, stressing that Biafra would be actualized through international law.
A statement issued yesterday in Anambra, South-east Nigeria by the Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Mr. Emma Powerful, insisted that the Nnamdi Kanu-led organization has the right to pursue the independent state of Biafra under international law.
Stressing that IPOB members are Nigerians by citizenship but Biafrans by indigenous identity, Powerful cited an example with the United Kingdom where the Scots, Welsh, Irish and the Anglo-Saxons maintain their indigenous identities as different people but are of the British citizenship.
According to the statement, “The Ancient Map of Africa in 1662 showed the three kingdoms in West Africa from where the new country called Nigeria was created by the colonial masters. The three kingdoms were as follows: The kingdom of Zamfara in the North, Kingdom of Biafra from the East: and the kingdom of Benin in the West.
“These three kingdoms existed on the map of Africa for more than 500 years before Nigeria was created in 1914.
The kingdoms of Biafra and Benin shared common boundaries and had the Atlantic Ocean in the South with direct access to the sea, through their bays known as Bight of Biafra and Bight of Benin…
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