Let Biafran people go!

Thank God a judge has now seen fit to grant bail to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is said to have been described by his lawyer as the “leader of a nation”! Let us hope that this new prophet can now be left in peace to lead his fellow Biafrans to much deserved freedom from the hellish confines of the oppressive Nigerian nation…
Thankfully, the process will be swift, since apparently has very deep pockets and unparalled access to top political leaders in Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Enugu and Abia states.
But who could Nnamdi Kanu actually be, and what hidden factors may be said to lie behind his on-going crusade to bring a Biafra nation into existence?
A very interesting question indeed!
There are a number of clues for us to ponder:
First of all, the person who goes by the name Nnamdi Kanu appears to have suddenly emerged from nowhere, as if by magic!
Secondly, since this gentleman suddenly burst into prominence, the original leader of the agitation for the “actualization” of Biafra (a certain Ralph Uwazurike) has been crying all over the place that the new Biafran independence movements headed by Nnamdi Kanu and his cohorts are fake organisations that are being funded by some unnamed “politicians”….
A three page spread published in the “Sunday Sun” of December 12, 2015 (pages 48-51) threw some very interesting light on what Ralph Uwazurike has been up to with MASSOB, as well as on who the mysterious Nnamdi Kanu actually is.
In the interview, Uwazurike complained bitterly that Nnamdi Kanu was originally an unemployed youth whom he hired to supervise the activities of Radio Biafra in London due to the fact that Nnamdi Kanu had legitimate residence status in the United Kingdom…
If indeed Nnamdi Kanu is who Ralph Uwazurike says he is, how did he suddenly become endowed with the tremendous level of funding that appears to have been required to rent large crowds for unruly demonstrations all over the Eastern states, as well as in Delta and Rivers State?
How come he was able to fund a secret radio station within the confines of Nigeria, as well as allegedly purchase considerable quantities of sophisticated weapons in preparation for an armed uprising?
Hopefully, the answer to these and many more questions may become known when and if Nnamdi Kanu and his alleged co-conspirators are eventually put on trial.
Turning now to the possibly remedy that might help quell the ongoing agitation for the birth of a Biafra nation, there have been a number of calls in the recent past for some kind of “dialogue” with Nnamdi Kanu and his followers.
This kind of advice is obviously misplaced, notwithstanding the rather bizarre utterances of Bishop Kukah, who once described Nnamdi Kanu as “the most popular politician in Nigeria today”!
If there can be no “negotiation” or “dialogue” with Nnamdi Kanu and his supporters, is there any means of diffusing the present unrest, short of engaging in a shooting war with the neo-Biafran agitators?
Obviously, the best solution would be for the Federal Government to publicly announce that it is prepared to grant a Biafran homeland to all ndigbo who wish to abandon the choice properties and flourishing business enterprises that they have acquired by dint of back-breaking labour and intense sacrifice over many decades in Lagos, Abuja, Benin, Jos, Maiduguri etc and return to Nnewi or wherever else they may choose to relocate to in a newly independent Biafran enclave…
Naturally, the returnees would be unable to carry buildings or other major physical assets with them, so they would be limited to whatever they might be able to fit into a few suitcases and “Ghana must go bags”, with assistance from Eze Ayodele Fayose 1, the newly crowned paramount ruler of Ihiala…
Obviously also, the new Biafran nation would be a landlocked enclave with no access to oil, since no rational indigenes of Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers, Bayelsa and Rivers state can be expected to associate themselves with the highly illogical caper of the newly proclaimed Biafran nation, a factor that happens to have been one of the underlying causes of the collapse of the original Biafra under the leadership of the late Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu…
Furthermore, once they have returned to Arochwukwu, Umuahia Ibeku, Aba-Ngwa etc, the citizens of the newly independent “Biafra” should be required to produce passports and legitimate visas each time they wish to visit any part of whatever is left of the dismembered Nigerian nation for business or pleasure, with strict customs controls to regulate the movement of goods and foodstuffs between the new Biafra and every other part of Fair enough?
Interestingly enough, as any diligent student of Nigerian history is aware, there is nothing like “Igbo people” because igbo happens to be a language and not an ethnic group, just in the same way as Yoruba is a language, and not a tribe!
It so happens that most of the diverse folks who speak the igbo language (ngwa, ohaffia, wawa, owerri) etc. never actually interacted with each other on a regular basis during the pre-colonial era. In fact, some of the dialects that are spoken in certain parts of ala igbo are virtually incomprehensible in other igbo-speaking lands…
Ironically therefore, the often repeated complaint that Nigeria is an artificial creation of British colonialism would also apply to any Biafran state that is formed out of an amalgamation of erstwhile antagonistic igbo-speaking peoples, the more so as there are now many traditional “kings” all over ala igbo, some of whom can be observed to be reigning under bizarre appellations like “Eze Donatus Ahamba 1 of Njikoka” or “Eze Jonathan Ndigbo 1 of Bende local community”…
And who will be elected President of the new Biafran republic whose birth Nnamdi Kanu is supposed to midwife? Will it be Nnamdi Kanu himself, with Bishop Kukah as his honorary running mate?
Will it be Pius Anyim Pius, the highly respected former senator who is said to have acquired tremendous administrative experience in his years of diligent labour as Secretary to the Federal Government during the glorious rule of Dr. Ebele Goodluck Jonathan, especially during the process of setting up a vast real estate scheme known as Centenary city in the vicinity of Abuja?
Will it be ‘handsome bobo’ Jim Nwobodo, who is well known for his sterling endeavours in setting up the now-rested Savannah Bank?
Or will it be the beautiful Deziani Allison-Madueke, who qualifies to stand for election as President of Biafra by virtue of being married to an indigene of ala igbo?
Or could it be a certain Princess Stella, who is alleged to be currently seeking immunity from possible prosecution for over-beautifying a number of Nigerian airports by sitting tight in the midst of many birds of similar feathers in the rowdy market palace known as the Nigerian Senate?