Biafra demonstrations: Iwuanyanwu blames FG, Ndigbo leaders

The Champion Newspaper publisher, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has expressed serious reservations at the way some people have been going about with their demand for sovereign state of Biafra.
Chief Iwuanyanwu, who made his feelings known yesterday, while addressing journalists in Owerri, also fumed that some people have even gone out of their way to publish what they call accounts of the war.
“Other tribes are doing better than us. It is good for somebody to protest but it is nonsensical for people to go to the extreme level of taking laws into his hands by blocking roads.
Books have been written by people who neither commanded any command nor fought the battle”, Iwuanyanwu said.
According to the Champion publisher, he gets visibly angry when people claim that Ndigbo lost the war, pointing out that if there was any failure, it was by Ndigbo.
“To say that Igbos are marginalized is stating the obvious and government must try and address the anomaly. It must also be said that before the war, things were done purely on merit but it is no longer so today.
Where the Igbos go from here is anybody’s guess”, Chief Iwuanyanwu said.
While saying that General Yakubu Gowon started the issue of reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation very well, Iwuanyanwu however said he was not too happy at the way Ndigbo now rush to Abuja for al manner of reasons.
“People now flood Abuja for several reasons instead of coming home to develop our place.
I was excited when Imo State Government started preaching the palm revolution but what has happened so far, does not give anybody cause for cheers. We have fertile land in the East but we sadly import all the foods we eat”, Chief Iwuanyanwu said.
Speaking about the census, Iwuanyanwu said that Igbos will always be in minority, especially as in some cultures and religious belief, people are expected to marry more than one wife and the ability to have more than 80 children.
“It is therefore not reasonable for the National Population Commission, NPC, to ask us to divorce politics from the census. We can divorce politics from census if we cease to use it as a means of determining the electoral wards, representation at various levels.
If the nation refuses to use the large population emanating from the numerous wives some people marry, then we can support the call for the non-politicization of census and the consequent figures”, Iwuanyanwu said.