Amalgamation

Biafra agitator and separationist, Simon Ekpa, has sent a petition to the United Nations (UN), the United States of America, the European Union and the International Criminal Court on the expiration of Nigeria’s 1914 amalgamation.

Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), sent a 7-paged petition with details of the reason Nigeria needs to be renegotiated.

The Finnish lawyer, thereby called on international communities to facilitate the motion for the Southeast region of Nigeria to peacefully exit the country since the amalgamation had expired.

He lamented the continued political exclusion, economic neglect and other injustices being experienced by the Igbos in Nigeria.

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“We wish to inform you that the Frederick Lugard amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates into one Nigeria, which took place in 1914 to last 100 years, has expired.

“The Amalgamation agreement having expired, we, the indigenous people of Biafra (Biafra Republic Government In-Exile), wish to peacefully and bloodlessly exit from Nigeria to restore our independent sovereign state of Biafra because of the gross injustice, human rights abuses, tribal supremacy, fanaticism, ethnocentrism and class bigotry, that have bedevilled Nigeria. The indigenous people of Biafra are determined to exit Nigeria”, the petition partly reads.

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In 1914, Southern Nigeria was joined with Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the single colony of Nigeria.

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