44 Trillions to get Biafra, " Matters Arising".
First let me use this opportunity to thank mr/Alhaji Yerima Shettima and the other Northern youth leaders for their brilliant divorce idea and heartwarming cheap offer made to the igbos to get Biafra than by following their four-fathers footsteps which gives the Biafra people a soft landing of 3 months quit notice. Thank you once again for informing them that they are going to lose or forfeit their properties as soon as they left the Northern Region to their promise land of Biafra which they have always wanted.
Though the indigenous people of Biafra IPOB under the leadership of His Royal Majesty NNAMDI KANU which is the highest authority in Biafra land have accepted the offer with a good faith, while the Abuja errand men both governors, senators and representatives are all shouting because of their properties which they must forfeit. Then I began to research what it will cost Biafra to get their independence in case their is a tendency that peaceful means is not achievable.
If you will agree with me that "The one thing most experts seem to agree on about the current coalition air campaign in Libya is that it won't cost much. A leading think tank estimated the price-tag for patrolling Libyan air space at $30-100 million per week, while the Navy's top budget official described Libyan air operations as falling within the "normal operating cycle" of his department.
Rear Admiral Joseph Mulloy told trade publication Inside the Navy on March 21, "The incremental cost of use of the Navy and Marine Corps is low, because we're already funded and we are trained and worked up." He went on, "We don't have to pay extra to be there." As a result of such fiscal reassurances, Congress has focused mainly on the goals of the operation and what precedents military action might create, rather than the cost" .
So what looks like an inexpensive military operation in Libya is actually costing taxpayers about $2 billion per day, because that's what the Pentagon and other security agencies of the federal government spend to maintain a posture that allows the military to go anywhere and do anything on short notice". " https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2011/03/28/the-real-cost-of-u-s-in-libya-two-billion-dollars-per-day/#3ee40b697b5f"
So if we should calculate our war to be expenses based on the rough estimates of the USA on the money they spent during the Libyan war, one will understand that it is very expensive to engage in another war which will do us all no good. Based on today's exchange rate at 367 Naira per a dollars, we will be spending two hundred and sixty four point two hundred and sixty four trillion naira ( 264,240,000,000,000 ) every year which we have never included the human life's that will perish. Off which it is more than the small amount of goods and properties that worth 44 trillion Naira that the North wants us to forfeit in order to get our Biafra without a blood Shield .
In my opinion, which I believe many people will agree with me is that, no body can be sure how the war will be fought and how it will ended or how long it will take to defeat each other because we are in the 21st century. Maybe the Igbos might think they will crush the North so easily maybe in a matter of months but at the end it turns out to be an imagination or maybe the North will think they can crush the Biafra youths the way they defeated their four fathers, and at the end it turns out to be a mission impossible.
So I think the best way is to walk away from the union in peace as the Northerners have offered us a peaceful separation from them than to try to cause more trouble trying to be the hard people, because the two parties will lose. Those our dream properties that we are trying to protect will also perish . And it will become a double lose, so I think the best way is to take the offer and walk away from the marriage and count the properties as part of our sacrifice to freedom because the divorce is very cheap.
We should ask the Jews what they lost before getting independent. They lost their properties in Egypt and also lost 6 million people in the concentration camp together with their properties, so our life's are more important than the properties that we are trying to protect. Had it been that Ojukwu was offered this kind of brilliant offer by the Nigeria government during the 1967-970 civil war, Ojukwu would have gladly accepted it than losing 3.5million people with properties.
We all should thank God for making the Northerners see some reasons to give us quit notice without taking/attacking us by surprise. At least they have realized that there is no need of using violence to send us packing from the North. As people say that nothing worth for dying for. It is only the living that can recover their lost, but the dead can never recover whatever they have lost in the past.
In conclusion, I will say it is better to be late than to be late, jaw jaw is better than war, war. There is no need for all these nose because the North has just given us what we have been asking for since 1967 in a platter of God. Igbos in the North, don't be deceived by the Governors rants or protection by listening to your selfish political elites, they are only crying to protect their looted properties scattered in all over the Northern part. Yoruba have asked their people to relocate because they values their life more than their properties. While Ohanaeze, Governors and others are telling you to stay that it is an empty threats. It's only a fool that does not know that his sister is a stranger in the family, because she belongs to another man.
The views expressed on this article are solely the authors opinion and I take the responsibility of what I have said here and it might differ with your own views, which is understandable.
Written By,
P O, Iwuama, (Bc)
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