Buhari
“The Buhari administration I think has really reenergised the bilateral relationship in a fundamental way,” a United States official said as reports that it is seeking approval to sell Nigeria 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft.
Either the Obama administration is ignorant of Buhari’s human rights abuses against the Igbo in Biafra or they are complicit. Buhari has often used Boko Haram as a foil to generate arms and sympathy from the West.
The United States has begun to strengthen ties with Buhari ever since he attained power in Africa’s most populous country. The previous President, Goodluck Jonathan was a friend of Israel and yet spurned the Obama administration. With Buhari now as President the tables have turned. Nigeria is now ruled by a former military leader and an avowed Islamist.
Given Obama’s engagement and pasting over of Buhari’s own abuses, little doubt remains that Obama knows of and believes Buhari’s Islamist background is a strength.
Obama has also strengthened US Special Forces throughout Africa, placing Nigeria as a priority. Yet, given reports that Buhari has used weapons given to him to fight Boko Haram, on the Igbo in South East Nigeria as well as willfully encouraging Fulani Tribesman to butcher unarmed Igbos, one wonders why improving ties between the US government and Buhari is something to be cheered from the perspective of the USA.
Buhari has allowed the Fulani herdsman to run wild and murder the Igbo. Independence movements have grown, and a near unanimous belief that Buhari is complicit pervades Biafra.
At the end of the day, the Obama foreign policy has actively sought out to strengthen Islamic regimes at the expense of moderate actors, whether they have been secular Islamic states, Sub-Saharan Christians, or Israel. By selling military armaments to Buhari, the Obama administration has pitted itself against Israel’s growing presence in the region and has hampered Israel’s ability to militarily support an independent Biafra.
When I landed in Accra, Ghana yesterday it had been just under 16 years since my last visit. The world has changed a few times over since then. Internet technology and communication has created a smaller world, a world where people from any country can dialogue and discuss with counterparts around the world.
Still, some things were the same. Women selling food and drinks from on top of their heads, children pointing to their mouth and asking for charity (although far less than what I remembered), and a distinct dichotomy between rich and poor.
In the world’s eye Africa has always been behind. Whether out of ignorance or passive racism the perception that Africa is a bunch of unstable countries, steeped in corruption, and reliant in international aid has persisted well into this century.
Like anything else, the Western world views the world through a particular historical and cultural context. It is true Africa and especially sub-Saharan Africa has had its fair share of chaos brought upon it from a clear neo-colonial agenda that saw the Western world take advantage of ravaged economies, artificial boundaries, and dictatorships it helped to foster.
Ghana as a Model
What has always made Ghana fascinating to me is the relative stability it has compared to many of its counterparts across Africa, although we can point now to many African countries, especially in the lakes region and Eastern Africa that have achieved this as well, Ghana has always seemed to exhume some sort of alternate reality as opposed to other places.
At first glance, Ghana should have similar problems with geopolitical uncertainty as other African countries. It is an artificial construct of the British merging a mosaic of African tribal nations together. It has a strong Muslim population along with a devout Christian populace. There are vast amounts of poor people, coupled with a strong wealthy upper class.
Yet, with all of the above, Ghana has seemed to skip the chaos. Part of the reason for this is that it did not sink into conflict after independence in 1957, but rather was built in a stable one party rule albeit sometimes military. However, it transitioned when it had into a multi-party rule in 1992, which has allowed for more voices to be heard and aided the growth of an exceptional economy. Although Ghana needed an IMF bailout due to a spiraling debt, it’s oil production and multi layered economy is a window for what can be in the future.
Ghana as an Ideal Partner for Israel
Ghana has appears to be strategically critical by Israel as a buffer against the spread of radical Islam into the Sub-Sahara. This takes more importance after Israel lost a growing ally in Nigeria, with the ascendancy of Mohammed Buhari.
Yet, building a strong relationship requires more than weapons, it needs real economic cooperation. This is where Israeli companies and startups would be able to take advantage of Ghana’s stability and fast paced growth. Accra may still be a third world capital, but it is quickly transforming into a modern hub in Western Africa.
Although Israel has grown close with East African countries and seems to be placing more of its emphasis on those countries, Ghana would be a great place to start to rebuild its West African strategy, after its miscalculation with Nigeria.
For over four decades now, another Nigeria-Biafra war has been looming. These two entities, forced together by the British in 1914 have increasingly moved towards direct confrontation for the first time since 1970.
Over time the Nigerian government has become comprised of mainly Muslim participants from the North whose occupations are mainly cattle herders with little or no education. These Muslims served in the Nigerian military, which adds to their inability to govern correctly and institute sound economic policies. The world has begun to label Nigeria “the only country where idiots rule.”
The Oxford English Dictionary defines genocide as “the deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group …” The UN general assembly also defined it in 1946 as “… a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups”. Biafrans have consistently charged that the Nigerian government has in fact always had a design to exterminate the Igbos of Biafra.
In recent times their sole aim has been focused on exterminating Biafrans, made up of mostly Christians with Hebraic roots and those who have rejoined the Jewish Nation Biafrans control some of the most fertile grazing lands and oil reserves in Nigeria.
The current attacks on Biafra have been traced to the government supported Hausa/Fulani herdsmen who are actually full members of the Islamist Boko Haram. According to Article 2 of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide-to which the US and all current members of the UN Security Council are party to, genocide encompasses not only the deliberate killing of members of a “national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such,” but also “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” Both clauses are occurring in Biafra region in Nigeria right now.
This situation was premeditated by mainly Islamic extremists within the Nigerian army. These elements have been looking to the turn the heat up. Since protests broke out we have seen the systematic killing of innocent and unarmed civilians by the Nigerian military. Despite the fact that the army chief has admitted that his men indeed killed Biafrans indiscriminately as we have witnessed in Aguta, Aba, Enugu, Igweocha, little or nothing has been done by the Buhari government to bring the attackers to justice.
Biafrans are still waiting for world leaders and lovers of democracy and freedom to step in and protect civilians who have suffered loss of life, confiscations and destruction of properties. The agenda is clear. The Arab and Islamic world is pushing for Nigeria to become a full member of the Islamic world.
Evidence of another genocide
Biafra has now become the headquarters of a military battalion set up in order to kill innocent young men and women and even children who seek self-governance. These people strive for better lives due to decades of marginalization from previous and current governments. This has been reported by numerous human rights groups like HURIWA which have made it clear that the Buhari regime’s genocidal intent is beyond the pale of acceptable civilized behavior.
The international community must act and act swiftly to avert another civil war. This time, an explosive war pitting the Judeo-Christian Biafra against the Radical Islamic movement that has overtaken Nigeria has the potential to become a wider regional war than the previous conflict which occurred over 45 years ago.
Time is of the essence.
[Podcast] Biafra Message to Israel: “Help us! Buhari is a Murderer!”
Shortly before I joined a live Radio Biafra broadcast, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Clifford Iroanya the Coordinator of the Coordinators for the Indigenous People of Biafra. We touched on a variety of subjects, including the evil of the Buhari regime and what Biafra wants.
Included in the podcast:
- What is IPOB?
- History of Conflict
- Who is Buhari?
- Is Nigeria Muslim?
- Biafrans consider themselves Israelites
- Why Israel needs to help Biafra
Listen below to a clip of yesterday’s Radio Biafra interview.