Self-acclaimed President of Biafra, Barr. Benjamin Onwuka
The Biafra Zionist Federation, Monday announced an interim government to run the affairs of Biafra, with Pat Utomi, Chukwuma Soludo, Aruma Oteh, Jerry Gana, and others making the list. In an announcement at a press conference in Enugu, the self-acclaimed President of Biafra, Barr. Benjamin Onwuka, who is leader of the Biafra Zionist Federation (BZF), on Monday, announced an interim government to run the affairs of Biafra.
According to DailyPost, Onwuka, who declared himself Biafra President, named Prof. Pat Utomi as the foreign minister, amid cheers from his members.
"I am the President of Biafra; we have formed an interim
government that will be in place till the next 30 days. The interim
government will take off tomorrow, August 1 and last till August 31,
2017, that is 30 days," Onwuka declared.
“America is behind the Biafra people because former President
Barrack Obama already endorsed Biafra before he left office and
President Donald Trump will not go against it considering that it has
formed part of America’s foreign policy.”
Onwuka named other members of the cabinet to include; Prof.
Chukwuma Soludo-Central Bank of Biafra, CBB; Prof. Pat Utomi-foreign
affairs; Mrs. Aruma Oteh-finance minister; former Personal Secretary to
Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu-petroleum.
Others are Amarachi Ubani-information; Ohanaeze President, Chief
Nnia Nwodo-Ambassador to US; Prof. Jerry Gana-transport; Labaran
Maku-aviation, a lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN,
Mrs. Mary Okafor-trade and industry; Benny Lar, Secretary to the
Government of the Republic; Gabriel Oluwole Osagie- education, Prof
Barth Nnaji- energy; Philip Effiong Jnr.-health.
Onwuka equally announced that the Israelis would hold the positions
of defene, agriculture, internal affairs, Inspector General of Police
and Air Force, adding that they would also take 25 percent of the civil
service job in Biafra.
He said, “Israel will be key players in this government because
there is so much corruption in Nigeria; so, they are coming to help us
clean the system. They are coming to sweep the system. They will challen
agro-revolution and also abolish corruption very easily.
“Same goes for America; their companies will be in control of
our oil industry. This is to reward them for what Obama did for us;
Obama saved us even when we were in detention; they already passed death
sentence on us even without our knowledge, but Obama’s intervention
saved us.”
He called for full mobilization of “Biafra security forces”, stressing “all
our security personnel in the army, police, air force, navy and others
are hereby called upon to withdraw from Nigeria and join the Biafra
government.
“I am also calling on the avengers, the militants to come out
from the creeks and join us to defend and protect Biafra. I’m beckoning
on Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Ateke Tom to come out and join us. I am
calling on all our boys in Biafra land to come out. I’m not afraid, the
US is with us.”
He equally slammed the Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, the
Imo State Capital, for allegedly refusing to free 10 of his members who
were granted bail by the same court, and claimed that “although we
have met all the conditions for their bail, the bailiff of the Court is
playing games, even after collecting hundreds of thousands of Naira from
us.
“So, we are using this medium to ask them to release our
members forthwith because we have met all the conditions attached to
their bail.”
The self-acclaimed Biafra President, who also accused the Federal
Government of ‘Islamizing the Biafra Republic’, vowed that such move
would be totally resisted.
“The Biafra people will not allow themselves to be Islamized;
1967 will no longer be allowed to repeat itself. Apart from removing the
Christian Religious Knowledge from the school curriculum, they have
also banned history. This is to prevent our young ones from knowing all
the things that happened in the past.
“This is entirely war on our people and we are not going to
take it. Where there is religious conflict, the offended side will
always win; the same thing will happen here”, he vowed.
Onwuka was in 2014 arrested in Enugu after his group stormed the
Enugu State Broadcasting Service for the purpose of declaring Biafra
Republic. He was freed in March this year after over two years in jail.
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