We don’t want Biafra, we only want to be treated equally – Umahi

Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has said the South-East is not interested in Biafra but in being treated fairly and equally

The Governor described the agitations for Biafra as madness, saying that most elites in the region do not want it.

“Every elite in the south-east is not desirous of Biafra. We don’t want Biafra. We only want to be treated equally like other regions in Nigeria,” Governor Umahi said Wednesday, on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

“So, this idea of Biafra, Biafra is madness”, he said

He decried the degeneration of what started as a cry against marginalisation into violence in the region, saying “you can never get a nation out of a nation by the kind of hate speeches being dished out and then from hate speeches to threats of killings and actual killings and formation of militant groups”.

“If you’re fighting to protect us so why are you killing us? We are the ones killing ourselves. Occasionally, people are imported from outside to do these killings but majorly, like in my state, all the people that we have caught, all came from the south-east”.

“Whatever is your problem, is it unemployment, you have nothing doing? We are going to leave every other thing to make sure you are empowered. The only thing is that when you are in the bush, we don’t have access to you. You have to come out of the bush and work with us to empower you.

“But when you say no, that you will go in the name of agitations to cause criminality, we will isolate you as a criminal and this is where we are and we are very serious about it”.

“If we had a policeman to everybody, nobody is going to obey any sit at home.

“We are going to do what we have been doing to safeguard our people because we have gotten the confidence of our people.

“These people do not mean well for us and we cannot have Biafra by the way they are going about it”