BIAFRAN NATION IS NIGERIA'S COIR OF COMMERCE

BIAFRAN NATION IS NIGERIA'S COIR OF COMMERCE

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

 

The South Eastern geo-political zone who are now angling at a possible shot at independence actually holds at least 80 percent of all of Nigeria's trade and  services outside of oil and agriculture..

Checks by The News office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria shows that in the cosmopolitan city of Lagos alone ,Ndi Igbo holds not less than 70 percent of the commercial activities

A testament to the commercial acumen of the people and their natural resourceful nature came to the fore as far as this reporter is concerned in the year ,2000 when during his National Youth Service Corps [N.Y.S.C.]in Gombe State ,an endurance trekking exercise took him and his colleagues to a village in the bush which seems lost to any form of civilization and yet the only trading outpost in the settlement was owned by an igbo man.

Investigations shows that Ndi Igbo are to be found in all the six geo-political zones  and even beyond as they are known to  quickly adapt to the socio -cultural tenets of their immediate environment at all times due to their resilience.

A source who spoke to this reporter insisted that the Nigerian government should do the right thing and stop playing politics as only this can prevent this from stopping the nation from disintegrating.

The source warned that if recommendations are given  but they were not accepted or followed after an agreement had being reached initially over them  then Nigeria as a nation should prepare itself to losing the South Eastern part of the land.

A fresh report has revealed how the Biafra coin of 1969 had been put up for auction, with the highest bidder going home with the currency which is no longer in use.

The minimum bid is for 90 Euros (equivalent to N46,800). The bidding ended on  February 24 with the auction date holding around the  February 24 to February 25, 2017, and the auction took  place in Germany and several parts of Europe.

The agitation of the pro-Biafra secessionists is one of the many issues Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, is working really hard to curtail.

The Biafra war also known as the Nigerian civil war would never be forgotten in the history of Nigeria. The secession of the Igbos from the nation had a deleterious effect on the nation’s finances.

At the moment, they are asking the federal government to give them a referendum to allow them leave and stay independently as a country of their own.

The stubbornness of the Biafran warlord, Ojukwu, and General Gowon, the head of the Federal Military Government (FMG) then made things tough with the nation’s economy suffering from it. The Igbo people felt they could stand alone since the oil revenue the FMG depends on comes from their side.

As a result of this, the FMG also withdrew their support for the agitators and this made many of them starve to death.

During the period the war lasted, the Igbo people launched their own currency and started doing things on their own with the ongoing war.

The Biafra currency is no longer in use for transactions.