Biafra: Nothing else will make sense once the Southeast loses its values

The southeast needs to seriously investigate why nsọ ala (taboo), arụ (abomination) and “thou shall not kill” have suddenly lost their influence on human affairs down here.

To do this, we may have to ask fiery promoters of the imaginary land what their conception of life is, what is the logic of their approach, how they arrived at certain conclusions, and how they made peace with the unmissable consequences of certain utterances and actions.

We should inquire from them how, for instance, they intend to fashion out a truly prosperous nation out of a bunch of indoctrinated, angry, frustrated and murderous citizens who think in herds and literally take heads for dinner.

Do they know that without erecting and preserving important anchors of human existence – like the sanctity of life – that the promised land will not be different from Afghanistan if or when it arrives?

Moderates in the southeast have their work cut out already. There is a need to work doubly hard to roll back certain pervasive mindsets. If not, the southeast will wake up one morning to painfully realise that the values of a people always outweigh artificial boundaries, the name of the country and the operational structure of its government.

Once Igbos lose their values in this flight of fantasy, Biafra or anything they chose to call the stated objective will hold no promise.

Chima Christian