Daily Champion (Lagos)
27 August 2008
ANAMBRA State, especially Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of the state, yesterday, was enveloped in a pall of tension as the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) sit-at-home protest in the entire South-East begins tomorrow.
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IT IS 41 YRS NOW SINCE THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR.THE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE ADDRESSED THE BIAFRA ISSUE BY LISTENING TO THEIR PROTESTS,AND FINDING A WAY TO REDRESS ISSUES.ONE CLEAR CASE OF INJUSTICE IS THE FACT THAT SE IS THE ONLY ZONE OF THE SIX ZONES IN NIGERIA THAT HAS ONLY FIVE STATES WHILE OTHERS HAVE SIX EACH.MAY BE THIS IS A PENALTY FOR THE CIVIL WAR.IF INDEED,WE CANNOT ADDRESS THEIR COMPLAINTS,IT IS ADVISABLE TO CONDUCT A PLEBISCITE TO OFFER THEM THEIR RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION.KILLINGS,AND JAILING ARE NOT SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM.