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Buhari Responsible For Renewed Biafra Agitation – US
Former United States ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, says the lingering agitation for Biafra Nation in Nigeria’s South-East is not unconnected to the handling of the country’s deepening security crisis.
The respected diplomat said the widespread notion that Buhari is sympathetic to the horrendous cause of Boko Haram and the destructive activities of bandits wreaking havoc in the beleaguered northern region spurred the growing secessionist agitation in the south east.
“Insecurity and perceptions of discrimination by the federal government have caused it to bubble up once again. Harsh security-service tactics drive separatist sentiment, as does religion for the overwhelmingly Christian Igbo, some of whom believe the Buhari government cooperates with – or at least tolerates – jihadis and Muslim bandits,” Campbell wrote in an article on the Council on Foreign Relations website.
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His assertion comes amidst a plethora of banditry and kidnapping attacks in the country.
Education and economic activities in parts of the country have been hampered in the past months crippled by activities of bandits and kidnappers.
Buhari has continously turned a blind eye to atrocities of bandits whose troubling and unconscionable activities have left the country on the brink of collapse. Conversely, he continues to launch devastating military operations in the South-East region to quell balkanization threat.
Under his regime, agitations for the actualisation of the defunct Republic of Biafra have continued to intensify years after Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu failed in his bid to lead the Igbos out of Nigeria.
While many assume that the recent separatist agitation is born out of perceived political marginalisation and persecution of the Igbos, the former U.S. envoy have different believes there’s more to the political and social upheaval
Campbell blames Buhari’s harsh security tactics as one of the many factors triggering the fresh call for a Biafra nation.
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