While speaking in Oshogbo after being honoured as a culture ambassador by the Nigeria Union of Journalists Correspondents Chapel, Osun State, Chief Gan Adams, the National President of the Oodua People’s Congress, said the Federal Government must hold talks with the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra. He said it is only through dialogue not force that the agitators can be made to drop the idea of a Biafra state thereby guaranteeing the country's unity.He stated that, “I will just say that they (Biafra agitators) are entitled to their own self-determination. Look, there is a law in Africa that recognises right to self-determination. Also, there is a law in United Nations that recognises right to self-determination. There is a country in the United Nations that has a population of not up to 50,000 and their flag is at the United Nations"
He said, “Killing armless and innocent people like fowl should not be accepted in any sane democracy. The president have to be very careful, he should not play into the hands of some people.”
“In civilised country, you don’t kill your citizens like that, even when they provoke you, you should pamper them in order to avoid such ugly situation. Even though they embarrassed the Chief of Army Staff, they (the army) should have disarmed them and arrest the leader for questioning and not using weapon to kill people like that. International community will not overlook such a thing."
And that it is not possible to force people to cooperate "for the unity of Nigeria; you have to listen to their agitation. If we cannot give you secession, should we give you statism or regionalism? That is a process of negotiating. The British did not use force against Scotland when it seceded from Britain, and there is Catalona in Spain that wants to pull out, they didn’t use force against them.”
He also said that the killing of five supporters of Biafra while celebrating the Federal High Court ruling ordering the release of Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu; as well as the killing of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria by soldiers in Zaria. which he said were serious problems and uncalled for.
He said Soldiers opening fire on theunarmed members of the sect for allegedly blocking the road and attacking the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Burata was wrongi.
He said what was experienced in Kaduna " is not what Nigerians are expecting right now, especially with the crisis of Boko Haram, the agitation of the MASSOB. I will appeal to the military and other security agencies to be calm when they have provocation from different citizens of this country.
“In civilised country, you don’t kill your citizens like that, even when they provoke you, you should pamper them in order to avoid such ugly situation. Even though they embarrassed the Chief of Army Staff, they (the army) should have disarmed them and arrest the leader for questioning and not using weapon to kill people like that. International community will not overlook such a thing."
And that it is not possible to force people to cooperate "for the unity of Nigeria; you have to listen to their agitation. If we cannot give you secession, should we give you statism or regionalism? That is a process of negotiating. The British did not use force against Scotland when it seceded from Britain, and there is Catalona in Spain that wants to pull out, they didn’t use force against them.”
He also said that the killing of five supporters of Biafra while celebrating the Federal High Court ruling ordering the release of Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu; as well as the killing of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria by soldiers in Zaria. which he said were serious problems and uncalled for.
He said Soldiers opening fire on theunarmed members of the sect for allegedly blocking the road and attacking the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Burata was wrongi.
He said what was experienced in Kaduna " is not what Nigerians are expecting right now, especially with the crisis of Boko Haram, the agitation of the MASSOB. I will appeal to the military and other security agencies to be calm when they have provocation from different citizens of this country.
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