Opinion: Bridges We Haven’t Destroyed 50 Years After Biafra, By Banji Ojewale
. Every day it threatens us. All what gave birth to this abiku is alive in our politics, in our economy, in our lifestyle, in our homes, in our schools. Is it a coincidence that six state governments in the South-West of Nigeria are declaring that they have no confidence in the security apparatus of the central administration…
Now, Nigeria has had its own scorching civil war, which ought to have taught us lessons on how to build bridges on which to walk into progress. Hundreds of thousands, millions indeed, lost their souls in the secessionist bid by Biafra. Many more were maimed, while several more incalculable losses were incurred in the conflict.
In our case after we mowed Biafra down and all its great promise of giving the black race a home-grown technology whose fetuses we saw during the war – a mobile radio station, locally-made rockets with launchers and bombs, improvised refineries etc. we did not dedicate to the “great task remaining before us,” namely destroying the bridge to Biafra.
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