Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, said he spent 10 years in India studying Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence approach to achieving sovereig
nty.
Uwazuruike spoke on Saturday on the occasion of this year’s General Assembly of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation which was held virtually due to travel restrictions imposed to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. “In 1966, there was a plethora of attacks on the people of Eastern Nigeria. All our citizens in the north and even in the western region were slaughtered. The then military governor of Eastern Nigeria, Dim Ojukwu, had to bring together his people to secure their lives and property and in that process declare a Biafran Independence.
“It was because of this that I had to travel to India to study Mahatma Gandhi who happened to achieve independence for India through non-violence. I spent almost 10 years in India understudying Mahatma Gandhi.
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