A few days ago one of my co-conspirators writing on Facebook posed the question, "Must they talk?" He was referring to a comment by a prominent public figure which seemed to be out of place at the event at hand. We had a very lively debate on the matter and the jury is still out as to which opinion prevailed.
Now former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is at it again. He has been quoted to have said that "pro-Biafra agitators are only looking for another source of money." I want to lay emphasis on the word ANOTHER.
It is a matter of public record that Chief Barr Ralph Uwazurike of MASSOB fame started his agitation/movement long before OBJ's second coming as an elected civilian president. We all know that Uwazurike and MASSOB outlived the Obasanjo presidency. Will the former president kindly inform us about what monies that were obviously paid to those pro-Biafra agitators who were already in the "business" at a time Daniel Kanu was perhaps still in diapers?
Meanwhile I recommend to the former president and others a very interesting treatise on MASSOB written by the first civilian governor of Anambra State ten years ago. This was immediately after the movement, without any coercion, successfully shut down all markets, shops and other businesses across the federation. Obasanjo was in office then. I wonder if anyone learnt any lesson from it.
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