By TINA TIMOTHY

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has said that the Nigerian government was inadvertently clearing road for the emergence of Biafra Republic more than the agitators.

Intersociety revealed this in a statement in Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria, on Friday October 28, 2022, signed by its principal officers: Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chinwe Umeche (Esquire), Obianuju Joy Igboeli (Esquire), and Chidinma Udegbunam (Esquire).

Part of the statement reads: “It must be clearly noted that the present Government of Nigeria is a riotous proponent of Biafra Independence in Nigeria or any part thereof. This, the Nigerian Government has been doing since late 2015 through its divisive and annihilative policies and actions above highlighted. In our independent rating, the Nigerian Government is found to be practically and riotously championing the Biafra Independence above the Biafra Agitators by 70 per cent - 30 per cent margin or ratio.

“The Nigerian Government had since late 2015 deployed and applied segregating, exclusionist and annihilative policies of “structural violence, physical violence and cultural violence” against the Old Eastern Nigerian population and their territories, properties and collective dignity and ethnic identities.

“Through ‘structural violence,’ the Old Eastern Region and its population have been politically excluded from the mainstream scheme of things, including denial of proportionate political office, military office, policing office, diplomatic office and bureaucratic office appointments and proportionate allocation of resources and other discriminatory economic policies.

“Through ‘physical violence,' the defenseless population of the Region have been targeted and unleashed with “industrial scale” physical violent attacks leading to wanton destruction of several thousands of defenseless lives and properties; and through ‘cultural violence,’ they have been denied and deprived of their rights to ethnic identity, existence and development as well as their rights to freedom of worship, conscience and thought.”