Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
has described those agitating for the creation of Biafra state as miscreants.
Obasanjo in an interview with Sahara reporters said:
"This is a fake agitation. You
people make a mountain out of a molehill. These are boys who want to take
people unaware and get money out of them in the name of Biafra. These are the
people you should ignore, I don’t talk about Biafra. (Philip) Effiong came and
said Biafra ceased to exist and since that day, Biafra has ceased to exist. We
absorbed those we should absorb both into the civil service and into the
military.
Even those we didn’t absorb, who we
initially regarded as being retired without benefits, later on we even gave
them their benefits. Abandoned houses were returned. Within 10 years of the end
of our Civil War, an Igbo man became the vice-president of our country. It took
the Americans 100 years before they got to that point. So, what are you talking
about? They have held all the ministerial positions existing in this country.
We have Igbo as the Governor of Central Bank, Igbo has headed many parastatals
in this country. That’s why these miscreants should be ignored. They want to
get money and they go round and say, ‘We are still being victimised. We are
still being treated badly in Nigeria,’ so that they can take money from
people.”he said
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