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Biafra: Urhobo Group Files Motion To Join In A Suit Mandating NASS To Conduct Referendum For South-East

A social political strain bunch, Forum of Urhobo Leaders of Thought (FULT) has documented an application for joinder at the Federal High Court, Abuja in a suit by Concern Group Northern (CNG) requesting that the National Assembly direct a mandate to permit the South East to acquire their independent condition of the Biafran Republic.

The gathering has moved toward the court expressing that individuals of the Eastern States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (otherwise called individuals of Biafra) are not by any means the only ethnic gathering that is disappointed with the constrained association/marriage of comfort called Nigeria, as the Urhobo public have endured and are as yet experiencing serious rejection, hardship, destroying medical issue, a work in progress a desolated environment and a general condition of socio-political discontent with Nigeria.

The gathering in a 28-passage of testimonies committed to by Mumakai-Unagha Aru, a Legal Practitioner for the Forum in a Motion on Notice carried compatibility to Section 36 (1) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as revised, request 9 rule 14 (2) (b) rule, rule 5 (3); request 26 rule 6 (1) and (2) of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules 2019, censured the proceeds with unfortunate treatment of the Urhobo Nation in the Nigeria project.

It uncovered that in spite of the tremendous commitment of the Urhobo country as far as oil assets, which represent an enormous level of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Foreign Exchange Earnings (FEE), the main noticeable prize to the Urhobo country has been reliable debasement, raid, and obliteration of our current circumstance, with no remediation technique, in this way compelling the Urhobo nation to live with the dangerous impacts of gas erupting and the now unavoidable test of residue and different risks which have kept on sending our kin to an early grave.

A piece of the oaths read:

“That the consideration of the Forum of Urhobo Leaders of Thought has been attracted to the moment suit which was documented by 4 Human Rights Activists against the Defendants thus; which looks for basically an announcement for individuals of South Eastern States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (who styled themselves Indigenous People of Biafra) in regard of their right to and the journey for self-assurance; and for a request for the Court guiding the second fourth Respondents to get the lawful hardware rolling towards the realization of self-assurance by individuals of Biafra from the nation Nigeria. Securing, authorizing and shielding are tracked down in 2 states in Nigeria, remembering Delta and Bayelsa States for Nigeria.

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That to start with there was no Nation known and called Nigeria except for there were Kingdoms, for example, the Urhobos, Isokos, Ijaws, Ogoni, Ibibos, Ikwerres, Nupes, Efiks, Yorubas, Hausas, Kanuris and so on.

That Urhobo Nation is the fifth biggest ethnic identity in Nigeria with 24 realms of: Abraka, Agbarha-Otor, Agbarha-Warri, Agbarho, Agbon, Arhavwarien, Evwreni, Ewu, Effurun-Otor, Jesse, Jeremi, Mosogar, Ogor, Okpe, Okere-Urhobo, Olomu, Okparabe, Oghara, Orogun, Udu, Uvwie, Ughelli, and Uhweru with unmistakable identity has depute with the Government of Nigeria.

That the instance of the Urhobo is established on the wrongs of Relegation, Human Right Abuses, Social and Economic Deprivation, Environmental Degradation, Oppression and Marginalization Committed by the Government of Nigeria against the Urhobo.

That the wrongs are keeping on emerging de bite the dust in dem (from one day to another) in this manner bringing about the progressive yet consistent disintegration and consumption of individuals’ mind.

That even the 2012 United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) depicted the Niger Delta region (Urhobo country) as a catastrophe and the most contaminated site on the planet.

That the Urhobo public’s mission for self-assurance and its specialist privileges has been age-long and has been focal in every one of the requests of our forbearers to the pre-autonomous protected meetings up till the current day.

That I know as a reality that our mission for self-assurance is like that individuals of the South Eastern States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, despite the fact that the

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Urhobo individuals have controlled themselves from depending on self improvement or savagery despite grave incitement coming about because of the net foul play, debasement, underestimation, disregard, abuse and oppression distributed against it by Nigeria.

That I likewise know as a reality that the Indigenous People of Biafra have differently distributed their political and topographical arrangement and guide for their Republic of Biafra; and have reliably proclaimed that Biafra isn’t for Igbo-talking individuals just as there are others who don’t communicate in Igbo yet are essential for the Biafra Republic.

That I know as a reality that in a new assertion made by the representative of IPOB, Emmanuel Nmezu and Dr Clifford Chudwuemeka Iroanya, the Indigenous People of Biafra brought up that in the current day Nigeria, Biafra covers the accompanying states: Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, and Rivers state as well as Igbanke in Edo state, Igala in Kogi State and Idoma in Benue state.

That I likewise know as a reality that the Map of Biafra has recorded 25 regions of Biafra which incorporates Urhobo-talking social gatherings/ethnic identities in Delta and Bayelsa States of Nigeria.

That I know as a reality that never in time, both in the verifiable past and as of now, has the Urhobo ethnic ethnicity at any point concurred or set out to be essential for the Biafra Republic. The Forum Urhobo Leaders of Thought thus unequivocally emphasizes that no Urhobo clan or domain is part or will be important for the Republic of Biafra.

That I know as a reality that, considering the previous realities, the reliefs looked for in this starting gathers will probably influence the freedoms of Applicant and without a doubt the bigger interest of the Urhobo country who the Applicant addresses in a way that will be indispensable.

That it is important to join the Applicant to this suit, to manage the cost of them the chance of stating their right to self-assurance from Nigeria, which is like the right being tried to be upheld for the Urhobos.

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That it is additionally important to join the Applicant to empower them to explain/settle the discussion of the geological domain of the Urhobo country as against that of the Indigenous People of Biafra to stay away from additional questions between individuals of Urhobo country and individuals of Biafra which is probably going to emerge should the Honorable Court award the moment application in light of the ongoing the state of affairs.

That the Applicant is a vital party as the moment suit can’t be genuinely settled in its nonappearance. Accordingly, the presence of the Applicant is essential for the viable and complete assurance of the center issue under the steady gaze of the Honorable Court; being the geological region over which individuals of Biafra are qualified for have their self-assurance.

That the Applicant is important to join the Applicant to this suit, considering the similitude of the interest of individuals of Biafra and individuals of the Urhobo country in acquiring self-assurance unequivocally to stay away from variety of suits on similar topic of self-assurance of ethnic identities from Nigeria.

That it is likewise important to join the Applicant to this suit to empower this Honorable Court to settle the topic of the geological region of Biafra and the Urhobo Nation once and for to keep away from or prevent conceivable future case on the topic.

That the refusal of the moment application will influence the Applicant’s major right to a fair hearing.

That it is in light of a legitimate concern for equity to give this application as supplicated; as neither of the gatherings is probably going to be biased by the award of this application which is gotten honest intentions.

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