Dafwat Da JosBoi, a prominent Plateau Indigene wrote,
''...So there was this Biafran protest in Onitsha where the Onitsha central mosque is purportedly burnt down by the Biafran protesters...... Then U have people from the south West instigating the Hausa northerners to retaliate and kill all the Igbos in their vicinity in the north.......... Surprisingly mesmerizing is the response of most of the Hausa northerners which was mostly to the part of caution and reason.
So let it be known that the central mosque is still there intact safe for the shanty shops besides it.
Some southwesterners can be really funny really, Gowon, my kinsman who led the Nigerian troops then and fought the Biafran is the most remorseful and always envisioned equity and fair treatment of the Igbos beginning from his 3Rs immediately after the war. It was a westerner who against the instruction of Gowon to replace the economic status of the Igbos only gave them 20 shillings each no matter their wealth prior to the war. Yet they rose through thick and thin to their present economic vantage point........ These are surely not some people to ignore in the scheme of things in Nigeria.
I still maintain that the agitations of the Igbo people is valid and a reflection of the agitation of the many tribes of the middle belt. Nigerians must sit, talk and negotiate this contraption ....... Anything besides this would amount to running in circles.... Those Igbo-hate mongers had better take a queue from Gowon if we are all one Nigeria.....