According to Nana, she used what she has to get what she needs after her boyfriend who was sponsoring her education abandoned her midway following lies told against her by jealous friends. Her words: "My boyfriend whom I met when I went to visit an uncle who was sponsoring my education. We had agreed to get married as soon as possible. Then some people i regard has a friends started peddling wicked lies against me without confirming if they were saying was true or false, he called it quits just like that. They told him I had an incurable disease. So, i decided to help myself because my parents cannot do anything for me. We are poor. My father used to be a driver but now he is unemployed while my mother is a full time housewife. Sometimes, she sells vegetables", They were paying me GH¢150 a month and you work late hours. But if you go out to hustle in the night, you can get that kind of money within a day or two. About 600 men slept with me from last year
A team of Igbo leaders under Alaigbo Development foundation and South East Elders Forum are back from the United states House of representatives and also from United Nations Headquarters respectively where it submitted a petition on the plight of South East requesting for urgent intervention.
This move might hasten the struggle to actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra.
According to a member of delegation, Dr Alfred Ikedife, the team spent some weeks in the US to that ensure the message was delivered to the recipients for necessary action.
Ikedife said the two bodies made up of traditional rulers, Religional leaders, Academicians, technocrats and leaders of thought in many fields of human endeavour in Igbo land were concerned about the ethnic group, Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the World.
The petition read: We have suffered genocidal crimes committed against us by Nigerians, especially those of the Northern Nigeria, dating back to 1945. This climaxed in the pogrom of 1996/67. By the general agreement of the people of Eastern Nigeria, we decided to distance ourselves from the rest of Nigeria, based on many waves unjustified killings. We therefore, elected to be known as people of independent State of Biafra in 1967.
"Immediately after this, Nigeria with her allies, declared War on this young state of Biafra.
"Unprepared, unexpected, we were forced to defend ourselves for 30 months before we were overwhelmed by complete blockade starvation, heavy indiscriminate bombing of churches, markets and other public places. Were we forced to surrender Nigeria allied forces on January 12, 1970, to save the rest of Igbo populations from complete eradication," the letter read.
According to the petition, despite the window dressing declaration of 'no victor, no vanquished and the policy of inhabitation, reconstruction and reintegration, economic strangulation and systematic exclusion of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria (Biafra) had followed since then.
It articulated what it called unprovoked, unjustiable sporadic killings of the Igbo that had continued with instances of the Igbo Massacre in Jos and the Kano genocide which culminated in the 1966 pogrom.
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