Former minister of Aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Femi Fani Kayode have called on Nigeria as a whole to apologize to the Igbos in order to end the bloodshed going on in various parts of the country.
Chief Kayode made the statement via his Twitter handle this morning.
He said the genocide and ethnic cleansing that was unleashed against the Igbos years ago where over 3million people of the South East region were killed is the reason behind the problem Nigeria is in today.
He wrote; “Nigeria must offer an unreserved apology to the Igbo people of the SE for the genocide,ethnic cleansing and mass murder that was unleashed on them during the civil war. 3 million Biafran were slaughtered(1 millon of them children) in the space of 3 years during that conflict.
“This represents the greatest act of black on black genocide on the African continent in history. It is only surpassed, in terms of casualties, by the bestial acts of King Leopold 11 of Belgium when he and his subjects slaughtered 10 million Congolese during the colonial era.
“Nothing can go right in Nigeria till a genuine andheartfelt expression of regret for what we did to the Biafrans is tendered by the leadership and people of our country and some form of restitution and compensation is made. The mass murder,ethnic cleansing and genocide that.
“we are witnessing today in Nigeria and which is being inflicted on us by a callous,brutal,heartless,cold-blooded and wicked horde of strangers and homicidalmaniacs that came from a foreignland 200 years ago is a spiritual consequence of what we did to the Biafrans in the war.
“The only way that the carnage and bloodfest can be stopped and the vicious and endless cycle of violence can be broken is when we repent for what we did to those innocent and defenceles Biafran civilians during the civil war and apologise for it.
” Until then Nigeria will continue to wallow in blood, death, sorrow, failure, shame, poverty and carnage. Why? Because we are a nation under God’s judgment”.
