A Biafran activist, Dr. Ngozi Orabueze has revealed the key factor responsible for heightened insecurity in the Southeast of the country. This is even as the activist alleged that European countries’ quest for oil resources is the reason for persistent killings and insecurity in the Southeast.
Orabueze, known as the Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the United States of Biafra, made this disclosure in a statement through her X account on Thursday.
Her comment comes amidst the recent Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline deal signed by Nigeria. The deal, according to reports would see Nigeria transport billions of cubic metres of gas 4,128 kilometres (2,565 miles) from Nigeria in West Africa through Niger and on to Algeria. And then pump the undersea Mediterranean pipeline, Transmed, to Italy, DAILY POST report.
Reacting to the project, Orabueze alleged that insecurity and militarization of ‘Biafraland’ were due to projects like this. She stated that European nations want to capture resource deposits in the Southeast.
According to her, the killings in the Southeast have continued untamed because Europe was interested in exporting petroleum products from the oil and gas-rich regions.
The activist, however, added that the invasion of the Southeast over oil resources will be resisted.
She said, “Europe’s quest for oil in Biafraland is the major reason for the continued invasion, killings, and occupation of a sovereign state, the United States of Biafra, by Nigeria.
“This invasion and occupation will become resisted, and Biafrans must defend themselves and their land. Nigeria is mandated to leave the Biafra nation,” she claimed.
This is just as the Biafra group has continued to call for the release of the two Biafra agitators, Simon Ekpa, arrested by the Finnish government last November, and Nnamdi Kanu, rearrested by the Nigerian government in June 2021.
Recall that a human rights organization, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), made a revelation on the killings in the Southeast. Intersociety recently claimed that at least 180 people were allegedly killed in the South-East by security agencies and non-state actors between December 2024 and January 2025.
source: Daily Post
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