BIAFRA HISTORY THEY DON’T TEACH IN NIGERIA — PART 5

BIAFRA HISTORY THEY DON’T TEACH IN NIGERIA — PART 5

BIAFRA HISTORY THEY DON’T TEACH IN NIGERIA — PART 5

How the War Never Really Ended: Post-1970 Policies And The Continuation Of Biafran Punishment

Nigeria said the war ended in 1970. But for Biafrans, that date only marked a change in tactics. The guns went silent, but the punishment did not.
After Biafra’s surrender, Nigeria understood something critical:
military force alone cannot permanently subdue a people. So the battlefield shifted from bombs to bureaucracy, from starvation to structural exclusion, and from open hostility to “national policy”. But, the objective remained the same: contain Igbo power and ambition.

Post-war Nigeria rebuilt itself, but carefully avoided rebuilding Igboland.
Seaports in Igboland are deliberately underdeveloped.
Rail and road networks are neglected.
Federal industries are concentrated elsewhere.
Oil wealth are extracted from the region, but power is centralized outside it.

This was not coincidence because ifrastructure follows political trust. Igbo areas were never trusted by Nigeria since after the war.
Yes, Igbo politicians were appointed but rarely empowered.
Key security positions are avoided.
Strategic ministries rotated away.
Electoral structures designed to dilute influence. Representation existed on paper, but decision-making existed elsewhere. This is how domination hides behind democracy.

Whenever agitation resurfaced in Biafraland, the response from the Nigerian government is usually predictable.

• Military checkpoints
• Mass arrests
• Collective punishment
• Labels like “separatists,” “terrorists,” “criminals”

Peaceful demands were met with force while dialogue was replaced with intimidation.
The message? It simply says “don’t remember too loudly.”

Nigeria can ask “Why won’t Biafra die”, but the answer is very simple. Biafra will never die because unresolved injustice does not expire.

• No apology
• No truth
• No restitution
• No equality
• No inclusiveness

Don’t you know that a wound that is never cleaned keeps reopening? Know it today, if you don’t know.

The irony Nigeria refuses to face is that despite decades of exclusion, the Igbo rebuilt;

👉 Commerce without state support

👉 Education without federal investment

👉 Survival without apology

And, this resilience is often twisted into suspicion because success in Nigeria without permission is treated as a threat.

Biafra is not a memory problem, but it is a governance problem. It persists because Nigeria never resolved the issues that created it, they only suppressed the symptoms.

You can defeat an army but you cannot defeat a question whose answer was never given.
One uncomfortable truth is that Nigeria did not “move on” from the war, it froze it and called the silence peace. But silence breaks, and history, when ignored, returns louder.

In Part 6, we will talk about;
👉 Biafra Today — Why Self-Determination Is No Longer About the Past, But the Future