Kanu’s agitation for self-determination, result of failure of 1914 amalgamation – Igbo Ministers

A group of clergymen, Igbo Ministers Commission, has insisted that the self- determination bid by the detained Biafra agitator, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is a fallout of the failure of the 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates by the British government.

The Igbo Ministers emphasized in particular that Nigeria’s creation in 1914 was not a union born of mutual consent but a colonial construct imposed by Britain for administrative and economic convenience.

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