By Patrick Ahanor
Benin City
The Managing Director of Biafra Radio, Nnamdi Kanu, has said that plans were underway for the memorial of over 3.6 million Igbo killed during the Nigerian Civil War.
Kanu, who stated this in a statement in Benin City, the Edo state capital, said the event scheduled for May 30, this year, would be the first in 42 years.
He warned the federal government against moves to thwart the people of Biafra aspiration of becoming a sovereign nation on or before December 2015.
He said: “We are the only people that failed to remember those that died, until our dear brother, Godswill Akpabio, did something about it; and we commend him.
“The reason he did it is because he listens to Radio Biafra. Every sensible person listens to Radio Biafra. In fact, most people get what is happening all over the world from Radio Biafra, not from any other source.
“So, on May 30, 2014, everywhere in the world, starting from 12 o’ clock in Japan as soon as the sun is directly overhead, we shall hold a two minutes silence for our fallen people.
“As the sun is hitting midday on every time zone across the length and breadth of the earth, we shall remember them. We want to tell the world that we have presence on every time zone in the world.”
He described the Radio station as “the voice of Indigenous People of Biafra,” adding that “we are in over 88 countries around the world, and that is where we derive our strength and formidability from.”