Legal Dilemmas

By  Ehiwe Sam, Lagos Recently, Nigeria has been going through a myriad of problems which have challenged its corporate existence. In this view, there have been suggestions from different quarters as to the best solution to the problems. In the West, there is the call for an Oduduwa Republic championed by the likes of Femi Fani Kayode. In the North some are fanning the embers of an Arewa Republic while in the South the call is for a Middle Belt Republic. The most pronounced of them all is the agitation for an Independent Republic of Biafra championed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from the Eastern part of Nigeria. The call for a Republic of Biafra is very delicate and sensitive owing to the fact that such a call presents a de javu of what history holds. The loss of lives that followed the first ever attempt by Easterners led by Ojukwu led to avoidable hostilities which resulted in the loss of lives of many Nigerians, most of who died of hunger and disease. It would be recalled that