Mr. Chukwudum Ikeazor,

Mrs. Ruth Barnett,

Pastor. Victor Iwuoha and the

Reverend  Fathers.

And I would also like to thank the:

Members of the Good Shepherds Movement,

Members of the Igbo Community,

Members of the Jewish Community,

Members of the London Jewish Cultural Centre  and Members of the Holocaust Survival Centre for coming to the North Western Reform Synagogue in North London.

I would also like to thank Ms. Lynette Sunderland and all the Synagogue staff for all their help in arranging the venue, here in the Synagoge.

We have gathered here today the 30th May 2007  to remember millions of  our dead  who died unjustly in the  Jewish Holocaust between 1939-1945 and millions more of the Biafran People who were killed and deliberately starved to death between 1966- 1970. We also acknowledge  the personal sacrifice of many non - Jews and non –Biafrans who came to our aid in the hour  of our  need and were unjustly killed or died as a result, such individuals and couples like Captain Augie Martin and his wife and two crew members, ‘Bull’ Brown, Richard Holzman, Hans Raab, Emane Ngwu and Vince Williams and so many others. It should be noted that Jews and Biafran people remain till date on the killing list of many nations, groups and individuals who remain bent on committing this heneious crime called ‘genocide’ against our people. Sometimes we are expected to forgive those who have committed this terrible atrocity against us, by those who have never suffered this unspeakable crime which is now speakable because it is  becoming a common event in the human calendar of atrocities.

I pause to ask a question, where is the soul of the civilised man? and how human is he?  I’m  begining  to wonder that somehow the civilised men and women are involved in these crimes, I consider their silence as consent. In all the cases they are fully aware of what is happening on the ground but they chose to serve what they considered to be  their best interests, sometimes they allow the use of their freedom of press to ochestrate the denial of what is a proven fact that there was a Jewish holocaust and Biafran genocide where thousands and even millions of  people who witnessed it are still alive.

Another burning question I wish to ask is when will the denial of the holocaust  and the Biafran genocide become  a crime to all the nations of the earth?

The reason being that the denial of the holocaust and the genocide is an act of  holocaust and genocide in itself, because any method or system applied by the these evil men and women to calm their wicked minds which are desperate to kill the innocent should be seen as a crime.

Victims will always try to forgive, should they also forget? We need to ask for evidence that evilish men and women are repentant before we rush to forgiveness which I am considering to be unjust. Maybe we should after all forgive for God’s sake and also to save our minds from insanity  which can occur as a result of the trauma from this terrible and hurtful thing some of us  have experienced and witnessed.

Many people in this audience may not have heard about the Biafran genocide, the Jewish Holocaust or even the Good Shepherds Movment, we have  here some guest speakers who will take us through these events, speakers who are eye witnesses to these terrible crimes against our people and humanity  at large.  As for the Good Shepherds Movement we are a pro-Biafran, pro-Jewish and pro- Israeli voluntary organisation. We believe that Israel is an underdog that has managed to defend itself against all odds with the hands of the almighty God, Biafrans too are  underdogs which have not managed to defend nor free itself even though, arguably we have the highest concentration of  human  resources both intellectually and materially in  Black Africa.

Some civilised people claimed that they supported the underdogs, but I am here today to bear witness that they did not in Biafra, watching the media I am not seeing their support for Israel. The very same people accuse  Israel of aggression when small Israel rises to defend itself against the force of  terror from multitudes of enemies. It is time to ask the world to stop the political  appeasement and stand on the truth.

Many people will be wondering what on earth is the Jewish Holocaust and Biafran Genocide?  and why the two together?  The Former is over 60 years ago and the latter is 40 years ago. Some evidence in our history has shown  plausible significant links,  there have been forerunners in the history of the Jewish people, Joseph, Moses, John the Baptist  Thordor Herzl, etc . There have also been forerunners in the history of the Igbos (Biafrans) Oludah Equino,Edward Wilmot, Emeka Ojukwu etc. The Jews expanded across Europe and are successful, the Igbo expand across West Africa and are successful.

Jews & Igbos are commonly hated across these respective regions. There is no other reason than envy.

I never even knew that Igbos were called Jews in Nigeria until 1988 when I was travelling to Lagos, my taxi driver said:

“ where are you coming from ? “

‘Benin’,  I replied         

He said “look at all these businesses they are all owned by the Jews, I can’t believe it, that  in 18 years they can come and take over again after all we did to them!” 

I was perplexed, I asked ‘who are the Jews?’

“Old boy Igbos I mean” he explained.

A terrible fear went into my body because I found myself in the lions den.

 In 1914 Nigeria, under the British elite, Sir Lord Lugard was asked to amalgamate Biafra and Nigeria without referendum nor plebecide. In 1917 another British man

Sir James Balfour was doing the same game with Israel.

In 1939-45 the Jewish were faced with total anihilation of an enormous proportion. With the hands of the Almighty some Jews survived to re-establish Israel, where it  has always been.

The Good Shepherds Movement and the Biafran people are  here today  to remember our fallen heroes and to celebrate in this 40th year (of the start of the Biafran Genocide) victory with Israel. By the might of almighty God  the survival of the Jews served as a forerunner  to prevent  the anihilation of Biafra.

Biafran people go and read your recent history  you will see what the Jewish community and the  nation of  Israel and its people contributed  to prevent the planned anihilation of Biafra. The victory of Israel is our  victory, for evidence has now shown that  the enemies of Israel have always been the enemies of the Biafra people. We can no longer afford to shy away from this basic fact. The Jewish and the Biafran people are the only few nations on this earth that people hate because of their industriousness  and their name.

All Jews are Jews in the eyes of the enemy,he/she does care of  orthodox, liberal, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, messianic, Asian Jew, American Jew, British Jew,European Jew or African Jew. The irony of it all is that the Biafran people are called and known as Jews in Nigeria, the Islamists treat us as such. Whenever conflict  erupts in the Middle East involving Israel rhetoric and attack against the Igbos (Biafrans) starts in Nigeria. (see accompanying articles). We have not asked to be identified as Jews, we have no synagogues, we are not going to ask for the right of return. 99% of our 35 million population are Christians, because of fear many of our people are now hiding their identity as Igbos, but the enemy see us as Jews.

Yes, the Igbos converted to Christianity  just 200 - 300 years ago, yes 35 million Igbos practice what appears to be a Jewish tradition over hundreds of  years, every Igbo male is circumcisend  eight days after birth, a tradition that has been for hundreds of years, there are special rituals and laws regarding killing and eating meat. We recognise and  worship one God before the Europeans brought Christianity, this one God we called Chukwu Abiam  (God of Abraham).

This and other recent archealogical evidence  has suggested a link between Jews and Igbos. Perhaps there is a link?  Why we are collectively hated by the same people.

Is it not right therefore that  We must now share sorrow together and celebrate victory together.  I have catholic Rev. Fathers here who can bear witness to a claim I wish to make,  The Igbos are the only group of  ‘Nigerian’ Christians that believe in the Torah (Old testament), continued in what appears to be Judaism  in their tradition and  pray  for the victory Israel  in  their Churches  and homes while we remain Christians.

We the Good Shepherds Movement have come to hear the experiences of a Holocaust survivor,  an eye witness. This will enable us to extend the story to the Afro - European Community and Sub-Saharan Africa.  We want Israel to have more friends in Africa  and further enhance mutual understanding between the Biafran people and the Jewish commmunity especially now our adversaries are once again on the rise.

In the last few months we have been actively involved in promoting Jewish/Israeli and Biafran causes. We have learnt a lot.

I  have observed some of the strengths of our communities, I am also concerned of its weaknesses.  One of which is our inability to created a multifacted strategy to engage against our growing enemies, counteracting them, not only with force, both with multimedia, community activities, voluntary works, spiritually, using historical knowledge either real or traditional stories, engaging them from many dimensions as diverse as they might prove to be.  The Jews and the Igbos cannot continue thinking that caging in and new Baptisms can  stop the aggression of a pathological enemy who is bent on our extermination. Wars, appeasement, relinquishing of assets  and peace agreements  will not be effective enough for the type of  enemy our people are facing. The enemy is bent on the project of world domination, but this world is created by  Chukwu Abiam and he is our God.

I will assure you that anyone that tells the story of Holocaust and Genocide has prevented holocaust and genocide in the soul of the person who heard your story.  Joining those who wish that we do not continue to remind the world what happened, is directly or indirectly encouraging what the Arab Militia are doing in Darfur. Why has the civilised world kept a blind eye from these atrocities, perhaps the victims have not qualified in the theory of what constitutes  human beings, maybe they are yet to develop the zeal to use their children to launch suicide bombs.

The media cannot be used to  expose the nations and culture behind these atrocities, image of their children and women are more profitable to be used by “charity companies” to attract sympathy from their western donors. We are not only witnessing genocide in Darfur by Arab Militias against black Africans, but we are living witnesses to the most cruel lies in modern history.

Mr. Lapid,  President of Yad Vashem, spoke of the need to act against modern genocides.
He stated: