Biafran agitators are crazy – Rev. Uma Ukpai

Ini Friday

The President Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association Incorporated, Rev. Uma Ukpai, on Wednesday flayed agitation for Biafra, being championed by the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Brafra and the Indigenous People of Brafra, describing those behind movements as crazy people.

According to him, anyone agitating for Biafra at this point, goes to show the level of their madness, adding, however, that everybody is mad, but the difference is in the level of madness.

Rev Ukpai said these in his Office in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, while fielding questions from newsmen on Wednesday

“There will always be crazy people, even when people are seen to be normal. Whoever is agitating for Biafra, shows the level of his madness, but everybody is mad, the difference is the level of your madness,” the cleric said.

He emphasised that it is normal and proper that every zone should be given the chance to live, noting that the South East has not led Nigeria before.

Rev Ukpai also gave an assessment of Nigeria, noting that he is disappointed that at 60, there are still divisive elements holding the country apart.

According to him until Nigerians begin to love one another and respect one another, they would not make any meaningful progress.

He said: “In Nigeria we are all in a hurry to reach where are going to, so much so that we have no regards for others, no time for others and no love for others.

“As a nation until we love one another, we cannot notice one another, only when we love that which we have, that we can develop. But in Nigeria, we don’t care whether others eat or not.

“If we have no respect for one another, it also means we don’t care whether others exist or not.”

Reacting to Adeboye’s statement on restructuring and the controversies it generated, Ukpai said: “I don’t think that he (Adeboye) is not entitled to his opinion.

“He is a man of God, and he must have seen what happened during the Civil War, which would guide him in the deductions he made. But to me everybody is entitled to his opinion.”