Ahiara Declaration Ahiara Declaration The Ahiara Declaration: The Principles of the Biafran Revolution, commonly known as the Ahiara Declaration, was a document written by the National Guidance Committee of Biafra and delivered as a speech by Biafran Head of State of Biafra Emeka Ojukwu in the Biafra town of Ahiara on June 1, 1969. After a series of pogroms in which people from the former Eastern Region of Nigeria living in other parts of that country were massacred between 1966 and 1967, the region seceded in 1967 and proclaimed an independent Republic of Biafra. A bitter war ensued as Nigeria fought to
Biafra child health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure." There is no central authority coordinating the Biafran re-secession campaign after the death of Ex-Biafra government leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who worked closely with MASSOB during his lifetime. Historically, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is the first nonviolent Biafra group that emerged on the present day of the late former Biafra president Gen. Ojukwu in 1999 when MASSOB openly re-hoisted the Biafra flag in Abia State and declared 25 strategies to actualize their peaceful goal. After the death of Gen. Ojukwu in 2011, numerous