Biafra: Europe’s quest for oil resources reason for killings – Orabueze alleges

Biafra activist, Dr. Ngozi Orabueze has claimed that European countries’ quest for oil resources is the reason for persistent killings and insecurity in the South-East region of Nigeria.

Orabueze, known as the Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the United States of Biafra, disclosed this in a statement through her X account on Thursday.

Her comment comes amid a recent Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline deal signed by Nigeria, which would transport billions of cubic metres of gas 4,128 kilometres (2,565 miles) from Nigeria in West Africa through Niger and on to Algeria, then pump the undersea Mediterranean pipeline, Transmed, to Italy.

Reacting, Orabueze alleged that insecurity and militarization of Biafraland were due to the capture of resource deposits in the region.

According to her, the killings in the South-East have continued untamed because Europe was interested in exporting petroleum products from the oil and gas-rich regions.

She added that the invasion of the South-east over oil resources will be resisted.

“Europe’s quest for oil in Biafraland is the major reason for the continued invasion, killings, and occupation of a sovereign state, the United States of Biafra, by Nigeria.

“This invasion and occupation will become resisted, and Biafrans must defend themselves and their land. Nigeria is mandated to leave the Biafra nation,” she claimed.

This is just as the Biafra group has continued to call for the release of the two Biafra agitators, Simon Ekpa, arrested by the Finnish government last November, and Nnamdi Kanu, rearrested by the Nigerian government in June 2021.

Recall that a human rights organisation, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), claimed recently that at least 180 people were allegedly killed in the South-East by security agencies and non-state actors between December 2024 and January 2025.