It is the British people that ought to celebrate that; that the people they put together are still staying together. They should come down here and celebrate and ask us how we feel about it. They have to celebrate because all other federations that they tried putting together have all broken down. Federation of East Africa dissolved into Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. They created the West Indies Federation, which also failed and you now have Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago; they created Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, it failed. The only federation they created then that has not failed is Nigeria, which is bound to fail if we don’t sit down and talk and that is why when Biafra declared independence, British fought tooth and nail to make sure Nigeria didn’t fail because they hold it as the only success they have in the British empire. They also created the Federation of Malaysia and Singapore, it failed. The time that Biafra was pulling out was also when Singapore was pulling out of the Federation of Malay, Singapore and North Borneo. Those were federations British put together. Had it not the been the territory the French people have between Ghana and us, Ghana would have been part of the federation. Remember, we had one currency from Sierra Leone, Gambia, Gold Coast (Ghana) and Nigeria. We had also one Appeal court- the West Africa Court of Appeal, which used to sit in Sierra Leone. It was just a matter of geography otherwise they would have made a West African Federation, which would have brought us, Ghana and the countries together.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 19:54:59 +0000
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