Osinbajo Decries Nigeria’s Failure to Leverage on Biafran Technology

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday lamented the inability of Nigeria to leverage on the engineering and technological ingenuity that emanated from the defunct Republic of Biafra during the civil war.

He expressed the regret at a town hall meeting at the National Museum in Umuahia organised by the Ken Nnamani Centre for

Leadership and Development to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of nation’s civil war.

The vice president noted that there was an attempt to harness the Biafra technology by establishing the Project Development Agency (PRODA) in Enugu to replicate and improve on the Biafra technological feats exhibited during the war.

However, he said, the objective was not achieved, but he did not explain the reasons why PRODA was allowed to collapse.

Osinbajo, who was accompanied to the War Museum by the host governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, and Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Uche Ogah, harped on the need to forge national unity and cohesion.

He urged Nigerians “to discard the bitterness of the past and look forward to a united Nigeria,” adding that “no human relationship is perfect and that the ties that bind us has survived intense disagreements.”

In his address, Ikpeazu reminded the federal authorities that many areas in the Southeast zone were subjected to intense bombardments thereby wrecking the infrastructure and caused serious devastation to the environment.