Objective of African Union and Their Rules over Biafra Agitation

Objective of African Union and Their Rules over Biafra Agitation

April 6, 2022

By Okoafor Odinaka Nwachineke | For Biafra Writers

African Union (AU) is an independent continental union that consists of 55 member state in African continent. There are several other bodies that make up the African Union which include:

African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government (AU-AHSG). This is the decision making body of the Union and their basics functions are as follows: (1) consider membership requests into the Union, (2) decide on what actions to be taken after consideration of reports and recommendations from the other organs of the Union, etc.

Others are Pan-African Parliament (PAP), the Executive council … consisting of foreign ministers of AU member states, and the African Union Commission. The aforementioned bodies are the legislative and Executive branch of the African Union.

The Executive council which are made up of ministers designated by the government of member states has as its major function the responsibility to discuss issues of concern and prepare matters for the Assembly. Their decision making is based on several topics like communication, social security, foreign trade etc. Their basic functions include cultivation of human rights and democracy in Africa; making sure member states adhere to good governance, transparency and accountability, engender peace, security and stability on the continent of Africa etc.

The Commission of the African Union acts as the executive/administrative branch or secretariat of the AU which consists of a number of commissioners dealing with different areas of policy.

The structure of the African Union (AU) that has very diverse committees:

Permanent committees of the Pan-African Parliament (cooperation, international relations, and conflict resolutions, justice and human rights, rules, privileges, and discipline).

Having read about all the objectives, functions, and power of the African Union, one then begins to ask: have their decision making body Pan-African Parliament lived up to their expectations in regards to the issues of Nigeria and the Eastern part of Nigeria called Biafra? If no, what might be keeping them from doing the needful in a situation like this?

If their functions are really cooperation, international relations, and conflict resolutions, justice and human rights, rules, privileges, and discipline, engender peace, security and stability on the continent of Africa etc, have they live up to expectation in Nigeria in regards to this functions above, or are they not aware of what is happening in Nigeria? Maybe they have decided to pay deaf ears like the UN?

Every day in Nigeria there is bad news … killing here, bombing there, conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers, etc. Are you telling me that they are ignorant of all these crimes going on every day? The affected people (Biafrans) and all the ethnicity in Nigeria will no longer fold their hands and watch while their head is being cut off.

This is a call on African Union (AU) to rise up and look into the issues affecting the life and right of the people of Biafra and all other subjugated ethnicity in Nigeria before it’s too late.

Edited by Nelson Ofokar Yagazie