Eastern Nigerian region went into hard bondage, extreme sufferings because of afflictions, great servitude, because of the heathen soldiers among us. Rest departed from our region because our persecutors overtook us between the straits. We mourned and are still mourning because our feasting days were destroyed, our gates became desolate, opened for violent herds men. Because of suffering, our beauty departed, our princes were converted like harts that find no pasture, without strength before their pursuers. Old eastern region part of Nigeria is left with only one option, PRAYER