Tension is rising rapidly at the present time because of the eastern regions threat to secede from the federation unless agreements reached by the military governors at a meeting in January at Abouri. Ghana. are implemented promptly. Among other things these agreements provide that payments will .be made to help the Ibos who returned to the eastern region as refugees after the SeptemberOctober massacres in the north. Because none of the Abouri agreements have yet been put into effect the East has been threatening secession. Their real aim. however. appears to be the desire for a much looser federation than presently exists. so that as the most economically advanced and most richly endowed region they can develop at their own pace. without being held back by the other less developed regions. particularly the north.
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