{"id":649,"date":"2021-06-28T04:55:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T10:35:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"649\" class=\"elementor elementor-649\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-13b8c80 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"13b8c80\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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.elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>FREE MAZI NNAMDI OKWU KANU OUR LEADER &#8211; GIVE BIAFRA REFERENDUM NOW<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1458 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MNK-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MNK-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MNK-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MNK.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p>Robert Melson, a foreigner, a Holocaust survivor and a Nigerian expert who witnessed what happened<\/p><p>between 1967 -1970. In his book, &#8216;Revolution and genocide&#8217;, Melson states that: &#8220;I could not help but make the connection between their experience and my own. Biafrans were being killed purely for their identity:<\/p><p>it was as if the twenty-some years after the Second World War had been compressed into a few minutes.<\/p><p>The Holocaust monster was on the prowl again, and it was no use trying to escape its implications in Africa or elsewhere&#8221;.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1453\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4766035_1_jpgf3ccdd27d2000e3f9255a7e3e2c48800-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4766035_1_jpgf3ccdd27d2000e3f9255a7e3e2c48800-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4766035_1_jpgf3ccdd27d2000e3f9255a7e3e2c48800-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4766035_1_jpgf3ccdd27d2000e3f9255a7e3e2c48800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p>If the Rome Statute had then existed, Nigeria\u2019s head of the Federal Military Government, Yakubu Gowon, his commanders and several others would have been prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity for orchestrating the destruction of Biafrans in whole or in substantial part because of their ethnicity<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1455 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4872-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4872-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4872-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4872.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><p>2. The Present Era:<br \/>We are aware of the propaganda emanating from the Nigerian government and Northern Nigerian Islamic fundamentalists aligned with the government that the neo-Biafran struggle for self-determination is an ethnic backlash against President Mohamadu Buhari just because he is a Hausa-Fulani Muslim. We state unequivocally that this is false and petty. The truth is that the post-War struggle peaked in mid-2015 when Mr Buhari systematically embarked on his Jihadist policies, coupled with his open toleration of Fulani herdsmen terrorists that had simultaneously commenced an intense ethnic cleansing of Christians, including Biafrans. This was also immediately following a well-publicized comment by Mr Buhari (during his campaign for the presidency) that \u2018an attack against Boko Haram is an attack against northern Nigerian Muslims\u2019. Little wonder then that Boko Haram terrorism has peaked to new highs since Buhari\u2019s Presidency.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/50-years-on-examining-international-solidarity-with-biafra\/g-51967639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1456 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sddefault-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sddefault-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sddefault-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sddefault.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>In the face of Mr Buhari\u2019s anti-Christian posturing and his complicit inaction to reign-in on herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists, Biafrans responded by organizing themselves under a group named the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, a devout Jewish adherent of dual Nigerian and British citizenship.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3sKWiz2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1459 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nigeria-50-years-after-civil-war-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nigeria-50-years-after-civil-war-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nigeria-50-years-after-civil-war-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nigeria-50-years-after-civil-war.jpg 914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It is to be noted that Kanu was borne in 1967 and thus never participated in the war of 1967 -1970. So, he couldn&#8217;t have been driven by a sense of loss, revenge or bitterness; but by, instead, a sense that his people are being mistreated badly and are verging in again becoming the victims of another genocide.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The Majority of Biafrans share the same view, even so quietly because of fear of retribution by the Nigerian government or other non-State Islamic groups in alliance with the government.<\/p><p>Kanu, who employed non-violent means was nonetheless harassed, arrested, tortured, jailed without trial; and according to credible accounts, was offered gratification to abandon the struggle but he refused.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/3HHnFhv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1464 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nnamdi-Kanu-and-new-head-of-his-defence-team-SAN-Mike-Ezekome-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nnamdi-Kanu-and-new-head-of-his-defence-team-SAN-Mike-Ezekome-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nnamdi-Kanu-and-new-head-of-his-defence-team-SAN-Mike-Ezekome-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nnamdi-Kanu-and-new-head-of-his-defence-team-SAN-Mike-Ezekome.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>His tribulations is but one of such levied by the Buhari-led administration against thousands of Biafrans, all because their ethnicity and religion and for possessing a political opinion (self determination) which the government of Nigeria is intent on suppressing through a punishment of some sort.<\/p><p>Amnesty International reports that since the advent of the Buhari administration in 2015 till now, Nigerian government has killed more than 300 Biafrans and wounded many more while they held peaceful protests against the killings and for self-determination. Amnesty International says that many of those pro-Biafra protesters were shot and killed in their sleep and others while they gathered in churches to pray. Many of the protesters were shot and killed from behind while they tried to escape.<\/p><p>According to the Report titled &#8211; NIGERIA: SHADOW REPORT TO THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES\u2019 RIGHTS, 62ND ORDINARY SESSION: 25 APRIL- 09 MAY 2018, it is stated that: &#8220;In the southeast, the military was deployed to respond to a series of protests, marches and gatherings by members and supporters of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB ), who are seeking the creation of an independent Biafran state. Between August 2015 and October 2016, security forces killed at least 150 IPOB members and supporters during non-violent gatherings. Amnesty International documented 11 incidents, including one where at least 60 people were killed in May 2016 when the security forces opened fire on IPOB supporters in various locations in the southeast and another in September 2017, where security forces killed at least 12 IPOB supporters in Umuahia, Abia state. The Federal authorities banned IPOB in 2017&#8221;.<\/p><p>Country Reports released by the US State Department between the current period in review (2016 &#8211; 2018) confirmed much of these, particularly the Nigerian government\u2019s declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organization in September 2017, which shocked the conscience of the international community, especially as President Buhari had fought against declaring Boko Haram a terrorist organization and scoffs at the global view that Fulani herdsmen terrorists militia is the fourth deadliest in the world.<\/p><p>As you are reading this, the massacre by Fulani herdsmen Islamic terrorists is on-going. We continue to bury our brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters every week, and every month. We have watched our daughters and wives publicly raped and butchered. People have been burnt alive.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8d6a5f elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"b8d6a5f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-arrow-alt-circle-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a41ec56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-testimonial\" data-id=\"a41ec56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"testimonial.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.5 - 27-04-2022 *\/\n.elementor-testimonial-wrapper{overflow:hidden;text-align:center}.elementor-testimonial-wrapper 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class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tactive subscribers\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3514051 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"3514051\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon elementor-animation-\" >\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-user\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span  >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t4 million\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tmonthly unique\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33de1f9 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"33de1f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon elementor-animation-\" >\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-newspaper\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span  >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t8 million\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tmonthly page views\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91a03d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"91a03d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Editorial<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3acc51a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3acc51a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"d7d7c94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/business-blog-team-member-img-4.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Jessica Hill<\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Managing Editor<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c648b3f elementor-position-left elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"c648b3f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/business-blog-team-member-img-3.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Anna Obi<\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Senior Editor<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4414777 elementor-position-left elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"4414777\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/business-blog-team-member-img-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Patrick Hendrick<\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Researcher-Writer<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d253fc6 elementor-position-left elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"d253fc6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/business-blog-team-member-img-7.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Christine Hills<\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Writer<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cec327d elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"cec327d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-1-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-1-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download-1.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h4><h4><strong>In the 21st century, the Igbo diaspora has come more dispersed throughout all mainlands and utmost countries in the world.<\/strong><\/h4><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1635 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/images-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p><p><strong>They&#8217;ve come an established transnational diaspora with the US is home to the majority and across Europe and Asia.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>With the continuing socio-political extremity in Nigeria this diaspora has come\u00a0 formalized.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) serving as a social, cultural organization and an NGO umbrella representing and protecting <\/strong><\/p><p><strong>the interest of Ndi-Igbo in diaspora.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2b554a elementor-position-left elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"c2b554a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img width=\"612\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MaryAmara03938383.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Amara & Mary<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Director of Events<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90ec7e9 elementor-position-left elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-tablet__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-inherit elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"90ec7e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/biafrareferendum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/business-blog-team-member-img-5.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><div 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