An Open Letter From BIAFRANS IN GREECE To Chief Willie
Obiano -The Governor of Anambra State
August 1, 2016
By: Nnamdi Obbodoechi-The National Coordinator of IPOB in GREECE
Dear Governor,
Today being 23rd July 2016, we the Biafrans in Greece under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wake with grudging heart to drop this letter to you. Indigenes of Anambra State voted for you to be the governor of the State, we campaigned against your opponent telling every indigene of the state that he is planning to build mosque in Awka as he promised the Hausas.
It is too appalling that you have now turned to kill and maim the people of Anambra and other Biafrans in our land, even those that held peaceful protest, demanding for the release of the Biafra leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
It is too appalling that you have now turned to kill and maim the people of Anambra and other Biafrans in our land, even those that held peaceful protest, demanding for the release of the Biafra leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
On 29th -30th May 2016 at Mkpo Catholic Church, your orders given to the Nigerian Army killed Biafrans where they held peaceful service to mark the Biafra remembrance day, a day which gave homage to those laid to rest in the 50 years of genocide upon Biafrans. After killing and maiming, your orders gave the right for Nigerian Soldiers to pour acid and take the private parts of those Biafrans killed that day.
Yes, every good thinking person knows that any Governor of a State in Nigeria Federation is the chief security of his relevant State, and in the position to protect the indigenes of that state, while you as Governor allowed yourself to be used by Nigeria’s Islamic President Mohammadu Buhari to kill your people and other Biafrans as well.
Our question is: After your tenure as Governor, where can you be? Is it in the same State with parents of those you killed and maimed their sons and daughters?
Remember that he who kills by the sword, by that same sword shall he be killed. Where is your conscience by associating yourself in the killing of Biafrans, the burying of bodies in mass without the consent of their families? We will like to know what you are doing with their private parts. As you killed them, did you sell their organs to your business partners - Indians and Pakistanis. You must answer for the case for sure!
How can you make yourself as an Hausa slave... Obiano? It is very shameful that you have lost the prestige you have in the State and Igbo/Biafra, and entire former Eastern Nigeria. We would like to know your backing why you are killing the Pro Biafra Agitators? Don’t you know that Biafran agitation is legitimate? According to United Nations Declaration 2007 on the Rights for Indigenous Peoples, Articles: 3, 4, 5 “Indigenous Peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Indigenous Peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the state.’’
This is really the backing of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), which Nigeria, the country you are representing or serving is also under this United Nations Law.
Governor Willie Obiano, can you please tell us your backing and why you are killing Biafrans in Anambra state, while they were protesting peacefully, demanding for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, whilst marking the Biafra 50th Years Anniversary / Remembrance Day? Not only have you killed and maimed, but have buried the victims massively without the consent of their parents.
Do you know as a Governor that the end will surely justify the means? Time shall tell and it must come soon. We say to you, that you will run and leave Anambra State after your tenure, because the State cannot contain you and Biafrans when you have killed their people. Those who supported you, voted for you, you have paid back that trust with death from the Nigerian security operatives by the orders of your President Mohammadu Buhari.
They say “Charity begins at home,’’ but you “Governor Willie Obiano’’ said war and killing of my people (Biafrans) begins at home. Whatever that prompted you to order the killing of Biafrans in Onitsha On August 30th 2015, and at Nkpor Catholic Church in Anambra State on 30th May 2016, we must know it and you must surely be paid, because every uncharitable act boomerangs, when it is boomeranging, the person will regret his actions taken in the past.
There is no way the state will contain you and Biafra, because you have spilled blood on a sacred land, taken the lives of Biafrans, who were sincere in their hearts to fight if need-be for Biafra Freedom.
Lastly, before We end this letter, We would advise you to repent Willie Obiano, and stop dancing the music of Suru Gedee while Nigeria President is beating drum for you, because that music is an evil music, which Igbo speaking Biafrans call “Suru gedee bu egwu muo.’’ Go inside your bedroom, think and rethink, and come back with your senses, in order to amend your ways! Earlier the better, although it is late for you because it was not all by mistake, for you purposely killed and maimed Biafrans.
By BIAFRANS IN GREECE (IPOB)
An open letter from the BIAFRANS IN GREECE to Governor of Imo State-Rochas Okorocha
We, the Biafrans in Greece, will like to start this piece by mentioning the real structure of Old Imo State when Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe was the Governor. We remembered all his true legacies vividly. We believe he could have performed more if not the untimely end of his regime by Muhammed Buhari and his corrupt cronies when they overthrew the Government of Shehu Shagari in 1983. After Sam Mbakwe time in office, the current Imo State and Abia state has not had anyone who has performed like Sam O. Mbakwe because the legacy he left still speaks volume.
Yes indeed, Sam Mbakwe belong to the political party (NPP) under the leadership of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe the opposition party to the ruling party (NPN) then.
The agony and pains he frequently experiences whenever he sent any request to the Federal Government under President Alhaji Shehu Shagari of NPN side are well known that people named him the ''weeping governor". That does not mean that he cries literary rather his love for his people makes him restless until he gives them what they need. So sad, there is no politician today who has such love as shown by Sam Mbakwe to the people.
When Rochas Okorocha joined APGA to contest for the governorship of Imo State our people supported him immensely; substantially because he was running on the platform of APGA party- formed by a group of Igbo politicians. The part was seen by many to be Igbo political party.
Because of the immense support is given to Rochas Okorocha that won him the governorship seat of Imo state. All expectation and hope vanished when he got into the office. He cautiously turned his back on the struggling families of Imo State and place of his political ambitions above the general well-being of the people.
Okorocha alliance with the Northern Nigeria politicians who he put their desires and his blind ambition to contest for the office of Nigeria presidency in 2019 or someday gain support from Northern Nigeria politicians for his selfish dream to the detriment of Imo people and the Biafrans at large. This ambition is driving hm insane. His utterances are unbalanced and unhinged.
We, the Biafrans in Greece, will like to start this piece by mentioning the real structure of Old Imo State when Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe was the Governor. We remembered all his true legacies vividly. We believe he could have performed more if not the untimely end of his regime by Muhammed Buhari and his corrupt cronies when they overthrew the Government of Shehu Shagari in 1983. After Sam Mbakwe time in office, the current Imo State and Abia state has not had anyone who has performed like Sam O. Mbakwe because the legacy he left still speaks volume.
Yes indeed, Sam Mbakwe belong to the political party (NPP) under the leadership of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe the opposition party to the ruling party (NPN) then.
The agony and pains he frequently experiences whenever he sent any request to the Federal Government under President Alhaji Shehu Shagari of NPN side are well known that people named him the ''weeping governor". That does not mean that he cries literary rather his love for his people makes him restless until he gives them what they need. So sad, there is no politician today who has such love as shown by Sam Mbakwe to the people.
When Rochas Okorocha joined APGA to contest for the governorship of Imo State our people supported him immensely; substantially because he was running on the platform of APGA party- formed by a group of Igbo politicians. The part was seen by many to be Igbo political party.
Because of the immense support is given to Rochas Okorocha that won him the governorship seat of Imo state. All expectation and hope vanished when he got into the office. He cautiously turned his back on the struggling families of Imo State and place of his political ambitions above the general well-being of the people.
Okorocha alliance with the Northern Nigeria politicians who he put their desires and his blind ambition to contest for the office of Nigeria presidency in 2019 or someday gain support from Northern Nigeria politicians for his selfish dream to the detriment of Imo people and the Biafrans at large. This ambition is driving hm insane. His utterances are unbalanced and unhinged.
Sometimes he makes coercion statement urging Igbos to support the tyrant Government of Muhammed Buhari so they could position themselves to gain support for an Igbo man to be widely acceptable to win the office of President of Nigeria in 2019, sometimes he outrightly antagonise the same people. Days ago he said Igbo should stop thinking about presidency 2019. One would wonder what is wrong with a man who always switch position and what normally drives his intuition whenever he makes such dastardly move.Evil foundation:-
As they said, “Truth is bitter in the ears of fools, truth is potent, truth liberates and preserves, and truth sanctifies and protects, that is why I stand a chance today to tell you an undiluted truth. The solid foundation Dede Sam Onunaka Mbakwe laid in the Old Imo State that comprises Abia and Imo state today was genuine, but Gov. Okorocha has stepped out of that line of genuineness, he is set antecedent for evil in our land; sowing the seed of destruction “Ukpuru Ojo.” One would expect Okorocha and others before him to continue from where Sam Mbakwe good foundation stopped rather its dishearten that they all chose to destroy that foundation replace it with evil.
You Gov. Rochas Okorocha claimed to be a Christian worrisome your action shows you are a true Muslim. You used from Imo State resources to build a mosque in Owerri (Owe-Eri,) that's abhorrent in our land; we are not Muslims and do not such. It's pollution in the blessed land of Imo State.
Your attack on our way values:
When a man values the lives of his or her people, he won't do things that will undermine the growth, development and preservation of his people's culture, religion and heritage. If you value the lives of our citizens, you won't or encourage anyone to build a mosque in our land because Islamic values cannot co-exist with our democratic values.
The incident in the recent time shows your acts leniency to Hausa-Fulani Muslims in our territory, and that has encouraged them to carry weapon and store same in different mosques you built for them. That has endangered the lives of our people greatly while you do nothing to protect our people. Currently Biafra land is under siege because of your betrayal.
My question: How many Northern Governors has given Christian Churches in the Northern States that kind of gift?
Christians in Nigeria promote Muslim, while the Muslims do not wish to Christianity survive. Where is that love and unity you claim you are building? Muslim calls us the Biafrans infidels that show a clear discrimination and hatred; the driving ideology to slaughter us who do not hold the same view with them. You help in spreading Islam in Biafra land is a time bomb. Your actions may be one of the many master plans of Muhammadu Buhari to fulfil his goal to spread Sharia down to the Atlantic ocean. It's obvious you are one of the tools and in consensus to achieve that evil goal.
Imo State is rich in natural resources including Crude oil, natural gas, lead and zinc and fertile agricultural land but our people are dying in poverty because turn the state into your private estate and distribute our resource to you cronies leaving the hard working families to be destitute. Working civil servant are not paid, not surprise our retired father's and mother's pensions are forgotten the issue. They are dying daily waiting for the money that will never reach them. What a tyranny!!
Having highlighted the above issues which you cannot disprove; let me touch on the issue that gives you sleepless night, that's Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra.
We, the IPOB worldwide are monitoring all your moves and evil plans against our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu both on your personal plans and in collaboration with enemies of Biafrans.
Let inform you that IPOB IN GREECE is in line with other IPOB worldwide to caution you; should anything ugly happen to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, you and your entire lineage will be the consequence. I wish you could take some wise counselling and step back.
Note attack on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is an attacked on all Biafrans
Be wise!!
CATHOLIC CARDINAL
OKOJIE WRITES OPEN
LETTER TO PRESIDENT
BUHARI.
"Dear Mr. President, Last year, when you assumed office, the chant of “Change”, your campaign slogan, ushered you into the Presidential Villa.
Today, cries of “hunger” could be heard across the length and breadth of our vast country. Nigerians hunger, not only for food, but also for good leadership, for peace, security and justice.
This letter is to appeal to you to do something fast, and, if you are already doing something, to redouble your effort. May it not be written on the pages of history that Nigerians die of starvation under your watch. As President, you are chief servant of the nation. I therefore urge you to live up to the huge expectation of millions of Nigerians. A stitch in time saves nine.
The way forward
This is the second year of your administration. You and your party promised to lead the masses to the Promised Land. It is not an easy task to lead. But by campaigning for this office, you offered to take the enormous task of leadership upon yourself. Nigerians are waiting for you to fulfill the promises you made during the campaign. They voted you into office because of those promises. The introduction of town hall meetings is a commendable idea. But in practice, you, not just your ministers, must converse with Nigerians. You are the President. You must be accountable to them. The buck stops on your desk. Even if your administration has no magic wand at least give some words of encouragement.
This is the second year of your administration. You and your party promised to lead the masses to the Promised Land. It is not an easy task to lead. But by campaigning for this office, you offered to take the enormous task of leadership upon yourself. Nigerians are waiting for you to fulfill the promises you made during the campaign. They voted you into office because of those promises. The introduction of town hall meetings is a commendable idea. But in practice, you, not just your ministers, must converse with Nigerians. You are the President. You must be accountable to them. The buck stops on your desk. Even if your administration has no magic wand at least give some words of encouragement.
On this same score, please instruct your ministers, and insist that they be sincere and polite at those town meetings. Their sophistry will neither serve you nor Nigerians. Mr. President, if you want to leave a credible legacy come 2019, in all sincerity, please retool your administration. Change is desirable. But it must be a change for the better. Let this change be real. Change is not real when old things that we ought to discard refuse to pass away.
You will need to take a critical look at your cabinet, at the policies and programmes of your administration, and at those who help you to formulate and execute them. You will need to take a critical look at the manner of appointments you have been making. It is true that commonsense dictates that you appoint men and women you can trust. But if most of the people you trust are from one section of the country and practice the same religion, then you and all of us are living in insecurity.
The Nigerian economy has never been in a state as terrible as this. You as President are like pilot of an aircraft flying in turbulence. Turbulent times bring the best or the worst out of a pilot. We can no longer blame the turbulence on past administrations. You know quite well that some of the officials of your administration served in previous dispensations. Blame for what we have been experiencing is in fact bipartisan in character.
The entire political class needs to come together, irrespective of party differences, to acknowledge its collective guilt and to seek ways of saving the sinking ship that our country has become. This cannot be done if some officials of your administration demonise and alienate members of the opposition.
If a large portion of the blame for the present situation is to be laid on the doorsteps of the entire political class, the search for solution must involve everyone. That is why no one should be alienated. All hands must be on deck. This is the time to revitalise moribund industries, reinvigorate our agriculture, make our country tourist and investor friendly, and enable our young men and women to find fulfillment by contributing to the common good.
None of these lofty goals can be achieved without good education. On this particular issue, recent appointments you have made in the education sector raise a question: have you really appointed the best? Still on education, it is important that our universities be allowed to use their own criteria to admit students. It is a gross violation of the principles of federalism and academic freedom for the federal government to insist that only a federal parastatal can decide on who gains admission into our universities.
It is the role of the university senate, not of government bureaucrats, to decide on who gets admitted and who is awarded a certificate. The war on corruption Mr. President, your desire to wage a war on corruption is just and noble. But a just war must be waged with just means.
Those who have stolen the wealth of this country have broken the laws of our country. They must be treated according to the law and not outside the law, and the outcome of the judicial process must be respected by government. Even accused persons have rights. Where those rights are violated, we risk a descent to anarchy. It is our candid opinion that corruption is not found in only one party. No political party in Nigeria has a monopoly of looters. That is why we need an EFCC that is thoroughly independent of the presidency, and an Attorney General without party affiliation working in partnership with various independent accounting institutes. This will ensure that we come up with an objective list of those who plundered our treasury.
Mr. President, pardon me if I sound like a gratuitous counselor. I owe you the truth and nothing but the truth. In my life as a public figure and a religious leader, I have offered my counsel, for whatever its worth, to quite a number of Presidents in this country. I do this because I desire that you succeed. For the success of the leader is the success of the citizens. If there is no solution to Nigeria’s problem there may be endless war. You strike one town, you gain it, and you come again to regain it.
Remember that you cannot put a crown on your head. It is the people who put it on you. Otherwise one day, you will get tired of it. Please listen to the legitimate cries of your fellow citizens."
Cardinal Anthony Okogie, emeritus Archbishop of Lagos, wrote from Lagos.
Source: Online news reports
October 27, 2016
“The group of so-called Igbo leaders, who are going about brandishing the noble name of our great IPOB, in their emails to people for their fraudulent and Aso rock-sponsored All Igbo Summit, are hereby warned to desist forthwith from including IPO’s name in their emails.”
“We are not part of and cannot be part of the fraudulent so called All Igbo Summit scheduled for next month at Uturu, Abia State. It is specifically for the group of ex-this and ex-that who had earlier planned to host Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in our region, until they were told that such mindless scheme could only lead to bloodshed, have now resorted to telling everybody that they are planning for our future at the so called All Igbo Summit.”
“Everybody is wondering why these shameless political hustlers suddenly woke up now and are determined to hold a summit. Their planed summit is not unconnected with their fears that they have become irrelevant in the scheme of things, hence their struggle to make themselves reinvent by hoping to become relevant with a completely unhelpful summit, that would achieve absolutely nothing.”
“As we boldly march on to freedom from the 50 years slavery and oppression visited upon us, by the internal colonialists with the active collaboration of the same so-called leaders over the decades who are always rewarded with crumbs, while our region remains deliberately under-developed and isolated, they are trying to repeat the same game all over again, game of cheating themselves with crumbs while other regions develops in geometric progression.”
“They had 46 years to plan the future of our region, all they did was subvert and undermine group interest all the times for their personal interest, they all pursued individual accommodation in all the failed and oppressive governments of Nigeria, since 1970, both military and civilian.”
“These leaders without followers plot their senseless and useless summit at Uturu, as usual with the blessing and active support of Aso Rock, we advise them to be guided accordingly, that 99% of our people both old and young, have seen through their heartless and evil scheme for decades, we have endured their abuse and trade-off of and sell out of our future for personal again for 46 years.”
“We are all victims of their ruthless exploitation and selfishness and we will not accept their evil ventures anymore. We are saying never again will these shameless horde of political hustlers, use us again to warm themselves into Aso Rock Villa. The dilapidated infrastructure and the killing of the peaceful unarmed members of IPOB in Biafraland, their directionless leadership, and the painful vacuum they created by their spineless and rudderless leadership in our region led to the frustrations that crystallized to our desire for freedom from Nigeria.”
“Most painful of all, is their flagrant serial betrayal of the masses by the people who ought to lead by example. We therefore, find it provocative when this same people who have made a life-long carrier in trading-off the group interest of our region for individual gain, to turn around now to include IPOB in their ill-fated racket, called summit, we advise them, to remove IPOB from their emails or else they would only find themselves holding and twisting the tiger by the tail.”
AN OPEN LETTER TO MY BRETHREN IN THE
"SOUTH-SOUTH"
By Donald Ekpo, Akwa Ibom State
"For as long as the Old Eastern region remain in disarray and not united, self-determination of the region will remain impossible." ~ An anonymous retired Nigerian Army Chief
The word “South-South,” even though it may sound absurd, is a name we have come to accept as a people. We can’t say exactly how we came about to be identified with the name neither can we say exactly when we were given the name, but we just know it is our name. While growing up back in the days, geography taught us about “the North,” “the South,” “The East” and “The West.” For proper definition of locations, we were also told about “The Northwest, NorthEast, Southwest and SouthEast” I can’t remember anything like the “NorthNorth”, “SouthSouth”, “EastEast” or Westwest , but here I am today, writing a letter to my South-South brethren. That is what happens to a people that are not in control of their Cultural Development or the Political and Economic Future.
That is what happens to a people that are just there for their numbers, that is what happens to people that are just kept for their services, that is what happens to people that are just custodians of wealth for a supposedly superior people, and finally, that is what happens to peoples that are slaves. Any name is suitable for them, they can only get whatever is given to them even if it is originally theirs. If in doubt, please remind me of the meaning of KUNTA KINTE.
I write this letter not because it is frustrating to see how we allowed a defrauded propaganda to position our people as the pawns in the Political Chess called Nigeria, but rather, I write this letter in an effort to request that we free ourselves from these propaganda that has lingered for too long. If our grandfathers and fathers did not ask questions, is there any divine law that says we cannot ask? We know we all belonged to the old Eastern Region of Nigeria before the Northern Protectorate took back their power after the gruesome murder of General Aguiyi Ironsi.
Just for the records, let me do us a bit of history here; Major General Ironsi as Head of State was cornered and arrested somewhere in western Nigeria on July 29th of 1966, his hands and feet were tied together, then tied to a Land Rover with a little space in between, and driven on a tarred road, face down for several kilometers. The then highest ranking Northern officer, an acting (Unconfirmed) Lieutenant Colonel was chosen to be the next Head of State ahead of serving Brigadiers, Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels of the Southern Nigeria, followed by the dreadful killings of officers and soldiers of Eastern Nigeria including our so called South South soldiers and officers.
The genocide that followed is what is recorded as the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 – 1970. As if that was not enough, the Eastern region was broken apart with the sudden creation of the then South Eastern State (today’s Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom), Rivers State (Today’s Rivers State and Bayelsa). It was during that war that propagandas were designed, created and generated to separate us from the old Eastern Region and make the average Igbo man our potential enemy in an effort to reduce their own presumed enemies. In as much as it is a bitter history, but I find it necessary to do you this preamble.
I write this letter to remind us that our region, known as the South-South today was a creation of the North for the sake of creating the disunity we face today. And moreso, it was not just for the disunity for them to win the war, but to also take away our resources, our manpower and our economic future. In 2014 when President Jonathan, a son of the so called South-South decided to re-contest the 2015 elections, Sheik Junaid Mohammed in an engagement on behalf the Northern Protectorate, reminded us that the so called South-South was a creation of the North for effective management of the Northern interest in Eastern Nigeria. How bad could this be? Can we imagine that? So while we are busy reminding ourselves that we are a different people or that the Igbos are wicked and are trying to kill us, the North is joyously taking over and owning 85% of our oil wells while the West takes over the left overs.
And what do we get? Noise! Even the supposedly football legend, Sunday Okechukwu Oliseh is busy telling us he is not Igbo as if it is a curse to be Igbo. One wonders if the name Okechukwu is of Hausa or Yoruba origin. When you speak Igbo as a language and yet claim you are not Igbo, is that not the saddest thing that can happen to any people of identical culture? Even Major Kaduna Nzeogwu that led the first coup that was said to be an Igbo coup is from Okpanam village in today’s Delta State. Could he have come out to say today like Sunday Oliseh said that he was not Igbo? If the Abakaliki or Nsukka indigene that has a more distant dialect of Igbo is Igbo, how come the Anioma or Okrika indigene that is easily understood is not Igbo? How did a people of the same culture get so separated these far?
I write these letter to speak to those of us regarded as "minority tribes." How can we be minority when in essences we are known to be about 35 million of the said 180 million of the said Nigerian population? How can we be a minority in our own lands if we were not treated as such, or if we did not accept to be such? If those from the alliance that separated us from the West are said to be about 50 million in population, and our brethren in the East are said to be about 40 million, how can we accept we are a minority? Our compatriots from the alleged minorities of the North are said to be another 30 million, who then is the minority? Having run through these figures, we know who the real minorities are.
Be it as it appears, the truth is that our region was broken into two so as to weaken our original strength given that at a combined population strength of 35 million and 40 million people, our economic and entrepreneurial strength put together would be something the alliance will be worried about. So why should we ever think that it is logical to claim we are two different people when in essence, we have always been one and the same people for over 400 years before the arrival of the white man. If what the white man did to us was not bad enough, is it not ridiculous that we allowed a certain minority immigrants to assume control of our economic and political future?
I write these letter to ask my brethren in the South-South these pertinent question; Let us assume the very worst situation in this fracas between us and our Igbo brothers, why are we worried about the Igbos taking over our “natural resources” (assuming they don’t have theirs), ARE WE PRESENTLY IN CONTROL OF OUR “NATURAL RESOURCES”? Does it make more sense that our natural resources is being controlled by some strange people from over 700 miles away? People that kill us at will at a single provocation of their religion? People that even kill us in our land? People that challenge us to the ownership of these our resources? People that show absolute disregard of who we are? People that think it is a privilege for us to be in any position of authority? And finally, people that do not in any way have the kind of entrepreneurial skills that we have?
Why would we allow our imaginary quarrel or fights with our brothers translate to the decision of one of the women in King Solomon’s Judgment that insisted that since she couldn’t have the child, the other woman should not. So are we in essence saying it is better for none of us brethren to own our resources simply because we don’t trust our brothers, yet we do nothing about the stranger that has ripped us apart? Are we logically correct in these senseless quarrel?
Even while we are senselessly worried about how the Igbos will colonize our people because that is what we were told, and that is what some of these alliance are still trying to tell us; can we sincerely tell ourselves that the Igbos are that evil? Evil enough to leave their Natural resources in Abia, Imo, Anambra and Enugu states to come and take ownership of our resources? How will they do that? How possible will it be for a people that barely kill by the sword compared to our present oppressors? Do we honestly see that as a possibility? How and why did we allow these propaganda to go these far? Is these not what the alliance has used to rule us through the divide and rule scheme? Sheik Jumiad Mohammed said it clearly that our separation was a creation of the North for the effective management of our resources while we keep fighting an imaginary enemy.
I write this letter to remind us that we and our Igbo brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers have cultural identities, we uphold the sanctity of life, we do not kill a man like a chicken, we worship the same God, and we have identical looks and reasoning capabilities. Education is a respected virtue to both of us, entrepreneurism is a common love between us. We both respect constituted authorities. Even-though we both have the cultural odds that cannot, and should not be used to castigate an entire people. So how come the Igbo man suddenly became evil shortly before the war if the castigation was not a propaganda tool of the war?
How did we accept that our Igbo brothers were evil while we were saints? How are we saints? Is there any evil that is the monopoly of the Igbos that we are totally clean of? That we don’t have a single man/woman that does same if positioned in the same situation? How did we allow a distant people determine how we leave our lives? If we think we are different and as such we are treated better than the Igbos; have we noticed that the fate of the Onitsha Port is the same fate that befell the Ports in Calabar and Port Harcourt? We from the East are all forced to go to Lagos to pay taxes to those ports. How have we been treated differently by these alliances if we were different from the Igbos? Are we not facing the same fate as our Eastern brethren? How do you think we will fare if we were the only ones to receive these treatment given a circumstance where the Igbos are no more in this contraption called Nigeria?
I write this letter to our brethren to remind us that without a unified stand of the entire region, the self-determination process will be a farce. We need each other in all difficulties. We are the Eastern Region; we are the region of the Lower Niger; we are a common people; we are not different from each other. Starting from the Hills of Ogoja to the rocky soils of Ebonyi, down to the temperate region of Anambra down to the enclaves of Ishekiri and Isoko, we all look alike.
The Akwa Ibom man and the Abia State man are the same people simply divided by boundaries. The Calabar man and the Arochukwu man have identical ancestral masquerades. The Ikwerre man is just an Igbo man that was separated by the North to act as a different people. A British woman, camped somewhere in Kaduna decided to add the “R” consonant to the “U” vowel to totally break the identities of the Igbos in today’s Rivers State. The Ijaws, Kalabaris, Oron, Efik are practically the same people positioned in different locations possibly during the settlement centuries ago. We are all interrelated in the region and as such must not be divided.
We have been used for decades, disregarded at every opportunity, our rights are perceived as privileges if not favors. We do not have control over our future as instructed by the late Ahmadu Bello when he instructed his people not to allow us have control of our future, and should be seen as a conquered territory. Are we a conquered people by some strange people that believe they are born to rule, conquer and kill? These are a people who do not hold as sacrosanct what we revere as one. How can we continue in this Union that was designed to enslave us? How can we allow the lies told by these strangers to pitch us against ourselves?
AN ADDENDUM TO MY IGBO BROTHERS
I write to you to remind you that you can only fight a lie that was imbedded into the hearts of my brethren by putting yourself in his shoes to know how best to respond. We cannot fight evil with evil. Like we know, they say two wrongs don’t make a right. It is your responsibility to subtly ask those accusing you some logical questions that may prick their hearts to realities. We are all in this mess called Nigeria together.
Our Son, Goodluck Jonathan, was treated the same way General Ironsi was treated, they were both rejected. They were both despised. Both of them wanted a united Nigeria that existed beyond tribes and religion, but what did we see? President Goodluck Jonathan was lucky to escape with his life, but the General was not that lucky; He was tied to a Land Rover and driven on the rocky tarred roads between Abeokuta and Ibadan till he died and was shredded to pieces. Based on the Alhaji and Kunle’s phone conversation I believe we all listened to, we know that it could as well have happened to President Jonathan if he was not wise enough to let go of their birthright. But can we continue like this?
Look at what they are doing to Nnamdi Kanu? These are the same people that organized 70 lawyers to represent the Boko Haram suspects that have raped, maimed and Killed Nigerians, yet the one they choose to lead us says Nnamdi is too dangerous to be released because he has dual citizenship. Is these the kind of place we will continue to belong to when we are likely going to be having malicious morons of this magnitude leading us?
I write to you my brothers to remind you that the Gambaris know for certainty that having broken a greater part of you into other states in the "South-South," it may be difficult to successfully secede knowing what we know today. So it is inappropriate for you to remind my own brothers that with or without us, that you will succeed.
We cannot allow the propaganda of these gambaris to keep us apart. We must reject it by all means and efforts. We stand a greater chance to succeed as one region. As the older one of the two broken parts of our region, it is your responsibility to expose the deception that was used to mislead my people. It is you that will tell my people you do not have any intentions to colonize them. We have to collectively put these alliance to shame by consciously keeping our relationship cordial in the region. My dear brethren, I write to request that you take it as a duty to remind us that we are all one people because in truth, WE ARE ONE!
THE LOWER NIGER CONGRESS will not succeed if we do not position ourselves for success. We cannot go to a referendum with a divided house. We have to all agreed that we cannot continue in this contraption called a United Nigeria that was not just built on lies and propaganda, but was designed to fail while it enslaves our people. We have been battered, raped, disregarded, maimed and killed at will for the past 50 years. I am talking about the entire Eastern region. While we are being raped and killed, we are busy seeing each other as our enemy, while the real enemies smiles at our folly. We cannot continue like this. We should all take the opportunity presented to us by the UNITED NATION CHARTER ARTICLES ON SELF-DETERMINATION FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
The Lower Niger Congress, has so far made presentations to the US Congress on the plight of our people, made a presentation to the United Nations, and have been able to secure a period by which the referendum will take place here in our region. But will we succeed during the electoral process if we are not united? Is it not time we put our swords into plowshare and see how we can take control of our political, economic future and Cultural development?
The Lower Niger Congress having met with traditional and titled leaders in all the corners of the Lower Niger Region believes the project will not be a success if we do not see ourselves as a united body. We cannot afford to go into a referendum that may be sabotaged by the propagandas of the alliance of the North. It is our duty to educate ourselves, educate our relatives, and educate our brethren. It is the best duty we can do for the generations unborn of our region.
This contraption called Nigeria was never designed to succeed, not with the present fraud of Constitution, not with the present mentality that only a section of the country were meant to rule, and finally, not with the present odds that accompany those that make it to the leadership position.
Finally, brethren, I appeal to you all to join hands in actualizing our dream to build a new nation based on principles, agreed morals, agreed terms and absolute regional autonomy to provoke developmental competition. This is what the LOWER NIGER CONGRESS IS WILLING TO OFFER.
For more information about the Lower Niger congress visit www.lnc-usa.org
An Open Letter From The BIAFRANS IN GREECE To Governor of Lagos State- Akinwunmi Ambode
It is a high time to call a sped a sped and the hour to break the silence over the idiotic action of the Governor of Lagos State-Akinwunmi Ambode and his bad cronies towards the relocation of NdiIgbo as he mandated. Governor Ambode who is exhibiting his ignorance, coupled with Oba of Lagos-Oba Akiolu, who said “If Igbos people failed to vote you Ambode who he chooses to be the Governor of Lagos State, that he will kill NdiIgbo in Lagos and throw their dead bodies in Lagoons. An out of fear, most NdiIgbo in Lagos state voted in as the Governor of Lagos State and many do not cast their votes for you because you and your Oba who chose you to be the Governor are the most stupid people, who is an out of ignorance exercising nonchalant attitudes.
As educated illiterates two of you are, you are speaking with both sides of your mouths. Dancing to the tune of Oba Akiolu, or does it mean that you are intoxicated with a mere power as a Governor of Lagos, which many sound minded people became before you, made you started talking like a mad dog in the street, because a Governor who possesses what it takes to be a Governor deserves to talk with honour and respect.
In your own case, an out of lack of good leadership qualities, you are behaving like touts and fantastically idiotic person in power. In the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, but instead of you to speak in praise of NdiIgbo, how they built Lagos State all around, you have speaking evil of them, lambasting them because of hatred, Jealousy, and envy, for they are the greatest achievers, productive and industrious. They are the brain behind the progress of one Nigeria. Anywhere NdiIgbo dwells or sojourns, it is quite obvious; they will develop and brings rapid growth that area.
Generally, in Nigeria, without NdiIgbo, there is nothing like One Nigeria and when I said “NdiIgbo” the former eastern Region (Biafrans) are inclusive, because they are one people, having the same value system. They lived in harmony before European invaded us and amalgamated the people of different Culture, ethnicity, religion and language and gave us the name Nigeria, which does not have any meaning.
When the British left Nigeria, the Yorubas and Hausas understood this categorically and they brought their evil agenda of divide and rule among the people of Biafra-the people God created to be one blood, one destiny, and having everything in common. Example, all the eleven tribes that made up of Biafra, their women tie two pieces rapper of their waist, while it is not so in the North and West. NdiIgbo were unique in every aspect of life, as one may think it.
The Era of deceiving the people God created to be in perfect unity and undiluted peace has passed away and an Era walking to work in excellent wisdom and understanding to subdue the wickedness of Hausas-Fulani and Yorubas oligarchy towards dividing the Biafrans in Nigeria, called them South-South, South –West, South-East. This is only to cause confusion among the people God created to live in unity and lives according to the demands of their ChukwuOkikeAbhiama, who created them to be one, situated in Biafra Land.
For this awesome reason, we the IPOB in GREECE, thank God Our ChukwuOkikeAhbiama, for we conquered all the evil agenda of Yorubas and Hausas and her Islamic Republic of Nigeria. Our ChukwuOkikeAhbiama used Nnamdi Kanu-the Director of Radio Biafra / the Commander in Chief of Biafra Armed Forces to expose the atrocious activities of Nigeria against Biafrans. His powerful revelations / gospel message towards evil activities of what is happening in Nigeria on Radio Biafra caused Nigeria Government to pandemonium and panic. What a wonderful man-Nnamdi Kanu, God’s sent?
Every state in Nigeria was built and developed by NdiIgbo. Is it in the North or West, all the fine buildings, companies, powerful businesses were owned by Igbos? Half of the houses, companies / industries, markets and businesses in Lagos State were built by Igbos. After building Lagos State with powerful industries and commerce, the Lagos State Governor, Ambode decided to sideline and push NdiIgbo away, telling them that Lagos belongs to Yorubas. How can He push them away out of their multi-billion naira projects (properties) in Lagos State?
Governor Ambode and NdiIgbo have you think of all the effects of what you are doing?
On both sides mean NdiIgbo building Lagos State and Governor Ambode trying to give them quit notice to relocate to East because Lagos State belongs to Yorubas. Do any of them think the effects? Before I further on the expression of the effects of building Lagos by NdiIgbo and Lagos State Government asking them to leave the state.
I cease this opportunity to tell the whole world that Governor Ambode of Lagos State has dwelled on the evil foundation which the Yoruba father in the person of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who introduced the idea of starving the children of Biafra during the Nigeria Genocidal war against Biafra.
The war which broke out in 1967 to 1970 and in this Genocidal war alone, Biafra lost 3.50 Million Children, caused by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, when he introduced barricade against Biafra, which caused Kwashiorkor, due to the Federal Government denied Biafra every access where foods and other reliefs enter to Biafra Land.
As if that one is not enough, after the war which claimed the total lives of 5.5 million Biafrans? But the British Government erased the accurate figure in the history, they only telling the whole world that it was 3.5 million Biafrans died in the war. It is a concocted lie, even in Nigeria, the Government failed to teach the history of Nigeria /Biafra war in schools because they decided to hide many things about the war to our children.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo also advised the Federal Government of Nigeria within his power as a finance minister to confiscate Billions of pounds which every Biafran had in the bank after the war and gave each only £20.00. It is only 20 Pounds (£20.00), the Biafrans have started with after the war, yet they are no 1 in Nigeria in terms of infrastructures. In Biafra land, there is no single Federal Government presence, Igbos and other Biafrans developed the eastern Region (Biafra Land) via individual efforts. Those states that have the Federal Government is undeveloped than the East. Apart from Abuja and Lagos, where the Federal Government built half of them, and the Igbos developed half of it. Our ChukwuOkikeAhbiama is not sleeping on the affairs of his people-the Biafrans in Nigeria.
The effects on both sides (Igbos) and Lagos State:-
I will begin to talk about the effects of pulling the Igbos out of Lagos State. The effects are as follows:
If NdiIgbo can communally agree to go back to their land, no matter the type of policy Lagos State Government under the leadership of Ambode, the Igbos’ properties would still belong to them, because there is international law under United Nations charter guiding the properties of people in a foreign Land, nobody will cease your property, because such act will draw attention of United Nations to Nigeria. Here is what the African Chatter on Human Rights states in Article 14 of the 1981 “The right to property shall be guaranteed. It may only be encroached upon in the interest of public need or in the general interest of the community and in accordance with the provisions of appropriate laws. African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, adopted by the Eighteenth Ordinary Session of the OAU Assembly of Heads of State and Government, Nairobi, 27 June 1981, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3 rev.5, Article 14.
In 1999 Nigeria Constitution under chapter iv (fundamental Rights) No 43, 44 states that “Every citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have the right to acquire and own immovable property. They have the right to compulsory acquisition of property.’’
Have you Governor Ambode learn a lesson that if NdiIgbo quit Lagos State: a) Lagos State will collapse financially, economically and otherwise. b) The entire State will be scanty, and this will be the fall of the State to be one of the poorest states in Nigeria because it is NdiIgbo that boost the economy. Example, in 1993, when M.O.K Abiola won the election and the Government denied him such position, he declared himself the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Yorubas started killing and maiming the Easterners, mostly NdiIgbo in Lagos State, to the point that they killed an Igbo pregnant woman and ripped off her baby. After the heavy fight between the Igbos and Yorubas in Lagos, which the Igbos killed many Yorubas in their land, NdiIgbo decided to go home, there is nothing again to boast about in State. No market, no buyers, no transporters, no industrialists, no workers, because everybody went.
If the Igbos relocate to east with their businesses, industries, / commerce, transports, Lagos State will also decay and crumbles.
Governor asked NdiIgbo to relocate without knowing the implications. All what the past great Governors of Lagos State, like Alhaji Lateef Jakande October 1979 to December 1983 under Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) and the rest does not have the power to do, is it you Governor Ambode will do it? I will like you to use your tongue to count your teeth. The ball is in your court to play it, but it is between the downfall of Lagos state and life and death. I am very happy that such word came out of your mouth for NdiIgbo to relocate to their Land, but keep watch and see the outcome of your devilish words, coupled with an action of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Oba Akiolu of Lagos, and Chief M.K.O Abiola towards the Igbos in Nigeria. One may wonder why MKO Abiola, Yes he, Abiola said in 1993 upon all the support the Igbos gave him during election, “that without the Igbos, he will win the election.’’ This agonized the hearts of NdiIgbo withdraw all their supports from him, and licked their wounds.
Benefits of NdiIgbo to Relocate their Businesses, industries,/ commerce and transports to east:
Before furthering my expression on these benefits, let me quickly go back to the statement of Dim ChukwuEmeka Odumegwu Ojukwu-the People’s General, when the Igbos in Lagos built a multi mega billion international market known as “trade fair Complex’’ that cost them ten billion nairas (# 10,000,000,000.00), as Ojukwu asked the chairman of the Trade fair Complex “How much is the cost of this mega market? He openly answered “# 10,000,000,000.00,’’ Dim ChukwuEmeka Odumegwu Ojukwu started shedding tears in presence of the dignitaries. After he said, NdiIgbo is too sane, that if NdiIgbo asks me, I would have used my money to provide enough land in any states in the East to build this Trade Fair complex so that the rest of Nigerians would be coming to east for business consumption.’’
Since that time up till now, NdiIgbo were still parading in total sane and calling it smartness, having every potential to develop outside Igbo Land and the east is in total devastation. How can we help others to develop their areas while ours remain desolate? As Igbo language called it “Omere ndi ozo, ma-aguo ana-egbu anyi.’’ How NdiIgbo could capitalize in developing the North, and Western Nigeria, while their land remains in abject poverty? Upon every intimidation, oppression, servitude, suppression, and nepotism by Northerners and Yorubas in Nigeria, yet we, Igbos pick courage to develop the entire Nigeria. Where is our conscience? Is our conscience dead?
How many Yorubas and Hausas own houses, companies, industries, and businesses, even build markets in Igbo Land as well as Biafraland, as NdiIgbo did in various parts of Nigeria? None of them has a single block in those states in the former Eastern Region, while some NdiIgbo is exhibiting their foolishness by developing the North and Western Nigeria. When are we (Igbos) going to learn a lesson and start to copy from Nnewi people that no matter how rich and wealthy they are, they will build their companies, industries, and businesses in Nnewi town and only have their branches other areas in case if any domestic problem arises?
The prominent Yorubas and Hausas residing in the East (Biafra) are those working in oil companies, directing how oil and gas in Biafra Land would go. Many Oil blocks were owned by them, while the owners of the land are walking in lacks. The Government after government in Nigeria used the money generated in oil and gas to developed Nigeria, while the Biafra land is in total devastation. Go to Niger Delta as they called it in order to divide the Biafrans more and more and see the wonders of underdeveloped. The Biafrans in river line areas suffer grievously, using the water they have urinating into, while the Hausas and Yorubas were enjoying the benefits of our oil and gas. At the same time, they have turned making the caricature of the people that feed them with what clarified as National cake.
The Igbo in several of parts of the country, mostly in Lagos State must put this to a stop, by thinking home from today, as the Governor Ambode told you that Lagos State belongs to Yorubas that you should relocate. We the Igbos have the capacity make our God’s own Land-“the Japan of Africa.’’ During the 30th Months genocidal war against Biafra by the Nigeria Government, the Igbo ethnic nationality of Nigeria are the most technologically advanced Black race on planet earth, bar none! This is a fact. A fact that was proven to be true for 30 months while they were landlocked in their constantly shrinking enclave known as Biafra. Cut off from the rest of the world, the ingenuity of the Igbo came to the fore during the civil war as they constructed the Uli airstrip and when that airstrip was bombed, they repaired it in record time and under the most trying circumstances. They would go on to repair Uli not once and not twice.
And as soon as we the Igbos started building the East (Biafra land) to bring NdiIgbo prestige / dignity back, it will be the final collapse of Nigeria. When this happen, those Hausas and Yorubas like Governor Ambode will surely regret his action taken, why asking the Igbos to go, as the former Governor of Lagos State- Fashola repatriated seven two (72) Igbos to Onitsha and tagged them destitute. This shows that the entire Nigeria has not accommodated NdiIgbo, but yet we the Igbos are running after those that do not want us.
NdiIgbo's going home must be a task and must be done, for it is a clarion call for duty without wasting any more time in Nigeria, because delay is very dangerous, which literally means in Igbo language “Eme ngwa-ngwa emeghara odachi.’’
Words of advice:
Every Igbo person in Lagos State should pick courage in accordance how Yorubas ill treats them to relocate their companies, industries, transports, and businesses to East (Biafra Land), so that Hausas and Yorubas that have the thought that Igbos are not valuable in Nigeria will understand the qualities and importance of the Igbos and they see what God is using to do in Biafra land, they will know, as the Bible said in Genesis 50:20-21 that “they intended to harm Igbos, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.’’
When this happen, they will be forced to come to East (Biafra Land) in the purchase of what they need and whereby you will have undiluted unity and peace. This will make the Igbos anywhere in Nigeria to regain their consciousness and the great insult of Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas would stop. One adage says that one may not know the importance of kitchen knife till he or she lost it.
The Land of Biafra is waiting for you, it is very hungry to welcome and accommodate you, to makes you more fruitful than when you resides in the North and West, receiving all sorts of dehumanisation, oppression, intimidation, servitude, and nepotism, despite all your efforts for unity and the stabilization of Nigeria. When the land of Biafra welcomes you in fullness of joy, the land of Yorubas and Hausas will be desolate, even the name of Lagos will be “Catastrophe.’’
It is rest assured that your industries, companies, and businesses you bring to the Biafra Land will be flourished because the Land is ready to restore what you have lost in a foreign land (Yoruba and Hausa).
Remain blessed!
From the Indigenous People of Biafra Family (IPOB) in GREECE!
An Open Letter to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
Nov 30, 2015 | Updated Nov 30, 2015
Nov 30, 2015 | Updated Nov 30, 2015
Bruce Fein Constitutional Lawyer and Author
President Muhammadu Buhari Aso Rock, Abuja Nigeria
Dear President Buhari:
When you visited the United States Institute of Peace last July, you pledged that you would be "fair, just and scrupulously follow due process and the rule of law, as enshrined in [the Nigerian] constitution" in prosecuting corruption.
Such loftiness is laudable. As the Bible instructs in Amos 5:24: "[L]et justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
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But to be just, the law must be evenhanded. It cannot, in the manner of Russian President Vladimir Putin, be something that is given to punish your enemies and withheld to favor your friends. If so, the law becomes an instrument of injustice bearing earmarks of the wicked rather than the good.
In the United States, you declared a policy of "zero tolerance" against corruption. You solicited weapons and other assistance from the United States government based on that avowal. But were you sincere?
During your election campaign, you promised widespread amnesty, not zero tolerance. You elaborated: "Whoever that is indicted of corruption between 1999 to the time of swearing-in would be pardoned. I am going to draw a line, anybody who involved himself in corruption after I assume office, will face the music."
After you were inaugurated, however, you disowned your statement and declared you would prosecute past ministers or other officials for corruption or fraud. And then again you immediately hedged. You were reminded of your dubious past by former Major General and President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, who succeeded your military dictatorship. He released this statement:
"On General Buhari, it is not in IBB's tradition to take up issues with his colleague former President. But for the purpose of record, we are conversant with General Buhari's so-called holier-than-thou attitude. He is a one-time Minister of Petroleum and we have good records of his tenure as minister. Secondly, he presided over the Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, which records we also have.
We challenge him to come out with clean hands in those two portfolios he headed. Or we will help him to expose his records of performance during those periods. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. General Buhari should be properly guided."
You then swiftly backed off your zero tolerance policy because you would have been its first casualty.
You opportunistically announced that zero tolerance would be narrowed to the predecessor administration of Goodluck Jonathan because to probe further would be "a waste of time." That conclusion seems preposterous. In 2012, the World Bank's ex-vice president for Africa, Oby Ezekwesili, estimated that a stupendous $400 billion in Nigerian oil revenues had been stolen or misspent since independence in 1960. The lion's share of that corruption spans far beyond the Jonathan administration.
Your zero tolerance policy seems to come with a squint to avoid seeing culpability in your political friends. A few examples are but the tip of the iceberg.
A Rivers State judicial commission of inquiry found that N53 billion disappeared from the Rivers State Reserve Fund under former governor Rotimi Amaechi. Former Lagos governor and head of your campaign finance team Babatunde Fashola was accused ofsquandering N78 million of government money to upgrade his personal website. The EFCC has ignored these corruption allegations, and you have given both promotions: the Ministry of Transport to Mr. Amaechi, and the Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing to Mr. Fashola.
In contrast, you have played judge, jury, and prosecutor in the newspapers to convict former PDP Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke of corruption.
Is this evenhanded justice?
United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson taught: "[T]here is no more effective practical guaranty against arbitrary and unreasonable government than to require that the principles of law which officials would impose upon a minority must be imposed generally. Conversely, nothing opens the door to arbitrary action so effectively as to allow those officials to pick and choose only a few to whom they will apply legislation and thus to escape the political retribution that might be visited upon them if larger numbers were affected."
To investigate or prosecute based on political affiliation or opinion also violates Articles 2 and 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is unworthy of a great nation like Nigeria.
Make the hallmark of your administration justice, not retribution, and you may live for the ages. I am a United States citizen and lawyer. I have no political standing in Nigeria. Some might argue that my speaking about the administration of justice in Nigeria bespeaks impertinence. But you chose to visit the United States to solicit weapons and other assistance from my government--a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The United States government represents me. What the United States government does reflects on me. I thus have an interest in addressing the actions of foreign governments that receive United States government aid.
Sunshine is said to be the best of disinfectants.
Sincerely,
Bruce Fein Fein & DelValle PLLC 300 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, D.C. 20001
Written by Mazi Nnamdi Obodoechi
(Ojukwu Igbonile)
IPOBNational Coordinator, Greece
It has become expedient to break the pervading silence concerning the disgusting behaviors of the so-called Igbo elites/intelligentsia on their irresolute mindset pertaining the affairs of their own people in the entity called Nigeria
Proceeding, I will firstly posit that this show of shame often being brazenly displayed by these self-serving class of Igbo leaders, are not only nauseating but evil. Yam is essentially regarded, respected and celebrated as king amongst all cultivated farm produce in Igboland. And of course, there exists some traditional laws guiding this particular item in the land for instance:
• Yam theft (stealing) is a taboo and any culprit found connected with this offence is summarily excommunicated from the community.
• Yam theft (stealing) is a taboo and any culprit found connected with this offence is summarily excommunicated from the community.
My questions are:
• Is it traditionally right and justified for Igbo elders/leaders to shift base of new yam celebration to a foreign land other than Igboland where such is culturally and ancestrally institutionalized? * Is this culture of foreign celebration of a traditionally cultivated farm produce, handed down to us or so celebrated by our ancestors?
It is important that every Igbo Biafran must note that it is an abomination, a sacrilege to lure elders of the land away under whatever guise, to foreign lands in such a time when new yam festival is supposedly organized and celebrated. It is a time of traditional thanksgiving to God for life and bounty harvest/productivity. Our protégés who handed this culture of New Yam Festival (Iri Ji Ohua) to us, had no record of celebrating it abroad. The new yam festival has for years been annually celebrated with funfare in Igboland. This was fundamentally and judiciously done to thank Chukwuokike Abiama (God of fertility), who made the yam to germinate, mature, be produced and harvested, to the joy of the people.
Today, the so-called Igbo elders/leaders who call themselves elites are inadvertently, pouring curses on themselves unto self-destruction, by defaming one of the pivotal Igbo cultures and traditions. Instead of strengthening the organization of the annual festival in the land and inviting their sons and daughters resident abroad to come back home for the celebration, they surreptitiously are being conversely invited by their children abroad for the New Yam Festival. What a shame! What an irony!! The flow of the river has been reversed.
The culture of Ndigbo has been wittingly destroyed out of choice by this crop of self-serving, psychopathically deficient Igbo leaders. They have through their demented inclinations, devalued the sacred festival known to be celebrated annually by the Igbos. They have foolishly downgraded the culture of the Igboman given to him by Chukwuokike Abiama. Visiting Jubilee Sports Bank, Jubilee Drive, Liverpool L7 85J, England, for the purposes of celebrating the new yam festival (Ir Ji Ohua), is a direct invitation obviously, for mysterious tragedy on the offending elders/leaders who have desecrated the Igbo tradition by turning it upside down which I refer to as "Ndi Ono n'ulo, ewu anwuo' Ogbu" (staying at home and female goat delivering it's kids still tied to the stake). When someone mortgages his rights, unwarranted calamity must certainly come knocking to take vengeance. It is the evil seeds that you sow today that must surely haunt you and your household tomorrow which translated in Igbo means: "Onye kpara nku ahuhu siri ngwere biara ya ugwo". "He that fetches ant infested firewood, has given invitation to the lizards".
In the days of old, Ndi Nze n' Ozo (traditional title holders) and elders in Igboland used to be the most cultured and reputable custodians of the people's culture and tradition. Their consuming priority was the maintenance of the uncompromised standard of the culture/tradition of the land which fostered love, peace and unity. Unfortunately today, that has been bastardized by the so-called Igbo ravenous, evil and shameless elders cum elites in the mould of John (Judas) Nnia Nwodo, Orji Uzor Kalu, Rochas Okorocha (Okoroausa), Professor Charles Soludo, Governor Willie Obiano, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah and many others who were invited for the ill-conceived new yam festival in England
These class of men so invited, were the same imbecilic lots, serving the interests of their Hausa-Fulani slavemasters that shamelessly disgraced our mothers in Biafraland as they justifiably exercised their rights of demanding the whereabouts of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the indefatigable and courageous leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide, whom the Southeast governors, John (Judas) Nnia Nwodo and the murderous Nigerian Security Operatives will explain when the time comes.
My questions then are: Between these saboteur Igbo leaders and Ndi Nze n'ozo (traditional title holders), who were supposed to harvest their yam and set the ground rolling for the new yam festival celebration? Are you not ashamed of flying to England
Most Igbo elders of today have shamelessly taken abode outside their homeland and that was why they saw nothing wrong in celebrating the new yam festival in a foreign country. The values of traditional and cultural heritage were wholistically taught and delivered to these men but instead of keeping to the norm, they have disgustingly resorted to following the ways of satan and taking to the dancing dictates of the enemies. It would dedound to good omen if sons, daughters and well wishers around the world are invited home for this unique annual festival. Doing the contrary, is a slap on the face of an Igboman and an unpardonable abomination. A sacred land cannot spare swallowing these saboteurs if our traditional title holders acted like John (Judas) Nnia Nwodo, Rochas Okorocha, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Governor Rochas Okorocha and their hosts. That is the truth! Will these class of people go buying tubers of yam from the market to effect the celebration? Give a wholistic and soul searching thought to this and extricate yourself from deluded enclave where you parade as elites of the Igbos. They have no inkling of shame at all and that is why cannot think about the future of their children, rights and well-being.
The Igbo leaders that fail to listen to the cries of their children but instead choose romancing with the enemies, applaud the killing/maiming of their children are of all men, most miserable. Elites who derive happiness and satisfaction from the agony of their sons and daughters are already cursed. From where will the respect come? Now is the time for the expected change before the sun sets.
Edited by Peter Oshagwu
For Family Writers Press
The Indigenous
People
of Biafra
(IPOB) worldwide, is irrefutably
worth emulating in every standard. She has become the only hope and succour of the oppressed not only in Biafraland, but across Nigeria. She has uncompromisingly withstood the heinous intrigues and evil machinations of the Mohammedan Emirate of Northern Nigeria whose trade revolves around nepotism, marginalization, oppression, emasculation, deprivation, enslavement, terrorism and death.
Biafrans who are the beloved of Chukwuokike Abiama (God Almighty) have over the years, been treated as slaves and nonentities that must not be respected/regarded. The membership and leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) globally, led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, need to be appreciated and unreservedly supported for their resilience, resoluteness and courageousness even in the face of state-sponsored provocations.
The Nigerian security forces had on the 14th of September 2017, abducted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his aged parents from their residence at Afara-ukwu Ibeku in Umuahia, Biafraland following a murderous invasion carried out under the guise of military exercise code-named "Operation Python Dance II", wherein quite a number of Biafrans were killed and maimed. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his parents' whereabouts till date have remained mysterious.
The Nigerian army who raided their residence will definitely explain where they kept them when the time comes. Chukwuokike Abiama will most assuredly protect them until they get back to us. Our Deputy Leader, Mazi Uchenna Okafor Mefor who has remained resilient, courageous, humble and obediently cooperative in meticulously handling all IPOB concerns, the Radio Biafra London crew, the Head of Directorate of State, Mazi Chika Edoziem, Mazi Austine Agbanyim, the European Representative, Various Continental Leaders and Principal Officers, Zonal/Unit Leaders, the Media Crew and other hardcore Biafrans who are assiduously working for the unfettered restoration of our fatherland Biafra, can really not be appreciated enough. We will never mutate until the sovereignty of our nation is fully restored.
God bless Biafra!
Written by Mazi Nnamdi Obodoechi
Edited by Peter Oshagwu For Family Writers Press
AN OPEN LETTER
TO ALL THE EASTERN GOVERNORS
AND OTHERS IN BIAFRA LAND
26th/ April, 2020
AN OPEN LETTER
TO ALL THE EASTERN GOVERNORS
AND OTHERS IN BIAFRA LAND
26th/ April, 2020
By Nnamdi Obodoechi
(OjukwuIgboNile)
Good Morning this faithful Day
of 26Th APRIL 2020. As I wake up this morning, I decided to drop this awakening
write up to all the eastern Governors, Senators, Chiefs, Igwes, Elders, youths,
the lovers of Freedom, Ladies and gentlemen.
It gives me a sleepless night
every day when I observed our so-called leaders, Chiefs, Igwes, (Kings),
Obongs, and others keeping adamant to what are happening to the Biafrans’ Sons
and Daughters on daily basis. I am so worried about all the evil operations
going on in our land, yet nobody stands against such to shun the Evil: Killing,
and maiming the Biafrans and trying to occupy our God’s Given Blessed land of
Biafra, the land full with Numeral Mineral Resources.
This made me to know that all
the so-called southeast and South-South as they gave us are singing the song of
ChukwuOkikeAhbiama in a strange land, while our brothers- the Israelites refused
to sing the song of Yahweh in a Foreign Land. Why? They Knew the implication
and the acidic danger in allowing their enemies to know the secret power in
their midst, while the eastern Governors are against what Nnamdị
Kanụ and the IPOB is doing to free Our Nation
Biafra from the danger that they brought in our land by the Nigerian Government
/ Fulani Herdsmen.
Given the Fulani Herdsmen
access into our land means that the Governors of Eastern Region are there in
the seats of Powers to help them in killing our people and to occupy our
blessed land. What could you tell the Biafrans that you are there as a
Governor, and Fulani herdsmen Killed and are still killing your people with
every audacity that nothing will happen? Are you telling us that you as a Governor
is a bench warmer in the State House? How can you be “Ndị Ọnọ n’
ụlọ
Ewu anwuọ n’ọgbụ.’’
I want you to commit this into your memory that when a man drops his stool on
the road he passed when going; the person will surely meet it, when coming
back.
Are you having the thought or
notion of living your State when your tenure is over, and sending your kids
abroad? Remember, No matter where they are in this World, IPOB must surely know
their ways about! In Igbo Language: Our Elders Said, “Ọsọadịghị
agba nahụ ikē.
When a man fail to know that in any position he is, is for his people, the man
will fail totally. Come home now you the eastern Governors, Igwes, Chiefs,
Senators, and the so-called leaders in Biafra land, the battle is waiting for
both of us, but if you think NnamdịKanụ
and IPOB cannot make it, Then Come out to fight for your people and free them
from the shackles of slavery in Nigeria.
What could be your joy as you
drop your stool on the road always without the knowledgeable idea you must
surely meet it. Do you think the masses would keep silent forever? No way, I
saw a revolution coming upon you Governors, Senators, Elders, Igwes / Chiefs,
and Youths that does not support this struggle one day, which no power can
quench. Wait upon it, unless you go down on your Kneels and ask for
forgiveness, and join IPOB Family nearest to you in Support of Biafra. Stiffen
your neck can never do you any good; instead it will do you many harms.
It is only embracing the IPOB
modus of Opperandi will solve the problems brought by the Government of Nigeria
/ Fulani Herdsmen, not by accepting a bribe from the Enemies, serving them with
much alacrity that without them you will cease to exist and backed off the
people of Biafra where you came from. Where can you be after your tenure? This
is the question each and every one of you being you a Governor, Elder, Senator,
and youth who failed to support the Biafran struggle must answer. Are you a
Governor, Pastor, Native Doctor, or whatever you believed in, it is very dangerous
to welcome your enemies to eliminate and conquer your people because Serving
God without serving Humanity is fooling yourselves?
Let us draw something out for
you to know the semantic of what each and every one of us are doing towards
Biafran restoration Struggle. Mazi NnamdịKanụ-the
fearless Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) launched BIAFRA SECURITY
SERVICE (BSS), all the Governors of SouthEast conspired against him because of
Envious aggression, “Why It should him-NnamdịKanụ
and IPOB will form such, while they are in position to do so. Hahaha, the
myopic minds that can never use their brains to do a good thing!
They plotted evil against
Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB and SouthEast Governors invited the Nigerian Army via
Operation Python Dance. On the Month of September, Many IPOB members have been
arrested, killed and shot by the Nigerian Army through the command of the
Federal Government of Nigeria under the command of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The killing of innocent and unarmed Biafrans who have been calling for a
Referendum for a sovereign State of Biafra in Nigeria under the IPOB group has
grown as the Nigerian army also continues to brutalize and kill them.
On the Month of September, the
Nigerian Government declared operation python dance II an exercise they used to
carry out an attack at the home of the leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu The Nigerian Army invaded his home on the 14th
of September and killed over 30 innocent and unarmed Biafrans who was at his home
at the time.
After breaking into his home,
they forced their way into his bedroom and stolen many things which they later
took to Abia State Government House for Governor Okezie Ikpeazu. The Nigerian
Army till this point has refused to leave Biafran land because they love to
extort money from our people. After the attack, Our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu got
missing, IPOB don’t know his where about then, till his reappearance in Israel,
That was when IPOB knew he was alive and He said of how he escaped from the
hands of the Nigeria Army.
Eastern governors, chiefs,
obongs, elders, and youth as I used to say “The greatest enemy of a black man
Is envy- Why Not Me!" So, mostly the Eastern Governors, Chiefs, Elders and
Some Youths are really envious of NnamdịKanụ
and IPOB, why should it be NnamdịKanụ
and IPOB that will liberate Biafra? On this stance, it is not how far, but how
well, as Nnamdị Kanụ
knows how well that is why he answered the call of ChukwuOkikeAhbiama to handle
the sacred mantle of IPOB because he knows that Security of Biafrans will give
way to conspiracy, that is his main reason he formed BIAFRAN SECURITY SERVICE
(BSS), but most of our people failed to commit all these to their innermost
memory to understand what Freedom is all about.
This kind of envy and jealousy
over Mazi Nnamdi Kanụ by our Governors, Some
Senators, Igwes, Chiefs and some stupid youths is applicable to other IPOB
National coordinators all over the World. The people of bias mind are envious
of IPOB worldwide coordinators, like the Eastern Governors are doing against
Mazi Nnamdi Kanụ.
Yahweh asks “Who will go for Us
(Biafrans): Going for us have many sacrifices, death, denial of human Rights,
brutalities and tortures, Yet NnamdịKanu
answered the call to bear all these on his shoulders. On this course, he lost
his Parents, Lost many IPOB families; at least in his presence 28 people were
killed by the Nigeria Army via Operation python Dance! He loosed his dynasty,
as his Father was the King of Afara-Ukwu Ibeku, which he supposed to replace
his father as King of Ibeku today.
Being envious of Nnamdị
Kanụ would not pull the struggle down rather most
intellectuals will figure out many reasons to follow him in order to restore
Biafra. I dwell here, to let you understand that you cannot win any Gold, nor
Silver in paving ways to the enemy Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram in Army
uniform to kill and maim your people, rather Nnamdị
Kanu will be receiving awards upon awards for fighting for his people- the
Biafrans to be free.
The most painful thing is that
our Elders, Chiefs, Governors, Senators and Some of our Youths Believe in the
Oppressors, rather than to believe in a Liberator-Mazi Nnamdị
Kanụ, who is eager to sacrifice everything
sacrifice able in order to restore Biafra for us and our unborn generation
because they lacked the bases! The Biafra true foundation is been destroyed by
Fulani herdsmen, instead of the SouthEast Governors, Igwes / Chiefs, Elders and
Youths to join hands together to build Biafra, they are dancing to the tune of
the enemies of Biafra, serving them, no wonder the book of Lamentation of
Jeremiah 5: 1- Remember, O Yahweh, what has befallen us; look, and see our
disgrace! Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to
aliens. We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. We
must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. With a yoke on
our necks, we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest. We have made
a pact with Egypt and Assyria, to get enough bread. Our ancestors sinned; they
are no more, and we bear their iniquities. Slaves rule over us; there is no one
to deliver us from their hand. We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.’’
Are there any Governor,
Senator, Chief, Elder, and Youth that would act apart from those who know that
it is only ChukwuOkikeAhbiama, Nnamdị Kanụ,
and IPOB will save our land. Prophet Jeremiah Run To Yahweh for help, while our
so-called Governors, Some Chiefs, Elders, some Senators and some Youths are
absent-minded running to our enemy for help, trading on the blood of their own
people-the Biafrans.
When the Citadel of power
corrupts what will happen to the body Politics? The question remains for you to
provide the answer, as you are planning to kill Nnamdị
Kanụ because of your envious activity. A person
who quenches the great light of Liberation for His people cannot see any light
in his or her life. For example, the South Eastern Governors scheduled the
first Meeting with Nnamdị Kanụ,
which he attended with every hope that they have decided to support the
struggle and after they heard every words from Mazi Nnamdi Kanụ in
that meeting, the meeting ended that day, and they later rescheduled it to
another day., while Nnamdị Kanụ
was waiting for the meeting, they sent the Nigerian Army to attacked him and on
the process of the attack, many IPOB
have gone down, but before hands the plotted Evil to eliminate him on the way
while coming on the second meeting to Enugu, which IPOB Intelligence gathered
the Information, this evil plot and other issues made him not to attend the
meeting.
For example, on the same vein,
“The South-east governors have issued a stern warning to Nnamdi Kanu, the
self-exiled leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), over his
threats to attack them and other South-east leaders who travel abroad. The
governors, in a statement issued Tuesday night, said should Mr. Kanu make his
threat real, they would ensure his repatriation back to Nigeria “to face the wrath
of the people”.
The statement was signed by the
governor’s chairman and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi.- (PREMIUM TIMES
REPORT). A Man who you plotted to kill when he was at home, all your plans are
abortive, Now is it when he is in a safe hand, you will borrow power to kill
him.’’ I want to humbly advice all eastern Governors (SouthEast and
South-South) to count their teeth with their tongue to do the needful, as
earlier the better, for tomorrow may be too late for them.
Finally, In Igbo adage says,
“Egbue dike N’ Ọgụ ụlọ, ubochi ogu iro daa-achoba dike,’’ If you kill
a powerful man in your society, when there is war outside, you must seek for
the powerful person, like Mazi Nnamdi Kanu which every other powerful Country
in the World may like to have in their midst for a time like this, because if
by hatred and Jealousy you killed him, who will be like him among us? Take Note
and stop mongering for Money and lose the potential that made you who you are.
Thanks for recalling yourself
back.
Remain Blessed
Written by Mazi: Nnamdi
Obodoechi (Ojukwu IgboNile)
Email address:
omumukezeobodoechi@gmail.com
Blog @
www.liberationofpeople.blogspot.gr
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