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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. 2000
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An Open Letter to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
Nov 30, 2015 | Updated Nov 30, 2015
Biafra has defeated Nigeria Home and Away under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu.
Here are some photos after the court case, Biafrans
celebrating.
EXPOSED!!! BOKO HARAM DISGUISED AS DSS FLANKED KANU TO COURT
By: Paul Timothy
There has been many questions concerning the reasons for masking a “DSS armed Officer”. It has been discovered that the purported masked armed personnel is actually one of the released Boko haram suspects now reintegrated into Nigeria security outfits. Our source argues that if the DSS operative was acting within the arm bits of the law, then there was no reason for masking his true identity and face in a growing case such as that of Mazi Nnamdi kanu, the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Radio Biafra Boss to Abuja Federal high Court on 16th December, 2015.>>>Igberetvnews
There has been many questions concerning the reasons for masking a “DSS armed Officer”. It has been discovered that the purported masked armed personnel is actually one of the released Boko haram suspects now reintegrated into Nigeria security outfits. Our source argues that if the DSS operative was acting within the arm bits of the law, then there was no reason for masking his true identity and face in a growing case such as that of Mazi Nnamdi kanu, the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Radio Biafra Boss to Abuja Federal high Court on 16th December, 2015.>>>Igberetvnews
ON Christmas Eve, Wednesday,
December 25, 1975, soldiers from 8 Battalion, Nigerian Army, stationed at Ugep,
launched a retaliatory attack on the countryside community located about 100
kilometres from Calabar over alleged killing of a soldier by unidentified
persons. At the end of the operation, over 100 villagers, 300 houses and
property worth millions of Naira were destroyed in what has become known as the 1975 Ugep
Massacre, an incident which has remained a watershed in the professed largest
West African native town.
Defective motive
The soldiers, according to Sebastine Eko, a journalist
from the area, acted on the conviction that Ugep indigenes were responsible for
the death of a soldier whose remains they found in the town. However, a post
mortem conducted by military doctors in the Barracks later revealed that the
man was drunk and had an epileptic seizure. The soldier swallowed his own
sputum in the success and choked himself to death.
Many fled the community that night
and became refugees in surrounding villages following the soldiers’ invasion,
effectively putting an end to any celebration of Christmas that year by the
people of Ugep. “Ugep people could not celebrate Christmas that year
because they were forced to abandon their homes, which were razed down, most
people who could not escape were killed and lots of property destroyed,” Eko
told Niger Delta Voice.
Never-ending cry
It was 40 years ago that the unforgettable horror took
place last Thursday, December 24, and the people marked it with rendition of
songs, photographic displays and poetry recitations.
Traditional rulers, women, youth, academics, politicians
from the Ugep community along with their friends and well wishers from
across the country and in the Diaspora gathered at the Obol Ubi Confrence
Centre with some weeping openly when they beheld the pictures and images of
their loved ones massacred during the attack by the soldiers.
How birds foreshadowed incident
Recalling the incident, the King
of Ugep, Obol Ofem Ubana Eteng, said every Christmas Eve, the events of 1975
flood the memory of every living Ugep person, who witnessed what took place
that day.
“As a young man in secondary
school then, I was that evening pounding tomatoes for the Christmas stew the
next day when I saw four big birds hovering over the city and I told my aunty
that some evil was about to befall the community, as the sight of the birds was
unusual. She ignored me and ordered me to keep doing what she asked me to do.
“Shortly afterwards, I saw
people running and I joined them without knowing what was amiss. As we were
running, I remembered that my teacher in class two, who is from a neighbouring
village kept his box, which contained all his certificates in my room, so I had
to go back to get the box and that was when I was nearly killed. That incident
has remained fresh in my mind even when I joined the Nigerian Army,” he said.
Preventable
butchery
Chair, Nigerian Human Rights
Commission, Professor Chid Odinakalu, who delivered the keynote address at the
event, said the remembrance of the massacre by the Ugep people was a clear
departure from the Nigerian attitude where people often prefer to leave such an
incident in the hand of God.
“From what I have read on the
events of December 24, 1975 in Ugep, it is painful that people should be killed
and homes destroyed because of one soldier whose cause of death was
unsubstantiated: how is a child who saw the father killed brutally supposed to
forget, how is a child who saw the mother raped supposed to forget? You have to
remember, remind your children to keep memory alive until we build a country
where every life is important,” he said.
Odinkalu asserted that if a
soldier was found dead, the wise thing to have done was to investigate and with
help of the leaders of the community, fish out the culprits and allow the law
to take its cause, and not invade the entire community and kill scores of
people.
“Let the resilience of the
people of Ugep stay alive by remembering this massacre and we pray that the
spirit of those killed will continue to haunt all those, who committed the
atrocity,” he added.
If not
mass murder, what is it?
Also speaking, human rights
lawyer, Mr Okoi Obono Obla, said no intimidation from the authorities would
stop the people from remembering the incident and called for the payment of
reparation to the people of Ugep for the mindless action of the
soldiers. “The DSS said we should not call it a massacre, if the
killing of scores of harmless people by soldiers is not a massacre, then what
was it?” He asked
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| Let the whole world see how the Nigerian Mobile Police force fighting for the sake of Bribe. The Police in Nigeria are disgrace! |
By Ibeh Gift Amarachi
(For family writers)
(For family writers)
Alhaji Sagir
Rigim,the Indigenous People Of Biafra are aware that you are the Leader of
AREWA CONSULTATIVE FORUM not HAUSA/FULANI CONSULTATIVE FORUM, you know that
"AREWA" is your original name and have fought both secretly and
openly to keep that name. You have been trending on a secession name in disguise
"AREWA",when you and your cohorts pretentiously called for One
Nigeria. Arewa have created various forums, well sanctioned by the Nigeria
Government and you been the Leader of Arewa, no one has called for your arrest,
rather you have been giving Power to speak against those struggling to bear
their original names Biafra, nodded the arrest of the Leader Of The Indigenous
People Of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and as well demanded that the quest for
Biafra restoration should be stopped. We are also notifying you that, your
Divide and Rule statement via Vanguard was acknowledged. For reminder sake not
just for you but the World at large because you Arewa's have a natural
hypocritical lifestyle and attitude of denying your statements even when made
publicly.
You stated that" THE AGITATATION FOR BIAFRA BY THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA PRESIDED BY NNAMDI KANU IS A PLOY TO RECOLONISE THE MINORITY SOUTH-SOUTH PEOPLE,CAPTURE THEIR REGION AND COLONISE THE OIL FIELDS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE IGBOS. I URGE IGBO LEADERS TO APPLY CAUTION IN THIS PURSUIT AND STOP THE AGITATION FOR BIAFRA". I shall expose your hypocritical and evil agenda, based on your statement. Following your statement "IGBOS ARE AGITATING FOR BIAFRA TO RECOLONISE THE MINORITY SOUTH-SOUTH PEOPLE"
You stated that" THE AGITATATION FOR BIAFRA BY THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA PRESIDED BY NNAMDI KANU IS A PLOY TO RECOLONISE THE MINORITY SOUTH-SOUTH PEOPLE,CAPTURE THEIR REGION AND COLONISE THE OIL FIELDS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE IGBOS. I URGE IGBO LEADERS TO APPLY CAUTION IN THIS PURSUIT AND STOP THE AGITATION FOR BIAFRA". I shall expose your hypocritical and evil agenda, based on your statement. Following your statement "IGBOS ARE AGITATING FOR BIAFRA TO RECOLONISE THE MINORITY SOUTH-SOUTH PEOPLE"
What do you
mean by South-South, Minority and who colonised South-South before the alleged
false re colonisation accusation you are labelling the Igbos? In the statement
of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu "HOW CAN
ONE BE CALLED MINORITY IN HIS OWN FATHERS COMPOUND? IF SOUTH-SOUTH IS YOUR
NAME, YOU WONT BE LABELLED MINORITY BY AREWAS". To my knowledge and that
of any educated individual, SOUTH-SOUTH DOES NOT EXIST, in any geographical
cardinal point or even in the entire universe. South-South was created and
sanctioned during the regime of an AREWA POLITICIAN by name IBRAHIM BADAMASI
BABAGIDA out of South-East in the ploy to Divide and Rule them, which projects
you as their masters, in other words AREWA'S ARE THE COLONIAL MASTERS OF SOUTH-SOUTH".
You Arewas withdrew their original name Biafra and named them South-South which has no Historical origin, Geographical origin or even Religious origin, in your ploy to colonise and capture their Oil-Fields. You stated that,"IGBOS WANT TO CAPTURE THE OIL FIELDS AND NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE MINORITY SOUTH-SOUTH PEOPLE". This same Oil Field and natural resources was captured by Arewas even before the Nigeria civil war and upon till today are still been controlled by Arewas. In an interview with an Arewa Politician Honorable Farouk Adamu Aliyu by Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) he stated "THE OIL IN SOUTH-SOUTH BELONGS TO HAUSA/FULANI AND WE SHALL DO ANYTHING POSSIBLE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT OIL,I SWEAR. ANYBODY WHO THINKS THE OIL IN BAYELSA BELONGS TO BAYELSA IS DECEIVING HIMSELF. AS LONG AS WE EXIST WE MUST MAKE SURE WE HAVE UN-INTERRUPTED SUPPLY OF CRUDE OIL.WE ARE NOT THESAME AND WE DON'T NEED ANYONE TO TELL US THAT.
You Arewas withdrew their original name Biafra and named them South-South which has no Historical origin, Geographical origin or even Religious origin, in your ploy to colonise and capture their Oil-Fields. You stated that,"IGBOS WANT TO CAPTURE THE OIL FIELDS AND NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE MINORITY SOUTH-SOUTH PEOPLE". This same Oil Field and natural resources was captured by Arewas even before the Nigeria civil war and upon till today are still been controlled by Arewas. In an interview with an Arewa Politician Honorable Farouk Adamu Aliyu by Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) he stated "THE OIL IN SOUTH-SOUTH BELONGS TO HAUSA/FULANI AND WE SHALL DO ANYTHING POSSIBLE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT OIL,I SWEAR. ANYBODY WHO THINKS THE OIL IN BAYELSA BELONGS TO BAYELSA IS DECEIVING HIMSELF. AS LONG AS WE EXIST WE MUST MAKE SURE WE HAVE UN-INTERRUPTED SUPPLY OF CRUDE OIL.WE ARE NOT THESAME AND WE DON'T NEED ANYONE TO TELL US THAT.
THAT OIL IN
SOUTH-SOUTH BELONGS TO US AND WE WILL USE EVERYTHING IN OUR REACH OR EVEN SHED
OUR BLOOD, TO MAKE SURE WE WILL HAVE UNINTERRUPTED OIL SUPPLY FROM
SOUTH-SOUTH". Mr Sagir Rigim it is also known that, 85% of Oil Fields and
Blocks in South-South is been awarded by Arewa Presidents to the indigenes of
Arewa, who presently own and control the Oil-Fields. OML 110 is owned by Alhaji
Mai Dariba,OPL 246 owned by Theophilus Danjuma,NOML 112 and OML 117 is owned by
Colonel Sanni Bello,OML 115,OLD WOK FIELD and EBOK FIELD is owned by Alhaji
Mohammed Indimi,OML 215 is owned by Alhaji Saleh Mohammed Gambo,OML108 is owned
by Alhaji Aminu Dantata,Intel is owned by Atiku,Yaradua and Ado Bayero,to
mention but a few.
ALSO READ OPEN LETTER TO AREWA YOUTHS
This is to say that, your divide and rule statement is channelled to still retain your position as South-South Colonial Masters and the Arewa forceful ownership of South-South Oil fields. The Arewas does not only own 85% of Oil-Fields in South-South, but secretly stopped functioning Refineries, built their private refineries abroad, where they refine the stolen Crude Oil from South-South and yet are been paid by the Nigeria Government through fuel subsidy and as well leave the so called South-South to suffer the pains of fuel scarcity. You also stated that “EVERY IGBO LEADER SHOUL D AID IN STOPPING THE AGITATION FOR BIAFRA".
If Biafra is not a genuine quest, why are you afraid? You made your divide and Rule statement, why going further to ask the presumed Igbo Leaders to help stop the agitation for Biafra? The Indigenous People of Biafra want you to know that "IGBO-NIGERIA POLITICIANS AND LEADERS DOES NOT SPEAK FOR BIAFRANS" this I stated in one of my articles. The Arewa continuous quest to try to stop the agitation for Biafra will always prove abortive, as it’s a total waste of time, because BIAFRA RESTORATION IS SPIRITUALLY ANCHORED AND NO ONE CAN STOP THIS QUEST TO FREEDOM.
Exposing Police Robbery On Southeast Roads: How IGP Arase Illicitly
Pocketed N1.03Billion In 60 Days Using Pro Biafran Protests As A Cover
(Intersociety, Onitsha Nigeria, 22nd December 2015)-The leadership of
International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) had
on 11th December 2011 released a report of its national investigation of the Police
Roadblock Extortion across the country particularly in the Southeast Zone, where
over 1,500 police roadblocks were maintained, out of over 3,500 police
roadblocks across the country. The national investigation of police roadblock
extortion covered a period of three years; June 2009 to December 2011. In the said
national investigation, Anambra State was used as a case-study State and the
Southeast Zone as a case-study zone. This followed the largest concentration of the
police roadblocks and their graft practices in the State and the Zone respectively.
In the national investigation, Anambra and Abia States had 400 police roadblocks
or extortion points each, followed by Imo State with 300 and Enugu and Ebonyi
States with 200 each.
At the end, we found that the existence and maintenance of over 3,500 police
roadblock extortion points across the country criminally fetched the Nigeria Police
Force a total sum of N53.4Billion in three years; out of which the Southeast Zone
fetched the Force the lion’s share of N32.2Billion, followed by Southwest and
South-south with N8.2Billion each; North-central N2.1Billion; and Northeast and
Northwest with N1.2Billion each. Anambra and Abia States were also found to be
worse hit by the police roadblock extortion scourge; as a result of their blue-collar
or high commercial activities and large concentration of adult or commercial
population with limited education as well as other inhibiting socio-cultural
factors. The national investigation was built on the report of the Human Rights
Watch of August 2010 (Police Corruption As Human Rights Abuse in
Nigeria…); which was further built on past rights groups’ reports on
indiscriminate killing of innocent citizens by Nigerian Police personnel on
Nigerian roads over extortion; resulting to monthly average death of 200
Nigerians.
The major effect or result of the national investigation under reference was the
country-wide dismantling of 90% of the police roadblocks particularly in the
Southeast Zone. The dismantling was ordered and enforced by then Inspector
General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar on the heels of his IGPship
appointment in January 2012. The dislodgement largely remained in force
throughout the period of his IGPship and extended to, an extent, to the tenure of
former IGP, Suleiman Abba, but was reversed when the present IGP, Mr. Solomon
Arase took over in May 2015. The flooding of the Southeast Roads with police
roadblock extortion points reached a crescendo in October 2015 following the
widespread peaceful and non-violent protests and processions embarked upon by
millions of concerned people of the Southeast Zone, which extended to the Southsouth
geopolitical zone; demanding for the unconditional release of Mr. Nnamdi
Kanu as well as assertion of their constitutional and conventional rights to peaceful
assembly, association, expression, movement; and existence, development and self
determination. In other words, IGP Solomon Arase had cashed in on the
widespread peaceful protests and flooded the Southeast Zone with at least 750
police roadblocks for the purpose of criminal enrichment through brazen roadblock
extortions with perfected and highly organized return culture (from CP to IGP).
Re-emergence of Police Roadblocks in Southeast using Pro Biafran Peaceful
Protests as a cover: The return of police roadblock extortion points in June 2015 in
Nigeria, ordered by IGP Solomon Arase; particularly in the Southeast Zone, which
reached its peak in October 2015; has further made mockery of the doubtful anticorruption
policy of the Buhari administration. Findings from our recent zonal
investigation in the Southeast, factually disclosed that there are at least 750 police
roadblock extortion points mounted and maintained by IGP Arase-led NPF on
federal, State and intercity roads in the Zone.
Of the minimum of 750 police roadblock extortion points presently stationed on
Southeast Roads; there are 200 in Anambra State; followed by Abia State with
200; Imo State with 150; and Enugu and Ebonyi States with 100 each. Of these
five States, Anambra and Abia are most illicitly lucrative; owing to their
commercial environmental nature. They are followed by Imo State, owing to its
strategic link between the two States. Enugu and Ebonyi States are lesser owing to
their white-collar or civil service environmental nature.
Most of the police roadblock extortion proceeds from Enugu and Ebonyi States
come from highway and inter State road users; particularly users of Enugu-Port
Harcourt, Enugu-Onitsha, Enugu-Nsukka-Oturkpa, Enugu-Abakiliki, AbakilikiOkigwe
and Abakiliki-Ogoja Roads as well as inter-State Roads within the two
States. But in Anambra and Abia States, police roadblock extortions are
concentrated on four major areas of Federal, inter-State, inter-LGA and intercity
Roads. In Imo State, the criminal exercise is concentrated on its major inter-State
and Federal Roads. Some of the Federal and inter-State Roads in Anambra and
Abia States bearing the brunt of police roadblock extortions are: Onitsha-Enugu,
Onitsha-Owerri, Atani-Ogwuikpere-Ndoni, Oba-Nnewi-Okigwe, Okigwe-OrluOwerri,
Aba-Ikot-Ekpene, Uturu-Okigwe-Abakiliki, Ekwuluobia-Oko-Ibinta,
Umuahia-Ariam-Ikot-Ekpene, Owerri-Elele-Port Harcourt, Umuahia-ObowoOwerri,
Umuahia-Bende, Igbo-Ukwu-Ezinifite-Uga-Umunze, Nsugbe-Adani and
Umuahia-Port Harcourt Roads, etc
Patterns used by Police Roadblock Extortionists: In Imo, Enugu and Ebonyi
States, which are relatively white-collar or civil-service States; police extortion is
largely concentrated on road users and few other citizens that engaged in
commercial activities in the three States. But in Anambra and Abia States,
dominated by commercial population; police extortion is widespread. In Onitsha,
Nnewi and Aba, for instance, intercity, inter-State, inter-LGA and Federal Road
users are targeted and extorted with reckless abandon. In Onitsha and its environs,
there are private vehicle police extortion, Keke-passenger police extortion, Kekeware
police extortion, Okada-passenger police extortion, Okada-ware police
extortion, Datsun truck-ware and mini and long lorry-ware police extortion;
intercity and highway commercial bus police extortion. These extortion
categories are also indiscriminate or widespread in other commercial cities of
Anambra and Abia States.
Further, for every private vehicle impounded for alleged traffic or incomplete
particulars offense, at least, N3, 000/N5, 000 is extorted; and for average of five of
them impounded daily by each extorting police roadblock team, N15, 000/N25,
000 is extorted. For every Okada caught plying or crossing any federal and
designated State roads; N5, 000 is extorted and out of every five Okada or
commercial motorcycles caught by each extorting police team daily, N25, 000 is
extorted. This is widespread in cities and areas where their movement is said to
have been restricted by Government including Onitsha-Enugu and Onitsha-Owerri
Federal Roads; where upon corrupt police personnel backed by their superiors;
brazenly use same to engage in extortion and related criminal activities.
Also, each of the intercity commercial bus is made to part with N50.00 note at
every police extortion point; spending at least N500.00 at every ten police
extortion points and N3, 000 per day in six trips. In other words, 100 commercial
buses with six trips each per day spend at least N300, 000 in the hands of every ten
intercity police extortion points; translating to N30, 000 per day for each police
roadblock or extortion point. In our recent field checks, at least, ten police
extortion points were counted between Nkwerre Junction and Onitsha Niger
Bridgehead, situated along Onitsha-Enugu Dual Carriage Way in Anambra State
and all of them were busy extorting commercial road users and impounding private
vehicles under flimsy traffic and vehicle particulars’ issues, for purpose of forcing
them at gun point to offer bribes; ranging from N3, 000 to N10, 000 per vehicle.
The largest concentration of these graft practices of the NPF is Onitsha Upper
Iweka and its environs including Aba Park, Owerri Road by Ezeiweka Road and
Owerri Road by Obodo-ukwu Road all in Onitsha.
Each Keke (tricycle) and Okada (commercial motorcycle) loaded with goods on
intercity roads is also made to part with N100/N200. On highways, each
commercial bus with passengers is made to part with N50 note at every police
extortion point, while each commercial bus with passengers and loads parts with
N100 note at every extortion point. At each military or ATS checkpoint,
N100/N200 is collected. At Navy Checkpoint located at Atani Road by OnitshaAsaba
Expressway in Ogbaru LGA, every commercial bus (small, mini and
medium), Keke and Okada plying the Road and its environs mandatorily pays
N50.00 per day as “Navy Fee”. It is collected by a civilian taskforce set up by the
commercial transporters using the Road under the direction of the Navy personnel.
At Onitsha Niger Bridgehead, soldiers of the Onitsha Military Cantonment have
become a nightmare to road users in the area. Till date, pedestrians are barred from
crossing the Bridge to Asaba or coming into Onitsha from Asaba. The murderous
soldiers also engage in sundry extortion, torture and reckless killing of innocent
and unarmed members of the public. The traffic jams created by soldiers at the
Bridge, if not dismantled; will not only further threaten the ailing lifespan of the
aging Bridge, but also bring about tortuous movement for 2015 Xmas returnees
into Anambra State and the Southeast Zone.
In summation, it is our empirical finding that average of N30, 000 is illicitly
pocketed daily by each of the 200 police extortion team stationed on Anambra and
Abia Roads by IGP Solomon Arase since October 21st 2015. That is to say that
some police extortion squads stationed on Anambra and Abia Roads illicitly pocket
as much as N60, 000 each on daily basis, while others illicitly pocket at least
N20,000 each, bringing the average to N30,000 per day. After consideration of the
variables recorded above, it is also found that each police extortion team on Imo,
Enugu and Ebonyi Roads, illicitly collects and pockets average of N15, 000 daily.
That is to say that with 200 police extortion points on Anambra Roads, N6million
is illicitly collected and pocketed daily and in Abia State, the same sum of
N6million is illicitly made daily by its 200 police extortion points.
In Imo State with 150 police extortion points, N2, 25million is illicitly collected
daily. And in Enugu and Ebonyi States with 100 police extortion points each; N1,
5million is illicitly pocketed daily in each of the two States; translating to
N3million per day. In all, the Nigeria Police Force under the operational
directive of IGP Solomon Arase had in the past 60 days; 21st October to 21st
December 2015, illicitly collected and pocketed N360million from Anambra
Roads; N360million from Abia Roads; N135million from Imo Roads;
N90million from Enugu Roads; and N90million from Ebonyi Roads; totaling
N1.03Billion. In other words, the Nigeria Police Force had in the past sixty days
(21st October to 21st December 2015), illicitly collected and pocketed a total sum
of N1.03Billion from at least 750 Police Roadblock Extortion Points in the
Southeast Zone; hiding under the cover of Pro Biafran Peaceful Protests.
Purpose of the investigation: The purpose of this investigation is to bring the
attention of the Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari, which says its major policy is
to stamp out corruption in Nigeria; to brazen corrupt activities going unchecked
by its largest security establishment: Nigeria Police Force; which is also its major
anti corruption enforcement agency. As the saying goes “the best ways to ascertain
how corrupt or less corrupt a civilian government is; is to take a critical look at
the conducts of its police force”; we are compelled again to regard the anti
corruption policy of the Buhari administration as a hoax. A Government that
brazenly condones open and brazen corrupt practices of its police personnel oiled
by command-structure return culture; is a government of profligacy. We dare say
that this articulated report with pieces of pictorial evidence below, is a test case for
the Government of Muhammadu Buhari and another challenge facing the
Government’s doubtful anti corruption stance. That is to say that the way it
responds to this report in coming days will prove to all Nigerians and members of
the international community the seriousness or otherwise of its administration;
concerning its anti corruption policies and actions.
It is in line with this that we resolved to forward this report via a forwarding letter
to the trio of the Attorney General of the Federation, the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation and the Police Service Commission; seeking their
requisite constitutional interventions including our demand that they should
recommend to the President, who is also the Chairman of the Nigeria Police
Council; for immediate removal of Mr. Solomon Arase as Inspector General of
Police. The referenced forwarding letter was dated 21st December 2015 and
referenced: Intersociety/NG/05/015/FGN/ABJ.
Part of our recommendations also is immediate dismantling of all the 750 police
checkpoints in the Southeast Zone and reversion to special and skeletal highway
police checkpoints created by former IGP, MD Abubakar; with effective measures
to monitor and nip in the bud their possible relapse to extortionist activities. There
shall also be total prohibition of all forms of police roadblock extortion and
apprehension and dismissal from NPF of those found engaging in the nefarious
conducts; be they members of the rank and file or operational AIGs, CPs,
DCs/ACs-OPS, MOPOL commanders, DPOs and Area Commanders. The
embattled Inspector General of Police must be given a matching order by the
Presidency to direct with immediate effect, his Anambra, Abia and Imo State
Police Commissioners, to immediately order their personnel out of roadblocks in
the affected States so as to allow free flow of traffic and free movements for Xmas
returnees in coming days. There should also be total ban all forms of vehicular
impoundment in the guise of verification of vehicle particulars; leading to
extortion and excruciating traffic jams.
The attached pictures, dated 12th of December 2015 are: (a) a Mobile Police officer
holding N50.00 note in his left hand; extorted from a commercial mini lorry driver
in front of him along Onitsha-Enugu Dual Carriage Way; (b) the same Mobile
Police officer stepping down his left hand and pocketing the N50.00 note extorted;
(c) another Mobile Police officer along same Onitsha-Enugu Dual Carriage Way
receiving N50.00 note from the same commercial mini lorry driver; (d) another
Mobile Police officer about collecting N50.00 note from the same commercial
mini lorry driver; and (e) hand of a Mobile Police officer, flanked by his
colleague, receiving N50.00 note from a commercial bus driver along OnitshaOwerri
Road on 19th December 2015.
Signed:
Emeka Umeagbalasi, B.Sc. (Hons), Criminology & Security Studies
Board Chairman, International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law
+2348174090052
emekaumeagbalasi@yahoo.co.uk, info@intersociety-ng.org
www.intersociety-ng.org
Uzochukwu Oguejiofor-Nwonu, LLB, BL, Head, Campaign & Publicity Department
Obianuju Joy Igboeli, LLB, BL, Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program
Chinwe Umeche, LLB, BL, Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program
Mobile Police officer holding N50.00 note in his left hand; extorted from a commercial mini
lorry driver in front of him along Onitsha-Enugu Dual Carriage WayThis is to say that, your divide and rule statement is channelled to still retain your position as South-South Colonial Masters and the Arewa forceful ownership of South-South Oil fields. The Arewas does not only own 85% of Oil-Fields in South-South, but secretly stopped functioning Refineries, built their private refineries abroad, where they refine the stolen Crude Oil from South-South and yet are been paid by the Nigeria Government through fuel subsidy and as well leave the so called South-South to suffer the pains of fuel scarcity. You also stated that “EVERY IGBO LEADER SHOUL D AID IN STOPPING THE AGITATION FOR BIAFRA".
If Biafra is not a genuine quest, why are you afraid? You made your divide and Rule statement, why going further to ask the presumed Igbo Leaders to help stop the agitation for Biafra? The Indigenous People of Biafra want you to know that "IGBO-NIGERIA POLITICIANS AND LEADERS DOES NOT SPEAK FOR BIAFRANS" this I stated in one of my articles. The Arewa continuous quest to try to stop the agitation for Biafra will always prove abortive, as it’s a total waste of time, because BIAFRA RESTORATION IS SPIRITUALLY ANCHORED AND NO ONE CAN STOP THIS QUEST TO FREEDOM.
Who can tell me the meaning of
“BUHARI”?
BUHARI
BUHARI
B= Be
U=Under
H=Hallucinates
A=Affection
R= Resonantly
I=Incurable
Buhari means “Be under hallucinates affection in resonantly incurable.”
By may look at Buhari, one may understand that He is ill-mental person.
By may look at Buhari, one may understand that He is ill-mental person.
We know that the ruling of
Nigeria is greater than Buhari-the President of Nigeria. How can you voted an
illiterate into power?
The worse illiterate on Earth!
Woe to Nigeria!
A man who went to Malta,,,, when he was to address them, He said “The great Nation of Maltina!” Also to Germany, He called Mishael from Western Germany! A president of Nigeria who does not have the idea that western Germany was immerged since many years ago!
A man who went to Malta,,,, when he was to address them, He said “The great Nation of Maltina!” Also to Germany, He called Mishael from Western Germany! A president of Nigeria who does not have the idea that western Germany was immerged since many years ago!
What an international disgrace to
Nigeria? Under Buahri watch, Biafra will come! Chukwu Okike Abiama will do it.
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I
understand the despair that Steve Jobs of Apple Computer felt and Bruce Mayrock
of Columbia University felt that no assistance is being given to the Biafrans.
Do I need to throw myself too off the San Francisco bridge to get attention for
this nation of Biafra suffering?? Will that get people to wake up and assist?
Why is no one coming to alleviate the suffering of these people?? Bruce Mayrock
torched himself to get noitce for them and perished. Steve Jobs lost his faith because of Christians in the Western world doing
nothing. I, likewise, feel so much frustration with this situation. This young
man Nnamdi Kanu being held there unconstitutionally in Nigeria.
This
young father that has not even gotten to meet his newborn son. This young man
that has made bail and yet has been still detained in this so called democracy
Nigeria that cherry picks the rules of democracy. No one cares, no one does
anything. Where are all the Christians while rights are being eroded? These are
young people there that are protesting that are being shot and killed for
simply protesting their displeasure at the continued oppression.
OE,NewsPoint : Rochas Okorocha should be buried alive
for his fraudulent records ;-
Rochas Okorocha should be buried alive for his
fraudulent records
By Okonkwo Isaac Somto
For Family Writers
By Okonkwo Isaac Somto
For Family Writers
Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha is one of the deadliest
and most corrupt politician in Nigeria. Rochas, a Half Hausa-fulani, was born
on 22 September 1962 in Ogboko, Ideato South, Imo State. He attended Juladaco
High School, Jos (1976-1981). He studied at the University of Jos (1990-1991),
obtaining a diploma in Public Administration. He returned to the University of
Jos (1993-1994) to obtain an advanced diploma in Public Administration. Career
positions include President, Nigeria Red Cross Society, President/Founder,
Rochas Foundation Inc, President, Rochas Group of Companies Limited, Pro
Chancellor, African Business School and Former Chairman, Board of Nigerian
Airspace Management Agency. Okorocha was a Commissioner on the Federal
Character Commission and a Member of the National Constitutional Conference.
During this period Rochas secretly stole $4, 000, 0000
in funds meant to better and improve the federal character commission. Since
1999 when democracy was restored Rochas Okorocha have tried everything in his
power to be governor of imo state, he joined PDP and failed, then went to ANPP
failed again and then return to PDP on his return the then President Olusegun
Obasanjo who is the criminal mastermind of Nigeria politics appointed him as
Special Adviser on Inter-Party affairs. In 2005 Rochas Okorocha formed the
(AA)party in an attempt to become the president in the 2007 presidential
elections but failed, during all this failed attempts Rochas Okorocha made sure
he stole money from each party he left and using most of the money organized
for his campaigns to enrich himself, the confused man then returned to PDP
again but didn't succeed because he tried to enforce himself as the PDP
National chairman, Okorocha decamped from the PDP to the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA), With APGA he won the 2011 gubernatorial position of Imo state,
Okorocha on his election, saying the people of Imo Stat
e had spoken through the ballot box.
e had spoken through the ballot box.
Okorocha who knew full well that APGA was the party
who most easterners preferred; he then used APGA for his selfish ambitions.
Since then this criminal and thief in the person of Rochas Okorocha has stolen
over $5Billion dollars and the sad, worse, pathetic thing about this is that he
hasn't been probed or persecuted. He's going about talking trash and living
like a king, believing he is immune to any form of persecution because he's a
member of APC, been the party of the so-called anti-corruption president
(Mummhadu Buhari) Rochas Okorocha mansion alone in his home town in imo state
is worth over N1.7 billion alone, compared to the mansions he has all over the
country and abroad. Rochas Okorocha who created Rochas Foundation as camouflage
just to win the hearts of the people of imo state in other to be the governor
and defraud his people but as many of already know Rochas is half Hausa-fulani
and Half imo, so that's why he has a very manipulative spirit. Rochas stole
over N37billion that was left by the previous government and also as the
Governor of Imo state since 29 may 2011, he has stole over N40.5 billion on
fake propaganda projects.
Governor Rochas Okorocha has left thousands of
Imolites thunder-struck by the arrogance of a man who is determined to enslave
Imo State further to his ridiculous ambition to continue to rule Imo
willy-nilly. From my research of Imo’s political economy under Governor
Okorocha the quickest numerical comparison for Imo is that of Ali Baba and the
40 thieves. This criminal has taken close to N64billion apart from others
scandals which I can't mention. I am asking: where are the local roads, health
care centres, modern schools and markets for Obowo people? Where are the
projects for development in Obowo? Where is the N 4.4 billion naira that came
from FG to Obowo LGA from May 2011 to December 2013.
Note also that during the building of city gates in
Owerri about 300 contractors involved had applied for executing the city –
gates projects, each of them was compelled to tender for the job at the cost of
N260, 000, thus generating a whopping Seventy-Eight Million Naira (N78M) only
to Okorocha’s purse before the contracts were cancelled and Okorocha denied
ever awarding or directing anyone to award such contracts for city – gates
meant to control payment of rent taxes for owners of properties in Owerri and
its environs. I can keep going on and on, but we all know that this man called
Rochas Okorocha should be buried alive because he's not just a looter but a
heartless animal who have left the people of imo in harden poverty and the
state of Imo in turmoil.
But take a look at this, if Rochas was to be probed
and persecuted, all the money that will be recovered just from him alone will
be enough to boost the economy of Nigeria and reduce poverty by 50% but no
President Mohummdu Buhari won't do that since his Anti-corruption program is
only meant for those he has a past history with and for those he feel the need
to use as a propaganda for his Anti-corruption program. Nigeria is indeed a big
mistake, if the likes of Rochas Okorocha can still be going about freely and
keep doing what he's doing without been cautioned at least by president Buhari
then how do you expect the poor masses survive to in this wicked country called
Nigeria?? Its time folks in Nigeria to start fighting and standing up for their
rights, Well that's left for Nigerians to stand for what they believe in,
because Biafrans will no longer be a part of this cursed project called
Nigeria!
BREAKING!!! Tompolo: We’ll help US
Fulfill its Prediction on Nig, N. Delta Militants Spit Fire
BREAKING!!! Tompolo: We’ll help
US Fulfill its Prediction on Nig, N. Delta Militants Spit Fire
Twelve Niger
Delta militants known as ex agitators met on Thursday concerning the invitation
by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to one of their leaders
Government Tompolo.
In a press
statement which was signed by a foremost militant Mr. Egbesu Mightier
Fraternity, the group warned the Federal Government will ‘get what they want’
should they continue to toe the path of harassing their leaders.
They issued a
cease and desist order threatening Nigeria’s strategic oil interests and
hinting that any attacks on Oil facilities will make things worse for Nigeria
in the light of the recent decline in oil prices.
“With oil prices
slipping below 40 dollars a barrel, if the government of President Buhari is
willing, we will help to reduce its price of barrel to 15 dollars.
Nigeria will
collapse under the watch of All Progressive Congress (APC) and President
Muhammadu Buhari as we will do everything necessary to actualize the American
prediction“.
“The silence
in the region is a legacy of former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua should not be
thrown away on the altar of vindictiveness. The government should thread with
caution and wisdom by ensuring that anything capable of provoking anger in the
region is avoided or else every region shall maintain their respective
resources because the money belongs to the people of the region and not APC and
Buhari government“.
Suileman Isa Mohammed
ALL HAIL BIAFRA .BIAFRA, BIAFRA.....My people
Listen to this information and pass it right now before is too late My Name is
Nwachukwu Solomon ,I come from Achara Obowo Local Government area
of Imo State ....The worst is about to happen if the Ipop Ignore this message, Rochas and the Federal Government has host plan
meeting this past week planning in their agreement completely how to execute
Nnamdi Kanu alive of Which he has openly made it Open that Nnamdi Kanu will die
by Hanging together speech with Formal President Olusegun Obasanjo . But what
is holding the Life of Nnamdi Kanu and the fear of Government is the Protest
which engage the international community and Media ......Today Sunday service
in one of the church called City of Christ Dominion ministry in Malaysia has
prophesy in revelation Through his servant Prophet Joseph Omezie from Delta
State of which his prophesy was repeatedly more than three times in his speech
saying, there was a Leader of a freedom fighter whom the government arrest and
detain in Prison of which a serious Protest is the problem that weakens the
federal government to kill that Man but, if the protest stop ,the government
will kill him as they have concluded ,the only thing that will free that man is
serious prayer and Protest that will drag many world leader Attention to rescue
that man ...he order everyone to pray and also remind his congregation to take
a pen and put his prophesy in written ,he further said again that The
government has concluded plan to kill Nnamdi Kanu and later as he keep given
the prophesy ,he return back and mention the name of the leader which is Nnamdi
Kanu ,This prophet is not just a prophet but a respected prophet of God well
respected in Malaysia in General ,he said we should put it down in written
Biafra will be actualize says the Lord of Host ,that they should advise the
protesters to keep their protest in double action for that leader to be out
First and everyone under his Nation will be made great people thanks and God
bless you all .Pass this to deputy Director Uche Mefor to announce it worldwide
Tonight for Biafra to pick their stand in this struggle ,God bless you.
This is another picture of a Biafran, who was strangled to death on the
road side! Yes he was one of us. He was a Biafran . Another question is!
WHO KILLED HIM? WHY DID
THEY WASTE HIS LIFE? WHAT WAS HIS CRIME? What has the world said about this
killings and mayhem committed against our people? Or what did they have to say?
What have we done wrong? Are we not peaceful? Why is it that the zoo/Nigeria
arm forces have decided to waste our lives?
Since our agitation, have
we killed any body? IS IT A CRIME TO BE A BIAFRAN?
THESE PEOPLE ARE KILLING US EVERYDAY!!
THESE PEOPLE ARE KILLING US EVERYDAY!!
WE WANT THE WORLD TO SEE
WHAT IS HAPPENING. BECAUSE, WE ARE TIRED OF THESE NONSENSE!! THE WORLD SHOULD
STAND UP FOR JUSTICE TO PREVAIL BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!
DON'T SAY THAT, WE BIAFRANS DONT INFORM YOU EARLIER!!
DON'T SAY THAT, WE BIAFRANS DONT INFORM YOU EARLIER!!
OE,NewsPoint :
Biafrans, this is a picture of one of us who was shot dead in our peaceful
protest today at Aba. Reasons, he was chanting for the release of
our director/leader. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been held almost 4 months now In
the dungeon of our enemy (DSS/SSS)
my question is, for how long are we going to be peaceful? for how long are we going to keep dying in the hands of those animals that don’t know what is means to spilt the blood of innocent souls? What is our crime? Can you feel how helpless and painful this guy was?
What have we done to deserve all these? Is freedom a crime? Agitating for our right is it a crime that we must pay with our blood? What have we done to deserve all this ill treatment in our own land?
I THINK WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE FROM OUR OPPRESSORS!! WE WILL NOT TAKE IT FROM THEM THIS TIME AROUND. WE ARE READY TO BE CALLED TERRORISTS. AND IT MUST BE IN A GRAND STYLE!! WE CANT HOLD OUR SELVES ANYMORE, SEEING OUR PEOPLE'S BLOOD FLOWING LIKE A RIVER FOR NO REASON. ONLY THAT WE ARE SEEKING FOR OUR FREEDOM. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!#HUMANRIGHT AND ALL THOSE THAT MATTERS, SHOULD BE READY TO TAG US AS TERRORIST SINCE THEY CANT COME OUT AND DO THEIR RESPONSIBILITY. #SadIndeed
#freennamdikanu
my question is, for how long are we going to be peaceful? for how long are we going to keep dying in the hands of those animals that don’t know what is means to spilt the blood of innocent souls? What is our crime? Can you feel how helpless and painful this guy was?
What have we done to deserve all these? Is freedom a crime? Agitating for our right is it a crime that we must pay with our blood? What have we done to deserve all this ill treatment in our own land?
I THINK WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE FROM OUR OPPRESSORS!! WE WILL NOT TAKE IT FROM THEM THIS TIME AROUND. WE ARE READY TO BE CALLED TERRORISTS. AND IT MUST BE IN A GRAND STYLE!! WE CANT HOLD OUR SELVES ANYMORE, SEEING OUR PEOPLE'S BLOOD FLOWING LIKE A RIVER FOR NO REASON. ONLY THAT WE ARE SEEKING FOR OUR FREEDOM. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!#HUMANRIGHT AND ALL THOSE THAT MATTERS, SHOULD BE READY TO TAG US AS TERRORIST SINCE THEY CANT COME OUT AND DO THEIR RESPONSIBILITY. #SadIndeed
#freennamdikanu
Stop Or I Expose Your Dirty Deals As Petroleum
Minister And PTF Boss, IBB Warns Buhari
Shut Up Or I Expose Your Dirty Deals As Petroleum Minister And PTF
Boss, IBB Warns Buhari
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has
threatened to expose the misdeeds of former Head of State General Muhammadu
Buhari during his reign as Petroleum Minister and Chairman of the Petroleum
Trust Funds, PTF.
Babangida who was responding to the allegation made by general
Buhari that he (Babangida) and President Goodluck Jonathan killed the Petroleum
sector said he has records of Buhari’s tenures in both the Petroleum Ministry
and the PTF.
“He is a one-time Minister of Petroleum and we have good records
of his tenure as minister.
“Secondly, he also 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,” Babangida, popularly referred to as IBB
said.
Babangida through his media aide, Mr. Kassim Afegbua warned,
“those who live in glass houses do not throw stones. Gen. Buhari should be
properly guided.”
The former Military leader said that
although it is not in his tradition to take up issues with his colleague former
President. But for the purpose of record, “we are conversant with Gen. Buhari’s
so-called holier-than-thou attitude.”
He asked Dr. Jonathan to learn to accept
criticisms and threatened to expose the “holier-than thou-attitude” of Gen.
Buhari.
He also advised Dr. Jonathan to look
elsewhere, not him, if he is blaming past leaders that are criticising him.
Kassim said: “On President Jonathan, there
is nothing wrong in criticism if it is constructive and in the interest of the
country. Gen. Babangida is one unique former President who does not criticise a
sitting President as a matter of courtesy.
“If President Jonathan is blaming past
leaders, he should look elsewhere, certainly not IBB.
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The Enugu State police command, on Tuesday, stated that the
pro-Biafra protesters arrested in Enugu have been charged to court for unlawful
assembly.
A
statement by the police spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu, said the pro-Biafra
protesters were assembling at the Naira Triangle area of the state, on Monday
night.
IPOB
potesters grounding Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State, South-east
Nigeria, during their 1 Million March, to call for the immediate release of
their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu was arrested by the Department of State
Services, DSS, on his way into Nigeria from UK
File: IPOB potesters grounding Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State, South-east Nigeria, during their 1 Million March, to call for the immediate release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu was arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, on his way into Nigeria from UK Amaraizu said: ”This attracted attention of the officers and men of the command and following the failure of the said persons to disperse after being so requested by the police.”
A
number were arrested in the process while others fled.
The
arrested persons include Nwangwu Friday m of 26 years, Chekwube Eneta m 28
years, Chigozie Mba 29 years, Isaiah Ogazi m 28 years, Onyekachukwu Uzoma 43
years, Onyemalu Princewill m 26 years, Israel Ani 18 years and Ugwuobu Kelechi
24 years.
Investigations
disclosed that many of them were from other states but were hired to be in
Enugu for unlawful assembly and processions.
However,
the command promptly charged suspects to magistrate court 111 Enugu East in
charge Number CME 121C/2016 on 19/1/16 for the offences as mentioned above.
Meanwhile,
when the case was called up and counts of the charge read to the accused
persons, they pleaded not guilty and were remanded in prison custody while the
case is adjourned to February 10.
The command will leave no stone is left unturned in ensuring
that Enugu state remains peaceful.
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The
Fairytale Of The 1966 ‘Igbo Coup’ – See LIST
Of Coupists
Now take a look at the list of the major participants in ’66 coup plotters and render your own judgement:
Now take a look at the list of the major participants in ’66 coup plotters and render your own judgement:
1. Major
Chukwuma Kaduna
2.
Nzeogwu(Delta
Igbo)
3. Major
Adewale Ademoyega
(Yoruba)
author of “Why we struck”
4. Capt. G. Adeleke(Yoruba)
5. Maj. Ifeajuna(Igbo)
6. Lt. Fola Oyewole(Yoruba) author of
“The reluctant rebel”
7. Lt. R. Egbiko(Esean)
8. Lt. Tijani
Katsina(Hausa/Fulani)
9. Lt. O.
Olafemiyan(Yoruba)
10. Capt. Gibson
Jalo(Bali)
11. Capt. Swanton(Middle Belt)
12. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Urhobo)
13. Lt. Dag Warribor(Ijaw)
14. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo(Hausa)
15. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera(Tiv).
So, to an unbiased observer, what evidence can one provide to
show that Igbos actually carried out the coup in order to exterminate other
tribes and take over the country?
It is very easy to sell falsehood, but it is very difficult
to provide facts to buttress your claims.
It is now clear even to a suckling, that the imperialist
genocide is crammed up this murderous lies against the Igbos to find reasons to
perpetually keep them under hate.
One even wonders why the Nigerian state and perpetrators of
the gruesome genocide have been preventing the proper documentation of that
episode for the benefits of her posterity.
Buhari Warns Niger Delta Militants, Says Defeating Them
Won’t Be Tough
BY OUR REPORTER ON BREAKING NEWS, COVER, TRENDING
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed
to deal decisively with the seeming resurgence of oil theft, vandalism of
pipelines and insecurity in the Niger Delta.
Declaring that the Nigerian Armed
Forces had already dealt “deadly blows” on Boko Haram, Mr. Buhari said the
activities of oil thieves and vandals would soon be brought to an end,
according to a statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on Tuesday.
“The oil thieves and abductors are a
less problematic target. We will re-organise and deal with them,” he was quoted
as saying.
Speaking Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, the
president warned telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria not to place
their desire for huge profits above the security needs of the country.
Speaking at an interactive forum with
members of the Nigerian Community in Abu Dhabi, President Buhari said the war
against terrorism can only be won with the collective effort and commitment of
everyone.
Remarking that the registration of
all mobile phone users without exception will help the security agencies to
pre-empt terrorist attacks, the president said telecommunication companies
operating in Nigeria must adhere to the rules and guidelines of the Nigerian
Communications Commission in this regard.
President Buhari assured Nigerians at
the session that his administration’s war against corruption will continue to
be vigorously pursued.
The president pledged that more
persons who have abused the public trust will be exposed and brought to justice
soon, adding that his government was committed to re-establishing former standards
of accountability and probity in the management of public funds which were
jettisoned under past administrations.
The president appealed for more
patience and understanding from Nigerians as his administration takes steps to
safeguard the economy from the shock of falling oil prices.
“In the face of our new economic
reality of dwindling oil prices, there are a number of things we can really do
without to preserve our economy.
“We must develop the capacity to feed
ourselves and we should be spending our resources on real development projects,
not luxuries,” he said.
(Source: PREMIUM TIMES)
Published on January 19, 2016 by pmnews
Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs
and Security
Federica Mogherini, European Union High Representative
for Foreign Affairs and Security has replied Biafra agitators and the
Organization of Emerging African States (OEAS) over their call for a
referendum.
The OEAS had earlier requested that the European Union
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security utilizes their good office
to help bring about a referendum for Biafra’s independence.
The OEAS also called for release of all Biafran
political prisoners, a stand down of Nigerian forces, and a snap referendum to
be held within 90 days.
In response to their request, Mogherini replied Dr., Jonathan Levy, OEAS
Chief Administrative Officer, stressing that, the European Union’s official
position is that while it has strong diplomatic and economic ties with Nigeria,
“protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms remains a priority for the
EU and we encourage the authorities [Nigeria] in every occasion to respect such
rights
FILE PHOTO: Pro-Biafra protesters in Abuja
The EU went on to advise the OEAS and Biafrans that
self-determination and border changes must be in accordance with established
international law. The OEAS has called for an internationally recognized
referendum on Biafra independence or autonomy. The EU has indicated it will
only recognize a Biafra born via international law and not armed secession.
To achieve a referendum, the OEAS advises all nonviolent
means should be utilized including general strikes, economic boycotts, work
actions, demonstrations, lawsuits, and civil disobedience. Nigeria is a member
of The International Labor Organization (ILO). The ILO recognizes the right to
engage in general strikes and the right to strike is also recognized in the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 (Article
8(1)(d)).
READ EU’s reply below:
Photos: 10 Year Old Nigerian Girl Marries 28 Year Old Man In Kano
Underage Marriage: 10 Year Old Nigerian Child Bride Marries 28
Year Old Man In Kano. Check out this little girl who just got married in
the Northern part of Nigeria.
According to Arewa Magazine, the 10-year-old girl recently married the 28-year-old alleged pedophile pictured to her right in the photo above.It was further alleged that she is his second wife.
Great people, My Heart bleeds each time Nigeria soldiers shoot
and kill unarmed innocent Biafrans during our peaceful protest, they always ran
away from Boko Haram uneducated boys, because they always have AK47 to fight against
them,
Biafrans I want
you all to know that these morons the (Nigeria military ) are now fighting
their last battle with Biafrans by molesting and shooting at us because we are
armless, The least they can do is to keep arresting and killing innocent
unarmed Biafrans, but the fact remain that (Nnamdi Kanu ) have built a fearless
gallant and resilience Armies of Biafra in our mind, spirit, and souls through
RADIO BIAFRA, In other words strengthening us mentally and ideologically .if
the So called SOUTH/SOUTH will stand publicly declaring their support for
BIAFRA, not RESOURCE CONTROL anymore, what do you think is the reason ?
(RADIO BIAFRA) , Radio Biafra has educated them enough, it has opened their eyes. Now they have realized who was their worst enemies, and who were their Brothers and sister, the chain of hatred, antagonism and segregation between the SOUTH/EAST and SOUTH/SOUTH had been broken by the gospel preach of the Great (NNAMDI KANU) through RBL. Now we must not be afraid neither shall we relent, its Biafra or Death, We are together and already winning this battle as the EU, and many other countries are now taking our case more serious than ever.
(RADIO BIAFRA) , Radio Biafra has educated them enough, it has opened their eyes. Now they have realized who was their worst enemies, and who were their Brothers and sister, the chain of hatred, antagonism and segregation between the SOUTH/EAST and SOUTH/SOUTH had been broken by the gospel preach of the Great (NNAMDI KANU) through RBL. Now we must not be afraid neither shall we relent, its Biafra or Death, We are together and already winning this battle as the EU, and many other countries are now taking our case more serious than ever.
If (Nnamdi Kanu )
did not give himself to the (Nigeria ) government, believe me, this struggle
would have taken longer time than expected, but if you can see what I saw, this
battle will soon be over, and (Biafra) will come. I want all of you to stop
blaming anyone at this juncture and be focused because we are winning already.
Most of you want a quick result, but the most immediate result we need now is
our UNITY, FEARLESSNESS, and resoluteness.
If you are a good
history student like my humble self, you will know that the first official war
lost by the ''USA'' was the (Vietnam) war. Do you know how it happened? The
(Vietnam) soldiers were very tough, they were never afraid of death, they were
resolute and fearless, the more the ''USA'' soldiers kill them, the more they
come like a flood until the USA lost many of their soldiers too and ran away
from (Vietnam). this is exactly what will happen to Nigeria soon, they will beg
us to go
Nnamdi Kanu said
that they will arrest us, kill us, intimidate us but at last Biafra will come.
Now the EU are giving the green light for Biafra freedom through legal international
law (REFERENDUM). Remain peaceful and not violent as the UN, USA, CHINA, EU, AU
and Amnesty International watchDogs are watching closely.
God bless you all
and good morning to Great Biafrans.
Mazi OKPALAEZE CHUKWUBUIKEM
 |
| Nigerian Soldier sleeping on duty, shame to Nigeria |
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Breaking News! EU gives NOD to Biafran Referendum!!!
Breaking News! EU gives nod to Biafran Referendum!!!
Breaking News! EU gives NOD to Biafran Referendum!!!
Breaking News! EU gives nod to Biafran Referendum!!!
EU High
Representative Mogherini Responds to OEAS on Biafra
European Union Will Not Say No to a Lawfully Created Biafra
European Union Will Not Say No to a Lawfully Created Biafra
Brussels: The OEAS called for the European Union High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security to utilize their good office to
help bring about a Referendum on Biafra Independence. The OEAS has also called
for release of all Biafran political prisoners, a stand down of Nigerian
forces, and a snap referendum to be held within 90 days.
Mrs. Mogherini who handles the foreign affairs portfolio for the
European Union responded on January 18 to the OEAS Chief Administrative
Officer, Dr., Jonathan Levy, regarding the question of a Biafra referendum. The
European Union’s official position is that while it has strong diplomatic and
economic ties with Nigeria, “Protection of human rights and fundamental
freedoms remains a priority for the EU and we encourage the authorities
[Nigeria] in every occasion to respect such rights.”
The EU went on to advise the OEAS and Biafrans that
self-determination and border changes must be in accordance with established
international law. The OEAS has called for an internationally recognized
referendum on Biafra independence or autonomy. The EU has indicated it will
only recognize a Biafra born via international law and not armed secession.
To achieve a referendum, the OEAS advises all nonviolent means
should be utilized including general strikes, economic boycotts, work actions,
demonstrations, lawsuits, and civil disobedience. Nigeria is a member of The
International Labor Organization (ILO). The ILO recognizes the right to engage
in general strikes and the right to strike is also recognized in the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 (Article
8(1)(d)).
Biafra is a charter member of the Organization of Emerging
African States (OEAS), an international governmental organization that promotes
self-determination and the end to
colonial era boundaries in Africa. The OEAS has called for a
snap referendum on Biafra self-determination with nonaligned observers
supervising the balloting process. The OEAS supports the Shadow Government of
Biafra and calls for the immediate release of all Biafran patriots detained by
the Nigerian federal government.
A copy of the EU communication to the OEAS is attached.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Ebenezer Derek Mbongo Akwanga, Jr.,
Secretary General OEAS
Dr. Jonathan Levy, Solicitor
Chief Administrative Officer OEAS
info@oeas.info
secretariat@oeas.info
Tel 44 020 3239 1362
Signature of 8 months of Buhari’s directionless administration
*Permanent fuel scarcity
*All poor people are to pay N50 for every N1000 received
*Unbridled insecurity all over Nigeria
*Intimidation and harassment of judges
*Collapse of the economy
*Collapse of the naira
*Lassa fever has taken over 25 states killing poor Nigerians
*Intimidation of opposition
*Propaganda all the way
*Stolen and corrupt 2016 budget
*Promotion of ethnicity and Northernization policy
*Unbridled borrowing without any projects
*Hijack of the armed forces and the police
*Shielding of APC governors and Chieftains who stole state funds to sponsor APC
And many more.....nothing positive so far
*Permanent fuel scarcity
*All poor people are to pay N50 for every N1000 received
*Unbridled insecurity all over Nigeria
*Intimidation and harassment of judges
*Collapse of the economy
*Collapse of the naira
*Lassa fever has taken over 25 states killing poor Nigerians
*Intimidation of opposition
*Propaganda all the way
*Stolen and corrupt 2016 budget
*Promotion of ethnicity and Northernization policy
*Unbridled borrowing without any projects
*Hijack of the armed forces and the police
*Shielding of APC governors and Chieftains who stole state funds to sponsor APC
And many more.....nothing positive so far
\
ECULAW an established legal chamber has offered to render
free legal services to MASSOB/IPOB members detained for illegal assembly. They
were arrested during their protest against the extra-judicial detention of
Nnamdi Kanu. They were then charged to court on illegal assembly, ECULAW also
owned by Emeka Ugwuonye who was illegally detained by the DSS is willing to offer free legal services to
them.
Below is a message from our own Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor:
"Efforts
made by the DSS to ensure that Nnamdi Kanu still remains in their custody while
the trial last was effectively rebuffed by the strategic advocacy of the
Learned Silk. Remember that the Learned Senior Advocate under reference is my
Uncle. It was a superlative outing. If Obetta went behind to say anything more than
this, then he is telling blatant lies. Henceforth, the defence team will
continue to be led by Chief Chuks Muoma SAN.
Director was particularly please by our performance today. In fact, from tomorrow, you people will be reaching Director directly from prison.
He will then have access to every form of communication. All these nonsense will now be stopped"
Director was particularly please by our performance today. In fact, from tomorrow, you people will be reaching Director directly from prison.
He will then have access to every form of communication. All these nonsense will now be stopped"
Biafrans Protest In front of
President Obama’s Residence at the US White House
Breaking News- Africa Business World has received reports that there is a huge Biafran rally currently going on in front of the US White House in Washington DC. The rally was described as a protest against the killings of Biafrans by the Buhari led government of Nigeria. The protesters are also calling for the released of what they described as political prisoner Nnamdi Kanu. The protesters also want an Independent Republic of Biafra which they said was re- annexed back to Nigeria in 1970. Yesterday the EU released a statement in support of the Biafran Referendum, and called on the Nigerian government to respect Human Rights of Nigerian citizens which includes peaceful rallies and demonstrations. The EU stated that while it has strong ties with Nigeria, the issue of Human Rights comes first as a priority.
Fellow Biafra! Please, Objectively Take A Look At These Two
Pictures And Bluntly Draw Your Conclusions About The Mindset Of MUHAMMADU
BUHARI, from Daura.
1. DASUKI on his way to Court without Handcuffs; a Fulani man from Sokoto state, who was allegedly accused of diverting $2.1billion arms fund.
2. METUH on his way to Court on Handcuffs; an Igbo man from Anambra
1. DASUKI on his way to Court without Handcuffs; a Fulani man from Sokoto state, who was allegedly accused of diverting $2.1billion arms fund.
2. METUH on his way to Court on Handcuffs; an Igbo man from Anambra
state, who was
allegedly accused of collecting N400million from DASUKI.
Now, tell me why DASUKI who is the alleged main Actor was not Handcuffed, and METUH who is just by the way side in the purported MOVIE, was humiliated with Handcuff? Preach one Nigeria. Which one Nigeria?
Now, tell me why DASUKI who is the alleged main Actor was not Handcuffed, and METUH who is just by the way side in the purported MOVIE, was humiliated with Handcuff? Preach one Nigeria. Which one Nigeria?
****BIAFRA FINALLY HAVE A
LEADER****
"My name is Nnamdi Kanu, am a Biafran, I am not
guilty" Nnamdi Kanu's respond to the High COURT JUDGE
Self determination is a fundamental right and Nigeria is bound
to respect it... Nnamdi Kanu is within his right to demand exercise of same,
just as Buhari advocates for the recognition of an independent Palestinian and
Western Sahara states respectively, same must be allowed to be done by whoever
as a people so wishes.
All these treason charges against
him by many is a mere waste of time and resources. There is no amount of
charges in the world, against Kanu that will work, change or stop the struggle
because he and his group have been working within the radius of internationally
stipulated law for self determination.
Put the agitation to a referendum
and see what comes out.
Nnamdi Kanu is a HERO!
EASTERN RADIO REPORTING.
MUST READ - GREAT SUMMARY:
Perversion of justice in Nigeria - Society for Threatened
Peoples warns of mass protests and violence spiral
Biafra activist remains despite dual acquittal detained (Press
Release)
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has accused the
authorities of Nigeria for perversion of justice and lack of respect for the
rule of law, because they continue to hold a leading Biafran activists despite
twice acquitted by the judiciary in custody. "In Biafra in the southeast
of Nigeria now threaten new mass protests and a spiral of violence. Rather than
seek a political dialogue with the Biafrans, Nigeria's government seems to rely
on an escalation of tension, "said the STP Africa, Ulrich Delius
criticized on Tuesday in Göttingen. The human rights activist fears that the
Nigerian authorities are "playing with fire" and provoke protesters
purposefully until they become violent and they can be accused of
"terrorism".
The National Security Authority (DSS) holds the imprisoned
Director of the banned radio station "Radio Biafra," Nnamdi Kanu
since 17 October, further in detention, although he was then acquitted on
Wednesday of last week by a local court and on Thursday by a federal court of
all charges. The Federal Court had already declared his continued detention
unlawful and ordered his immediate unconditional release. The DSS ignores this
so far. Protests against his detention are growing louder for several weeks. In
the bloody crackdown of demonstrations already 15 people have been killed since
December 2, and at least 25 people were injured. Last four Biafrans and a
soldier in Onitsha had come violently to death last Friday.
"The behavior of the DSS casts serious doubts on the
understanding of rule of law of the Nigerian security authorities", said
Delius. "If there is a separation of powers in a democratic state, then
the executive must not ignore the judiciary, because they otherwise undermines
the confidence of citizens in the rule of law."
Biafrans fears, Kanu could come to death in custody or in
transit to a new prison under mysterious circumstances, because he is regarded
by the authorities as a "public enemy" and was not to bring to
silence by legal means. Precedents already existed. So the Boko Haram founder
Mohammed Yusuf was mysteriously killed on 30 July 2009 while in custody. His
tragic death has led to a radicalization of Boko Haram, which so far paid more
than 17,000 people had with their lives.
''Igbos Hate Me Because Of The Biafran War But I Will Never
Apologize To Them In fact I Will Kill Them Again To Save Nigeria" Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari on BBC Hausa Service
16 /SEP/ 2015
Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari has dropped the bombshell, on the
reason he has been losing election in Igboland and parts of Nigeria where Igbos
are residing, stating that it is because he was involved in the Nigerian civil
war.
The former dictator speaking today on BBC Hausa services
monitored in kaduna, said with regrets that, "the Igbos hate him for what
happened during the Biafran war". "I don't have any regret, and at
such do not owe any apology to them, in fact if there is a repeat of the civil war again, I will kill
more Igbos to save the country".
The APC presidential candidate added
that this was the reason they never bothered to vote for him anywhere in
Nigeria.
It is shame that a man that is
aspiring to rule the whole country, not part of it, will talk in this manner.
Source: BBC Hausa Service monitored
in Kaduna, north central Nigeria.
Breaking News!!! Radio Biafra Exposes Plans By The North to
Steal Oil from Nigeria Into Arab Nations
This is coming in as the Biafra
agitation is more serious than ever across Nigeria and the world, The northern
region of Nigeria is giving the Biafrans more reasons to leave this was
highlighted by the Coordinator of Coordinators of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya during his speech online and on
the Radio Biafra Station. He said
“HERE IS THE GIMMICK TO RAPE
BIAFRANS OF THEIR RESOURCES UNDER THE GUISE OF SO-CALLED “GAS MASTERPLAN”.
PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND READ. BIAFRANS ARE WISER, YOU CANNOT DECEIVE US ANYMORE.”
steal oil
He also exposes Buhari the
president of Nigerians’ plan of purchasing a United states based Refinery that
will refine part of the stolen crude.
MY PEOPLE HOW DO YOU SEE IT? BE THE JUDGE FOR YOUR SELF DO YOU BELIEVE THIS AND WHY?
WHAT DO YOU THINK CAN BE DONE? IS
IT RIGHT TO MOVE OIL AROUND AND SPEND 5 BILLION DOLLARS WHEN WE HAVE A VERY
POOR ROAD AND OTHER BASIC AMENITIES IN THE AREAS PRODUCING THIS RESOURCE?
Details of the PDF File is found
below….
INVITATION FOR
EXPRESION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR DEVELOPMENT OF EAST-NORTH GAS PIPELINE
TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
1. Pursuant to the delivery of the last leg of the gas master-plan infrastructure blueprint, NNPC on behalf of the FGN wishes to invite interested parties to express interest in the co-development of the Northern and Eastern pipeline network comprising;
2. Overview: The Nigerian gas sector is undergoing a major expansion, growing from less than 500mmcf/d a few years ago to over 5,000mmcf /d by 2018. This expansion has necessitated a major revamp and growth of gas infrastructure. The EOI refers to a critical element for extending the network to the North and East,
potentially extending in the future into the Sahara enroute Europe. The proposed pipeline network will thus serve existing customers along the network including cement, Power and other industrial sectors.
More importantly, the expanded network will provide robustness for serving new customers in the North and East as well as bridge the shortfall in the ELPS network in the Western area. Customers in the network will include Power plants, Industrial customers, CNG off takers and will also augment supplies to West African Gas Pipeline.
3. Investment Principles: For the purpose of this expression of interest, the following
assumptions/principles will apply;
a. Total estimated cost of the entire pipeline network is $5bn
b. It is intended that pipeline will be funded preferably, through a combination of debt/equity
60/40 ratio. Consequently, interested parties desire to provide both equity and debt will be
preferred.
c. NNPC, on behalf of the FGN, will co-invest, providing equity and debt from a combination of
planned sources including annual appropriation through FGN budget process and other sources
such as the ongoing Ministry of Finance Eurobond issue.
1.0 Northern Network: Ajaokuta-Kaduna Kano (AKK) Pipeline:
40” X 187 Km pipeline from Ajaokuta – Abuja
40” X 193 Km pipeline from Abuja – Kaduna
40” X 65 Km pipeline from Kaduna – Zaria
40” X 238 Km pipeline from Zaria – Kano
Total = 40” X 683 Km
2.0 Eastern Network: Qua Ibo/Calabar Ajaokuta Pipeline (CAP) system
System (a): QIT-Obigbo-Node-OB/OB:
36” X 58 Km pipeline from QIT to Ikot Abasi
36” X 37 Km pipeline from Ikot Abasi – Ukanafun
36” X 44 Km pipeline from Ukanafun – Obigbo Node
36” X 81 Km pipeline from Obigbo Node to Ob/Ob
Total = 36” X 220 Km
System (b): Obigbo Node –Ajaokuta:
36” X 114 Km pipeline from Obigbo Node to Umuahia
36” X 124 Km pipeline from Umuahia – Enugu
36” X 180 Km pipeline from Enugu – Ajaokuta
Total = 36” X 418 Km
System (c ): QIT-Umuahia
24” X 43 Km pipeline from QIT to Okopedi
24” X 18 Km pipeline from Okopedi to Uyo
24” X 38 Km pipeline from Uyo to Ikot Ekpene
24” X 75 Km pipeline from Ikot Ekpene – Umuahia
Total = 24” X 174 Km
d. Although the pipeline construction is to be implemented commercially in segments, the pipeline
will operate as an integrated network i.e. revenues from any part of the segment will be
consolidated in one pot, from which liabilities will be serviced.
e. The network is intended to operate commercially, with revenues coming in the form of
commercially determined gas transmission tariff embedded in the Gas Transmission Agreements
(GTAs) that will underpin the pipeline flows.
f. The GTAs will indicate the appropriate revenue securitization scheme applicable for the type of
customer
g. The pipeline network currently exists in parts, much of which will be expanded and extended.
However, the existing segments serve customers; hence there is cash-flow in the system.
h. It is anticipated that by the end of 2018, effective throughput across the network will be about
1.5bcf/d.
i. Conceptual engineering has been completed for the network and FEED about to start.
j. Construction will be implemented in segments leveraging an optimum number of EPC
contractors to enable speedy completion of the pipeline. It is planned that construction will
commence by Q1 2014
k. If final structure is based on selection of interested parties that are willing to invest equity, the
pipeline will be developed and operated by an SPV comprising NNPC and the selected parties.
The SPV will operate on a Built Own and Operate (BOO) basis.
l. In the event that selected investors are all providing debt and EPC only, then the pipeline will be
operated by NNPC and the default scheme will be on a Built and Transfer (BT) basis. As
mentioned, preference is for SPV construct as above, but all options will be considered
4. Expression of Interest (EOI)
EOI is invited from the following entities to indicate interest in providing funding either as financiers
providing debt financing, equity holders, contractor financing, project financing as well as project EPC
execution.
– Reputable Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies with capacity to raise
financing for the project.
– Financial Institutions
– Export Credit Agencies
– Third parties equities
– Consortium made of entities in the above categories
– And any other interested party
The EOI is divided into two parts; Part A is for companies to provide their company profile. Part B is for
companies to indicate their scope of interest either for the entire pipeline segments or part thereof or
financing only as well as to provide specific information about the pre-qualification criteria upon which
the company’s submissions will be evaluated.
5.1 PART A: General Requirement
5.1.1 Interested company shall provide their company profile detailing the following;
– Name of Company
– Registered Business Address
– Country of Incorporation
– Country of Domicile / HQ
– Date of Incorporation
– Shareholding Structure of Company; (please attach details)
– Core Business of company
– Name of Principal contact with appropriate authorization
– Contact e-mail Address
– Contact Telephone Number
5.2 PART B: Specific Requirement:
a. Investors to clearly state out of the following the particular scheme of interest;
i. EPC with Financing (ECA)
ii. Procurement with financing
iii. Construction with financing
iv. Equity financing
v. Debt financing
b. Investor to attach a full description of the following items in separate sheet(s);
i. Proposal, including conditions precedent applicable for own scheme
ii. Planned source of funds for equity and supporting documentary evidence of ability to
provide stated level of equity
iii. Planned source of debt and supporting documentary evidence of ability to raise such
debt, including, where possible, valid letters from credit source including applicable
conditionalities, tenor etc.
iv. Planned strategy for EPC with financing options where applicable and state examples of
similar projects handled in the past.
v. Strategy to maximize local content in overall proposal
vi. Other suggestions that may be relevant to enhancing the bankability of the project or
overall success (state supporting investment type if any; such as power plants, gas base
industries etc)
vii. Provide 3-year company(ies) audited account
All responses shall conform to the specified requirements given above; otherwise your submissions may be disqualified.
The requested information and any supporting documentation in respect of this pre-qualification process should be submitted in one (1) original plus three (3) copies not later than four (4) weeks from the date of this publication. The documentation should be sealed and clearly marked “EOI FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TRANS NIGERIA GAS PIPELINE SYSTEM”
The submission address is as indicated below:
The Group General Manager, Gas Infrastructure Division, Block A, Room 1023, NNPC Towers
CBD Abuja, FCT.
This invitation does not constitute a commitment on the part of NNPC to award Contract to any company expressing interest in the work, and the submission of documents shall not entitle any of the companies to any claims whatsoever from NNPC by virtue of such Company having responded to the invitation.
All costs incurred by respondents as a result of this pre-qualification invitation and any subsequent request for information shall be to the respondent’s account.
NNPC MANAGEMENT
TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
1. Pursuant to the delivery of the last leg of the gas master-plan infrastructure blueprint, NNPC on behalf of the FGN wishes to invite interested parties to express interest in the co-development of the Northern and Eastern pipeline network comprising;
2. Overview: The Nigerian gas sector is undergoing a major expansion, growing from less than 500mmcf/d a few years ago to over 5,000mmcf /d by 2018. This expansion has necessitated a major revamp and growth of gas infrastructure. The EOI refers to a critical element for extending the network to the North and East,
potentially extending in the future into the Sahara enroute Europe. The proposed pipeline network will thus serve existing customers along the network including cement, Power and other industrial sectors.
More importantly, the expanded network will provide robustness for serving new customers in the North and East as well as bridge the shortfall in the ELPS network in the Western area. Customers in the network will include Power plants, Industrial customers, CNG off takers and will also augment supplies to West African Gas Pipeline.
3. Investment Principles: For the purpose of this expression of interest, the following
assumptions/principles will apply;
a. Total estimated cost of the entire pipeline network is $5bn
b. It is intended that pipeline will be funded preferably, through a combination of debt/equity
60/40 ratio. Consequently, interested parties desire to provide both equity and debt will be
preferred.
c. NNPC, on behalf of the FGN, will co-invest, providing equity and debt from a combination of
planned sources including annual appropriation through FGN budget process and other sources
such as the ongoing Ministry of Finance Eurobond issue.
1.0 Northern Network: Ajaokuta-Kaduna Kano (AKK) Pipeline:
40” X 187 Km pipeline from Ajaokuta – Abuja
40” X 193 Km pipeline from Abuja – Kaduna
40” X 65 Km pipeline from Kaduna – Zaria
40” X 238 Km pipeline from Zaria – Kano
Total = 40” X 683 Km
2.0 Eastern Network: Qua Ibo/Calabar Ajaokuta Pipeline (CAP) system
System (a): QIT-Obigbo-Node-OB/OB:
36” X 58 Km pipeline from QIT to Ikot Abasi
36” X 37 Km pipeline from Ikot Abasi – Ukanafun
36” X 44 Km pipeline from Ukanafun – Obigbo Node
36” X 81 Km pipeline from Obigbo Node to Ob/Ob
Total = 36” X 220 Km
System (b): Obigbo Node –Ajaokuta:
36” X 114 Km pipeline from Obigbo Node to Umuahia
36” X 124 Km pipeline from Umuahia – Enugu
36” X 180 Km pipeline from Enugu – Ajaokuta
Total = 36” X 418 Km
System (c ): QIT-Umuahia
24” X 43 Km pipeline from QIT to Okopedi
24” X 18 Km pipeline from Okopedi to Uyo
24” X 38 Km pipeline from Uyo to Ikot Ekpene
24” X 75 Km pipeline from Ikot Ekpene – Umuahia
Total = 24” X 174 Km
d. Although the pipeline construction is to be implemented commercially in segments, the pipeline
will operate as an integrated network i.e. revenues from any part of the segment will be
consolidated in one pot, from which liabilities will be serviced.
e. The network is intended to operate commercially, with revenues coming in the form of
commercially determined gas transmission tariff embedded in the Gas Transmission Agreements
(GTAs) that will underpin the pipeline flows.
f. The GTAs will indicate the appropriate revenue securitization scheme applicable for the type of
customer
g. The pipeline network currently exists in parts, much of which will be expanded and extended.
However, the existing segments serve customers; hence there is cash-flow in the system.
h. It is anticipated that by the end of 2018, effective throughput across the network will be about
1.5bcf/d.
i. Conceptual engineering has been completed for the network and FEED about to start.
j. Construction will be implemented in segments leveraging an optimum number of EPC
contractors to enable speedy completion of the pipeline. It is planned that construction will
commence by Q1 2014
k. If final structure is based on selection of interested parties that are willing to invest equity, the
pipeline will be developed and operated by an SPV comprising NNPC and the selected parties.
The SPV will operate on a Built Own and Operate (BOO) basis.
l. In the event that selected investors are all providing debt and EPC only, then the pipeline will be
operated by NNPC and the default scheme will be on a Built and Transfer (BT) basis. As
mentioned, preference is for SPV construct as above, but all options will be considered
4. Expression of Interest (EOI)
EOI is invited from the following entities to indicate interest in providing funding either as financiers
providing debt financing, equity holders, contractor financing, project financing as well as project EPC
execution.
– Reputable Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies with capacity to raise
financing for the project.
– Financial Institutions
– Export Credit Agencies
– Third parties equities
– Consortium made of entities in the above categories
– And any other interested party
The EOI is divided into two parts; Part A is for companies to provide their company profile. Part B is for
companies to indicate their scope of interest either for the entire pipeline segments or part thereof or
financing only as well as to provide specific information about the pre-qualification criteria upon which
the company’s submissions will be evaluated.
5.1 PART A: General Requirement
5.1.1 Interested company shall provide their company profile detailing the following;
– Name of Company
– Registered Business Address
– Country of Incorporation
– Country of Domicile / HQ
– Date of Incorporation
– Shareholding Structure of Company; (please attach details)
– Core Business of company
– Name of Principal contact with appropriate authorization
– Contact e-mail Address
– Contact Telephone Number
5.2 PART B: Specific Requirement:
a. Investors to clearly state out of the following the particular scheme of interest;
i. EPC with Financing (ECA)
ii. Procurement with financing
iii. Construction with financing
iv. Equity financing
v. Debt financing
b. Investor to attach a full description of the following items in separate sheet(s);
i. Proposal, including conditions precedent applicable for own scheme
ii. Planned source of funds for equity and supporting documentary evidence of ability to
provide stated level of equity
iii. Planned source of debt and supporting documentary evidence of ability to raise such
debt, including, where possible, valid letters from credit source including applicable
conditionalities, tenor etc.
iv. Planned strategy for EPC with financing options where applicable and state examples of
similar projects handled in the past.
v. Strategy to maximize local content in overall proposal
vi. Other suggestions that may be relevant to enhancing the bankability of the project or
overall success (state supporting investment type if any; such as power plants, gas base
industries etc)
vii. Provide 3-year company(ies) audited account
All responses shall conform to the specified requirements given above; otherwise your submissions may be disqualified.
The requested information and any supporting documentation in respect of this pre-qualification process should be submitted in one (1) original plus three (3) copies not later than four (4) weeks from the date of this publication. The documentation should be sealed and clearly marked “EOI FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TRANS NIGERIA GAS PIPELINE SYSTEM”
The submission address is as indicated below:
The Group General Manager, Gas Infrastructure Division, Block A, Room 1023, NNPC Towers
CBD Abuja, FCT.
This invitation does not constitute a commitment on the part of NNPC to award Contract to any company expressing interest in the work, and the submission of documents shall not entitle any of the companies to any claims whatsoever from NNPC by virtue of such Company having responded to the invitation.
All costs incurred by respondents as a result of this pre-qualification invitation and any subsequent request for information shall be to the respondent’s account.
NNPC MANAGEMENT
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Chima rest in peace you are a hero he was killed by Nigeria army
on 18th January 2016 doing the protest at Aba, we ask nothing but freedom we
must continue no going back.We
promised to follow the way you followed. Till Biafra comes! Nwannem Chima Ka
Omesia, Gaa Nke Oma, anyi na- abia!
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Humble Niger Delta militants and individuals from the now-refreshed Niger Delta Peoples Democratic Front, NDPDF, have exhorted President Muhammadu Buhari to promptly discharge the embattled leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, with a specific end goal to diminish the growing strain in the nation.
They similarly demanded a quick haul out of the military work force sent to the Niger Bridge in Onitsha, Anambra state, to permit free stream of movement for the "blameless nationals of South-South and South East".
Pioneer of the gathering, Precious Iyoyo (otherwise known as General Playboy) made this bring throughout the weekend in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, where he cautioned that the proceeded with detainment of Kanu, much after a court had discharged him on safeguard, was provocative and authoritarian.
He uncovered that previous activists would not crease their hands and watch their siblings and sisters from the South-South and South East areas "pursued, tormented or oppressed with exemption in our property."
"The Nigerian government is dangerously pushing us to the divider. The unwarranted mass shooting and murdering of our siblings and sisters will never again be endured," Iyoyo cautioned.
While approaching those from the two geopolitical zones who are sabotaging the Biafra battle to have a reevaluate, he promised that the NDPDF would bolster and manage the agitation.
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Director is now confirmed in prison custody and out of DSS
detention center. So he now has access to speak with his wife, lawyer, and
family members.
Nze Chuks Muoma SAN, the lead counsel, will argue his bail on Monday, January 25th. I just finished speaking with the most distinguished and respected Nze Chuks Muoma, SAN. 
BIAFRA FINALLY HAS A
LEADER!!! Find Out What KANU Told Court On 20th JANUARY 2016.
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On May 15th 2015, Yakubu Gowon was quoted at the Diamond Jubilee Lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Lagos, Nigeria gloating about his “One Nigeria”, that Nigeria did not disintegrate in 2015 as was predicted. Then in his pathological obsession with proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong and that Gowon and his One Nigeria were right he once again in his characteristic folly claimed that he knew what was going on in Ojukwu’s mind or for that matter in the minds of the people of Eastern Nigeria in 1967. What do you call a person who goes on claiming that they know what is going on in another person’s mind without that person telling them? But omniscient Gowon knew what was going on in the minds of Ojukwu and the people of Eastern Nigeria without asking them. And that was how he as the head of state of Nigeria played God and consequently destroyed Nigeria.
On May 15th 2015, Yakubu Gowon was quoted at the Diamond Jubilee Lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Lagos, Nigeria gloating about his “One Nigeria”, that Nigeria did not disintegrate in 2015 as was predicted. Then in his pathological obsession with proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong and that Gowon and his One Nigeria were right he once again in his characteristic folly claimed that he knew what was going on in Ojukwu’s mind or for that matter in the minds of the people of Eastern Nigeria in 1967. What do you call a person who goes on claiming that they know what is going on in another person’s mind without that person telling them? But omniscient Gowon knew what was going on in the minds of Ojukwu and the people of Eastern Nigeria without asking them. And that was how he as the head of state of Nigeria played God and consequently destroyed Nigeria.
The mark of intelligence is the ability to use experience as a
learning tool to shape ones future thought and behavior. Thousands of years ago
our ancestors learned to avoid eating poisonous fruits, roots and berries by
noting and remembering the deadly effect specific fruits, roots and berries had
on them or their children when they ate those things. They noted the color,
shape, smell etc. of those fruits, roots and berries and learned never to touch
them, talk less eat them. Animals also learn to survive by doing the same
thing. Survival of organisms depend on this basic level of intellectual
functioning.
That Yakubu Gowon still runs around Nigeria pounding his chest
about going to war against Biafra and starving three million children and old
women to death is evidence of his level of intelligence. His preoccupation with
proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong when all indices in Nigeria today
prove that Ojukwu and Biafra were and are still right about separating
incompatible units in the terribly flawed Nigerian amalgam of Nations, is
testimony to the inferiority complex that dogged and still continues to dog
Gowon; the complex that played a determinant role in all the decisions that
Gowon made between 1966 and 1975. He has told these lies for so long and so
many times that he apparently has started believing his own lies. These lies
need to be repudiated now.
After one hundred thousand civilian men, women and children of
Eastern Nigeria origin (Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Igbo, Ogoja), were brutally and
barbarically slaughtered in cold blood all over Northern Nigeria in several
waves of horrific ethnic cleansing and two million others driven out of
Northern and Western Nigeria back to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria; after
Gowon had set up a constitutional conference in Lagos and then promptly and
unilaterally dismissed the conference as it resolved to adopt a Confederal
Political arrangement for the regions of Nigeria; after Gowon had made
absolutely no effort to stop the continuing massacre of Easterners all over
Nigeria (not one Nigerian civilian or soldier was ever arrested, tried or
punished for the genocide on Easterners); after all these, Gowon and all the
military governors of the four regions, (Col. Robert Adebayo (West); Col. David
Ejoor (Midwest); Col. Hassan Katsina (North); Col. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
(East); Major Mobolaji Johnson (Lagos Capital Territory); Commodore Joseph
Akinwale Wey, (Representing the Navy); Alhaji Kam Selem, (Representing the
Police); P. Odumosu, (Sec. to the Military Governor of Western Nigeria); D.
Lawani, (Under Secretary to the Military Governor of Midwest Nigeria); Alhaji
Ali Akilu, (Sec. to the Military Governor of Northern Nigeria); N. Akpan, (Sec.
to the Military Gov. of Eastern Nigeria); S. Akenzua, (Permanent Under
Secretary Federal Cabinet Office); and Mr. J. Omo-Bare (Secretary) in
attendance, agreed to go to Aburi, Ghana on the invitation of the head of state
of Ghana, Gen. Ankrah, to find a solution to the crisis rocking the country.
The historic date was January 4th and 5th 1967. At that meeting Gowon revealed
that Lt. Walbe had reported to him more than six months earlier that Nigerian
Army officers from the North had murdered the head of state Maj. Gen. Johnson
Aguiyi Ironsi and Col. Adekunle Fajuiyi, Governor of Western Nigeria. In spite
of that, the meeting went on and produced amazingly substantive agreements the
highlights of which are as follows:
1. The Army shall be governed by the Supreme Military Council
the chairman of which shall be known as Commander-in-chief and head of the
Federal Military Government. There will be a Military Headquarters on which the
Regions will be equally represented and which will be headed by a Chief of
Staff. In each Region there shall be an Area Command under the charge of an
Area Commander and corresponding with the existing regions. During the period
of the Military Government, Military Governors will exercise control over their
Area Commands in matters of internal security. The Supreme Military Council
also reaffirmed its commitment to an earlier agreement reached on August 9th
1966 by representatives of all the Military Governors that Army personnel of
Northern origin should return to the North from the West as the West engages in
a crash program of recruitment and training in order to meet the security needs
of the West (Army personnel of Northern origin in the East had already been
given safe passage back to the North and Army personnel of Eastern origin who
survived the murderous rampage in the North, West and Lagos had escaped back to
the East).
2. That the legislative and executive authority of the Federal
Military Government shall remain in the Supreme Military Council to which any
decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination
provided that where it is not possible for a meeting to be held the matter
requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their
comment and concurrence.
3. All appointments to senior ranks in the armed forces, police,
diplomatic and consular services as well as appointment to super scale posts in
the federal civil service and equivalent posts in the statutory corporation
must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.
4. All decrees passed since January 15, 1966 and which
centralized power in the Federal government and detracted from previous powers
and positions of regional governments, will be repealed and replaced with
decrees restoring the autonomy of the regional governments.
5. The Ad Hoc Committee working on the constitutional future of
the country will be reconvened immediately.
6. Payment of salaries to all staff and employees of governments
and statutory corporation who had been forced to abandon their duty posts as a
result of the disturbances be continued to the end of March 1967.
7. We the members of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria
hereby renounce the use of force as a means of settling the present crisis in
Nigeria and hold ourselves in honor bound by this declaration. We reaffirm our
faith in discussions and negotiations as the only peaceful way of resolving the
Nigerian crisis.
All the members of the Supreme Military Council including Gowon
agreed and signed this agreement. As if acting on premonition Col. Ojukwu had
insisted that the entire proceedings of the meeting be audio recorded and that
a transcript of every word uttered at the conference be produced and made available.
It was done. The audio recording and transcript are available for all to hear
and see. Every author of repute, every historian of character, every honest and
impartial observer or commentator who has analyzed and commented on the
Nigeria-Biafra War whether they liked or disliked Ojukwu or liked or disliked
Gowon, agree on one thing – the Aburi Agreement was a golden opportunity for
stability in Nigeria. Yakubu Gowon recklessly, and foolishly threw away this
golden opportunity by refusing to implement the Aburi Accord and reneging on
all planks of the agreement. Few days after arriving Lagos from Aburi,
traditional rulers from Northern Nigeria and federal permanent secretaries in
Lagos prevailed on Yakubu Gowon to abandon an agreement he made with his fellow
soldiers and which he had sworn he was in honor bound. He refused to implement
item 1 – no area commands; he refused to implement item 2 claiming that he did
not understand the meaning of “concurrence”; he ignored item 3 and went on
making federal appointments without reference to the Supreme Military Council;
he refused to implement item 4 and retained all the decrees passed since
January 15 including decree 34 (the so-called unification decree) which the
North claimed was the trigger for their massacre of Easterners; he partially
implemented item 5 by reconvening the Ad Hoc Committee working on
constitutional arrangement for the country. But then as the committee was once
again moving toward an agreement on confederal structure for the country he abruptly,
and unilaterally dismissed the Ad Hoc Committee; he refused to implement item 6
and thus created enormous financial burden on the government of Eastern Region
which had no choice but to pay the salaries of the thousands of displaced
workers or watch them and their families starve; on July 6, 1967 Gowon broke
the last major agreement of the Aburi Accord by launching a war of genocide
against the government and people of Eastern Region, then Biafra.
Gowon’s repudiation of the Aburi Accord and refusal to implement
an agreement he willingly acceded to and appended his signature is one of the
worst acts of perfidy of the twentieth century. Had Gowon implemented the Aburi
Accord there would have been no Nigeria Biafra War; Gowon would not have
starved 3 million Biafran children, pregnant women, nursing mothers and old men
to gruesome, slow death, an act that has put him squarely in the “Hall of
Shame” of the worst butchers of the 20th century (Gowon is actually listed as
No. 10 on that list); there wouldn’t have been all the coups and counter coups,
hundreds of thousands of innocent people wouldn’t have been slaughtered, and
most probably there wouldn’t have been any Boko Haram. All the problems that
Nigeria has had from January 1967 till date can be traced to the disgraceful,
shameful, perfidious act of Gowon refusing to implement the Aburi Accord.
Listening to and reading Gowon engage in his pathological
obsession with Ojukwu and Biafra is indeed becoming irritating. Jack, (may be
calling you by your British pet name will get your attention) please the
Nigeria Biafra conflict was not about Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. No, no, no.
It was about millions of Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Igbo, Ogoja and other people of
Eastern Nigeria, men, women and children, who were murdered, brutalized and
chased out of all parts of Nigeria, their personal properties looted, and
burned; who fled back to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria as your government
refused to offer them any protection of their lives and property and actually
participated in killing them; who sent their representatives to negotiate with
you and reach agreement on the way forward; who after securing far reaching
agreements with you were shocked to watch you renege on every item in that
agreement; an agreement that you entered into voluntarily and swore on your
honor as a soldier to keep. The Nigerian problem is not a democracy problem or
any of that stuff. The Nigerian problem is a STRUCTURAL and JUSTICE problem.
It is interesting you describe yourself as a “Christian soldier”
and claimed that it was prayers from the people of God that helped you win the
war. Well, my dear Christian soldier can you recite the Lords greatest
commandment? Here it is for you: “Thou shall love the Lord your God with your
whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind. This is the first and
greatest commandment. And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as
yourself.” Matthew 22:36-40. Mr. Christian soldier, was this what you were
doing when you gave your Nigerian soldiers this marching song which they
gleefully sang as they invaded Biafra and slaughtered unarmed civilians? (Asaba
, 700 men, the cream of Asaba community; Christ Apostolic Church, Onitsha, 300
men, women and children praying inside the church) and numerous other cases:
Thursday,
21 January 2016
His lordship, I must
commend your bravery to have finally chosen to preside over this absurd case
which has done more harm than good to the image of Nigeria. Had the executive
respected the previous decisions of courts of jurisdiction, you would not be
here now but it is good that you are here because somebody must restore the
confidence and prove the independence of the judiciary. The DSS and federal
government led by Buhari had flouted the orders of court of competent
jurisdiction, they have shown contempt and it is shameful they approached you
yet for justice. Buhari has tried to undermine the credibility of your
institution; he in his maiden media chat cited his willingness to control the
judiciary which will destroy democracy and human right entrenchment you
symbolizes.
I can understand and see the pressure from Buhari to influence your lordship to be partial, he even said he would jail judges he perceived to be corrupt, by virtue of serving justice where he understood to be injustice, I know you fear he would come after you but you have to be strong and explain explicitly to him. The universal UN 2007 declaration on the rights of indigenous people which gave a people right to ask for self-governance protected Nnamdi Kanu, the decision of Nigeria to domesticate this law and was signatory to it further backed Kanu.
Bringing treasonable felony charge to your lordship is like executive fraud (419) to the 2007 signatory and domestication and without her signatory and domestication; Nnamdi Kanu I know will never agitate for Biafra, asking Buhari to give him Biafra is in line. His lordship, Nnamdi Kanu registered IPOB in line with UN recommendation, Kanu is a certified leader of IPOB by virtue of world convention of indigenous people in Los Angelos in 2015 and bringing a feeling of unlawful organization is borne out of impulse to destroy.
I can understand and see the pressure from Buhari to influence your lordship to be partial, he even said he would jail judges he perceived to be corrupt, by virtue of serving justice where he understood to be injustice, I know you fear he would come after you but you have to be strong and explain explicitly to him. The universal UN 2007 declaration on the rights of indigenous people which gave a people right to ask for self-governance protected Nnamdi Kanu, the decision of Nigeria to domesticate this law and was signatory to it further backed Kanu.
Bringing treasonable felony charge to your lordship is like executive fraud (419) to the 2007 signatory and domestication and without her signatory and domestication; Nnamdi Kanu I know will never agitate for Biafra, asking Buhari to give him Biafra is in line. His lordship, Nnamdi Kanu registered IPOB in line with UN recommendation, Kanu is a certified leader of IPOB by virtue of world convention of indigenous people in Los Angelos in 2015 and bringing a feeling of unlawful organization is borne out of impulse to destroy.
His lordship, I spoke with a British friend and a Spanish friend who expressed
dismay that despite seeing how Scotland and Cataluna handle agitation for
freedom, Nigeria preferred to be barbaric and unlawful, instead of debate and
dialogue, they chose incarceration, torture and killing. My friend wondered why
you gave the prosecution such time but I am of the belief that the law accepts
all but justice. The reason for the court is to correct the abnormality nursed
by the prosecution and I have confidence. Your lordship, the eyes of the world
is upon you and the judiciary of this country feared to be puppet in the hand
of the executive is due to be cleared and proved wrong.
They have so much made mockery of the sacred due process of this sacred institution, in light of this; human right has been violated and lives taken unlawfully. Their overzealous resolve to profane the law and charter they signed and domesticated proves blindness and timidity only a learned Judge like you can correct. The UN is being indirectly mocked and opposed, in the presence of abuse of the sacred charters they made, they have remained quiet because people like you ought to defend the law made and signed into existence. I will humbly cap my pen as I wait the restoration of confidence and dawn of justice,
Yours sincerely, Ifeanyi Chijioke of Family Writers
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| BIafran boy the great son of Nnamdi Kanu finally named Nnabuikem |
The leader of the Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has finally
christen his handsome son.
Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu and Wife, Uchechi Okwu kanu
The
son of the Biafra leader, who is currently in custody, is called Nnabuikem. ..Nnabuikem
literally means ‘God is my strength’. Uchechi Okwu Kanu, Mazi Kanu’s wife,
delivered a bouncing baby boy on January 5 in London, UK, where she base.
All roads lead to Brussels on
THURSDAY the 28th of JANUARY 2016 for the IPOB Europe Mega Protest. Are you an
IPOB family member living anywhere in Europe or outside Europe, a Biafran, a
freedom fighter for all oppressed peoples and for the Biafran people in
particular, are you a defender of peoples rights and Liberty then you should be
in Brussels on this day and date. Time is 11am-1pm CET.( central European time). Venue:
EUROPEAN UNION PARLIAMENT, Address: PLACE LUXEMBOURG 1050 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. The Indigenous People of Biafra
Europe invite all lovers of FREEDOM to this Extraordinary Event. Our Agenda
Freedom for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
Freedom for Biafra.
Now see the
full list why Igbos are the greatest:
1)
J. A Nwachukwu― First Nigerian Ambassador to the
UN
UN
Parlianment
General of the Commonwealth of Nations
millionaire in Africa
9) Chief Ezikiel Izuogu ―The inventor of the first
African Car
graduate military officer
Nigeria
Automobile manufacturing in the world.
Orange price for literature
Medalist
governor
Pilot
footballer of the year
of the world bank
22)Enyimba
―The first Nigerian Club to win African
Champions league.
Champions league.
NOW
EU BACKED KANU, WHAT NEXT FOR BIAFRA?
Thursday,
21 January 2016
NOW
EU BACKED KANU, WHAT NEXT FOR BIAFRA?
By Ifeanyi Chijioke
For Family Writers
When UN agreed on 2007 declaration of the rights of indigenous people, I knew Biafra was on their mind, having lost 3.5 million in a quest for independence and continued loss of lives, there ought to be an establishment that should legally back quest for independence. The reason for such establishment is to save lives, promote peace and human right, so that indigenous people can ask for self-governance without being criminalized or exterminated.
However, the opposite is being the case in Nigeria while Scotland and Spain have reflected the establishment, the UN have chosen silence in the face of crimes against humanity for embracing the law they made, but the silence never stopped a due process, in no time all these shall be arrested legally.
The world is neither blind nor deaf, diplomacy is playing a decisive role but justice is what civilized men live for, Nigeria can be rest assured that justice will be supported and a larger part of this world is civilized. Nnamdi Kanu symbolizes justice and civilization by means of only having a radio station as his weapon, with his mouth courtesy of freedom of speech; he was able to execute a war. Today, the world talk and support Biafra without Kanu releasing a single gunshot in the air, today Biafra is sure and referendum is the inevitable option.
By Ifeanyi Chijioke
For Family Writers
When UN agreed on 2007 declaration of the rights of indigenous people, I knew Biafra was on their mind, having lost 3.5 million in a quest for independence and continued loss of lives, there ought to be an establishment that should legally back quest for independence. The reason for such establishment is to save lives, promote peace and human right, so that indigenous people can ask for self-governance without being criminalized or exterminated.
However, the opposite is being the case in Nigeria while Scotland and Spain have reflected the establishment, the UN have chosen silence in the face of crimes against humanity for embracing the law they made, but the silence never stopped a due process, in no time all these shall be arrested legally.
The world is neither blind nor deaf, diplomacy is playing a decisive role but justice is what civilized men live for, Nigeria can be rest assured that justice will be supported and a larger part of this world is civilized. Nnamdi Kanu symbolizes justice and civilization by means of only having a radio station as his weapon, with his mouth courtesy of freedom of speech; he was able to execute a war. Today, the world talk and support Biafra without Kanu releasing a single gunshot in the air, today Biafra is sure and referendum is the inevitable option.
Recall that Kanu was arrested, tortured and illegally detained,
arraigned and acquitted while the FG of Nigeria flouted the orders of the court
through the DSS; Biafrans took to the streets to protest the illegal detention
of Kanu but were massacred, arrested and maimed. Coming from EU was a clear
message that Biafra will be accepted, supported and assisted; EU cited their
resolve to protect human right which has been abused by Nigeria, courtesy of
Nnamdi Kanu.
Meanwhile, it is crucial to commend Biafrans who have remained
resolute, peaceful and lawful even in the face of terror, provocation and
torture in detention. Biafrans have chosen to abide by the law and there is
need for urgency in declaring or creating a lawful Biafra to save further
bloodshed and definitely protect human right. EU must understand that Nigeria
is uncivilized country that has no regard for human right and should intensify
effort for OEAS to effect referendum which is the solution for a better world
we all yearn for.
However, the leadership of IPOB must understand that every support needed to strike a referendum or declaration of Biafra is due, through OEAS there should be further pressing for referendum within the stipulated time as demanded by OEAS. The leadership of IPOB must intensify consultations and prepare the essential documents and sought the approval which is due.
Biafrans all over the world should as a matter of necessity embark on another round of protest to finish the call for Biafran independence heightened all over the war. It is disappointing that despite the case in ICC Nigerian government yet goes on killing Biafrans believing they have always been killing Biafrans and nothing happens. Biafrans must not relent for any reason, the support given must not soft-pedal the protest for Biafra, Biafrans must go on till the end when and by so doing Biafra will be declared.
Editor’s note: Justice John Tsoho
on, January 20, ordered the Radio Biafra director Nnamdi Kanu to be remanded in
the custody of the Nigeria Prison Service, Kuje, pending his trial for treason.
Ifeanyi Chijioke, Family Writers
journalist, writes an open letter to the judge presiding over Kanu’s trial,
explaining why Biafra leader has the right for agitation.
His lordship, I must commend your bravery to have finally chosen to preside over this absurd case which has done more harm than good to the image of Nigeria. Had the executive respected the previous decisions of courts of jurisdiction, you would not be here now but it is good that you are here because somebody must restore the confidence and prove the independence of the judiciary.
His lordship, I must commend your bravery to have finally chosen to preside over this absurd case which has done more harm than good to the image of Nigeria. Had the executive respected the previous decisions of courts of jurisdiction, you would not be here now but it is good that you are here because somebody must restore the confidence and prove the independence of the judiciary.
Buhari has tried to undermine the
credibility of your institution
The DSS and federal government
led by Buhari had flouted the orders of court of competent jurisdiction, they
have shown contempt and it is shameful they approached you yet for justice.
Buhari has tried to undermine the credibility of your institution; he in his
maiden media chat cited his willingness to control the judiciary which will
destroy democracy and human right entrenchment you symbolizes.
I can understand and see the
pressure from Buhari to influence your lordship to be partial, he even said he
would jail judges he perceived to be corrupt, by virtue of serving justice
where he understood to be injustice, I know you fear he would come after you
but you have to be strong and explain explicitly to him. The universal UN 2007
declaration on the rights of indigenous people which gave a people right to ask
for self-governance protected Nnamdi Kanu, the decision of Nigeria to
domesticate this law and was signatory to it further backed Kanu.
Nnamdi Kanu registered IPOB in
line with UN recommendation
Bringing treasonable felony
charge to your lordship is like executive fraud (419) to the 2007 signatory and
domestication and without her signatory and domestication; Nnamdi Kanu i know
will never agitate for Biafra, asking Buhari to give him Biafra is in line. His
lordship, Nnamdi Kanu registered IPOB in line with UN recommendation, Kanu is a
certified leader of IPOB by virtue of world convention of indigenous people in
Los Angelos in 2015 and bringing a feeling of unlawful organization is borne
out of impulse to destroy.
The judiciary of this country
feared to be puppet
His lordship, I spoke with a
British friend and a Spanish friend who expressed dismay that despite seeing
how Scotland and Cataluna handle agitation for freedom, Nigeria preferred to be
barbaric and unlawful, instead of debate and dialogue, they chose
incarceration, torture and killing. My friend wondered why you gave the
prosecution such time but I am of the belief that the law accepts all but
justice. The reason for the court is to correct the abnormality nursed by the
prosecution and I have confidence. Your lordship, the eyes of the world is upon
you and the judiciary of this country feared to be puppet in the hand of the
executive is due to be cleared and proved wrong.
They have so
much made mockery of the sacred due process of this sacred institution, in
light of this; human right has been violated and lives taken unlawfully. Their
overzealous resolve to profane the law and charter they signed and domesticated
proves blindness and timidity only a learned Judge like you can correct. The UN
is being indirectly mocked and opposed, in the presence of abuse of the sacred
charters they made, they have remained quiet because people like you ought to
defend the law made and signed into existence. I will humbly cap my pen as I
wait the restoration of confidence and dawn of justice.
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| AWOLOWO THE CRIMINAL |
Chief Obafemi
Awolowo – A Convicted Criminal in 1963
Chief Obafemi Awolowo was a Convicted Criminal from 1963 to 1966 when Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu released him from Calabar Prison.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo was a Convicted Criminal from 1963 to 1966 when Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu released him from Calabar Prison.
In 1962 to 1963
there were so many atrocities and mutinying in Yoruba land, everywhere dead
bodies. Upon investigation by the Federal Government, these atrocities and
mutinying were linked to Awolowo and his party members. In 1963 Obafemi Awolowo
and some of his party members were found guilt, and they were thrown into jail.
In 1966 before
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared Biafra, he informed Awolowo what he is
about to do, and made agreement with him to unite the Yoruba, and take them out
of the Federation as well. Awolowo said “if Igbo will declare Biafra, upon his
release, he will unite Yoruba people and declare them Oduduwa State.” After his
release from Calaba Prison, Chief Awolowo ran straight to General Yakubu Gowon
to inform him what transpired between him and Ojukwu and the agreement he made
with Odumegwu Ojukwu before his release.
Gowon then
upturned the agreement with Obafemi Awolowo promising him of being the next
president of Nigeria after the war but for the time being he should become the
finance minister, the position which Obafemi Awolowo quickly took.
Chief Obafemi
Awolowo from then on shifted his slaughtering machine used in Yoruba land to
the eastern region - after all he is going to be the next president after the
war. Awolowo who couldn’t believe his eyes that General Yakubu Gowon will be
handing him over the presidency after the war; the promise was too good to be
true; he then went crackers using all weaponry approach to exterminate
Easterners to ensure the war ends very soon. Although Gowon’s assurance to
Chief Obafemi Awolowo of becoming the next president of Nigeria didn’t
materialise until Chief Awolowo’s death.
To be
continued…
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BRAKING NEWS!!! More troubles for
Nigeria Government as NNAMDI KANU begin RADICALIZATION of inmates in kuje prison towards Biafra restoration, 35 already converted within 48 hours, sworn no going back on Biafra struggle. I swear there is power in this young man's tongue am very sure within the next one week all the inmates will be shouting... it is BIAFRA OR DEATH Including DANSUKI and METU. |
War time Head of State, General
Yakubu Gowon, has criticized renowned author, Professor Chinua Achebe, over his
new book on the Nigerian civil war, saying he{Achebe }does not know the issue
he was writing about.
Gowon said he was ready to face
the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague on the matter if necessary.
“What role did Achebe play in the secessionist plans? Achebe
must have been outside the country during the war and probably did not know
what happened during the period otherwise he would not have written on what he
was not sure of “, he remarked.
The erstwhile Nigerian leader,
who was answering questions from journalists courtesy, visit to Governor Mu’azu
Babangida Aliyu at the Presidential Lodge, Minna, Niger state, yesterday, said
Achebe must have been talking out of ignorance, adding that he and the late
Chief Obafemi Awolowo had no regrets over their roles in the civil war,
pointing out that if there was no secession, there would not have been civil
war.
“In fact , if there was no
secession by the south eastern part of the country, there would have been no
civil war because right from the beginning of the crises, the war would have
been averted if not for the secession . It was something I believed we could
have stopped,” he stressed.
Gowon also debunked the claim by
the author that his administration embarked on the mass killing of Igbo, adding
that the federal troops did not also use hunger as a weapon to dislodge the
dissidents.
“It was the Igbo that objected to
the creation of corridor for movements of medical aid and food supplies to the
civilian population at the period; on this, I am ready to face the
International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over the
role played by me during the war and, fortunately, some Nigerians are still
alive to bear witness to the roles played by both the leadership of the
secessionist group and the then Federal Military Government under my
leadership, “the war-time leader stated.
He also recalled that during the
war, a ship named “Josina” and owned by the secessionist group, which they
claimed was carrying agricultural implements, was captured by federal troops
and it was subjected to a thorough search and the cargo turned out to be a
collection of arms and ammunition.
Gowon, who was in Minna for a
2-day prayer organized by Nigeria Prays, a group he leads, said that the
massive deaths recorded by the Igbo during the civil war was caused by their
own propaganda machine which claimed that the northern invaders were coming to
their camps and that caused panic and pandemonium among their people because
some people were trying to move from one location to the other out of fear of
imaginary attacks by the so called northern invaders and without food.
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THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR UCHE MEFOR WROTE:
After all the
reluctance on the part of the DSS and Buhari regarding the High Court order(s),
our leader Nnamdi Kanu has finally been
transferred to Kuje Prison. He was taken there at about 12 midnight Biafra time. As announced, it was and is necessary and paramount to keep a tab on the conduct of the Nigerian murderous establishment against our Leader, Nnamdi Kanu. I urge all Biafrans to remain focused, resolute and more than ever before reapply themselves to the service of God, Biafra and humanity. |
In a report released at 6 a.m. Wednesday, Nigeria scored 27 out of a maximum
100 marks to clinch the 139th position out of the 176 countries surveyed for
the report. It shared that position with Azerbaijan, Kenya, Nepal and Pakistan.
Countries such as Togo, Mali, Niger and Benin fared better than Nigeria.
Nigeria placed 143rd in the 2011 ranking, making it the 37th most corrupt country. It is difficult to say Nigeria has improved in the ranking this year because 182, six more than this year’s, were ranked in 2011.
This year’s index ranks 176 countries/territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, TI explained in the report.
The index draws on 13 surveys covering expert assessments and surveys of businesspeople.
The Corruption Perceptions Index is the leading indicator of public sector corruption, offering a yearly snapshot of the relative degree of the corruption problem by ranking countries from all over the globe.
Nigeria’s woeful performance in this year’s survey is not entirely surprising.
Since assuming office in 2010, President Jonathan has not shown vigour in the fight against corruption – including corruption involving past and current actors in his administration.
The tipping point in the president’s profile, regarding reluctance in promoting transparency, came when, in televised media chat in June, he scoffed at a question on why he had not publicly declared his asset. On live television, the president snapped “I don’t give a damn!”
The petroleum minister, Diezani Madueke, a close ally of the president, has heaps of established corruption allegations against her, but none has been investigated by Mr. Jonathan’s administration; while she still remains in office as one of the favorite ministers.
In August 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan secretly ordered the payment of $155 million to Malabu oil, a firm owned by an ex-convict and former petroleum minister, Dan Etete. Not only was the payment done without the knowledge of the Finance Minister, as revealed by PREMIUM TIMES, Malabu transferred the money into dubious accounts including that owned by a man with links to Mr. Jonathan. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed to investigate the Malabu scandal.
Ranging from the monumental fuel subsidy scam to the massive corruption uncovered in pension administration to the scams at the Security and Exchange Commission and the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Nigeria stinks with graft. Government officials, including some of Mr. Jonathan’s favourite appointees have been named in the brazen theft of public funds.
Two members of the President’s cabinet, Godsday Orubebe and Stella Oduah, illegally registered an NGO, Neighbour to Neighbour, on whose board they sit, and which they then used in campaigning for the President’s election; in contravention of CAC registration guidelines and the CAMA Act. The presidency has kept mum on this.
There have been several cases of visitors to the Presidential Villa offered huge sums of money after their visits. The Save Nigeria Group was offered $30 thousand, and the Northern elders N20 million; both groups rejected the cash gifts given to them by the presidency.
There are also piles of corruption cases involving government officials, politicians and ‘friends of the government’ that have been lingering for years while perpetrators roam free.
Yet, in his Independence Day anniversary speech to Nigerians, President Jonathan claimed his administration had made substantial gains in the fight against corruption, saying TI had endorsed and praised his administration’s war against corruption.
Transparency International promptly replied, disowning Mr. Jonathan and saying it had no such report.
TI described this year’s report as an indication that “corruption is a major threat facing humanity. Corruption destroys lives and communities, and undermines countries and institutions. It generates popular anger that threatens to further destabilise societies and exacerbate violent conflicts.”
The organization added, “Corruption translates into human suffering, with poor families being extorted for bribes to see doctors or to get access to clean drinking water. It leads to failure in the delivery of basic services like education or healthcare. It derails the building of essential infrastructure, as corrupt leaders skim funds.
“Governments need to integrate anti-corruption actions into all aspects of decision-making. They must prioritise better rules on lobbying and political financing, make public spending and contracting more transparent, and make public bodies more accountable.”
Nigeria placed 143rd in the 2011 ranking, making it the 37th most corrupt country. It is difficult to say Nigeria has improved in the ranking this year because 182, six more than this year’s, were ranked in 2011.
This year’s index ranks 176 countries/territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, TI explained in the report.
The index draws on 13 surveys covering expert assessments and surveys of businesspeople.
The Corruption Perceptions Index is the leading indicator of public sector corruption, offering a yearly snapshot of the relative degree of the corruption problem by ranking countries from all over the globe.
Nigeria’s woeful performance in this year’s survey is not entirely surprising.
Since assuming office in 2010, President Jonathan has not shown vigour in the fight against corruption – including corruption involving past and current actors in his administration.
The tipping point in the president’s profile, regarding reluctance in promoting transparency, came when, in televised media chat in June, he scoffed at a question on why he had not publicly declared his asset. On live television, the president snapped “I don’t give a damn!”
The petroleum minister, Diezani Madueke, a close ally of the president, has heaps of established corruption allegations against her, but none has been investigated by Mr. Jonathan’s administration; while she still remains in office as one of the favorite ministers.
In August 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan secretly ordered the payment of $155 million to Malabu oil, a firm owned by an ex-convict and former petroleum minister, Dan Etete. Not only was the payment done without the knowledge of the Finance Minister, as revealed by PREMIUM TIMES, Malabu transferred the money into dubious accounts including that owned by a man with links to Mr. Jonathan. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed to investigate the Malabu scandal.
Ranging from the monumental fuel subsidy scam to the massive corruption uncovered in pension administration to the scams at the Security and Exchange Commission and the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Nigeria stinks with graft. Government officials, including some of Mr. Jonathan’s favourite appointees have been named in the brazen theft of public funds.
Two members of the President’s cabinet, Godsday Orubebe and Stella Oduah, illegally registered an NGO, Neighbour to Neighbour, on whose board they sit, and which they then used in campaigning for the President’s election; in contravention of CAC registration guidelines and the CAMA Act. The presidency has kept mum on this.
There have been several cases of visitors to the Presidential Villa offered huge sums of money after their visits. The Save Nigeria Group was offered $30 thousand, and the Northern elders N20 million; both groups rejected the cash gifts given to them by the presidency.
There are also piles of corruption cases involving government officials, politicians and ‘friends of the government’ that have been lingering for years while perpetrators roam free.
Yet, in his Independence Day anniversary speech to Nigerians, President Jonathan claimed his administration had made substantial gains in the fight against corruption, saying TI had endorsed and praised his administration’s war against corruption.
Transparency International promptly replied, disowning Mr. Jonathan and saying it had no such report.
TI described this year’s report as an indication that “corruption is a major threat facing humanity. Corruption destroys lives and communities, and undermines countries and institutions. It generates popular anger that threatens to further destabilise societies and exacerbate violent conflicts.”
The organization added, “Corruption translates into human suffering, with poor families being extorted for bribes to see doctors or to get access to clean drinking water. It leads to failure in the delivery of basic services like education or healthcare. It derails the building of essential infrastructure, as corrupt leaders skim funds.
“Governments need to integrate anti-corruption actions into all aspects of decision-making. They must prioritise better rules on lobbying and political financing, make public spending and contracting more transparent, and make public bodies more accountable.”
Buhari
Is a Fraud,His Government Is A Joke And His Anti-Corruption Is A Man-Hunt
Friday,
22 January 2016
Buhari Is a Fraud,His Government Is A Joke And His
Anti-Corruption Is A Man-Hunt
By Okonkwo Isaac Somto
For Family Writers
Buhari during his presidential campaign made fighting corruption his main goal when campaigning for the 2015 presidential elections, but since becoming the president of Nigeria, President Buhari have made a fool of himself. Muhammdu Buhari anti-corruption campaign is just mere propaganda and a man-hunt. In his Inaugural address, Buhari listed Corruption among the enormous challenges which he promised to tackle immediately and he also said "corruption in our country is so endemic that it constitutes a parallel system. It is the primary reason for poor policy choices, waste and of course bare-faced theft of public resources.” While further clarifying his administration’s commitment to the war against corruption, the President said “our fight against corruption is not just a moral battle for virtue and righteousness in our land, it is a fight for the soul and substance of our nation.” Those of us who witnessed Buhari's inauguration, remember him making a famous statement saying- " Am for everyone and for No one". Many applauded him and praised him for been just and fair, little did they know that the worse was about to happen. President Buhari himself promised to govern without fear or favour, to fight corruption with iron determination, and move quickly to alleviate the sufferings of the poor and underprivileged.
By Okonkwo Isaac Somto
For Family Writers
Buhari during his presidential campaign made fighting corruption his main goal when campaigning for the 2015 presidential elections, but since becoming the president of Nigeria, President Buhari have made a fool of himself. Muhammdu Buhari anti-corruption campaign is just mere propaganda and a man-hunt. In his Inaugural address, Buhari listed Corruption among the enormous challenges which he promised to tackle immediately and he also said "corruption in our country is so endemic that it constitutes a parallel system. It is the primary reason for poor policy choices, waste and of course bare-faced theft of public resources.” While further clarifying his administration’s commitment to the war against corruption, the President said “our fight against corruption is not just a moral battle for virtue and righteousness in our land, it is a fight for the soul and substance of our nation.” Those of us who witnessed Buhari's inauguration, remember him making a famous statement saying- " Am for everyone and for No one". Many applauded him and praised him for been just and fair, little did they know that the worse was about to happen. President Buhari himself promised to govern without fear or favour, to fight corruption with iron determination, and move quickly to alleviate the sufferings of the poor and underprivileged.
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| BUHARI |
But president Buhari have gone against everything he said
instead he now rules with terror, scare and dictatorship. Muhammdu Buhari have
not only made a mockery of the Nigerian judiciary but made sure he disobeyed
court orders and insisted that the judges do his bidding. Buhari who said he
was now a born again democrat during his presidential campaign, have yet
again proved that everything he said before becoming president were just
hogwash and promulgation, Buhari since becoming president have ordered the
killing of over 78 unarmed IPOB protesters and also killed over 1000 shia
Muslims. Buhari also said he will be fair to all and no longer be a dictator
but instead administer the judiciary in his government, have also failed to live
up to that, he ordered the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the Indigenous
people of Biafra unjust-fully because he stood on his rights to freedom of
speech and the right to seek for a sovereign state of Biafra. Nnamdi kanu acted
without violence but stood on his rights to express himself freely without the
fear of getting arrested in a democratic government but his rights were
violated by the Nigeria DSS on the orders of Buhari.
The DSS was ordered to release Nnamdi kanu by the Nigeria High court and every charge levied against him was dropped by the presiding Judge but Buhari disobeyed court order and insisted that Nnamdi Kanu remained in the prison of the DSS. Buhari during his media chat said he will not allow those arrested under his administration to jump bail even with court order, making us understand that in his government stands for "Guilty before proven innocent rather than innocent before proven guilty" and he also stated that the judiciary has no power over his government. Buhari ordered the arrest of Dasuki over alleged charge of defrauding the federal government of over $2bn meant for arms to fight boko-haram but question were raised that if Dasuki never bought any arms, what then did the Nigeria army use to fight Boko-Haram when the chief of army staff said they defeated Boko-Haram during the end of former president Jonathan term? Or is it because of the past history Buhari had with Dasuki? There are some other aspects of his arrest that have been widely publicized in a recent period. One of the insinuations concerns his involvement in the arrest of Buhari in 1985 coup and many see Dasuki arrest as revenge. Buhari have used the EFCC to harass, intimidate and humiliate those who do not belong to his herd.
If president Buhari's anti-corruption fight is truly genuine, What about people like former president olusegun obasanjo who stole over $200billion in office? Obasanjo is the deadliest political criminal Nigeria has ever had, but why haven't Buhari probed him? What about Rochas Okorocha who is the governor of Imo state, who is responsible for over $45billion in missing allocations and projects? Buhari on his visit to Rochas house worth over N1billion, mistaked Rochas house for the government house but why haven't Buhari probed Rochas? What about Rotimi Amaechi? Rotimi the former governor of rivers state, couldn't account for over $39billion that went missing during his time as governor and yet he was the man who spearheaded Buhari's campaign spending over N60billion during Buhari's campaign and yet Buhari accepted all those money knowing full well that Rotimi was one of those corrupt politicians that belong to the same APC he represented. Why haven't buhari probed Amaechi? What of Senator Bukola Saraki the former governor of kwara state? What of Bola Tinubu the founding father of lagos state criminal and fraud association? What about the so-called Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi the former CBN governor? What happened to the missing $43billion that sanusi couldn't account for till this day? Why haven't Buhari probed him? These are alarming questions that should be directed to President Muhummdu Buhari or is everyone in Nigeria so scared of the dictator that they can't voice their opinions? It’s a big shame that the Nigeria Media house cannot do what is expected of them.
It is said- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. People should not be fooled by Muhammdu Buhari’s show of impartiality when he goes after some Caliphate looters because Buhari himself is corrupt. Buhari said he borrowed N27 million from the bank to purchase his presidential form. But, at the same time his wife donated about N135 million or more to Adamawa IDPs. Buhari states he does not have any property and assets and lives on his pension. However, he was able to borrow money from the bank to power his presidential campaigns in 2003, 2007 and 2011. Could the bank dish out billions of naira three consecutive times to someone who doesn’t provide any collateral? Buhari is a fraud and a pretender who failed to declare his assets after he promised his government will be transparent. As it appears that the $2.3 billion arms deal film show is about to come to an end, Lai Mohammed is about to introduce another show titled N1.34 trillion loot. The government of Buhari is very predictable, because all this noise of fighting corruption and restoring Nigeria to greater heights is just mere propaganda to distract Nigerians from the fact that Buhari is clueless and doesn't know how to run a government. President Buhari's government is a joke and a man-hunt, so those of you who are still waiting to see the CHANGE that Buhari and APC promised should realize, CHANGE in Buhari government is just a slogan. If Buhari is serious about fighting corruption he should start from members of his party (APC) or are they immune to his anti-corruption program? Please help me ask Buhari when next you see him.
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