Nigerian DSS Arrest Nnamdi Kanu on October 2015 / Protest around the World Part Eleven (11)
Buhari’s Presidency Implicated in Massacre of Pro-Biafra Activists
By Intersociety - Feb 22, 2016
General Muhammadu Buhari pictured at the All Progressives Congress (APC)
press event in Abuja February 8, 2015. | Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde
The International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law
(intersociety) says its investigations have implicated the Nigerian Presidency
in the extra-judicial killing of over Biafra agitators in parts of the
country’s South-East and South-South in the past few months.
“Our extensive investigations also showed that the killing and maiming
of IPOB members under reference is inescapably a hate killing and
presidentially sanctioned,” the group said in the concluding part of its
10-page letter to Chief of Defence Staff Gabriel Olonisakin and Minister of
Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazzau. Dated 16th February, 2016, the letter was
signed by Board Chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi and Head, Civil Liberties & Rule
of Law Programme, Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Esq.
The letter put the number of unarmed Biafra campaigners shot by security
agencies in just over five months at over 170. Intersociety demanded “that
those involved in the butcheries . . . should be thoroughly investigated and be
made to account for atrocities under reference.”
Intersociety warned that continued killing of unarmed citizens
peacefully demanding for the resuscitation of Biafra could turn Nigeria into
another Syria.” Parts of the concluding section of the letter read as follows:
“Shot & Critically Injured Victims: Out of over 170 citizens that
were shot and critically injured by Nigerian security forces particularly the
Army, Police and Navy between 30th of August 2015 and 9th of February 2016,
most of them are found in Delta, Rivers,
Anambra, Abia and Enugu States. Of these, over 40 citizens were critically shot
and injured in Anambra (30th August, 2nd and 17th December 2015); 80 in Abia
State ( particularly on18th of January 2016, 29th of January 2016 and 9th of
February 2016), 21 in Rivers State (30th August 2015); 10 in Delta State (30th
August 2015) and 6 in Enugu State. These exclude scores of others critically
shot and injured in related nonviolent protests in those States as well as
Bayelsa State that went unreported or unaccounted for.
“Among those shot and critically injured in Rivers by Nigerian Army and
the Police on 30th of August 2015 are Citizens Sunday Udegbe, Nwabunne Udo,
Agwasi Anthony, Meshach Emmanuel, Chinwendu Ogbonna, Amanda Onyekachi, Emmanuel
Arinze, Okwudiri Ojah, Chibuike David, Uzochi Ugwojialili, Chukwuma Igwe,
Kingsley Okere, Chinedu Solomon Iwu, Okon Emmanuel Udo, Kelechi Uwaeze, Dominic Uwalaka, Solomon
Chikwe, Ikenna Ezekwem, Thomas Ubani,
Amarachi Onyemachi and Chukwudi Ofoegbuliwe. In Enugu State, the following were
shot and critically injured: Mr. Godswill Ojikeme, Mrs. Chinyere Godswill Ojikeme, Monday Ogbodo,
Jonah Kelechi, Onuigbo Paul and Obiorah Innocent.
“Those deadly shot and wounded in Delta State are: Chinedu Abel, Onovo
Michael, Kingsley Anuife, Amechi Ojieh, Ogbonna Kanayo, David Ogbu, Charles
Chukwuka, Elochukwu Uzor, Chinedu Chukwuma and Onyekanna Ifechukwudebelu. Those
shot and critically injured on 30th August 2015 in Anambra State are: Sampson
Kalu, Chidiebere Nnaji, Onyekwelu Ovute, Felix Ndianaefo, Ikechukwu Okafor,
Chimaobi Okafor, Christopher Oforah, Sunday Nwazugbo, Stanley Eze, Mrs.
Eucharia and Mrs. Patricia. Among those shot and critically injured by
soldiers, Police and Navy in Onitsha on 2nd of December 2015 are: Citizens
Jonah Kelechi, Nwode Friday, Ogodo Monday, Nwankwo Ejike, Onuigbo Paul, Mbonu
Izunna and Obiora Innocent. Among those shot and critically injured by security
forces in Onitsha on 17th of December 2015 peaceful and non violent protest
are: Amadi Chinonso, Chukwudi Dabelechi, Alo Amechi, Nwaele Chigozie, Okonkwo
Felix, Eneje Emeka, Uchechukwu Kingsley,
Igwebuike Chinonso, Onyemaechi Ikeagu, Nwaoba Emeka, Nwajioha Chinonso, Nwaele
Chinonso, Ijeoma Chukwu, Francis Ikechukwu, Ejike Jideoffor, Makuochukwu Ozobi
and Okechukwu Okonkwo.
“Among innocent and unarmed citizens shot and critically injured in Aba
on 9th of February by security forces under reference are: Mrs. Charity
Ahuruonye (40yrs), from Ugwunabo in Abia State; Chibuzor Akabueze (29yrs), from
Mbano in Imo State, Chukwuemeka Iwuoha (Nwangele in Imo State), Chibuzor Chukwu
(Oshiri in Ebonyi State), Innocent Chinedu Okoro (52yrs), from Akuma Ihechiowa
in Abia State, Obinna Emmanuel Alaribe (26yrs), from Umuobasi in Abia State,
Uchenna Ihuoma (28yrs), from Njaba in Imo State, Ekene Uzor (29yrs), from Ojoto
in Anambra State, Sunday Kalu (63yrs), from Ihechiowa in Abia State; Mrs.
Nnenna Okebe (55yrs), from Abiriba in Abia State; Mrs. Comfort Kingsley
(32yrs); Mrs. Ngozi Paul (34yrs), from Amumara Mbaise in Imo State; and Ifiok
Alexandra Ibanga (Ubon Akwa-Obot Akara in Akwa Ibom State; all totaling 85 shot
and critically wounded citizens..
“Some of the gunshot victims mentioned above in Delta, Anambra, Rivers,
Enugu and Abia States have died following the gravity of their gunshot injuries
and lack of funds needed for their proper medical treatments. Most, if not all
of them, were shot at close range by the murderous security forces under
reference. Some have been crippled and can never walk again while others have
their limbs or arms amputated; yet others have their body parts badly
lacerated. Among these innocent victims are fathers, breadwinners, tax payers,
mothers, pregnant women, the elderly, sons and daughters and they having never
used or advocated violence.
“Condemnation: The worst crime against humanity by the State is killing
and maiming of its citizens in peacetime. In wartime, killing of civilians not
taking part in the war by State and non State actors; unambiguously constitutes
war crimes and it is a fundamental breach of the Geneva Conventions of 1949,
particularly their Protocol 11 (protection of civilians and other non
combatants in internal conflicts); how much more killing and maiming of
innocent, nonviolent and unarmed citizens in peacetime. It saddens our heart
that Nigeria, which claims to be a respected member of the international
community including AU and UN, can mindlessly and rapaciously turn its
instrument of State violence against its unarmed, nonviolent and peaceful
citizens. Under the ten basic standards (Ten Commandments) of international law
and humanitarian principles, their 4th commandment forbids Nigeria and other
member-States of the UN from “using force when policing unlawful but
non-violent assemblies”.
“Our extensive investigations also showed that the killing and maiming
of IPOB members under reference is inescapably a hate killing and
presidentially sanctioned and condoned. It is also an ethnic cleansing. Our
recent field observations, observed at various military checkpoints in Aba and
Onitsha clearly indicated the flooding of the Southeast Zone with carefully
selected and posted soldiers mostly dominated by Muslim northerners as young as
22-25 years. These elements are incurably ethnic cleansers and hate killers,
once opportunities occur. They are also under the commands of Muslim officers
from core north with possible matching orders from above to shoot, maim and
kill at sight members of Igbo Ethnic Nationality.
“For instance, the Onitsha Field Artillery Cantonment is headed by Col
Isa Abdullahi; a Muslim officer from core north; likewise the 144 Battalion in
Abia State, headed by Lt Col Kasim Umar Sidi; another killer northern officer.
The 82nd Division of the same Nigerian Army that coordinates the entire army
formations in the Southeast Zone is also headed by Major Gen Ibrahim Attahiru;
a Muslim officer from the core north.
“Further condemned is the unconstitutional roles of the Army in
intervening in peaceful and non-violent protests under reference. Taking
vengeance of its causalities in the Boko Haram insurgency on innocent and
unarmed citizens is recipe for anarchy and breeding of another insurgency in
Nigeria. We are aware that till date, Mr. Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo); a
Niger Delta oil militant, has continued to defy several court orders and court
orders given to security forces in Nigeria to bring him to court have not been
executed till date; thereby suggesting that once armed in Nigeria, a citizen is
feared and respected by security forces. In other words, Nigerian security
forces under your administrative midwifery appear to be encouraging citizens to
take up arms and become lawless while discouraging others from being law
abiding and ventilating their social angers within the ambit of the law such as
throughdemocratic free speeches, peaceful and nonviolent processions, picketing
and protesting assemblies. If Nigerian security forces under your
administrative midwifery can be so heartless to direct State violence against
innocent and unarmed citizens exercising their democratic free speeches, then
there is unquenchable danger ahead. Saddening, too, is total abandonment of
codes of conduct guiding the use of force and modern crowd control handling
styles, which includes the proportionality of use of force. The handling styles
of the Nigerian security forces in the named butcheries are gravely in
violation of the Chapter Four of the 1999 Constitution and various
international human rights treaties, signed, ratified or domesticated by
Nigeria.
“Consequences: We make bold to say that the Nigerian security forces
under your administrative midwifery are breeding or instigating another
insurgency; if not insurgencies in Nigeria. The Board Chairman of this
organisation (Intersociety), Emeka Umeagbalasi, still recalls how he was
respectfully taught by your person (Gen Dambazzau, PhD) at the National Open
University of Nigeria in the Department of Criminology & Security Studies
about how not to create or encourage triggers of divided society and how to nip
personal and structural violence in the bud using democratic and constitutional
pluralism. One of such seminal books in Gen Dambazzau’s name is called Patterns
& Trends of Crimes in Nigeria and their control measures. In such books,
promotion of good governance and rule of law, respect for and protection of
human rights, political tolerance and political inclusion as well as free
speech were emphasised as fundamental panaceas for ensuring effective crime
control in democratic Nigeria. Yet, the recent turn of events with respect to
the subject matter under discussion, clearly represents the opposite of what
academically erudite Gen Dambazzau, as a doctor of criminology, taught the like
of Emeka Umeagbalasi at NOUN.
“The consequences of unleashing State violence on unarmed citizens are
unquenchably calamitous. Going by modern theory of violence, no State or any
group or individual has monopoly of it. As a matter of fact, violence is very
much around and more menacing in the hands of non-State actors and its forms
and applications have no limits. Our recent study of modern intra State or
internal violent conflicts, which are very active in 64 countries around the
world; clearly showed that most of them started as peaceful and non violent
agitations or protests, but became violent and devastating following violent
responses or crackdowns and other poor handling styles by host territorial
governments. Today, there are a total of 64 active and devastating internal
armed conflicts raging in 64 countries around the world as at 2015, involving
591 militia-guerrillas and other armed separatist groups; out of which, 27
internal violent conflicts are ongoing in Africa, involving 167
militia-guerrillas and other armed separatist groups. The Democratic Republic
of Congo (former Zaire) presently parades the highest number of armed
opposition groups in Africa with 36 (warsintheworld.com 2015). We totally
concur with a saying that “the worst peace is better than the best war”.
“That is to say that Nigeria’s present political leaders must learn from
recent histories and have a total change of attitude. At a point in the history
of Ethiopia of the 80s, for instance, fourteen violent conflicts were
simultaneously going on in its entire 14 regions, forcing the country to embark
on compulsory recruitment of every Tom, Dick and Harry including child-soldiers
into its standing army. The country later became the Africa’s largest army with
over 500,000 soldiers. The escalated conflicts in Ethiopia initially started
between it and its Eritrean region, but got escalated and they were principally
as a result of Col Mengistu Haile Mariam’s sit tight and iron fisted leadership
and gross political intolerance including violent crackdowns on unarmed
opposition groups. He was the country’s brutal dictator from 1974-1991.
“In Ivory Coast, it was similar political and violent crackdown against
current President Alassane Dramane Quattara and his Dimbokro tribe; paternal
descendants of former Muslim rulers of Burkina Faso in mid 90s that plunged the
country into violent conflicts (2002-2007 & November 2010-April 2011). In
Syria, the internal violent conflict that began in March 2011 has led to
killing of over 260,000 citizens and displacement of over half of the
population. The conflict is also traced to iron fisted leadership of the Assad
family (Hafez Al-Assad, 1971-2000 (died in office) and Bashar al-Assad (son)
2000-date) and violent crackdown on political and sectional opponents. In
Somalia, the country is one of the most homogenous and mono-religious (Muslims)
countries in the world, yet it was political intolerance and violent crackdown
on opposition voices; propelled by political sit-tight of Gen Mohamed Said Bare
(1969-1991) that plunged the country into endless internal violent conflict
that led to balkanization of the country and lawlessness till date.
“For the fact that modern violence knows no border or boundaries and
have given birth to “wars-without-borders”, the Federal Government of Nigeria,
under Gen Muhammadu Buhari must be extremely careful and refrain from breeding
or provoking more insurgencies in Nigeria. The population size of Nigeria
(estimated at 174 million) defies any form of humanitarian emergencies and
responses in the event of eruption of another or escalated ethno-religious
inspired violent insurgency or insurgencies. And it is a common knowledge among
modern conflict theorists thatvalue and identity based violent reactions or
conflicts are usually endless and devastating than violent conflicts over
economic needs and interests. Nigerian security chiefs and political leaders
must stop provoking and breeding more insurgencies and in the event of eruption
of more insurgencies in the country; their weapons of mass murder of today,
will become den guns only capable of shepherding their escape routes to refugee
camps.
“Demands: We firmly demanded from the duo of Chief of Defence Staff and
Minister of Interior that their two important public offices must speak and
advise President Muhammadu Buhari in Arabic and Hausa languages that he
understands very well and correctly that Nigeria under his presidency must not
be plunged into another insurgency on account of the militant and hostile
approaches adopted by his administration in responding to peaceful and non
violent agitations of pro Biafra activists. IPOB issue is a time bomb on
account of its members and supporters scattering in the darkest and brightest
parts of the world where access to modern types and forms of violence is at
beck and call and limitless. This is in addition to the modern global culture
of borderlessness powered by information technology or ICT. Other potential
insurgencies may also abound in the country waiting to be provoked or exploded.
“President Muhammadu Buhari must also be advised and made to understand
in his native Hausa and Arabic languages that a lot has changed between when he
held sway in the military as a coup leader and as civil war participant and
present times. Warfare methodologies have since undergone a series of
metamorphoses.
“We further demanded that those involved in the butcheries under
reference, that is to say the Commanding Officer of 144 Battalion of the
Nigerian Army in Abia State; Lt Col Kasim Umar Sidi, the Abia State
Commissioner of Police, Habila Hosea, the Aba Area Commander, Peter Nwagbara,
the Commanding Officer of the Nigerian Navy (Finance & Logistics Command),
Owerre-Nta, Abia State, the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma,
the Commanding Officer of the Onitsha Military Cantonment, Col Isa Abdullahi,
the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Turkur Buratai and Inspector General of Police,
Mr. Solomon Arase should be thoroughly investigated and be made to account for
atrocities under reference.
“Specifically the Aba massacre and dumping of 13 murdered bodies inside
the Aba-Port Harcourt Road Burrow Pit should be thoroughly and conclusively
investigated. The two Army Commanding officers under reference (Col Abdullahi
and Lt Col Umar Sidi) should be withdrawn from the Southeast. The present
practice whereby the Zone is flooded with and dominated by young and murderous
soldiers of core northern Muslim origin should reversed. Soldiers to be posted
in the Southeast Zone should comprise those of other geopolitical zones;
likewise their commanding officers. Soldiers should also be barred from
involvement in handling peaceful and non-violent protests and processions in
Nigeria; whether such are organised by IPOB or members of other social groups
in the country. To be thoroughly investigated also is the military status of
those young and murderous soldiers of core northern Muslim origin as young as
22-25 years, who are flooded in the Southeast to engage in ethnic cleansing.
When were they recruited into the Nigerian Army? If it was months ago, was the
recruitment restricted to core northern part of Nigeria alone?
“Nigerian security forces should also be barred from using live bullets
and assault rifles in handling or controlling peaceful and non violent
assemblies; and non lethal crowd control gadgets with minimum force (if
extremely necessary) should be used. Bearing in mind the international law and
UN’s principle of complementarity, which is also enshrined in the ICC Statute
of 1998, ratified by Nigeria on 27th of September 2001, this letter of ours was
directed to the two important offices under reference in the hope that they
would be “willing and able” to frontally address the issues under complaint.”
GRAPHIC IMAGES: Victims of Military Brutality in Aba
SHORT
INTERVIEW WITH NNAMDI KANU
Following the Court hearing of the Leader of The
Indigenous People of Biafra and Director of Radio Biafra/Biafra Television Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu in Federal High Court Abuja on the 19th of February 2016, Ibeh Gift
Amarachi and Okonkwo Somto Isaac of Family writers granted quick interview to
the Leader of The Indigenous People of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
HAVE YOU EVER FELT DETERRED OVER BIAFRA STRUGGLE, FOLLOWING YOUR UNLAWFUL DETENTION?
Never! Such has never crossed my mind. The Biafra struggle must continue and my detention cannot stop it. It is either Biafra or Death.
WHY PUTTING ON A WHITE NATIVE BIAFRA ATTIRE?
It is a
message, not just to Biafrans but the World at large. We are whiter than white
and whiter than snow. I am a Biafran and nothing can stop that. As you can see
it goes with a white Traditional wear, which proves that I am proud of the
Biafran culture and my Nation Biafra.
What is
your piece of advice for Biafrans?
Good morning wonderful people of Biafra and lovers of
freedom! From what I heard from one old man of about 75 years yesterday, my
people wahala dey o! Could you believe that this man told us that during
Buhari's regime in 1984, Rain
stopped falling from 26th of September till June 1985 interval of 9 months and
some weeks? Now history wants to repeat itself, could you believe that since
October ending 2015, rain has not find its way to Port Harcourt Rivers State
again till today. I don't know about
other places the type of hot weather we are experiencing in Port Harcourt is
getting out of hand and as it stands now there is no sign that rain is going to
fall even in the next 6 months coming. My question now is -since God have
decided to deal with us for the sins of one man Hitler Buhari, are we going to
fold our hands and be looking this happened? Some thing should be done before
it is too late. This old man yesterday told us a lot of experiences they had
during Buhari's military regime and said that he shade tears the very day
Buhari won presidential election in 2015 because he knew what is going to
happen. So from the things that man has said, is there any atom of truth in it?
Buhari has shade a lot of blood in the past and has repeated it again in this
present time.
OBJ Offered Us Huge Sum Of Money As Bribe To
Abandon Biafra – MASSOB
Good morning wonderful people! Great Biafrans, around
the world.
BIAFRA: HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS UNCOVER 13 CORPSES IN
BORROW PIT IN ABA
]NAPS DEMAND RELEASE OF NNAMDI KANU
Army Went And Killed Citizens Without My Permission – Wike
SHORT INTERVIEW WITH NNAMDI KANU
Saturday, 20 February 2016
HAVE YOU EVER FELT DETERRED OVER BIAFRA STRUGGLE, FOLLOWING YOUR UNLAWFUL DETENTION?
Never! Such has never crossed my mind. The Biafra struggle must continue and my detention cannot stop it. It is either Biafra or Death.
WHY PUTTING ON A WHITE NATIVE BIAFRA ATTIRE?
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THE PEACEFUL PROTEST?
We should continue our peaceful protest. We must not give up and must continue working hard because it is making a lot of impact. We should remember our fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters who have given their lives towards the restoration of Biafra. Their sacrifices should not be in vain, as they are our heroes and heroines. May Chukwuabiama bless them all and bless their households.
We should continue our peaceful protest. We must not give up and must continue working hard because it is making a lot of impact. We should remember our fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters who have given their lives towards the restoration of Biafra. Their sacrifices should not be in vain, as they are our heroes and heroines. May Chukwuabiama bless them all and bless their households.
We must not forget the sacrifices we have made towards the restoration of
Biafra. We should keep propagating the gospel of the restoration of Biafra. The
World must hear our voice and at the end WE MUST WIN! God bless all lovers of
freedom and Biafrans.
Interviewers:
Ibeh Gift Amarachi and Okonkwo Somto Isaac of Family writers
Interviewers:
Ibeh Gift Amarachi and Okonkwo Somto Isaac of Family writers
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Islamic Development Bank agrees to help develop Northern Nigeria ;-
From Right to Left: Governors Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano, Tanko Almakura of
Nassarawa, leader of the delegation and Governor of Borno State, Kashim
Shettima, President of the multi-billion dollar Islamic Development Bank (IDB),
Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali, Governors Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna, Mohammed Badaru
Abubakar of Jigawa, Vice President, (operations) of the IDB, Dr Mansur Mukhtar,
Nigeria’s Consular General in Jedda, Ambassador Ahmed Umar and an Executive
Director at the IDB, Gambo Shuaibu after a developmental cooperation meeting
between a delegation of the19-member Northern States Governors' Forum and
President of the IDB at the Bank’s headquarters in Jedda, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia
The Islamic Development Bank, IDB, will
work with Nigerian officials to develop a comprehensive plan for the
reconstruction of Northern Nigeria, the Bank’s President, Ahmad Ali, has said.
Mr. Ali stated this in Jeddah, the
headquarters of IDB, on Sunday, when he received a high level delegation of 5
governors from the Northern Nigerian States Governors Forum, NSGF.
The delegation, led by the Governor of
Borno State, Kashim Shettima, included Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, Nasir
El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State, Umar Al-Makura of Nassarawa State and Muhammad
Abubakar of Jigawa State.
“We will work together to come up with
a comprehensive and constructive plan to support northern Nigeria”, Mr. Ali
said. “We will start with education, particularly bilingual education, and
other areas such as job creation.”
“before you leave Jeddah, I would like
to have a list of your priority areas, from education, power to agriculture and
so on.”
In his remarks, the leader of the
delegation, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno, stated that in Nigeria, “poverty
wears a northern face”, therefore the purpose of their visit to IDB is to
explore credible avenues to enhance developmental activities.
Mr. Shettima told the president of IDB
that the region is suffering from joblessness, low access to education and
healthcare facilities, despite the abundant resources in the region.
“It is a giant with a feet of clay” he
added.
The Governor of Kaduna State, Mr.
El-Rufa’i told the IDB president that the Northeastern region requires urgent
intervention in education, electricity supply and poverty reduction, as
according to him, a major cause for the insurgency is poverty.
IDB’s Vice President (operations),
Mansur Muhtar, told the delegation that IDB will do its best to look into
various areas of intervention, particularly in the development of
infrastructure which is a key priority in the bank’s 10 year development
strategy. He then thanked the delegation for visiting IDB, and said he hopes
that the visit will help in forging a stronger partnership that will help in
mobilizing resources for the development of the region.
OBJ Offered Us Huge Sum Of Money As Bribe To
Abandon Biafra – MASSOB
The
Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has
accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of attempting to bribe the group
with “Ghana-must-go” bags full of cash to abandon the Biafra struggle.
The group
was responding to statements credited to Obasanjo, in Abuja on Friday, in which
he described the Biafra struggle as a “dead issue” and a “means of making
money”.
According
to Samuel Edeson, the group’s Director of Information, in a statement on
Monday, Obasanjo tried to bribe the members of the group in 2006 to abandon
their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuriuke in prison, The Cable reported.
The
statement read: “Obasanjo is ignorant of Biafra… MASSOB wishes to reply
Obasanjo that Biafra is not dead and will never die.
“Obasanjo
should have known that after killing over 1000 MASSOB members at Umulolo,
Okigwe, in Imo State on March 29, 2003, which he masterminded through Achike
Udenwa, then governor of Imo state, it didn’t stop our agitation.
“In 2006
while Uwazuruike was in Keffi prison, Obasanjo invited us to Aso Rock where he
promised us millions of naira and to send us out of the country with
Ghana-must-go bags of money just for us to forget Uwazuruike to die in prison,
but we rejected the offer.”
It's my
pleasure to say Good morning , Good afternoon and Good night to each and every
one of you irrespective of your time zone around this planet called earth.
Today is
Tuesday February,the 23rd day of this year of The Lord 2016.
From here from me I say Good morning to you all
..........
Copied from my Living Hero.
(PRINCE NNAMDI KANU).
How many of you are an adherent
listener of Radio Biafra? If you are one and you missed this opening ritual of
this Great Orator behind the microphone ?
Add your own observed comment
from him.....?
MY DIALOGUE WITH THE DSS AT
FEDERAL HIGH COURT ABUJA, ON January 29 2016.
It was about 8:45 am and everyone was seated in the
court room waiting for the arrival of the Judge. Nnamdi Kanu was already seated
with two of his comrades. I went to greet him and assure him of the peoples
support of his cause. I must say that the young man was in good spirit and very
hospitable.
On my side was a DSS officer who
engaged me in a long dialogue that seemed friendly but filled with bitter anger
towards Ndiigbo and all that are agitating for Biafra nation. He
started by asking me about a young man he spotted that looked very angry and
agitated. Obviously he wanted to know about that young man. Hence he asked if I
knew him. I said no because I didn’t know that young man.
DSS: Do you know that man?
Me: I don’t know him.
DSS: Are you a member of IPOB?
No I am not a member of IPOB. I
am a member of Biafra Foundation and we all work together for the same cause.
At this point the DSS man (name
withheld) became serious and started with, “I can’t understand why the Igbos
who are everywhere in Nigeria, who dominate all areas of commerce and have
billions of investments all over Nigeria are the ones agitating to break away
from Nigeria”.
Sir, the Igbos in Nigeria seek
independence because from the colonial time, our fathers never wanted to be
part of Nigeria. Consult the history on the political development of Nigeria,
Ndigbo never signed any treaty to be part of Nigeria unlike the North and the
west. Our fathers were coerced into being part of Nigeria. Since independence
nothing has worked in Nigeria except what was imposed. As for our business
successes sir, we need to be free to actualize our potentials. We feel in
Nigeria our potentials are buried. It is not about individual successes in
business but the ability to become the president of this nation. The way
Nigeria is structured I am afraid I may never become the president of this
country no matter how hard I try and I fear my children may face the same
situation and it is scary to pass such hopeless future to children yet unborn.
Come to our states federal presence were only those built before 1966. All our
federal roads are death traps. Though we are the strength of this nations
economy yet we are the most improvised in terms of federal presence.
There are so many policies by the
federal government that were meant to punish Ndigbo. The federal character, the
quota system were aimed at unduly favouring one region against the other. It
deliberately killed performance, professionalism and integrity. All we have
achieved in terms of state development is by self efforts. Most of our roads,
pipe borne water, hospitals and even airports are self efforts while other
regions enjoy the same from the federal government. I was in primary school
when I contributed one naira for Imo state airport, I also contributed for Imo
state blood bank. Now tell me which of my mates in other regions made such
contributions?
“What else do you people want”?
We want to be able to control our
destiny away from the Nigeria occupation of our land. We do not want to be part
of a country where we are hated, despised and treated as second class citizens.
In Nigeria today an average Igbo man is hated. We are treated with mutual
suspection. We are not trusted. Since the war ended, Ndigbo have not been
integrated into Nigeria mainstream. Every where in Nigeria, be it in the North
or west there is Igbo phobia.
On Nnamdi Kanu, the DSS said.
“This man looks innocent but what he has started might engulf the nation into
another crisis worse than Boko Haram. Boko haram started like this before it
was hijacked by people more powerful than the founder, Yusuf Mohammed. If we
let him go his movement may fall into hands stronger than him.
It looks like you put this man on
trial based on what you think or fear he might be in future not that he has
committed any crime. I can tell you that the only thing that could lead to this
movement being hijacked is his continued illegal detention and the propped up
charges against him. His freedom is paramount to him directing his group to the
part of peaceful resolution of the agitation. Imprison him today and a million
Kanus will emerge tomorrow. As for your fear that there might be arms struggle,
I can tell you we are not going to fight before we get what we want. No gun
would be shut from our side. No bomb will be exploded by us. We have learnt
from the mistake of our fathers and if we fail to actual this idea, we will
pass it on to our children and they will learn from our mistakes and continue
the agitation.
“Why are you guys including the
south south as part of Biafra when they do not want to be part of Biafra? Even
Igbos in the North like those in Kano, Lagos who have billions of investment
are not supporting your cause and your leaders are not even supporting you.
This man is alone I can tell you”.
I wonder which state in Niger
delta has boundary with the North. I am at a lost at your attempt to save the
Niger delta from the Igbos who never had a history of constant violence with
our neighbours as the Hausa/Fulani does with the minorities in the North. In
all the middle belt states, there is constant struggle to survive. The people
are being systematically erased by your cultural domination. You intimidate
them, kill and rape their women, burn down their houses and villages yet you
have the gut to act like the Igbos are oppressing the Niger deltans. By the way
are you excluding the Igbos from your definition of Niger Deltans? Or do you
mean south south region? Any way I am sure you are mixing it up. There are many
ethnic groups in the south south region which also include Igbos. There are
also Igbos in the middle beltan states. The creation of Cross river state by
Gen Gowon was to weaken the unity and strength of the then eastern region. Till
date the north has been afraid of our unity but I tell you we are closer today
than ever. The Niger deltans are beginning to ask questions on who and why
Adaka Boro was murdered. They are also aware that Ken Saro Wiwa who believed in
the friendship with the North was mercilessly murdered by the same people he
fought for. Odi was wiped out the worst genocide in our time and no one said a
damn thing yet you claim you love those people? Hard love I must say.
“I like this man. He is very calm
and I am sure if he maintains this posture the judge might free him though I
still consider him a threat to national security.”
Now lets look at it this way,
those we love we set them free. How can you put someone you love on trial for
propped up charges? If you love this man you would respect his constitutional
rights and set him free. I don’t think he is a threat in anyway. All he has is
microphone. He has no gun. His followers have never killed anyone. His group
has never detonated bomb anywhere. They respect the sanctity of human life and
no Igbo person will blow himself/herself up to make a point. All NNAMDI Kanu
has is his mouth and brain. He is screaming at those oppressing him, those
holding his generation captive to set him free; is that a threat to peace?
“You might see him as a threat
but from the security point of view he is very dangerous”.
Let me tell you who is a threat
to peace and national security. The Fulani herdsman who carries AK47, invades
peoples land, kill and rape women are real the dangers to life and threat to
national security. How many of them have you arrested and put on trial before?
How could you accuse somebody who has no weapon, no battalion as threat to
lives while you let a Fulani man walk with assault riffle? The Igbo business
you are saying that worth billions would you allow them to carry assault
riffles to protect their goods?
“You the Igbos have conquered
every market in Nigeria and as such should be contented. They get 13%
allocation from their resources. What else do they want?”
We get 13% and who is keeping the
87% and for what? Take for example, Bayelsa state has 8 local governments while
Kano state has 44 local governments and national monthly allocation is based on
this unequal and unjust figure. What is the contribution of Kano state to
national treasury?
“Look at the contracts in the
government Igbos occupy every where. In the North the best estates are owned by
Igbos. They own the best hotels, private schools and the most expensive shops
in the north. These people are not will to support your agitation”.
I tell you sir, it is not our
properties and investments in the north or west that you care about rather the
investments of the rich northerners that worth trillions in the south and south
east that you care about. Yes my people have invested billions across Nigeria
but your people have investments worth trillions in our region. The oil blocks
in our region are owned and controlled 90% by the northern and western Generals
and business men and women. We do not have such investment and control of the
natural resources in either of these regions. Who owns and runs the oil
merchant ships in the Niger delta? Who controls the oil allocation in our
region?
Let me also say it to you here.
Our desire to leave Nigeria goes beyond business and material considerations.
We are republicans in nature and we cherish our divergent opinion in life. We
strongly believe that we will fare better if we have our own nation. Take for
an example during the civil war under heavy bombardment, Biafrans manufactured
their aircraft. They built one of the strongest bunkers in the world within
9months. Under heavy bombardment and starvation Biafra built their airport,
drilled and refined their oil. Feat Nigeria has not been able to achieve since
independence. Take away the oil and give us our independence and we will emerge
a stronger nation with booming economy in ten years.
The insistence of the president
that Nigerians want to stay has one nation can only be proved in the court of
the people through a referendum. On this agitation we are not in a hurry to
stop. Biafra stands for the freedom of all the ethnic minorities that have been
oppressed in Nigeria. The middle belt ethnic group has been consumed by the
north. The minorities in the west have long disappeared, Biafra is the voice of
freedom for all. Biafra is peace to all, equality and justice that is what
Biafra stands for and that is what we want but cannot get in Nigeria.
Now sir let us take a look at the
land graze decree of 1968. Gowon signed our land to the Fulanis for support to
prosecute unjust war against the former eastern region. Today the herdsmen kill
our people and rape our women and no one is arraigned be fore any court. Is
that freedom and security? In the North at the slightest provocation Bifrans
are killed with impunity. There is no record where a hausa/Fulani person has
been arrested, tried and jailed for killing an Igbo man. There in the north and
else where in Nigeria the life of an Igboman worth nothing. Over 200 bodies
slaughtered and dumped in Ezu river and no panel of investigation was set. No
one was brought to just for that atrocity yet you want to stay in Nigeria so
our children will inherit a nation of death from us? No God forbid.
Ndigbo is majority group in
Nigeria but today we are political endangered specie. We have the least states.
The least representation is the government. We receive the least allocation
from the federal government. Our population has been doctored to reduce our
true population. We are the minority now. Can't you see that Nigeria has no
good for us in stock?
Just take a look at all the
security men here. Those guiding Nnamdi Kanu, all of them are Northerners
guiding an Igbo man accused of treason? Where are the Igbos in DSS? How would
you convince me that a man surrounded by enemies will receive fair treatment?
It was at this point that the DSS man laughed as the judge entered the court
Onyema Uche
01/29/2016
01/29/2016
LETTER FROM NNAMDI KANU...
Spread
this gospel to as many as u can reach. we need to open d eyes of our people to
truth and history. They can no longer confuse nor separate us again!!! What is
South South, South East, Niger Delta? RUBBISH!!! All we know n proclaim is
Biafra!!! We are not terrorists, we are not confusionists, we are not militants, we are not trouble
makers, we are not minorities, and we are A GLORIOUS PEOPLE FROM THE LAND OF
THE RISING SUN...WE ARE BIAFRANS. We would not
tire out, we would not
compromise, the pen is our weapon, the gun is not out means, for the life of
our people is precious, our land is sacred, we would not pollute our soil with the blood of our
children, we would
neither give them a chance to desecrate our creed and faith nor rape our
daughters and sisters.... We are marching on in strength, knowing that our
KINGDOM is come and our Dream is "born again"!!!! Viva the land of
martyrs, the pride of the tribe of Ephraim, a people born of fire and spirit,
the spirit of Excellence and Ingenuity. Long live Biafra, the land of a Million
Rising Suns.
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“Some Igbo Governors and senators are
stooges and cowards, we doubt if Igbo blood is running in their veins".
Says, Ekiti State
Governor, Ayodele Fayose.
Yes and I concur to that because during the Biafran war, there
was an issue of rapes by these Hausa Fulani bastards. So, most of them have
Hausa Fulani bastard blood running in their veins, & if not, how can they
ordinarily be supporting the Hausa Fulani bastards to be killing their own
people!.
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| Okana man shot death by Nigerian army in Port Harcult. |
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23rd February 2016
Since yesterday I arrived in Bori
from PH, I have not closed my eyes in sleep. Massive shooting between men of
the Nigerian Army and some well armed restive youth loyal to an ex-militant
leader popularly known as SOLO. The campaign office of senator magnus Abe was
set ablaze. It is believed here that the senator is the one instigating the
military against SOLO.
Some other people were reportedly
killed in Yeghe community by the army, but that I can’t confirm. But Bori
became very restive today as the men of the Nigerian Army started shooting
sporadically, aiming directly at innocent people. The information we heard is
that the armed youth killed some military personnel last night, so This young okada man was shot death
by men of the Nigerian Army with two other women who later died in the
hospital. Right now, Bori is a ghost land, everyone is indoor. The worst is
that the men of the Nigerian Army that are supposed to protect the people from
this armed criminals are the ones killing the people.
Warning: Photos Below are graphic in
nature.
BADAMOSI
BABANGIDA ADMITS HE IS NOT HAUSA-FULANI BUT A NIGER SETTLER POSSIBLY FROM
OGBOMOSO
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People have always virtually known that Badamosi (Gbadamosi)
Babangida and his foster brother Abdusalami Abubakar hail from Ogbomoso in Oyo
State. Their names are dead give-aways. This interview accorded the
Vanguard was a practical admission by the former Nigerian President.
By Wole
Mosadomi
SIR, is
it true that you are from Ogbomosho, a claim that is backed by assertion that
your second name ‘Badamasi’ was coined from the Yoruba name Gbadamosi? Please
can you clear the air?
I appreciate your concern. I had to answer the question way
back in November 1962. I answered the question during my final year in
secondary school when I had to answer that question and 52 years later, I am
glad I am answering the same question. The truth is that I hail from here,
Niger State. My parents were from between Wushishi and this town (Minna).
I am qualified to be an
indigene of Niger State
My grandparents and great
grandparents moved from somewhere to settle down in Niger State. There are some
who still call us settlers in Niger State and that we are not indigenes of the
state because our grandparents came from somewhere to settle here but having
lived all my 74 years in Niger State, I think I am more than qualified to be
called an indigene of Niger State.
How I escaped Orkar’s coup – Ibrahim
Babangida ON AUGUST 17, 20156:29
Ahead of his 74th birthday today, erstwhile
military president, General Ibrahim Babangida had an interactive session with
journalists in Minna, Niger State. In the revealing interview he opens up on
his response to the coup plot led by Major Gideon Orkar in April 1990, the
Dimka coup plot earlier in 1976, his assessment of the unfolding Muhammadu
Buhari led administration and of his thoughts towards his one time friend,
Chief Moshood Abiola among other things. Excerpts By Wole Mosadomi SIR, is it
true that you are from Ogbomosho, a claim that is backed by assertion that your
second name ‘Badamasi’ was coined from the Yoruba name Gbadamosi? Please can you
clear the air? General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), I appreciate your concern. I
had to answer the question way back in November 1962. I answered the question
during my final year in secondary school when I had to answer that question and
52 years later, I am glad I am answering the same question. The truth is that I
hail from here, Niger State. My parents were from between Wushishi and this
town (Minna). My grandparents travelled to settle down here and I think that
that says it all but there is nothing wrong in being from any part of the
country. The truth is that I hail from Niger State. Indigene of Niger State My
grandparents and great grandparents moved from somewhere to settle down in
Niger State. There are some who still call us settlers in Niger State and that
we are not indigenes of the state because our grandparents came from somewhere
to settle here but having lived all my 74 years in Niger State, I think I am
more than qualified to be called an indigene of Niger State. What is your
reaction to reported claims by U.S. officials that Nigerian troops were not
properly trained to fight Boko Haram? I must admit that a lot of us were
trained in America, so it is not anything new to talk about training because
they knew they had trained people. I was trained in America, I was in a place
called Portsmouth in Kentucky where I did my senior officers course, so you can
see that a lot of us were trained in America. They are right but there is an
old saying that says, no matter the sophisticated weapons we have, the man
behind the weapon really matters. I appreciate what they are trying to do. Are
you satisfied by the Federal Government’s renewed fight against insurgents? (
cuts in sharply) Yea, they have to be fought. I think the renewed effort and
fight the Federal Government is doing is commendable. But it was thought
that the insurgents had been routed at the end of the Jonathan administration.
So, what do you think may have happened that gave them fire as President came
on board? I think there is a general misunderstanding of the whole concept of
insurgency. You can call it anything, instability, terrorism. The fact is that
we are not fighting a regular army where you can confront them with sheer use
of force and weapons to overwhelm the enemy. No, we have gotten a small trained
army whose tactics is to inflict maximum casualty on his so-called enemy,
inflict casualty on him when and where he least expects it. The army is not
fighting a conventional war and that makes it exceptionally difficult. They
blow out bridges, they go as far as blowing up barracks. This is an
unconventional war. I think the soldiers are trained for it and they know this
is the sort of thing they do. I think the public should be educated about this
unconventional war. How do you feel celebrating your 74th birthday, given that
several attempts were made against your life while you were in service? I will
continue to be grateful to God and it strengthens my belief that no matter what
happens, if God doesn’t will it, nothing will happen to me. Gratitude to God So
it is a matter of believing that no matter what happens, either good or bad,
nothing happens without the approval of Allah. I am grateful to God for sparing
my life up to this time despite what we went through. Those who participated in
combat will say the same. God has kept me and I remain grateful to Him and
grateful to you all for your support. Don’t you think that it is necessary to
have a body of elder-statesmen to proffer advice to successive administrations
especially given the situation Nigerians found themselves after the recent
transition? I think one of the most unique things in Nigeria is that this is
one African country that is specially blessed. There are about seven of us
(former leaders) alive today and every one of us has his experience in one way
or the other but the other good thing is that there is a forum where we all
meet the current leadership, chat with him, talk about the situation in the
country discuss and offer solutions to any problem confronting us. All of us are
always free, we are very accessible to government, so we can either put across
either in writing or talking. In your opinion what are the key areas the
present government should focus so that the country will move on? I must
commend the present leadership for identifying even before and after the
election some of the problems facing this country. Number one has to do with
security and the president talked about it extensively. Security of the state
The security of lives and property, the security of the state, the security of
this environment called Nigeria has been identified. And the second one has to
do of course with the way we live, the way we walk and the way we behave which
is corruption. The third one has to do with the economic development of the
country. We should support the President towards achieving these objectives.
Talking of corruption, what is your reaction to the President’s vow to recover
stolen funds from the nation’s treasury? During the tenure of my boss,
President Obasanjo, he had a similar strategy and to be fair to him, he made a
lot of recoveries, so we should support this present Federal Government in
trying to do the same to achieve the same objective. If that objective is
pursued, I believe it will achieve some degree of nrecovery of stolen
funds. You talk about oil theft, I am sure President Buhari is resolute
to stamp out all those and to bring to book all those who have tampered in
stealing our oil. What is your reaction to the Federal Government’s assertion
that it could negotiate with Boko Haram? The President has got it right by
saying he will talk to people who are credible who have been identified as some
of the leaders of the insurgency but so far, apart from one or two names, we do
not hear any other name. Democratic practices I don’t think the government will
like to talk in a vacuum, to talk to people who are not worth talking to as far
as these issues are concerned. So the government is right in being careful to
identify and talk if there is anything to talk about. How do you feel as a
leader of a former leading party that you are now in the opposition and
secondly, do you think the PDP can come out of the waters in 2019? I think one
of the good things we are experiencing in this country is that for 16 years
there has been democracy and democratic practices in the country. A lot of
things must have gone wrong somewhere and the right judges are the people and
the people have spoken. I think it is natural they needed a change after 16
years and they did what is right, they did not go wild, they did not fight
anybody, they used their ballot papers to change the government. I think this
is the beauty of what happened. I look forward to such practices in the next 50
years of democratic practice in this country. I hope they learn from
their mistakes, what they did wrong, what they did right and what they can do
now to re-launch their party. One of the major challenges your administration
faced was the Gideon Okar coup where people thought death had finally gotten
you. How did you escape? I can remember very well that I had some loyal
officers who were supposed to be my protectors and my body guard. Initially
they told me to leave but I told them no, I am not leaving anywhere but they
remained steadfast and later I took my family outside Dodan Barracks and I
joined my guards. So we went out of Dodan Barracks and we went to a safe house
where we got in contact with loyal troops. May God bless Sani Abacha.
Sani Abacha was the chief of army staff. He got in touch with me, I got in
touch with him and we sat down and talked on what we were going to do. Abacha
and I rallied the loyal troops and then I left my safe house and joined Abacha
in his house. That was how I escaped. How will you rate the role of the
media in the just concluded general elections? I think the media has been fair
and that is my rating. Very unusual but you are fair. You didn’t show or play
partisanship, you saw and said it the way it was. I have seen the media during
a lot of other elections but this particular one you were very, very fair. And
I hope that will be the trend. What is your assessment about the performance of
the present administration so far? So far, I am confident that they are doing
well. Sound advice They have identified the problems and they look resolute in
confronting these problems head-on and there are a lot of people in the society
who are offering a lot of sound advice on what to do. Are you missing your
friend MKO Abiola? Let me see, last week, I dug out one of the letters he wrote
to me and I read it, so that shows that I still miss him. What is your best
food? I eat everything legal that is not against my religion, I don’t eat pork
meat. I eat cereals, carbohydrate, give me anything I will eat it. Recently,
your political god son was being drafted into the contest for the president of
FIFA (cuts in sharply) I will vote for him. (Prolonged laughter). No doubt, he
made a very good outing, that is talking about his personal interest in sports
especially football when he was a governor. The Enyimba Football Club during
his tenure as governor was brought into limelight. He was very much interested
in soccer and if he is as such recognised in this country and outside, there is
nothing wrong in trying his hand to be recognised in the world and that was why
I said if I have a vote, I will cast it for him.
BIAFRA: HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS UNCOVER 13 CORPSES IN
BORROW PIT IN ABA
By NwaBUueze Okonkwo
The leaderships of International Society
for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety and the South East Based
Coalition of Human Rights Organizations, SBCHROs have alerted the Minister of
Interior, Gen Abdulrahman Bello Dambazzau (Retd.) and Chief of Defence Staff,
Major Gen Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin over what they described as “ceaseless
killings of unarmed citizens in Nigeria, by security agents.
Injured Biafra protesters
In the letter to the Minister and Defence Chief, entitled: “Pictures &
Video Clips Of How Nigerian Military Massacred 22 Unarmed IPOB Members &
Dumped 13 Of Them In Aba Borrow Pit: Why Security Chiefs Must Desist From
Provoking More Insurgencies Capable Of Plunging Nigeria Into Syrian Style
Violence”, the coalition said they had just visited the horrorful Borrow
Pit where they saw the corpses of the massacred IPOB members in Aba, Abia state
on February 9, 2016.
Ayatollah Buratai, “defender of Nigeria’s
democracy”
In what they identified as
facts-laden letter copied to National Security Adviser, NSA, Retired Gen
Babagana Mungono; Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Hon Justice Mahmud Mohammed;
Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Solomon Arase; Attorney General of the
Federation & Minister for Justice, AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN); United
Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon; United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein; United Nations Chief Repertoire on
Extra Judicial Killings, Prof Christof Heyns; European Union (EU) High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Ms Federica Morgherini;
Head/African Research Group & Deputy Head/Research Analyst, UK Foreign
& Commonwealth Office, Dr. Clare Thomas; Head, Political Section of the US
Embassy in Nigeria; and Head, Political Section of the UK High Commission in
Nigeria, the coalition also alleged that the soldiers of the 144 Battalion in
Ukwa West LGA of Abia State, joined by personnel of the Abia State Police
Command and the Finance & Logistics Command of the Nigerian Navy in
Owerre-Nta in Abia State had on of February 9, 2016 stormed the premises of the
National High School in Aba and opened fire at members of the Indigenous People
of Biafra, IPOB who gathered in their hundreds for the purpose of holding
prayer/meeting.”
The gruesome murder
SBCHROs further alleged in
the letter that the security forces shot and killed 22 IPOB members and
critically injured over 30, adding that the IPOB members had gathered in the
school on account of suggestion made to them by the same Abia State Police
Command and other security heads during their previous meetings to “restrict
their processions, rallies or protests to public places other than streets and
roads so as not to attract the attention and violent reactions of the Federal
Government”.
In the letter jointly
signed on their behalf by heads of the various human rights groups, the
coalition identified the 22 murdered citizens or IPOB members in the said Aba
Prayer/Meeting of February 9, 2016, among whom were Uche Friday (30yrs), from
Asa in Abia State; Emeka Ekpemandu (35yrs), from Owerre Nkwoji in Imo State;
Chiavoghi Chibuikem (Obingwa in Abia State); Nzubechi Onwumere (Orlu in Imo
State); Peter Chinemerem Ukasoanya (27yrs), from Isialangwa North in Abia
State, Chigozie Cyril Nwoye (23yrs), from Umuna in Ezeagu, Enugu State. Others,
they further identified were Chukwudi Onyekwere (26yrs), from Aboh Mbaise in
Imo State; and Chibuzor Maduagwu (28yrs), from Amauzari in Mbano, Imo
State, adding that the remaining eight dead bodies of murdered IPOB members and
five critically injured others at the point of death were taken away by
soldiers of 144 Battalion of the Nigerian Army who were commanded by a colonel.
The coalition recalled that
Abia State Police Command had earlier admitted publicly of shooting and killing
two IPOB members (“for disturbing students of the National High School in
Aba”), adding that the Command is presently and officially in possession of the
two dead IPOB members it shot and killed.
In the letter, the
coalition alleged that the Army and personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, Abia
State Command, headed by CP Habila Hosea; aided by Aba Area Commander, ACP
Peter Nwagbara and joined by personnel of the Nigerian Navy Command (Finance
& Logistics Command), Owerre-Nta in Abia State had on the feteful day, shot
and killed 22 unarmed, innocent and non violent members of the IPOB at the
National High School along Port Harcourt Road in Aba, Abia State, adding that
the security forces had stormed the School on the said date in over ten Hilux
vans at about 12: noon.
Over 30 other members of
the IPOB were also shot and critically injured at the scene. Out of the 22
murdered citizens, eight were identified after the shooting and killing spree
by other members of the IPOB and sympathizers; some of them died on their way
to hospital following excess bleeding and excruciating pains.
Two of the 22 murdered IPOB
members were taken away by the Abia State Police Command and the remaining
eight; alongside five critically injured others were packed in two military
trucks and taken away by soldiers”. The IPOB members numbering hundreds had
converged peacefully and nonviolently on the National High School premises for
their prayers and meeting.
About 30 minutes into their
prayer procession in the School’s premises, soldiers of the 144 Battalion,
numbering over 15, joined by Police and Navy personnel surrounded and
barricaded the IPOB members and cordoned off the area. Minutes after, the
soldiers opened fire at the IPOB members while Police and Navy personnel joined
them by shooting harmful chemical substances at them”.
Coordinators of the IPOB
were before the shooting, fished out and taken away; likewise some married
women. Among those earlier arrested and taken away were Abia State IPOB
Coordinator, Ikechukwu Ugwuoha, Imo State Coordinator, Amos Ezekiel, Abia State
Welfare Officer of IPOB, Okechukwu Nnebedum Nkume, Abia State Zonal
Coordinator, Donatus Okeke and one of the principal officers of the group in
Rivers State, Joseph Okolie.”
How corpses were discovered
in borrow pit
“On Saturday, February 13,
2016, some scavengers reported to one of the Aba units coordinators of IPOB
that they saw some dead bodies in a borrow pit located along Aba Port Harcourt
Road.
The Borrow Pit was recently
converted to a refuse dump by the Government of Abia State. On receiving the
report on Saturday morning, the IPOB members moved to the area where they saw
13 dead bodies battered and shrank with decimating chemical substances.
The 13 murdered citizens
must have included those taken away alive by soldiers who were battered with
gunshots. They were laid face down with their eyes tied and covered. “Eight of
them were dumped together, while another three were dumped separately; likewise
the remaining two. Shockingly, eight of the gruesomely murdered corpses have their
hands tied individually behind their backs with Biafran flags.
The “Biafran flags” used in
tying them were carefully cut into lengths and ropes made out of them and were
used in tying them separately. The flags were parts of items and personal
belongings seized and taken away by soldiers at the scene of the bloody
shooting on 9th of February 2016 at the National High School in Aba.”
All the 13 murdered and
dumped IPOB members have their hands tied behind their backs and their bodies
lacerated with gunshot holes. The chemical substances poured on them shrank and
made them look old and taller than their normal heights; all for the purposes
of erasing traces and defying easy facial and bodily identifications.
Some pathologists and
cottage medical experts contacted by Intersociety disclosed that the chemical
substances used by killer soldiers of 144 Battalion must have contained a
mixture of raw acid and embalmment chemical substances for the purpose of
making the corpses shrink, old and odorless.”
(1)IBB, Ten reason why capital oil is a foolish Igbo man_
Abacha, TY Danjuma,and Dangote is richer than Ifanyi Uba
Abacha, TY Danjuma,and Dangote is richer than Ifanyi Uba
(2) Ifanyi Uba have no company in the East
(3)Ifanyi uba build trailer park at Sonya Lagos no trailer park at East
(4)if you are rich why not build refinery in the east and employed your jobless graduate brother's and sister
(5) Buhari can rule Nigeria without Igbo man why involved yourself with issue of dollar are you CBN
(6)helping Buhari Government can't make Yoruba or Hausa man to like you
(7) have you said anything why Nigeria soldiers and police are killing your brothers and sister because we want freedom for KANU and Biafra
(8) if you love Nigeria why not ask Buhari to divide Nigeria to avoid blood shed in Nigeria and another war as a good Samaritan
(9) can you tell me your help in any university in south East
(10) Buhari will arrest you because $2.3 Dasuki you get share there through...TAN......
No property No money outside Biafra Land will stop Biafra restoration if you like let all your property be in the north or west Biafra must be free I am a Biafra who are you?
(3)Ifanyi uba build trailer park at Sonya Lagos no trailer park at East
(4)if you are rich why not build refinery in the east and employed your jobless graduate brother's and sister
(5) Buhari can rule Nigeria without Igbo man why involved yourself with issue of dollar are you CBN
(6)helping Buhari Government can't make Yoruba or Hausa man to like you
(7) have you said anything why Nigeria soldiers and police are killing your brothers and sister because we want freedom for KANU and Biafra
(8) if you love Nigeria why not ask Buhari to divide Nigeria to avoid blood shed in Nigeria and another war as a good Samaritan
(9) can you tell me your help in any university in south East
(10) Buhari will arrest you because $2.3 Dasuki you get share there through...TAN......
No property No money outside Biafra Land will stop Biafra restoration if you like let all your property be in the north or west Biafra must be free I am a Biafra who are you?
The southeast body of national political science students (NAPS) which
comprises of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, (ANSU), Ebonyi State University (EBSU)
Imo State University (IMSU) Abia State University (ABSU) University of Nigeria
Nsukka (UNN) and NOUN. They have expressed their concern on what they termed
disgrace of the Nigerian people by the present government, wondering how a political
matter that ought to be resolved politically should warrant imprisonment and
irresponsible trial of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra. They
persisted that in the first place Nnamdi Kanu deserves not to be brought to the
court as long as he is lawfully and peacefully going about restoration of
Biafra. In such political situation, dialogue and debates should be the key and
not imprisonment.
However,
they believe that the cause of the masquerades and criminals to stand as
witness against Kanu shows that he should not be brought to the court in the
first place. The body went ahead to criticize the initial plea of the federal
government to present masked men as witnesses, their words “how can a witness
be allowed to give evidence from behind a mask” decrying that body language and
facial expression are the key factors in assessing the credibility of a witness
and a defendant “we do not see how on earth a judge or a jury can appraise
evidence when they are facing somebody who is cloaked and is completely
invisible to them. It is almost impossible to have a proper trial if one of the
persons standing as a witness is masked.
There are two types of people that wear mask
in Nigeria, one is spirit and two is criminal, so the person standing as
witness must be either spirit or the later which is highly unacceptable in a
law court” they insisted. Praising Justice John Tosho for denying FG the
application they also wondered what Kanu is doing in the prison and coming to
the court for. They held that the inability to get a human witness shows lack
of merit of the case against Kanu. Self-determination is a law and if the law
is not in ones favour should not mean the court should turn the law upside down
and hurt a law-abiding person.
“It is imperative for justice Tosho to accept
the fact that Nnamdi Kanu should be released immediately without favour or fear
of what those masterminding his unhealthy trial will say. We are in a
democratic government, agitating for right to self-determination is not a
crime, treason or unlawful” they however declared their support for Nnamdi Kanu
and urged other bodies to speak up in solidarity of a man that choose freedom
of speech over arms and peaceful protest over violent battle.
OE,NewsPoint : London: Amnesty International Condemns The Brutal
Killing of Biafrans ;- Amnesty International Condemns The Brutal Killing of Biafrans:
Sends Team to Nigeria
Amnesty International has condemned the brutal killing of
Biafran demonstrators in the South East and South South zones of the country.
They have called on the Nigerian government to respect the rule of law and stop
using excessive force against demonstrators. Lucy Freeman senior researcher for
Amnesty International in London speaking to the London International Business
times said their organization has sent correspondence to Nigeria who has
documented instances of the Army using excessive and brutal force against
innocent civilian demonstrators.
Freeman said, “What is happening in south-eastern Nigeria is not
a conflict situation and the law enforcement model that has been used is not
appropriate,” Freeman said. “It is not appropriate to use lethal force on
protesters, even in case of a violent protest”.
Amnesty International further said, “The Nigerian government is
obligated to carry out investigations that have to be independent, impartial
and effective,” she said. “It is not enough to deny allegations and people need
to be prosecuted and brought to justice.”
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February 25, 2016
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that
all those involved in the killing of innocent Ogoni people and residents of
Ogoniland will be brought to justice , saying that nobody will be allowed to
play politics with the lives of Rivers People. The governor declared that the
military must subject itself to civil authority, pointing out that as Chief
Security Officer of Rivers State, he was not informed of the operation that led
to loss of innocent lives of Ogoni people and residents of the area. He accused
some politicians of deliberately instigating crisis in the state to create room
for the evil declaration of state of emergency plotted by enemies of Rivers
People. Governor Wike spoke on Thursday when led the Rivers State Commissioner
of Police, Mr Musa Kimo and top police officers on a fact finding mission to
Yeghe community in Gokana Local Government Area, affected communities in Bori
and Mortuaries where those killed by soldiers were deposited. He said: “The
Rivers State Government will take up this unfortunate incident with the
appropriate authorities. The military must subject itself to civil authority. I
am the chief security officer of this state. Before any deployment of soldiers,
I should be informed, but in this case I was not aware. “I will always support
the security agencies in the fight against criminals and criminality, but I
will never support the killing of innocent persons. That is why I am here today
for an on-the-spot assessment. I have seen for myself the destruction in Yeghe
and the killings that took place. I went to the Mortuaries to see the corpses
and the relatives of the deceased confirmed they were killed in the operation”.
ALSO READ If Buhari Dare us More We Blow-up More Oil Installations This
Month The governor stated: “I have told security agencies to be careful so that
they are not misled by politicians. As your governor,
I have never used soldiers because I don’t need them. When I
see people not in government moving around with soldiers, I am surprised. If
you are popular with your people, you have no reason to move with soldiers. ”
While urging the Ogoni people not to take the laws into their hands, Governor
Wike said: “All those who masterminded these killings will face justice. They
are busy causing crisis because of their evil plan to declare a state of
emergency in the state. Since they failed in my case, they will fail in others
because God is greater than them”. Governor Wike noted that he has always
advised the military to arrest criminals and hand them over to the police for
prosecution in line with the rules of engagement and not to take actions that
would harm innocent citizens. He denied ever making inflammatory statements on
the Ogoni political arena, saying that he only campaigned for his political
party. According to him, it is within his political right to guide the people
on the electoral choice they have to make in the interest of the state.
Governor Wike said that the state government will hold a comprehensive Security
Council meeting on Thursday on the Ogoni Security Situation. ALSO READ
Buhari Plans To Kill Nnamdi Kalu And Dasuki - Fayose A statement by Simeon
Nwakaudu, Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor on Electronic Media
noted that thousands of wailing bereaved widows, youths, children, widowers and
traders at Yeghe and Bori displayed photographs of loved ones killed by
soldiers.
They also
displayed placards condemning the military operation that claimed the lives of
their loved ones. He urged those who fled their homes to return as his
administration has taken measures to check a repeat of the ugly incident. Bari
Zikpo, a retired police officer, told the governor that his first son was
killed in the ill-fated operation by the military. He said the operation
claimed many others in the town. In Bori, David Gbarazie informed the governor
that he lost his brother to the military operation. Also in Bori, the Igbo
community also informed the community that the military killed some traders in
front of their shops. Spokesman for the Igbo traders in Bori, Mr Michael Akuchi
said a trader Livinus Nwafor and his brother Kelechi Nwafor were killed by soldiers. 
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Tension In Aba as Police, Army Physical Combats; Leaves DPO, Other Officers to Death Point – SPY NIGERIA
on: February 23, 2016In: MetroViews: 6,935 views
A wild drama ensued yesterday in Umuahia, Abia State capital as some overzealous police officers engaged in a free for all fight with their Army Counterparts.
The report as reported by heraldng.com stated that the residents of the area scampered for safety and everywhere was deserted.
Trouble started when a man drove in and parked his 14-seat¬er bus near the police station lo¬cated opposite the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Centre, Aba Road.
Report says the bus driver, who is an Army Captain but in mufti, was ordered by the Divisional Po¬lice Officer (DPO) in charge of the station to re-park his vehicle.
According to an eye witness ac¬count, the DPO, who was driving to the station in his Highlander SUV when he spotted the bus, was im¬patient with the owner of the bus as he ordered him to explain why he should block his way.
Attempts by the Army Captain to calm the DPO fell on deaf ears as he (DPO) immediately ordered for his arrest for allegedly blocking his way.
The over-zealous DPO, accord¬ing to investigations, just assumed duties at the station a few days back.
According to our source, the Army officer pleaded with the DPO to allow him remove his vehicle as he had ordered but the DPO rath¬er insisted that he must be arrest¬ed first.
“It was at that point when two policemen were struggling to arrest him that he told them that he is a Captain in the Army”, the source said.
Continuing, the source said the DPO was more infuriated when he heard that the ‘man’ said he was a soldier, and insisted he must be ar¬rested.
The DPO was quoted as saying: “He must obey my arrest order; you people should tell him to obey my arrest order; you must obey my ar¬rest. You said you are a captain; you must tell me how many wars you have fought.
“I have fought in three Boko Ha¬ram states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States before coming here.
“You must show me your iden¬tity today; drag him into the cell now”, the DPO thundered.
As the drama continued, at¬tempts by the police to force the Army Captain into their cell was stoutly resisted but the police tore his clothes as they were trying to drag him into their cell.
The scenario attracted the atten¬tion of passers-by and people in the neighbourhood who helped in pleading with the police to release the Army officer but all to no avail.
One of the policemen was said to have started shooting into the air apparently to disperse the crowd when somebody in the crowd was said to have alerted the military of the development.
The scene was said to have been stormed by four Hilux vans filled with solders shortly afterwards.
The soldiers were said to have been highly infuriated when they discovered that the man being manhandled by the police was tru¬ly an Army officer.
They were said to have descend¬ed on the policemen including the DPO and gave them the beating of their life.
     
Today, we have a
very important topic that affects every single Igbo person anywhere in the
world.
Most of our forest in Igbo land are now being permanently occupied by Fulani cattle rearers. Our mothers are now afraid of going to farm in our own land for fear of being raped or killed by these herdsmen, that were rated the third most dangerous terrorist in the world. This is the picture of our brother from Enugu that was killed by them recently. As a solution, the government is proposing mapping out lands as a grazing field for them. What this means is that state governments will make large portions of lands available in some local governments for them permanently. You can imagine mapping out lands for the Fulani herdsmen all over Igbo land for them to occupy and settle permanently. This was how they came to Plateau Benue, Nasarawa, Kaduna etc as harmless cattle farmers who stay in the forest. Today, they are killing, burning house and destroying farm lands while struggling for the ownership of the lands with the indigenous people. The case is more rampart in Enugu and Ebony State. My brothers and sisters, what do we do? Let's have this discussion like a family and avoid throwing insults. This is a very serious matter please if you don't have good suggestions to make just read comments. Let's wake up Igbo land is in serious trouble and our politicians are not doing much to rescue us.      
The tyrant Buhari,have decided to fufill his clampdown
vow,through his force men,by unregretably assaulting and Killing
Biafrans.
Buhari ordered for the Killing of our
Biafran Brother Nzubechukwu Onwumere and we went to pay him our last
respect.
He did not show any remorse whatsoever
over the killing of our Brother and our sorrowed hearts,but went ahead to order
for the arrest of our Brothers and Sisters who are coming back from his
burial.
I hope the World is seeing why,
Biafrans are agitating for Biafra?
Will the World ask us why we call
Nigeria a Zoo?
With this act, among Buhari and Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu who should be charged for terrorism?
Britain will suffer for forcing us into
this evil contraption called Nigeria.
SEE THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN AN EDUCATED BIAFRAN (GEJ) AND AN ILLITERATE CATTLE-REARING ALMAJIRI
BOKO HARAMIST (MUHAMMADU "PHAROAH" BUHARI).
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16th February 2016
I have followed closely the recent Biafra
agitations and the comments for and against as well as the belief that Biafra
only came in 1967 or that Biafra is only Igbo or landlocked.
I want to tell all of us that Biafra problem
is not Hausa/Fulani, it is not Igbo, Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio or Yoruba -the Biafra
problem is the British trying to enslave Black people and using the
Hausa/Fulani to achieve that.
As surprised as many of you might be, let us
put common sense to task here.
1. When the British first arrived in Africa,
they met Biafrans and they were addressed as such and slaves that shipped from
that area were categorized as coming from the bight of Biafra. Biafra then
covered all of what they call today SE/SS but not Benin.
However, the British had difficulties
colonizing Biafrans as they all resisted the British Lording it over them from
Igbo to Ijaw and from Urhobo to Itshekiri -they all rejected colonialism. You
can imagine how humiliated the British felt that black monkeys and slaves
rejected their superiority.
Eventually Biafra was conquered and
subsequently made a British protectorate on 30th June 1849. The British
succeeded in conquering Benin and made it a British protectorate on February
1st 1852.Biafra and Benin protectorates were amalgamated on 6th August 1861,
same day that Lagos and its neighbourhood were annexed by the British. http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria.htm
However, the British may have decided to
punish both the Biafrans and the Benins for rejecting their superiority.
Seeing the Hausa/Fulani as willing tools to
be used as house slaves against the field slaves. This is why you notice Biafra
throws up a lot of bad bile from the north more than anywhere else.
You may think it has something to do with oil
because Adekunle Black Scorpion said, “I have learned a word from the British,
which is “sorry”! That’s how I want to respond to your question. I want to win
this war for the sake of Nigeria crude oil. Therefore I have to kill the
enemies to win this war. Sorry!” –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Adekunle
If you think it’s just about crude oil,
remember that the North planned to secede with their Araba before the British
incited them from secession to war and here is your reference from Michael
Gould “The Biafran War” p.43 stated: “Cumming –Bruce was able to persuade the
Emirs that secession would be an economic disaster”. As the British high
commissioner Sir Cumming Bruce himself testified p.43 “it wasn’t on the face of
it easy to get them (the North) to change, but I managed to do it overnight. I
drafted letters to the British Prime Minister, to send to Gowon as Nigerian
Head of State, and for my Secretary of State (Michael Stewart) to send letters
to each of the Emirs. I wrote an accompanying letter to each of them because I
knew them personally. I drafted all these and they all came back to me duly
authorized to push at once. The whole thing was done overnight and it did the
trick of stopping them (the North) dividing Nigeria up.”(Nwobu, 2013)http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/biafra/
To understand British treachery –from the
effort they put to talk the north out of secession, does it look like the
British had nothing to gain? If you think they really liked the north -is the
north not worse today than it was then? Can anyone name one good thing the
British has ever done for the north?
Please don’t get me wrong because you might
turn to say – they help them become President and do coup and launder money in
Britain, but remember Fredrick Lugard described black Africans like this: “He
loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility.” Don’t you
think they are deceiving the Hausa/Fulani with power based on Lugard’s
description above?
2. The Biafran War: As clear as it is that
the British incited the Hausa/Fulani for that war, for the doubting Thomases we
can look at the role of the BBC then and now. Read this 1968 article and the
scanned Newspaper pages there http://goo.gl/dbd1k2
The BBC avoided mentioning Biafra but
preferred calling it a secessionist state. It is the same position they have
today. IF YOU THINK IT WAS SECESSION OR CORRECT -how come the people that
wanted to secede are now ready to die to stay? How come the British that knew
the History of Biafra suddenly feign ignorance and pretend that Biafra never
existed before they came?
Assuming you still don’t see the British
serpent as a fraudster yet, let’s look at another issue.
3. BBC Hausa Service – One thing the British
says every time is “The North is poor”. This is a deceitful mantra that they
used to get the trust of the North and continue to destroy black people with
it. When BBC Hausa is targeted at them -Is it not to brainwash them? Does the
BBC do any advert in BBC Hausa service? Does the BBC Hausa service generate
anything called revenue that you know? If not what do you think they do with
it? You may debate that it is because Hausa language is spoken outside Nigeria;
is Yoruba not spoken outside Nigeria too? Even by population – are Yoruba not
more? What does the British intend to gain from the Broadcasts?
4. BIAFRA AND THE “FEAR” IT GENERATES: You
may have noticed that based on perception Biafra generates a kind of aura that
no other issue in Nigeria generates -why? Please don’t say it’s because of the
war because even those who did not fight the war or experience the war feel the
same way. It is also not the crude oil or the SE/SS crap engineered by them-it
is purely the ability of the British to “control and incite black people and
sway our perception” If you doubt this “think back two year ago if anyone would
have voted for Buhari? Yes some will but how did he suddenly become a British
darling? From someone removed from power by the British to a British darling”
how did they change our perception? If you doubt this -how come no other name
elicits the type of aura that Biafra carries? Lower Niger Congress has the same
goal to create a state from the SE/SS separate from Nigeria, how come no one
even shakes when they are talked about? A northerner that sells Sugar Cane can
fight you for saying Biafra even when he has never seen crude oil before and
never tasted oil money –how come?
5. BIAFRA and Component Units – One other
very critical aspect of the British treachery is the idea that Biafra is only
Ibos and sometimes only South East. You will notice this thing in their
reporting too especially BBC. The reason is likely because they struggled to
defeat the Biafrans as they all rejected colonialism and are afraid of such
unity. If you think it was really oil, then how come they stopped buying oil
under Jonathan? I think it is about black subjugation and slavery. Assuming we
agree that it is only Igbos, we remember that the last President of Biafra was
not Igbo, so why do they want to stick with the lie? TO UNDERSTAND HOW THEY SEE
BIAFRA – REMEMBER OBASANJO’S TWEET AT THE ELECTION WHERE HE SAID THE SE/SS?
That’s exactly how they view the region but they pretend.
6. LANDLOCK IDEOLOGY -The British imposed an
Air, Land and Sea Blockade of Biafra during the war –what was British interest?
You will notice Biafra was only recognized by black countries that appreciated
Black emancipation, the oyibos played hide and seek why? The people in Port
Harcourt had their houses stolen in what they said was “removing all traces of
Igbo from Port Harcourt”, why was that? Assuming you still don’t understand how
bad the British are, you will notice a similar resentment to Biafra as the
Rivers people had towards Igbos –why? But the Kogi side did not have that as
well as the Ibibio side. Port Harcourt was formerly known as Igwe Ocha before
the British renamed it. This was where they exported palm oil, limestone,
groundnuts, coal from after slavery ended. Why is it that they peddle the lies
knowing there was nothing like Niger Delta or SS when they were resisted by the
Biafrans and Benins?
7. ELECTIONS AND JONATHANS TREATMENT – Many of you believe the crap of corruption. Some may have seen a video of Cameron telling the type of lies Oshiomhole and their group tell that they noticed that oil companies were underpaying Nigeria to the tune of 850 Million or something like that. Have you wondered what the prime minister would be doing with Nigerian accounts statements? Have you wondered Fedrick Lugard with heads of rulers he
chopped off as trophy
In any election, they provide the Hausa/Fulani a security report of who and who has sentiments for liberty and such a person can never win an election. Ideally they handpick candidates. Okowa won in Delta state tribunal because he is considered a lesser evil than Ogboru if you remember the Orkar coup. An average Hausa/Fulani believes whatever they say however they say it, that was why when Buhari came in with Idiagbon then and tried Umaru Dikko, something happened to him. To say “I am loyal”. Unfortunately, for Jonathan, they do not trust anyone from that axes. You may say, we voted him in 2010/2011 – they sway perception, make the candidate popular and then produce a result. Those results you see are fake.
8. REAL BIAFRA and BIAFRA IN THE News – The British see the entire area as Biafra but apply the divide and rule in the news. After the war – Lagos port was congested which they put Adekunle to oversee, why did they not consider Warri, Port Harcourt or Akwa Ibom? The same ideology of “they are Biafrans and they fought the British those days”. They may not say it. When Jonathan won, corpers were killed in the North, why did the same Northerners not kill anyone when Obasanjo won? Is Obasanjo a Northerner? What I cannot say is how the British is able to do it but just note that it is done by them. Overtime they have been able to brainwash Northerners with BBC Hausa and watch all their arguments are the same -meanwhile someone is telling you Igbo is landlocked and yet in his “unlandlocked”, Nigeria Igbos cannot use ports outside Lagos so what use is the landlocking they are talking about?
9. MAGINALIZATION OF IGBOS AND THE SOUTH-SOUTH
Many Igbos argue out of ignorance on the marginalization thing and are as blind as the so called Niger Delta. One thing the Niger Delta thinks is the oil but never ask if they are enjoying the oil. The Rivers axes gets companies built for oil exploration but few Niger Deltans work there. However, for those that remember circa 1976, oil was discovered in what was then Imo State, they quickly organized a boundary adjustment and ceded the oil patch to River state. This was 6 years after Igbos were given 20 pounds, but before you blame the Hausa/Fulani -have you wondered who is behind it.
9. MAGINALIZATION OF IGBOS AND THE SOUTH-SOUTH
Many Igbos argue out of ignorance on the marginalization thing and are as blind as the so called Niger Delta. One thing the Niger Delta thinks is the oil but never ask if they are enjoying the oil. The Rivers axes gets companies built for oil exploration but few Niger Deltans work there. However, for those that remember circa 1976, oil was discovered in what was then Imo State, they quickly organized a boundary adjustment and ceded the oil patch to River state. This was 6 years after Igbos were given 20 pounds, but before you blame the Hausa/Fulani -have you wondered who is behind it?
In 1979 if you remember Northern students
staged a violent protest accusing the federal government of conspiring against
them and attempting to maintain the education gap across the regions. This saw
the introduction of quota in admission to universities -Quota 40%, States quota
30% Catchment and discretion 10% HAVE YOU WONDERED WHERE THESE NORTHERNERS GET
THEIR STATISTICS FROM? Someone incites them and it is likely the British
using their leaders.
Other ways Igbos are marginalized include
1. Using the residual, concurrent and
exclusive lists to control development. Example when a road is put in the
Exclusive list, even when erosion is cutting it, there is nothing anyone can do
because it is Federal road. The governor can shout, people curse him but
remember he was handpicked because he is not expected to talk too much.
2. There is no federal infrastructure in the
entire South East.
3. The SE and many parts of the SS are being
strangled to encourage migration that will eventually expel all of them from
that area. It’s a continuous process because the British has been at war with
Biafra since they arrived the bight of Biafra.
4. No serious business is allowed to thrive
in the SE/SS and if you remember Obasanjo nearly killed Ibeto, you remember
Savannah bank and the likes of Slok and Sosoliso? These are scripts played by
the British but executed by Nigerians. Why will someone who wants his country
to develop agree to close a company with 500 people employed in it because he
hates the MD?
5. The SE as a region is the only region that
does not benefit anything at all from the federal government. I know you will
quickly jump to the fraudulent allocation. Just note that the money the federal
government makes from that region outside the oil is more than it gets back.
Example: No LGA in the entire South East can cope with only one secondary
school. However, Imo state is an oil producing state but Borno gets more money
than Imo state. Borno has a Local Government that has only one Secondary school
like Chibok and it belongs to the Federal Government. Now in WAEC Parents from
Imo state will pay for almost 30000 students to register for WAEC –Borno will
pay for 3000 students – how far now?
(ii) The SE/SS has more immigrants outside
than any other region, they pay more for passports to the Federal Government
what do they gain? They pay more for Nigerian Visas what do they gain?
(III)The SE/SS migrate more than any other
region, all the embassies are in Lagos and Abuja, many Biafrans have died to go
get their visa from Lagos or Abuja -Again what do they gain from Nigeria?
(iv) The South East never had an
international airport since the war and has suffered more to travel than any
region, many have died in the Process and without Nigeria and the fraud of
travelling from Lagos or Abuja they will still be alive today.
(v) The SE imports more than any region but
the revenue accrues to Lagos and they have to now pay to bring their goods back
to the SE whereas there is a PH, Akwa Ibom and Warri that could have been used-
What have they gained from Nigeria?
(vi) A SS/SE will struggle sell land, sell
car borrow and travel abroad and ships a container, the same federal government
that is useless to them is waiting to collect duty for another state. What have
they gained.
British
& Northern elders
(vii)
They struggle, travel and remit money and they have to still pay charges to the
same Nigeria that has not done anything for them – What have they gained?
6. Igbos have a higher population than the
Nigerian state allocates them. Every system that is based on honesty will allow
you at least know your number and plan but census is in the exclusive list i.e.
only Federal Government can do it–why?
I can go on and on but you will still see
that Many SE/SS blindly do not notice that they are being strangled.
7. NIGERIA -MEDIOCRITY AND LIES – The
Hausa/Fulani has a different system from the Biafrans. They believe that saying
something should make it be example: If Buhari says you are corrupt then you
are corrupt. They work more with perception than facts. They believe that if
you have 3 children and say you have 20 then you have 20. Example: Recently
after deceiving everyone that Buhari was coming to fight corruption. They
needed to appoint Amaechi even after Buhari had said he won’t appoint those
with corruption dents. All they needed to do was issue a statement that Amaechi
is now a saint and that’s it. They do not believe in facts and figures per se
but perception. –http://goo.gl/n37cil
This system is alien to the SE/SS but if you
notice the same Hausa/Fulani mounted a campaign for death penalty for looters. You
will now wonder why a poor region will not ask for the money to be returned but
instead would want people killed. Then you think it’s a joke, they cook up
documents and say you are corrupt and that’s it – you are killed. You might
think they are joking but that’s what they want.
8. LACK OF HONESTY AND TRANSPARENCY – You may
have noticed that everything about Nigeria is a lie. You already know how the
British contributed to the census lies, engineered the denial of Biafra as
being in existence before they came http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria.htm
The British engineered and sponsored the
perception based allegation of corruption against GEJ. If you doubt can they do
such in their place without asking for evidence?
There is nothing in Nigeria that you can say
is an honest process and that is why they are grinding to a halt. You may have
noticed also that with the coming of Buhari election rigging has returned. Yiu
may think oh no, I am APC today, no nation can make progress with such a system
and unfortunately the Hausa/Fulani are exactly what Lugard said here “He lacks
the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and
control alike of men or business” IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOU THINK; THEY ARE
ALL BRAINWASHED BY THE BRITISH AND THE BBC AND ALL THEY SEE IS OIL. If they were
taking the oil and using it to be like Dubai will anyone complain? Here is how
Lugard described the scenario “In brief, the virtues and defects of this
race-type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is
given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy”
British
man abusing a Biafran lady.
SO IF THE BRITISH WAKES UP TOMORROW AND SAY
TO THEM REMOVE PHYSICS FROM YOUR SCHOOLS BECAUSE IT WILL HELP IGBOS TO DEVELOP
FASTER THAN YOU-They just do that. Has anyone seen one good thing the British
did for the North before? They were mandated to get the oil producing states
and install a stooge and that’s what you see in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states.
Upon the fallen price of oil, don’t be surprise oil will stop selling but the
Hausa/Fulani will still be ready to kill people for it. ATIKU SAID THEY WILL DO
THAT IN MAY http://goo.gl/uPJ7t2
In summary -The Biafra question is a British
making and nothing more. If you doubt ask yourself – Why do I hate anyone for
supporting Biafra? I mean there is nothing wrong with secession, it’s happening
in Britain so why is the Biafra question different? If you think oil is the
issue as you thought, how come no one wants to talk about it? At least only oil
revenue will be shared, the rest the states can manage? Some people say instead
of secession why don’t we do re-organization but ask yourself which agitation
have we not seen since the war, which one did they agree to change? Why can’t
Nigeria start with limited autonomy? Scotland in UK has a different pounds and
parliament and FA but still wants to secede -why?
The long and short of the British fraud is that
blacks are still slaves and they divided us into two-the house slaves and field
slaves. The 1967 Biafra restoration was like a recaptured slave and how can a
black monkey undo what the British did? They could not believe it. YOU PROBABLY
HEAR GOWON AND OTHERS SAYING OJUKWU SHOULD HAVE SURRENDERED EARLY, IF BUHARI IS
DOING WHAT HE IS DOING TODAY BECAUSE HE WAS DECLARED WINNER IN AN ELECTION, DO
YOU NOW SEE WHY THEY STOLE PEOPLES HOUSES AND MONEY? The land Buhari owns in
Port Harcourt that he said he does not know where it is, is probably one of the
houses they stole but they will blame it on Ijaws or Ikwerres.
Before
you criticise Biafra please take time and ask “Is Biafra different from
Scotland and the UK? When they say loss of property and so on remind them there
are Igbos in Ghana and Cameroon and in London and New York – they have not lost
their property and we are not one country with them. The House slaves normally
sabotage every effort of the field slaves to be free – you have to choose which
one you are but don’t think we are free -the British uses the Hausa/Fulani to
enslave everyone. -
Don Tommy
     RADIO BIAFRA IS UNSTOPPABLE
NIGERIA’S MEDIA CHIEFS SACKED BECAUSE OF INABILITY TO
STOP RADIO BIAFRA
For
their inability to match the technological superiority of Radio Biafra, Retired
Major General Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Nigeria’s Media Chiefs comprising Mr.
Sola Omole of NTA, Ladan Salihu of FRCN, Sam Worlu of VON, Mike Omeri of NOA,
Emeka Mba of NBC, and Ima Niboro of NAN.
Buhari,
who voted billions of dollars to these government media outfits, was
disappointed by the ineptitude and dismal performance
of the various units mandated to stop Radio Biafra. At several occasions, these
organizations boasted that they have effectively neutralized Radio Biafra and
went to town partying for their phantom success. To their chagrin, Radio Biafra
continued to broadcast to the entire humanity with more devastating and
damaging evidences of structural deficiencies inherent in the British
concoction called Nigeria.
Radio Biafra has been able to raise the consciousness
of Biafrans as well as the International Community on the plight of Biafrans
and provided incontrovertible evidence that Biafra consists of the present-day
South-East, South-South (except Edo state), Igala in Kogi state, and Idoma in
Benue state. The “divide-and-rule” strategy fashioned against Biafrans by the
British and their Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba accomplices were effectively
deconstructed and destroyed by the superior evidence, logic, and research
undertaken by the Editorial Board of Radio Biafra.
Furthermore, Radio Biafra was
used as a rallying point for Biafrans all over the world including those
residing in various parts of Nigeria. Through the efforts of Radio Biafra,
every Biafran has truly identified himself or herself as a Biafran and
recognizes the supremacy of Chukwu Okike Abiama in all things. Radio Biafra was
able to remove the scales of deceit planted by Yoruba-based Pentecostal
Churches and their criminal tithing obsessions with which they cart away
billions of Naira every week from Biafrans in Biafranland and elsewhere in the
world. Finally, Radio Biafra imparted into Biafrans, the unquenchable,
unstoppable, irreversible, and irresistible quest for the restoration of the
Nation of Biafra.
Considering these and many more
monumental achievements of Radio Biafra and how hopelessly and helplessly these
Nigeria’s major Media Outfits were, Buhari was left with no other option than
to sack the Media Chiefs. Therefore, their sack is an empirical evidence that
Radio Biafra has won the media war!!!
This is the face
of the impostor with his wife and kids.
American sent their representatives to Nigeria to investigate what is really happening about biafra Issue but okechukwu isiguzo, went and sabotage and told them that the Biafrans Do not need independent but good roads and infrastructures, so that is his number 08091733347. Everyone is mandated to call/sms him, to ask him why he have decided to become a devil to us Biafrans. All the enemies of Biafra Restoration including this puppet okechukwu must go down low together with his entire generation. 
I was a Nigerian before when I was snoring in ignorance till I received brain
by realising whom and how important I am as a Biafran, through the anointed
prophet of the most high(Nnamdi Kanu).
I opened this Facebook account as a Nigerian to catch fun and friends, until I understand the essence of it by converting it as a place of information. To help mobilize the myopic and gullible ones that are wallowing in stupidity of Nigeria. to know the essence of been a biafran and fighting for it. (It's my account, I have every right to do what I wanna do with it) Now I have this news for you... I am not here to catch fun or have friends. I am here and i volunteer my time to propagate the restoration of Biafra and the downfall of the zoo. And unite with my family (IPOB) So there is no need of having 5000 friends and 360 pending request, while 50% are enemies of Biafra and 20% are spyer's/saboteurs. So please with all due respect. If you are a Nigerian, even if you are my father please kindly unfriend me, infact block me Because., I don't have any business with you again until I achieve my aim (Biafra). Those that are following my post to be convinced and you are not yet convinced. Please make use of you unfriend icon now!. Because you will be a 'Dummy' forever. But the spyers and saboteurs hmmmm. Is up to you but believe you me I must fish you out.... If I mistakenly added you then or accepted you please am sorry, kindly unfriend me. Enemies of Biafra should delete me now before thunder fire you. because anywhere I see you uttering garbage against us and you happens to be in my list. Well let me reserve my comment!!!! Thank you for your understanding and abiding to it. . Saboteurs everywhere!. Lunatics here and There!!!. Mad mad people. I AM A BIAFRAN AND I AM PROUD TO BE ONE AND READY TO FIGHT FOR IT OR DIE FIGHTING FOR IT.... 
BIAFRA | Uwazuruike is FG’s Masked Witness – MASSOB
The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign
State of Biafra (MASSOB) said yesterday in Awka that it has decided to reveal
Ralph Uwazuruike’s anxious role in the ongoing court case against Nnamdi Kanu
of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
MASSOB alleged that the major reason the
Federal Government planned to mask its paid witnesses to cover their
identities is because the leading witness is a former popular Igboman who has
thrown caution to the wind for the sake of money, wealth and mundane things.
The statement signed by Comrade Uchenna Madu as
the leader of MASSOB, states that it would surprise Ndigbo and Biafrans in
general that the leading witness of the DSS against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is Ralph
Uwazurike (former MASSOB leader).
“We have all the evidences to prove our points
on Uwazurike’s romance with the oppressors of Ndigbo.
“Uwazurike is jittery and not comfortable with
the emergence of Nnamdi Kanu as the leading figure and hero of genuine Biafra
struggle. He will sponsor, support, participate and execute any evil plan or
move that will tarnish, blackmail, jail or even kill Mazi Nnamdi Kanu just
for people to see him as over-all Biafra leader which Biafrans are now fully
aware that he is fake.
“Initially, the DSS has no witness or evidence
against Nnamdi Kanu until Uwazurike who worked for President Goodluck
Jonathan’s continuation of Nigerian domination of Biafra made himself a
willing tool of destabilization to the Buhari administration against Nnamdi
Kanu. Through Uwazurike, the Federal Government has contracted Mr Benjamin
Onuegbu (Uwazurike’s BIM Coordinator, Lagos State), Mr Solomon Chukwu (Uwazurike’s
BIM administrator, Port Harcourt) whom Uwazurike also instigate to claim
factional MASSOB leader and Sunny Okoroafor (Uwazurike’s BIM Information officer,
Aba).
“It will be recalled that the DSS told the court
that their witnesses are residents of Lagos, Port Harcourt, Owerri, etc. The
refusal of the court to grant the DSS’ request of masking the face of their witnesses
against Nnamdi Kanu is a major setback as they have no real and genuine
witnesses.
“For fear of arrest and evil activities he
committed against Ndigbo in the name of Biafra activism, Uwazurike desperately
wants to impress President Buhari and work for him to cover his numerous
criminal acts against Ndigbo.
“As a former National Director of Information
under Uwazurike’s MASSOB and a very close national officer of MASSOB who spent
two years in detention with Uwazurike in DSS headquarters, Abuja, Suleja and
Keffi prisons before his release and numerous other things that hold us
together, I know Uwazurike more than Sunny Okoroafor who was my commissioner
of information, Aba region.
I challenge Uwazurike for an open debate on all
of our activities involving Biafra and Igbo course anywhere in Igbo land’’, the
statement concluded.
Efforts to get the reaction of Uwazuruike was
not successful as at press time.
ARREST OF IPOB ON 26 FEB
NIGERIA IS A CAGEFriday, 26 February 2016
NIGERIA IS A CAGE
By Ifeanyi Chijioke For Family Writers Before Nigerians release their punches I will love you to make a fist and hold it patiently, and once I fail to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you that still believes or wants to be a Nigerian is a baboon or monkey put in a zoo by Lugard. It’s dependent on Lugard’s preference, if the British great-human being loves Baboon more, then you are a Baboon but if it’s Monkey he loves, then you are a monkey. When Nnamdi Kanu applied for British visa, had the office issuing visa had the spiritual eyes to see tomorrow, they would not have allowed Kanu into Britain. He went into Britain and stole everything about them, transformed into a human being and acquired that knowledge or wisdom that made Britain what they are today. This is why I am very much convinced that Biafra will be a nation to reckon with. When Lugard came into Africa, he came in as human being and bought us like we now buy Monkeys for pet, dogs for security, goats for food etc. He used a lot of things to buy us, mirror, iron spoon and all kinds of things we never knew. We were still in stone age, we knew nothing and he Lugard knew everything. He even told us about his own God and for the sake of inferiority, we all agreed to everything he said. Then slave trade began, we catch ourselves and sold to them like monkeys are caught and sold. Take a good reflection of it when you go to the market and buy goat for a purpose, was it not how we were bought by Lugrad and his people. Think again why you buy those goats? They have nose like you, legs, mouth etc but you buy them because you are superior to them in every way. Lugard saw us like animals that needed to be bought, hunted and put in cage to avoid escaping, then we can be used at his discretion. Some were used as Baboons that work, some birds for pet, some goats for meat and some dogs for his security. Biafrans refused to be bought and so they were hunted, like a snake we tried to fight back but was caught and brought to the cage. Oduduwa was bought so easily and Arewas’ were pussy cats and all kinds of pet that stay back home and pleased him. He made a very large cage named Nigeria and put all his animals therein, his mistake or rather wickedness was not separating his animals or dividing their territory. He was aware a sheep cannot co-exist with a lion but he has nothing to lose via how many of his animals that perish daily at the expense of the zoo called Nigeria. Monkeys were put in same cage with snakes, doves with owls, lion in same cage with sheep, and all sorts of naturally opposing things in one place. As a man in control of his animals, the animals respected themselves; he feeds them and whips them to his command. They existed impatiently under his watch and as soon as he left, natural reactions and tendencies consumed and consuming his animals. There is a way out of this cage and yet his descendants are sluggish to accelerate and dissolute this inhuman contraption. Then when he left, he gave some trusted animals his whipping stick and command but little did we know collision is on course. The zoo called Nigeria suddenly became a war zone, birds need to survive, lions need to survive, sheep need to survive and snakes need to survive. The last option is the strong to start killing and feeding on the weak while Lugard favours his loyal monkeys. 3.5 million of the human beings that tried to leave the zoo in 1967 were murdered with the help of Lugard and till today for the sake of remaining in the zoo, human beings are being heartlessly murdered by animals. A human being went to Lugard and stole his magic wand, that human being (Nnamdi Kanu) came back to undo the spell that have been binding, that spell that made human beings animals. The monkeys were assisted by Lugard and one human being they have was kidnapped and locked in the zoo. Today some have received the work of the magic wand and have turned to human beings. Every day you see human beings saying we won’t be animals again, the zoo is not our home, we need to go back home and the monkeys in the zoo that were given guns started killing human beings. Nnamdi Kanu having said okay let the like species or animals that love the zoo stay in the zoo while human beings leave the zoo for a free world and peaceful existence. Sadly animals have disagreed but instead choose to kill everything than allow separation in the zoo called Nigeria. Human beings leaving the zoo will enable a death free existence and workable states, upon all these reasons, the monkeys have persisted that killing human beings is the best approach. You are nothing but a monkey Lugard put in the zoo called Nigeria, it is time to show the effect of evolution by leaving the creation of a man for the creation of God. We must admit that anything made by man must expire and the zoo has expired. Let us go back to our homes, our land and be what God planned for us than in 21st century keep admonishing the creation of a man and cherishing where he kept you as your God.  
BUHARI IS HOLDING ME AND NNAMDI KANU, THE PRO-BIAFRA
LEADER,
UNRELEASED BECAUSE HE THINKS WE WOULD JUMP BAIL – DASUKI REVEALS
February 26
21:052016
The former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, who is
accused of misusing billions of naira meant for the fight against Boko Haram
militants, opened up Friday at Abuja High Court, blaming President Muhammadu
Buhari for his arrest and detention without trial since December 29, 2015.
Mr. Dasuki, who spoke through his counsel, Joseph Daudu, said President Buhari instigated his detention unjustly against the bail granted him by three different courts, through his comment during a presidential media chat in December 2015. |
In an affidavit
filed in support of his application at the court, Mr. Dasuki said the president
betrayed his emotions during the media chat when he openly told Nigerians that
he (Dasuki) and Nnamdi Kanu, the pro-Biafra leader, could not be released on bail
because they would jump bail.
Mr. Dasuki said
he had been held incommunicado since his re-arrest.
He therefore
asked Justice Peter Affen to prohibit his further trial until the federal
government purged itself of the contempt of court which prevented him from
filing effective defence because of his continued detention by the State
Security Service, SSS, without having access to his lawyers.
Mr. Dasuki
exhibited several newspaper cuttings in support of his motion to stop his
trial, saying the newspaper publications contained Mr. Buhari comments that he
should not be allowed to go home even if granted bail by any court.
Mr. Daudu, who
led a retinue of lawyers on behalf of his client, urged Justice Affen to
enforce his order which granted bail to Mr. Dasuki adding that justice is for
all parties in any court action.
Mr. Daudu also
stated that the claim that the former NSA was being held by the SSS and not the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) could not hold water because
the federal government was the complainant in the charge against Mr. Dasuki and
that both the SSS and EFCC are agents of the Federal Government.
In opposing the
application, the counsel to the Federal Government. Rotimi Jacob told Justice
Affen that the charge against Mr. Dasuki was at the instance of the EFCC and
not the SSS.
He denied that
the federal government disobeyed the court on the ground that on December 29,
2015 when the bail conditions were perfected, Mr. Dasuki was released by the
prison authority at Kuje but was however rearrested by another government
agency.
Mr. Jacob asked
the court not to grant Mr. Dasuki’s application because the SSS that rearrested
him was not a party to the charges before Justice Affen who granted him the
bail.
On the newspaper
publications, Mr. Jacob said they were not tenable before the court because
they were not certified as required by law.
After listening
to the parties, Justice Affen fixed March 4, 2016 to give a ruling on the
application.
OE,NewsPoint
: 1966 Coup: “The Igbos Now Vindicated And Exonerated” ;-
Let the truth be told. The People involved
in that so called 1966 “Igbo coup” were:
1. Major
Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Midwest Region Igbo)
2. Major
Adewale Ademoyega (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”
3. Capt.
G. Adeleke (Western Region – Yoruba).
4. Maj.
Ifeajuna (Midwestern Region – Igbo).
5. Lt.
Fola Oyewole (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”.
6. Lt. R. Egbiko (Midwestern Region – Ishan).
6. Lt. R. Egbiko (Midwestern Region – Ishan).
7. Lt.
Tijani Katsina (Northern Region – Hausa/Fulani).
8. Lt.
O. Olafemiyan (Western Region – Yoruba).
9. Capt.
Gibson Jalo (Northern Region – Bachama).
10.
Capt. Swanton (Northern Region – Middle Belt).
11. Lt.
Hope Harris Eghagha (Midwest – Urhobo).
12. Lt.
Dag Warribor (Midwest – Ijaw)
13. 2nd
Lt. Saleh Dambo (Northern Nigeria -Hausa)
14. 2nd
Lt. John Atom Kpera (Northern Nigeria-Tiv).
The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
Yoruba –
Igbo fact sheet. This article has no tribal sentiments. Pls add ur own facts if
u have any. History will always tell us what happened.
1. Azikiwe
defeated Awolowo to become the first Nigerian Premier of Western Nigeria
(present Southwest plus Edo and Delta States). Awolowo instead of forming
Opposition,
rather formed Egbe Omo Yoruba and used it to intimidate Yorubas that won
election on NCNC platform to cross carpet and join him against Azikiwe. This
was the first parliamentary coup in Nigeria.
2
Awolowo from then on, started indoctrination of Yorubas against the “threat of
Igbo domination”. That is how the incurable seed of fear of Igbos was sown in
the psychic of Yorubas which Yorubas later sold to other groups through Yoruba
control of the media for decades.
3.
Alhaji Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria ‘s first Prime minister could not tolerate
Awolowo’s treacherous and inordinate ambition of acquiring political power by
all means and at any cost. So, he threw Awolowo into prison for treason.
4.
Samuel Ladoke Akintola who replaced Awolowo as Premier of Western Nigeria tried
to destroy Awolowo’s political grip on Yorubaland by forming a party to
takeover Western Nigeria in alliance with the Hausa-Fulani oligarch who Awolowo
despised as a backward race. Consequently, Yorubaland went ablaze in revolt
against Akintola’s plot. Law and order completely broke down in Western
Nigeria. Wole Soyinka wore a mask and forced announcers at Western Nigeria
Broadcasting Corporation to declare that Akintola’s government was a fraud.
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5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.
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5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.
6. As
Wole Soyinka and even Obasanjo acknowledged, Nzeogwu ‘s coup was widely
accepted by a vast majority of Nigerians across regional, religious and ethnic
divides. 9. But the dissatisfied Hausa-Fulani oligarchy who had majority in
Nigerian Army infantry used their puppets, Yakubu Gowon, Theophilus Danjuma and
co to overthrow General Ironsi.
7. In
order to win support of Yorubas, Gowon released Awolowo from prison. The
Hausa-Fulani knew Awolowo’s fear of Igbo as the only group that stood against
his ambition to power. Gowon therefore quickly made a deal with Awolowo which
in effect was that power would rotate between the North and the West
(Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba) in post war Nigeria if Awolowo convinced Yorubas to
join the North in fighting Igbos.
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8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.
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8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.
9.
Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also
ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967).
14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance
Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which
included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba
management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous
Machivellian anyway.
10. The
Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.
11. Awolowo
tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than acfinancial
destutute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba
12. To
achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that
every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before
the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He
instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service
when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not
reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The
same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .
13. The
Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.
14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.
14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.
15.
Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all
companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks
under their control. The Igbos were excluded.
16. They
rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their
ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic
group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be
Ndi Igbo.
17. The
shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all
policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by
their Hausa-Fulani allies.
18. In
frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their
frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos
disparaging us in any way they can.
19. Yes,
Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas,
telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum
military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with
their alliance.
20. Bola
Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho-
religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and
Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.
What is your
sincere opinion?
In the ongoing struggle for Biafra
independence, Uche Mefor, Deputy Leader of Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) and Radio Biafra calls on compatriots not to be wearied. He says
the struggle is on course, and that they should not be distracted by the lies
and deception of Nigerian government and officials.
How is the struggle so far?
The struggle, I can tell you, is well on
course. We have said on occasions, and must always appreciate the fact that
freedom is taken, not given. Therefore there are bound to be challenges.
Indeed, there are always prices to be paid, and Biafran people are already
paying the price for their freedom at the moment.
There is an ongoing genocidal orgy of terror
against Biafran people under the supervision of the current ruler of the
Islamic Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, who is not mincing words about
his mission. But the major point here is that there are people, especially the
Fulani and their Hausa slaves, who believe that Biafrans must not exist, and
Buhari is acting out that agenda for them to the letter. Buhari is an Islamic
bigot, and he is the arrowhead of that agenda. Part of that agenda is to
further decimate the population of Biafra, through ongoing massacre of peaceful
protesters, IPOB family members precisely. But we are determined; we will not
give up.
So all I can say at this particular point in
time is that the struggle is moving on fine.
But what offense did Biafra people commit to
warrant their being exterminated?
Their offence is that they are showing sincere
unhappiness (through peaceful protests) to the illegal detention of our leader,
Nnamdi Kanu. Since August 2015, Buhari has been massacring IPOB family members
for protesting the illegal arrest and detention of Kanu.
The latest was that which happened at Aba,
where the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Police used a school grounds to embark
on their training. Our people were praying, as was their practice before
embarking on the peaceful protest march for the day, and the Nigerian Army and
chose to use them for shooting practice.
Dumped bodies of massacred Aba protesters
|
So, the struggle is on course; our people are
paying the ultimate price for it; and our hearts go out to the family members
of those that were killed. One thing is clear here, we will never forget them.
We will continue to honour their memories. We will make sure that wherever they
are, they will know that we did not forget their labour of love to the Biafran
people. They have paid the ultimate price that we may have this freedom.
What is the position with the IPOB leader,
Nnamdi Kanu, who your people said was kidnapped by Buhari?
Yes, kidnapped is the word. Buhari has been a
kidnapper from time immemorial. Did you know that it was Buhari who kidnapped
Umaru Dikko here in London in July 1984? He put him in a crate and wanted to
smuggle him to Nigeria. The same Buhari is now the friend of the British today.
Yes, he sent his men to kidnap Nnamdi Kanu for
him and he wants to make sure that our leader is jailed. The issue of trampling
on the fundamental right of our leader is not hidden. He also made a public statement
on our leader, that he did not have any intention of releasing him. His reason
is that our leader has dual citizenship, which is that he has two passports –
Nigerian Passport and British Passport. He went further to say that he used
neither of the two passports and therefore would not be released. I have never
seen that low-level of reasoning anywhere.
He also said that our leader imported
sophisticated equipment, and till date he has not told the world what those
sophisticated equipment are. We don’t know how that equipment entered Nigeria.
Did it fly through the sky and fell down in Nigeria? Did it not pass through
the Ports Authorities – through customs and people like that?
Those were the crimes, according to Buhari,
that our leader Nnamdi Kanu committed – he has two passports, Nigerian and
British; he has dual citizenship, Nigerian and British; he imported
sophisticated equipment, which did not have a name. That is the crime that he
committed. I have seen irrational leaders come out of Africa, but this one is
beyond me.
It appears Biafrans do not like Buhari?
It is not that we do not like Buhari; it is
that we understand him and where he is coming from. Buhari has come with a
full-fledged Northern agenda, which is to decimate Biafrans and reduce Biafran
population. He is effectively targeting Biafran youths, women and children all
in the name of one-Nigeria.
But when it comes to the zoo called Nigeria, I
can tell you authoritatively that, both economically and for development, he
has no agenda for it. He has no plans. His eyes are on the petroleum and gas
resources coming from Biafraland, and any obstacle on his way must be removed.
He has a history of killing Biafrans, way back from 1967 to 1970. He presided
over the decimation of a cross-section of the Biafran population, and until
date, he has been doing that.
His presidency is an opportunistic one. He has
had this opportunity and he is using it as another way of fulfilling his
age-long agenda. This opportunity presented to him now as the Islamic Republic
of Nigeria President, has given him another impetus to kill Biafrans. He wants
to make sure that our leader, Nnamdi Kanu is jailed. Of course the issue
of flouting of court orders, the issue of trampling on the fundamental human
rights of our leader Nnamdi Kanu is not hidden. The world should not allow him
that maniacal pleasure.
Some people say IPOB has gone violent, is it
true?
Well, I will answer that question by also
asking a question. If they say that IPOB has gone violent, the question now is:
how many people have IPOB killed? Where are the people that we have wounded?
When where they buried and when? Every time that our people who were killed by
Nigerian Army and Police are being buried, we always announce it. People always
get there and we take pictures. Can you tell us when and where they buried their
own dead?
But let me make this clarification once again;
and let nobody make any mistake about it. Freedom is in the DNA of every
average Biafran. Respect for human life is in the DNA of every average Biafran.
Respect for rule of law is our hallmark. Nobody can impose anything on us. The
principle factor that has continued to guide every IPOB member around the world
is freedom, which of course comes with it respect for human life, respect for
rule of law, respect for freedom of speech, and peaceful co-existence.
We have maintained that we are peaceful, we
never pretended about it, and our track-record is there for all to see. We have
maintained also that we are the original owners of the land of Biafra, and that
we want to restore our nation, Biafra. We want to live in our country, our
nation, Biafra to achieve our full potentials. We have resisted violence, and
that is why in spite of all the provocations from Nigerian government – the
shooting of unarmed IPOB members, the forceful deprivation of our properties –
we have refused to retaliate; and we have refused to react the way they wanted
us to. This is simply because we are organized, we are focused, and we have an
agenda, and we are following it methodically. We have long determined that
nobody will write another agenda for us. They have severally tried to take our
attention elsewhere, but we have refused to derail from our path.
We are exploring and following all the
democratic principles and procedures on the ground. Indeed, we intend to
continue to do that. Now it is equally very important that we make everyone to
understand that just as all human beings are; just as Nigerians are; just as
every other country in the world are; just as American citizens are; just as
Japanese citizens are, just as world citizens are, just as they all have the
fundamental human rights, so also do Biafrans have them. Just as they have the
right for self-preservation, and the right for self-defense, so do Biafrans
have. Just as these people have these rights, even the right to defend
themselves, so also do Indigenous People of Biafra also have these rights,
including the right to defend themselves.
In addition, these rights to self-defense is
embedded and recognized both in national and international law. What we have
just said is that those who are killing IPOB family members must now realize
that we are also human beings and that we also have our fundamental human
rights to be respected. We have our freedoms to be respected, and indeed, we
also have our right to defend ourselves. That we will do, simply because we are
humans and we have the right to do so.
Killed Biafran protester
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They have continued to kill us and have
continued to attack us, and we have also maintained, with available evidence on
the ground, that Biafran people are the most endangered species of human beings
on this planet earth. We are singled out for total extermination and
destruction, and the Fulanis with their Hausa slaves, led by Buhari this time
around are making good their promise.
There are things many people including
his followers probably didn't know about the leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra and Director of Radio Biafra/Television Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who's currently
being detained by the Federal Republic of Nigeria.SHOCKING
REVELATION!!! 10 Things You Don't Know About Nnamdi Kanu
Nnamdi Kanu first started Radio Biafra
in Enugu State of Eastern Nigeria, but the radio station was later destroyed by
Ralph Uwazuruike, an ex-leader of a Pro-Biafra group called MASSOB who actually
signed memorandum of understanding with Nigerian government to remain a good
citizen of the state.
Kanu before he moved to London to study Economics and Contemporary History used to be a student of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. (According to him, he left UNN for London because of the innate unseriousness of academic institutions in Nigeria.
Kanu before he moved to London to study Economics and Contemporary History used to be a student of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. (According to him, he left UNN for London because of the innate unseriousness of academic institutions in Nigeria.
In the 2013, Kanu returned to Umuahia
his hometown for the traditional marriage of his wife Mrs. Uchechi Okwu-Kanu.
On the course of the occasion, Ralph Uwazuruike arrived in 10 buses filled with
hoodlums who works for him, they disrupted the occasion, beat Kanu who was
taken to the hospital by his father. That same year, Uwazuruike also kidnapped
and tortured Nnamdi Kanu whom he asked not to mention anything about Biafra or
expose his (Uwazuruike) dealings with Nigerian government as Kanu was raising
alarm telling Uwazuruike's supporters that they're supporting a rogue.
When Kanu started another Radio Biafra in London, he ran out of fund because of the expensive nature of running a Radio Station, he became broke and was left with no option than sleeping in his car in the UK but it never deterred him from still putting the remaining he had left in the radio station so that the cry of his people could be heared all around the world.
When Kanu started another Radio Biafra in London, he ran out of fund because of the expensive nature of running a Radio Station, he became broke and was left with no option than sleeping in his car in the UK but it never deterred him from still putting the remaining he had left in the radio station so that the cry of his people could be heared all around the world.
Kanu being abused by Nigeria's DSS
The major reason why Kanu chose to study history instead of Law which his father wanted him to study was for him to be able to identify the actual cause of the retardation and primitivity of an average black person and to be able to acquaint himself with the knowledge of what Nigeria intentionally failed to teach him about his origin which according to him is Biafra.
Nnamdi Kanu has being coming to and fro Nigeria before his was illegally arrested by the Federal government.
The major reason why Kanu chose to study history instead of Law which his father wanted him to study was for him to be able to identify the actual cause of the retardation and primitivity of an average black person and to be able to acquaint himself with the knowledge of what Nigeria intentionally failed to teach him about his origin which according to him is Biafra.
Nnamdi Kanu has being coming to and fro Nigeria before his was illegally arrested by the Federal government.
Kanu learnt to refer to Nigeria as a
zoo from the current President of Nigeria Mr. Muhammadu Buhari who had actually
boasted of soaking baboons and monkies in their own blood if he fails to win
2011 election and of course he failed and host of Nigerian youth corps were
soaked in their bloods; a promised fulfilled?
From what we were able to gather, we found out that Nnamdi Kanu intentionally entered Nigeria the moment he did upon having announced prior to his visit that he would come, knowing that Nigerian government would be on his trail and eventually take hold of him just like they did. His reasons was to advance the course of his struggle for the restoration of a sovereign state of Biafra.
From what we were able to gather, we found out that Nnamdi Kanu intentionally entered Nigeria the moment he did upon having announced prior to his visit that he would come, knowing that Nigerian government would be on his trail and eventually take hold of him just like they did. His reasons was to advance the course of his struggle for the restoration of a sovereign state of Biafra.
Kanu value BIAFRA more than he values
his own life.
Nnamdi Kanu would rather DIE than to back off from the struggle of restoring BIAFRA.
Nnamdi Kanu would rather DIE than to back off from the struggle of restoring BIAFRA.
SHOCKING REVELATION!!! 10 Things You Don't Know About Nnamdi Kanu
There are things many people including his followers
probably didn't know about the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and
Director of Radio Biafra/Television Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who's currently being
detained by the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
- Nnamdi Kanu first started Radio Biafra in Enugu State of Eastern
Nigeria, but the radio station was later destroyed by Ralph Uwazuruike, an
ex-leader of a Pro-Biafra group called MASSOB who actually signed
memorandum of understanding with Nigerian government to remain a good
citizen of the state.
- Kanu before he moved to London to study Economics and Contemporary
History used to be a student of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
(According to him, he left UNN for London because of the innate
unseriousness of academic institutions in Nigeria.
“3.
In 2013, Kanu returned to Umuahia his
hometown for the traditional marriage of his wife Mrs. Uchechi Okwu-Kanu. On
the course of the occasion, Ralph Uwazuruike arrived in 10 buses filled with
hoodlums who works for him, they disrupted the occasion, beat Kanu who was
taken to the hospital by his father. That same year, Uwazuruike also kidnapped
and tortured Nnamdi Kanu whom he asked not to mention anything about Biafra or
expose his (Uwazuruike) dealings with Nigerian government as Kanu was raising
alarm telling Uwazuruike's supporters that they're supporting a rogue.
2. 4 When Kanu started another Radio Biafra in
London, he ran out of fund because of the expensive nature of running a Radio
Station, he became broke and was left with no option than sleeping in his car
in the UK but it never deterred him from still putting the remaining he had
left in the radio station so that the cry of his people could be heared all
around the world.
Kanu being abused by Nigeria's DSS
|
1. 5) The major reason why Kanu chose to study
history instead of Law which his father wanted him to study was for him to be
able to identify the actual cause of the retardation and primitivity of an
average black person and to be able to acquaint himself with the knowledge of
what Nigeria intentionally failed to teach him about his origin which according
to him is Biafra.
6.
Nnamdi Kanu has being coming to and fro
Nigeria before his was illegally arrested by the Federal government.
7)
Kanu learnt to refer to Nigeria as a zoo from the current President of
Nigeria Mr. Muhammadu Buhari who had actually boasted of soaking baboons and
monkies in their own blood if he fails to win 2011 election and of course he
failed and host of Nigerian youth corps were soaked in their bloods; a promised
fulfilled?
8) From what we were able to gather, we found
out that Nnamdi Kanu intentionally entered Nigeria the moment he did upon
having announced prior to his visit that he would come, knowing that Nigerian
government would be on his trail and eventually take hold of him just like they
did. His reasons was to advance the course of his struggle for the restoration
of a sovereign state of Biafra.
9. Kanu value BIAFRA more than he values his own
life.
10. Nnamdi Kanu would
rather DIE than to back off from the struggle of restoring BIAFRA.
OE,NewsPoint
: Detaining Nnamdi Kanu Will Destroy Nigeria – Alhaji Balarabe tells Buhari ;-
Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has bare his mind over the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, the veteran politician says that Buhari requires more than integrity or credibility to administer Nigeria. In the interview with Vanguard, Alhaji Balarabe Musa say it all,…… Read interview excerpt below. You are aware that some Igbo are agitating for Biafra? Well, the government provoked them! When this government appointed its kitchen cabinet, was there anyone to represent the interest of the South-East there? Detaining Nnamdi Kanu, the arrow head of the agitation, is not in the best interest of our dear country. President Buhari, being the father of the country, should try to reconcile with the South-East, the same way the late President Umaru Yar‘Adua reconciled with the Niger-Delta militants. But prominent Igbo leaders have disowned the agitating youths. That is the major reason he should reconcile with them because there is a disconnect between these agitating youths and their leaders. They have been provoked with the exemption of the region from his kitchen cabinet! He is the leader of the country. They are not like Boko Haram that you can’t identify. You simply work with them. He should call them for peace talks and they will respond. Out of the 20 million registered voters, only 15 million voted for him. Should he then ignore the five million that didn’t vote for him? There should be a culture of fairness in governance.
What is your message for the President? He has the people’s mandate to rule this country, he should make use of that mandate fairly and with justice. Secondly, he is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and, therefore, the chief security officer of Nigeria. He is the financial controller of the country, so he can do a lot. The President of Nigeria is what the Yoruba in the South-West refer to as Oga patapata! And in Hausa, they say Sariki yanka (highest king in the land). He should be able to compel everybody to march along. With this, the marginalisation mentality of the Igbo will be corrected and result in peaceful Nigeria. Buhari should run a government of national unity in which other political parties will be involved according to their relevance. The Igbo should be given all their entitlements in representation, according to federal character and as enshrined in the Constitution. If the marginalisation of the Igbo in the kitchen cabinet of the President had happened to the North in the event that a southerner is the head of government, where would Nigeria be?
o why is it happening to Ndigbo that are part and parcel of Nigeria? That is why I feel it is a mistake that should be corrected immediately, and things will be favourable to Nigeria and the President. The fact that a great number of Igbo had abandoned Biafra and called for one Nigeria, is a call for peace. I think Buhari should embrace it and make am
Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has bare his mind over the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, the veteran politician says that Buhari requires more than integrity or credibility to administer Nigeria. In the interview with Vanguard, Alhaji Balarabe Musa say it all,…… Read interview excerpt below. You are aware that some Igbo are agitating for Biafra? Well, the government provoked them! When this government appointed its kitchen cabinet, was there anyone to represent the interest of the South-East there? Detaining Nnamdi Kanu, the arrow head of the agitation, is not in the best interest of our dear country. President Buhari, being the father of the country, should try to reconcile with the South-East, the same way the late President Umaru Yar‘Adua reconciled with the Niger-Delta militants. But prominent Igbo leaders have disowned the agitating youths. That is the major reason he should reconcile with them because there is a disconnect between these agitating youths and their leaders. They have been provoked with the exemption of the region from his kitchen cabinet! He is the leader of the country. They are not like Boko Haram that you can’t identify. You simply work with them. He should call them for peace talks and they will respond. Out of the 20 million registered voters, only 15 million voted for him. Should he then ignore the five million that didn’t vote for him? There should be a culture of fairness in governance.
What is your message for the President? He has the people’s mandate to rule this country, he should make use of that mandate fairly and with justice. Secondly, he is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and, therefore, the chief security officer of Nigeria. He is the financial controller of the country, so he can do a lot. The President of Nigeria is what the Yoruba in the South-West refer to as Oga patapata! And in Hausa, they say Sariki yanka (highest king in the land). He should be able to compel everybody to march along. With this, the marginalisation mentality of the Igbo will be corrected and result in peaceful Nigeria. Buhari should run a government of national unity in which other political parties will be involved according to their relevance. The Igbo should be given all their entitlements in representation, according to federal character and as enshrined in the Constitution. If the marginalisation of the Igbo in the kitchen cabinet of the President had happened to the North in the event that a southerner is the head of government, where would Nigeria be?
o why is it happening to Ndigbo that are part and parcel of Nigeria? That is why I feel it is a mistake that should be corrected immediately, and things will be favourable to Nigeria and the President. The fact that a great number of Igbo had abandoned Biafra and called for one Nigeria, is a call for peace. I think Buhari should embrace it and make am
Pope advises
Biafra agitators to be patient ON MARCH 1, 20166:59 PMIN NEWSCOMMENTS 258
Shares1412 By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,
Tuesday released the text of Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis address to over
35,000 IPOB members who gathered last Sunday at the Vatican City for the weekly
Angelus, saying that Pope has warned their oppressors, the government and
Nigeria Military and their agents to repent, stop killing Biafra agitators or
face the wrath of god that will be catastrophic.
The text of
the Catholic Pontiff address which was made available to Vanguard by the IPOB
Media and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma Powerful, disclosed that the Pope advised
the Biafra agitators and the crowd that gathered at St Peters Square from the
balcony of the Apostolic Palace to be patient in all they are doing, that Gods
patience towards their oppressors is without limit but the time for change of
heart from their oppression is now.
IPOB quoted the Pontiff to have said that “it
is never too late to convert an oppressor to change from his evil activities,
including murderous activities, but it is urgent, it is now, let them begin
today to change from their oppression and killing of innocent people through
all sorts of violent means, including the jack boot of the military. According
to the pro Biafra group, said the Pope spoke on “invincible patience,”
explaining how God’s “unyielding concern for sinners” should provoke patience
in us, asking if we have you thought of God’s patience, have you even thought
of his unyielding concern for sinners, how this should provoke patience among
people, including governments, instead of killing people on slightest
provocation or no provocation at all, let alone people who are protesting
against unfair treatments or for something they feel is their rights.”
IPOB said the Pope told them that God does not
permit tragedies to punish sins, rather, Jesus uses warnings that sinners will
perish if they do not repent, adding that if the oppressors of peaceful
agitators like the Biafra agitators in Nigeria fail to repent the wrath of God
will be catastrophic against them. The Pontiff according to IPOB, welcome the
need to firmly and unreservedly focus on negotiations and dialogue between
governments and agitators all over the world including Biafra agitators and the
government of Nigeria, like done in Syria which has brought the current
ceasefire in the country, involving government and rebel forces, which has
entered its fourth day. “I invite all to pray so that this window of
opportunity can give relief to the suffering people and agitators and
encouraging the necessary humanitarian aid, and open the way to dialogue and
much desired peace” he said.
Since the illegal arrest of Nnamdi Kanu on the 14 of October
2015 by the Nigeria DSS on orders from the Nigeria president Mohammadu Buhari,
many Biafrans all around the world have called for the release of Nnamdi Kanu.
Many protests have been carried out and also calls for the United Nations, The
international Human Right Law and world leaders to intervene and help prevent
the killing of Biafrans in Nigeria have turned to deaf ears. President Buhari
been a dictator is using his power as the Nigeria president to make sure he
sends Nnamdi Kanu to jail. He's been going about looking for whom to use to
fight against the leader of the indigenous people of Biafra. Buhari, have used
the Nigeria armed forces to muscle the unarmed protesters by killing over 2,500
IPOB and brutally injuring over 4000 since he came into office as a democratic
president.
Seen that the killing of innocent Biafrans is not stopping them from calling for the release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu and a sovereign state of Biafra, Buhari begin to cook up several diverse means to prosecute and send Nnamdi Kanu to jail. President Buhari have also succeeded in bending the Nigeria Judiciary to do his bidding now his turning to the so-called Ohaneze Ndi Igbo leaders to force a means to talk Nnamdi Kanu out into dropping the right to seek for self-determination for himself and his people. Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Leaders been the fraud they are, were and still making sure they do Buhari's bidding by making sure they convince Nnamdi Kanu into taking the deal Buhari gave him to sign.
A deal that says Nnamdi Kanu gets to live like a king in a kingdom of his choice as long as he decides to drop his fight for Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu boldly rejected this offer and this pissed Buhari off so bad that he had to get the frauds called Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Leaders and other Igbo leaders to make sure they do everything they can to make sure Nnamdi Kanu backs down on Biafra. This Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Leaders are men and women who are selfish, corrupt and evil.
All they ever care about are themselves. These are people who will do anything to please their Hausa-Fulani friends in government, just to secure position in government. Men and women who don’t care about the well-being of the Igbo Biafran people and their community, Men and women who have sold their souls to their Nigerian friends in government, men and women who will say anything against their own communities to please their Hausa-Fulani friends. These set of people don’t care about the lives or the well-being of the Igbo Biafran people and they don’t care if they continue to suffer and die. Igbo leaders who come out and say they want peace and one Nigeria, while their children and family are all living luxurious lives abroad, while the people they ought to lead and represent are suffering and struggling. These so called Igbo leaders have the abilities, connections and power to develop Igbo lands and community and yet they have done absolutely nothing to enable better roads, schools and hospitals in Igbo Biafra lands. They are not concerned about our development, but how they can enrich themselves with the resources in Igbo Biafra lands, these people are pretenders and back-stabbing traitors.
Men like Ohanaeze Ndigo who have stayed silent and watch Igbo Biafrans being treated as slaves and being denied their rights. They stayed mute and watch how president Buhari used the Nigeria armed forces to kill over 3000 Biafrans, he watched as his people were getting killed, raped, suffocated, injured, massacred by the same government he's coming out to protect and defend. Ohanaeze has stayed quiet all this time that Igbo Biafrans have been treated wrongfully and unfairly. He didn’t come out to defend the Igbos and tell Buhari to stop killing his people, No, he didn't but instead he had the gusts, audacity to tell Nnamdi Kanu to drop he's pursue for Biafra and accept Buhari's offer.
Ohanaez has been busy collecting money from the Nigeria government and feeding his own greed. Then all of sudden he’s now speaking against the agitation of Biafra and also using the slogan " One Nigeria" to cowardly deceive Nigerians too. These Ohanaez Ndi Igbo leaders are puppets and pawns been control by the Nigeria government to keeping trapping Biafrans into staying in this contraption called Nigeria, while they are busy filling their pockets with the wealth of Biafrans. Please Biafrans take note, these people don’t care about your communities, your happiness, your future neither do they care about "One Nigeria" crab and all they care about is living in their luxurious homes, while they sit around and fill their pockets.
Seen that the killing of innocent Biafrans is not stopping them from calling for the release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu and a sovereign state of Biafra, Buhari begin to cook up several diverse means to prosecute and send Nnamdi Kanu to jail. President Buhari have also succeeded in bending the Nigeria Judiciary to do his bidding now his turning to the so-called Ohaneze Ndi Igbo leaders to force a means to talk Nnamdi Kanu out into dropping the right to seek for self-determination for himself and his people. Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Leaders been the fraud they are, were and still making sure they do Buhari's bidding by making sure they convince Nnamdi Kanu into taking the deal Buhari gave him to sign.
A deal that says Nnamdi Kanu gets to live like a king in a kingdom of his choice as long as he decides to drop his fight for Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu boldly rejected this offer and this pissed Buhari off so bad that he had to get the frauds called Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Leaders and other Igbo leaders to make sure they do everything they can to make sure Nnamdi Kanu backs down on Biafra. This Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Leaders are men and women who are selfish, corrupt and evil.
All they ever care about are themselves. These are people who will do anything to please their Hausa-Fulani friends in government, just to secure position in government. Men and women who don’t care about the well-being of the Igbo Biafran people and their community, Men and women who have sold their souls to their Nigerian friends in government, men and women who will say anything against their own communities to please their Hausa-Fulani friends. These set of people don’t care about the lives or the well-being of the Igbo Biafran people and they don’t care if they continue to suffer and die. Igbo leaders who come out and say they want peace and one Nigeria, while their children and family are all living luxurious lives abroad, while the people they ought to lead and represent are suffering and struggling. These so called Igbo leaders have the abilities, connections and power to develop Igbo lands and community and yet they have done absolutely nothing to enable better roads, schools and hospitals in Igbo Biafra lands. They are not concerned about our development, but how they can enrich themselves with the resources in Igbo Biafra lands, these people are pretenders and back-stabbing traitors.
Men like Ohanaeze Ndigo who have stayed silent and watch Igbo Biafrans being treated as slaves and being denied their rights. They stayed mute and watch how president Buhari used the Nigeria armed forces to kill over 3000 Biafrans, he watched as his people were getting killed, raped, suffocated, injured, massacred by the same government he's coming out to protect and defend. Ohanaeze has stayed quiet all this time that Igbo Biafrans have been treated wrongfully and unfairly. He didn’t come out to defend the Igbos and tell Buhari to stop killing his people, No, he didn't but instead he had the gusts, audacity to tell Nnamdi Kanu to drop he's pursue for Biafra and accept Buhari's offer.
Ohanaez has been busy collecting money from the Nigeria government and feeding his own greed. Then all of sudden he’s now speaking against the agitation of Biafra and also using the slogan " One Nigeria" to cowardly deceive Nigerians too. These Ohanaez Ndi Igbo leaders are puppets and pawns been control by the Nigeria government to keeping trapping Biafrans into staying in this contraption called Nigeria, while they are busy filling their pockets with the wealth of Biafrans. Please Biafrans take note, these people don’t care about your communities, your happiness, your future neither do they care about "One Nigeria" crab and all they care about is living in their luxurious homes, while they sit around and fill their pockets.
OE,NewsPoint : TAKE A LOOK AT THE
CRIMINALS AGENTS OF LUCIFER IN IGBO LAND CALLED "OHANEZE"
Why we
now support Buhari – Ohaneze Ndigbo ;-
The
Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Anambra, Chief Chris Eluemuno, has said that the
organisation is bound to support President Muhammadu Buhari in the interest of
the Igbo.
Eluemuno
told newsmen on Sunday after being conferred with the traditional title of “Ogbuefi
Nwajiugo” by his Nkwelle- Ezunaka community in Anambra that the apex
socio-cultural organisation had no choice but to partner with the government.
“Ohaneze
has no choice than to partner with the Federal Government because we are not
there to support any political party but to support any government in power in
the interest of the Igbo.
“We are
bound to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in the interest of
the Igbo,” Eluemuno said.
He,
however, urged Buhari to consider more appointments for the people of the zone
and fulfill his promises in the infrastructural development of the zone,
especially the roads and the Second Niger Bridge.
“If you
give good roads, power supply, water and other enabling environment for
businesses to thrive to the Igbo man, he will do wonders because he is
industrious,” Eluemuno said.
The
Ohaneze chieftain also advised the Igbo to imbibe traditional discipline and
guard against bearing the ‘Eze Ndigbo’ title outside their indigenous
communities.
“If you
are an Igbo leader outside your indigenous community, call yourself one, but
don’t bear the `Eze Ndigbo’ title.
“We in
Ohaneze have said that it is no longer acceptable for people to bear such
titles as Eze Ndigbo in the Diaspora,” he said.
Eluemuno
advised the various communities to mete out punishments to their sons who bore
the title Eze in Diaspora.
The
Ohaneze chieftain said that chieftaincy title taking in Igbo land signified
respect, identity and accomplishments.
He
assured his people that the title given to him would spur him to do more for
them.
He
commended Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra, members of Ohaneze Ndigbo, state
functionaries and stakeholders for gracing the occasion. (NAN)
By Chimaobi Nwaiwu Nwaiwu – The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has warned those who are claiming to be representing them, including members of Ohaneze Ndigbo and its youth wing Ohaneze Youths Wing, negotiating for the release of its leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu to stop such move, that nobody speaks or represent them, unless such person or persons are designated officers of its organisation. Nnamdi kanu Nnamdi kanu The group also said that its leader Mr. Kanu has said that he will rather die in jail that the Ohaneze Ndigbo to claim the glory of his release, saying he has no business with the Igbo Socio cultural Organization.“I will rather die in jail than for Ohaneze Ndigbo to claim the glory of my release, he said IPOB in a statement by its United kingdom spokesmen, Dr Clifford Iroanya and Emma Mmezu, a lawyer said “we are in court and our wish is to expose the fraudulent charge of treasonable felony before the whole world. At the end of this case the corrupt and compromised segment of the Nigerian judiciary will be publicly disgraced. “Our march to freedom is unstoppable; this is something Buhari ought to know. We have come to die for Biafra if that is what it will take to be free. Our resolve should not be underestimated. As our leader will always say, “Nigeria will kill us, we will kill them but in the end we will win” IPOB reaction follows an alarm raised from Enugu yesterday by some of their members that some people suspected to be Ohaneze Ndigbo and their youth wing Ohaneze Ndigbo Youths Wing were impersonating their leaders in Enugu, claiming to be representing them in meeting with some American Officials who were in Nigeria to have a meeting with IPOB on the release of their leader and what they want be done to them for peace to reign, which they said needs their designated officers presence and contribution, but they were not informed, but the people went ahead to speak for IPOB when they do not have the powers and authorization of the group to speak for them. Some people alleged to be members of the Ohaneze Ndigbo and Ohaneze Youth wing were said to had met with some Americans, at Nike Lake Resort Hotel between 6pm and 7pm Saturday evening.
Let the truth be told. The People involved in that so called 1966 “Igbo coup” were:
1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Midwest Region Igbo)
2. Major Adewale Ademoyega (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”
3. Capt. G. Adeleke (Western Region – Yoruba).
4. Maj. Ifeajuna (Midwestern Region – Igbo).
5. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”.
6. Lt. R. Egbiko (Midwestern Region – Ishan).
7. Lt. Tijani Katsina (Northern Region – Hausa/Fulani).
8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Western Region – Yoruba).
9. Capt. Gibson Jalo (Northern Region – Bachama).
10. Capt. Swanton (Northern Region – Middle Belt).
11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Midwest – Urhobo).
12. Lt. Dag Warribor (Midwest – Ijaw)
13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Northern Nigeria -Hausa)
14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Northern Nigeria-Tiv).
The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
Yoruba – Igbo fact sheet. This article has no tribal sentiments. Pls add ur own facts if u have any. History will always tell us what happened.
1. Azikiwe defeated Awolowo to become the first Nigerian Premier of Western Nigeria (present Southwest plus Edo and Delta States). Awolowo instead of forming Opposition, rather formed Egbe Omo Yoruba and used it to intimidate Yorubas that won election on NCNC platform to cross carpet and join him against Azikiwe. This was the first parliamentary coup in Nigeria.
2 Awolowo from then on, started indoctrination of Yorubas against the “threat of Igbo domination”. That is how the incurable seed of fear of Igbos was sown in the psychic of Yorubas which Yorubas later sold to other groups through Yoruba control of the media for decades.
3. Alhaji Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria ‘s first Prime minister could not tolerate Awolowo’s treacherous and inordinate ambition of acquiring political power by all means and at any cost. So, he threw Awolowo into prison for treason.
4. Samuel Ladoke Akintola who replaced Awolowo as Premier of Western Nigeria tried to destroy Awolowo’s political grip on Yorubaland by forming a party to takeover Western Nigeria in alliance with the Hausa-Fulani oligarch who Awolowo despised as a backward race. Consequently, Yorubaland went ablaze in revolt against Akintola’s plot. Law and order completely broke down in Western Nigeria. Wole Soyinka wore a mask and forced announcers at Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation to declare that Akintola’s government was a fraud.
5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.
6. As Wole Soyinka and even Obasanjo acknowledged, Nzeogwu ‘s coup was widely accepted by a vast majority of Nigerians across regional, religious and ethnic divides. 9. But the dissatisfied Hausa-Fulani oligarchy who had majority in Nigerian Army infantry used their puppets, Yakubu Gowon, Theophilus Danjuma and co to overthrow General Ironsi.
7. In order to win support of Yorubas, Gowon released Awolowo from prison. The Hausa-Fulani knew Awolowo’s fear of Igbo as the only group that stood against his ambition to power. Gowon therefore quickly made a deal with Awolowo which in effect was that power would rotate between the North and the West (Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba) in post war Nigeria if Awolowo convinced Yorubas to join the North in fighting Igbos.
8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two
divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the
southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.
9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967). 14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous Machivellian anyway.
10. The Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.
11. Awolowo tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than acfinancial destutute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba
12. To achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .
13. The Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.
9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967). 14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous Machivellian anyway.
10. The Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.
11. Awolowo tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than acfinancial destutute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba
12. To achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .
13. The Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.
14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by
war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.
15. Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks under their control. The Igbos were excluded.
16. They rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be Ndi Igbo.
17. The shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by their Hausa-Fulani allies.
18. In frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos disparaging us in any way they can.
19. Yes, Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with their alliance.
20. Bola Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho- religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.
15. Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks under their control. The Igbos were excluded.
16. They rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be Ndi Igbo.
17. The shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by their Hausa-Fulani allies.
18. In frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos disparaging us in any way they can.
19. Yes, Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with their alliance.
20. Bola Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho- religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.
OE,NewsPoint : We Are All Biafrans-Youth Leaders of South South
Proclaim !;-
We Are All Biafrans: Insist Youth Leaders of Southsouth Region – Southsouth Biafra Agitators
Written by Effiong
22nd November 2015
Youth leaders of the Southsouth region, under the aegis of the COALITION OF SOUTH SOUTH YOUTH LEADERS met in Calabar on Friday, 21st November, 2015 and after appraising the situation in the country and the claim by some unauthorized persons who claimed to be Southsouth leaders that the Southsouth is not part of Biafra, hereby state as follows:
1. The entire Southsouth region is part and parcel of Biafra land.
2. The Southeast and Southsouth have common cultural and historic heritage,
3. We call for the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of Radio Biafra
4. We warn the Nigerian Army not to do anything that will escalate the situation in the area.
5. We, however, still believe in one United Nigeria as long as justice and equity will prevail in the land.
That the name Biafra is sacrosanct and there is nothing wrong if the people of Southeast and Southsouth decide they should be called Biafrans but within Nigeria.
6. That Mr. President should assure Biafrans that he does not hate them through his actions and conduct.
7. That nobody mandated those elements, who went to Calabar recently to disclaim Biafra, to speak on behalf of the Southsouth. The Southsouth was, is and will continue to be part of Biafra land but within Nigeria.
We Are All Biafrans: Insist Youth Leaders of Southsouth Region – Southsouth Biafra Agitators
Written by Effiong
22nd November 2015
Youth leaders of the Southsouth region, under the aegis of the COALITION OF SOUTH SOUTH YOUTH LEADERS met in Calabar on Friday, 21st November, 2015 and after appraising the situation in the country and the claim by some unauthorized persons who claimed to be Southsouth leaders that the Southsouth is not part of Biafra, hereby state as follows:
1. The entire Southsouth region is part and parcel of Biafra land.
2. The Southeast and Southsouth have common cultural and historic heritage,
3. We call for the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of Radio Biafra
4. We warn the Nigerian Army not to do anything that will escalate the situation in the area.
5. We, however, still believe in one United Nigeria as long as justice and equity will prevail in the land.
That the name Biafra is sacrosanct and there is nothing wrong if the people of Southeast and Southsouth decide they should be called Biafrans but within Nigeria.
6. That Mr. President should assure Biafrans that he does not hate them through his actions and conduct.
7. That nobody mandated those elements, who went to Calabar recently to disclaim Biafra, to speak on behalf of the Southsouth. The Southsouth was, is and will continue to be part of Biafra land but within Nigeria.
Nigerian security forces have used excessive force against pro-Biafran protesters in southereastern Nigeria, Amnesty International has claimed. Lucy Freeman, senior research adviser at Amnesty, told IBTimes UK the NGO had documented instances of excessive force used against protesters connected to the pro-Biafran movement.
Pro-Biafrans hold regular marches across south-eastern Nigeria calling for independence and the release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu. It is believed that during one of the latest demonstrations held in Aba state on 9 February, at least 10 people were killed by the army and police with footage purportedly showing Nigerian security forces attacking pro-Biafrans being widely circulated on social media.
However, the spokesperson for the Nigerian defence, Rabe Abubakar, told IBTimes UK the police and army did not kill the demonstrators. He also said security forces had to intervene as some pro-Biafrans were allegedly carrying weapons.
“What is happening in southeastern Nigeria is not a conflict
situation and the law enforcement model that has been used is not appropriate,”
Freeman said. “It is not appropriate to use lethal force on protesters, even in
case of a violent protest.
“There are consistent reports of excessive use of force, deaths and injuries of people connected to the Biafran movement, of people in Zaria, of people in the northeast,” she continued. “We are not prosecutors and we are not able to carry out a criminal investigation, but the Nigerian government is obligated – when there are credible and serious allegations of human rights violations – to carry out investigations that have to be independent, impartial and effective. It is not enough to deny allegations and people need to be prosecuted and brought to justice.”
“There are consistent reports of excessive use of force, deaths and injuries of people connected to the Biafran movement, of people in Zaria, of people in the northeast,” she continued. “We are not prosecutors and we are not able to carry out a criminal investigation, but the Nigerian government is obligated – when there are credible and serious allegations of human rights violations – to carry out investigations that have to be independent, impartial and effective. It is not enough to deny allegations and people need to be prosecuted and brought to justice.”
Freeman confirmed that an Amnesty team is on the the ground
conducting investigations into allegations of violence and recent pro-Biafran
protests. “It is a difficult context because you have so much cover-up by the
military,” she said. “In an ideal situation if someone dies by the use of
force, there should be an autopsy, some records of the death, of arrests. What
we have seen across the country is that these kind of basic documentation and
investigations are not done.”
Kanu – leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and
director of Radio Biafra – was arrested by the State Security Service (DSS) in
Lagos in October 2015 on conspiracy and terrorism charges, which were later
dropped.
A day after the Abuja High Court ruled he should be released, officials pressed new treasonable felony charges against him, while President Muhammadu Buhari said Kanu would not be granted bail due to the “atrocities” allegedly committed.
Kanu was kept in DSS custody until Justice John Tsoho ruled he should be transferred to the Nigeria Prison Service in Kuje, about 40km south west of Abuja, so family members could visit.
“We have seen in several cases the practice of the DSS of arresting someone, holding them unlawfully, and when that person challenges their detention with bail, they are immediately charged with something else to prolong their detention. That’s unlawful detention,” Freeman said.
“There are a number of people who have been detained in connection to Boko Haram who had a similar thing happened. The question is: To what extend is the rule of law respected? By looking at the examples of Kanu and other cases it seems that it is not being respected.”
A day after the Abuja High Court ruled he should be released, officials pressed new treasonable felony charges against him, while President Muhammadu Buhari said Kanu would not be granted bail due to the “atrocities” allegedly committed.
Kanu was kept in DSS custody until Justice John Tsoho ruled he should be transferred to the Nigeria Prison Service in Kuje, about 40km south west of Abuja, so family members could visit.
“We have seen in several cases the practice of the DSS of arresting someone, holding them unlawfully, and when that person challenges their detention with bail, they are immediately charged with something else to prolong their detention. That’s unlawful detention,” Freeman said.
“There are a number of people who have been detained in connection to Boko Haram who had a similar thing happened. The question is: To what extend is the rule of law respected? By looking at the examples of Kanu and other cases it seems that it is not being respected.”
Nigeria’s position
The spokeperson for the army and the government have not responded to a request for comments. However, the Nigerian government has always maintained that Nigeria’s unity is a priority for the country and that although peaceful pro-Biafran protests are welcome, demanding the breakaway of the Biafran territories is against the constitution.
The government also told IBTimes UK that it does not consider the separatist movement a threat to the current leadership, and defined pro-Biafrans as an “insignificant number of frustrated people who are not a threat to the existence of Nigeria”.
In several interviews with IBTimes UK, the army and the police denied allegations of violence during pro-Biafran protests, arguing that security forces had to intervene as pro-Biafrans “were armed and disrupted peace in the state”.
Source: IBTimes UK.
OHANAEZE NDI IGBO: FRAUDSTERS, BETRAYERS AND DESTINY KILLERS
The spokeperson for the army and the government have not responded to a request for comments. However, the Nigerian government has always maintained that Nigeria’s unity is a priority for the country and that although peaceful pro-Biafran protests are welcome, demanding the breakaway of the Biafran territories is against the constitution.
The government also told IBTimes UK that it does not consider the separatist movement a threat to the current leadership, and defined pro-Biafrans as an “insignificant number of frustrated people who are not a threat to the existence of Nigeria”.
In several interviews with IBTimes UK, the army and the police denied allegations of violence during pro-Biafran protests, arguing that security forces had to intervene as pro-Biafrans “were armed and disrupted peace in the state”.
Source: IBTimes UK.
OHANAEZE NDI IGBO: FRAUDSTERS, BETRAYERS AND DESTINY KILLERS
Monday,
29 February 2016
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| Chief Garry Enwo-Igariwey |
I have wondered so much why a group of
people should gather and call themselves ohanaeze ndi igbo, with the aim to
defraud the people, and the government. I am an Igbo speaking Biafran and in
our land, any man or woman, who will serve as a representative to the people,
must be known and chosen by the people.
Before I proceed, let me translate the three words “oha na eze”; it simply means, “The people and the king”, so when you say oha na eze ndi igbo, you are referring to “the people and the kings of Igbo land”. This group of people who called themselves Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, by implication is saying that they are representing the entire people and the kings of Igbo land, when in actual sense they were not chosen by the Igbo people to represent them anywhere. It might interest you to know that the Igbo people do not know these men.
The original ohanaeze formed in 1976, was banned by Nigeria military government. The men parading themselves as ohaneze ndi Igbo now, are group of fraudsters who seek to enrich themselves at all cost, even at the expense of the well being of Igbo people who they claim they represent. This self-acclaimed fraudulent Ohanaeze ndi Igbo who the world see as an apex Igbo socio-cultural group in Nigeria has been deceiving and defrauding the government of Nigeria for many year without Nigerian government knowing it. Ohanaeze ndi Igbo made Nigerian government to believe that they can play a lead role in the so called south-south and south-east, in maintaining a one indivisible Nigeria but lo and behold it is all fraud. We will advice President Muhammadu Buhari to order the arrest of this Ohanaeze ndi Igbo because all the fat cheque they have been receiving from the government is in vain. The Igbo people should look out for these evil men and ostracize them from the communities.
Before I proceed, let me translate the three words “oha na eze”; it simply means, “The people and the king”, so when you say oha na eze ndi igbo, you are referring to “the people and the kings of Igbo land”. This group of people who called themselves Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, by implication is saying that they are representing the entire people and the kings of Igbo land, when in actual sense they were not chosen by the Igbo people to represent them anywhere. It might interest you to know that the Igbo people do not know these men.
The original ohanaeze formed in 1976, was banned by Nigeria military government. The men parading themselves as ohaneze ndi Igbo now, are group of fraudsters who seek to enrich themselves at all cost, even at the expense of the well being of Igbo people who they claim they represent. This self-acclaimed fraudulent Ohanaeze ndi Igbo who the world see as an apex Igbo socio-cultural group in Nigeria has been deceiving and defrauding the government of Nigeria for many year without Nigerian government knowing it. Ohanaeze ndi Igbo made Nigerian government to believe that they can play a lead role in the so called south-south and south-east, in maintaining a one indivisible Nigeria but lo and behold it is all fraud. We will advice President Muhammadu Buhari to order the arrest of this Ohanaeze ndi Igbo because all the fat cheque they have been receiving from the government is in vain. The Igbo people should look out for these evil men and ostracize them from the communities.
It is a fact that
Ohanaeze received some Billions of Naira from the
ruling Mohammedan Emirates of the north and signed a memorandum of
understanding to bury any Igbo person that dies in the northern Nigeria
there in the North, when they know that it is an abomination to bury an Igbo
person in a foreign land. These men are betrayers and killers of destinies.
The worst of it all is the meddling of Ohanaeze ndi Igbo in the matters of the Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB. The world must know that Biafra is far bigger than Igbo, Igbo is only a language spoken by a section of the people in the nation of Biafra. This Ohanaeze fraudsters cannot negotiate the release of our leader Nnamdi Kanu, they are trying to impose themselves on Biafrans the way they superimposed themselves on the Igbo people. Biafrans did not invite these fraudsters and will never need them in our struggle for the restoration of Biafra.
The worst of it all is the meddling of Ohanaeze ndi Igbo in the matters of the Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB. The world must know that Biafra is far bigger than Igbo, Igbo is only a language spoken by a section of the people in the nation of Biafra. This Ohanaeze fraudsters cannot negotiate the release of our leader Nnamdi Kanu, they are trying to impose themselves on Biafrans the way they superimposed themselves on the Igbo people. Biafrans did not invite these fraudsters and will never need them in our struggle for the restoration of Biafra.
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| Okechukwu Isiguzo |
These evil men out
of the millions they collected from Nigerian government to sabotage Biafra,
paid the media N 600,000.00 and fronted one Mr. Okechukwu Isiguzoro to
impersonate our leader Nnamdi Kanu. This is sacrilegious.The international
communities, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom should take note: Nnamdi
kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, director of radio Biafra
and Biafra TV, and our spoke persons remains Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
and Barr. Emma Mmezu. Only these men can speak for Biafrans for now. The
fraudulent Ohanaeze ndi Igbo is working acidulous with Nigeria
government to jeopardize the struggle for the restoration of Biafra, and
they must be stopped.
All hands should be on deck to ensure
that self-determination for Biafra is achieved because freedom for Biafra is
freedom for Africa and the world at large.
Written By Chijindu Benjamin Ukah
Edited By Ikechukwu nwaorisa
By BIAFRA WRITER
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MASSOB accuses FG of plan to deport agitators By Clifford Ndujihe &
Chimaobi Nwaiwu NNEWI—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday,
released the text of the Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis address to thousands of
IPOB members who gathered last Sunday at the Vatican City for the weekly
Angelus, saying the Pope has cautioned their oppressors, the Nigerian
government and its military and their agents to repent and stop killing Biafra
agitators or face the wrath of God that will be catastrophic. The text of the
Catholic Pontiff address which was made available to Vanguard by the IPOB Media
and Publicity Officer, Mr. Emma Powerful, disclosed that the Pope advised the
Biafra agitators and the crowd that gathered at St Peter’s Square from the
balcony of the Apostolic Palace to be patient in all they are doing, that God’s
patience towards their oppressors is without limit but the time to end their
oppression is now. Pope Francis I IPOB quoted the Pontiff to have said that “it
is never too late to convert an oppressor to change from his evil activities,
including murderous activities, but it is urgent, it is now, let them begin
today to change from their oppression and killing of innocent people through all
sorts of violent means, including the jack boot of the military.” According to
the pro Biafra group, the Pope spoke on “invincible patience,” explaining how
God’s “unyielding concern for sinners” should provoke patience in us, asking if
we have thought of God’s patience. “Have you thought of His unyielding concern
for sinners, how this should provoke patience among people, including
governments, instead of killing people on slightest provocation or no
provocation at all, let alone people who are protesting against unfair
treatments or for something they feel is their right?” IPOB said the Pope told
them that God does not permit tragedies to punish sins but rather, that Jesus
uses warnings that sinners will perish if they do not repent, adding that if the
oppressors of peaceful agitators like the Biafra agitators in Nigeria fail to
repent, the wrath of God will be catastrophic against them. The Pontiff
according to IPOB, welcomed the need to firmly and unreservedly focus on
negotiations and dialogue between governments and agitators all over the world
including Biafra agitators and the government of Nigeria, like it
was done in Syria which has brought the current ceasefire in the country,
involving government and rebel forces. “I invite all to pray so that this
window of opportunity can give relief to the suffering people and agitators and
encourage the necessary humanitarian aid, and open the way to dialogue and much
desired peace” he said. Planned deportation In another development, the
Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has
condemned the plan by the Norwegian government to illegally deport Lotachukwu
Okolie, the detained leader of pro Biafra agitators in Norway and his
counterpart Onyedikachi Ani, also detained, who is married to a Norwegian and
has a child with her, and other Biafra activists in the country. According to a
statement by the leader of MASSOB, Mr. Uchenna Madu, a plan is allegedly being
hatched to deal with Biafra agitating groups. The statement read: “Norway and
Nigeria have already perfected plans of deporting them through chartered cargo
airplane from Belgium, to transport them to Lagos on March 9, 2016. The
information we have is that the Norwegian government have struck a deal with
Nigerian Immigrations Service, in Lagos to accept all the deportees and bypass
the embassy which knows about their pro Biafra activities but cooked up lies
against them and consider them threat to Nigeria security, which means they
will be eliminated on arrival. No to falsehood Worried by all the rumours
making the rounds on the issue of Biafra, the umbrella body of Igbo
Socio-Cultural organisations, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has denied meeting with President
Muhammadu Buhari on agitation for Republic of Biafra and warned proponents of
Radio Biafra to desist from airing falsehood because ‘’he who goes to equity
must come with clean hands.’’ The apex Igbo group gave the warning following
Radio Biafra reports that Ohanaeze had aborted the actualisation of Biafra as a
country, that some white people from America held a meeting with Ndigbo through
Ohanaeze with the intent of delivering a United Nation’s Certificate of
Recognition and Independence of the Republic of Biafra. Describing the claims
as a ruse, Ohanaeze Secretary General, Dr. Joe Nwaorgu, in a statement, said
the reports were distortions of the visit of the new United States
Consul-General in Nigeria, John Bray and his team to the South-East, during
which they had a meeting with Ohanaeze at Nike Lake Hotel, Enugu. Noting that
the visit was part of Bray’s familiarisation tour of the country, Nwaorgu said
the consul-general ‘’had meetings with the governors in the various states and
in Enugu, the headquarters of Ohanaeze, he had a meeting with us on Igbo
perception of Nigeria.” This meeting is what has been distorted to be
‘some white men from America came to give Biafrans independence. Of course,
this cannot be the process of granting anybody independence.’’ Insisting that
Ohanaeze Youth Leader, Mr. Ikechukwu Isiguzoro, was not at the meeting contrary
to reports and that Ohanaeze has never had any meeting with President Buhari on
Biafra, the group restated its call for the unconditional release of detained
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr Nnamdi Kanu. While appealing
to Igbo youths to be analytical in their utterances and cautious in their
actions, Nwaorgu urged the Radio Biafra people to investigate their stories
before airing, adding that ‘’the US Consul-General had been to other zones of
the country before arriving the South-East and thir youth never misread the
visit.’’
Am just thinking over the Delta Igbo question. And I can't help
asking my humble self : Is there anything like Delta or Rivers Igbo? Because
there's nothing like Imo, Abia, Anambra or Enugu Igbo.
The
Human Rights Writers Association, HURIWA, has called on the media to prevail on
President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately take measures that would restore
normalcy in many parts of the country where violent armed hoodlums of different
dimensions are unleashing blood-cuddling violence on innocent Nigerians.
The master Prophet Joined the Mega Protest in Britain
*Cautions
Nigerian government on repentance *
Igbo should be Igbo.
But, some of our brothers and sisters from Delta and Rivers are not helping matters.
Can you imagine, Sunday Ogerchukwu Olise was introducing himself when appointed Super Eagles coach and, he thundered shamelessly, "am not Igbo". The small minded idiot just rampaged in ignorant stupidly to ask a question no one asked him.
Last year, while receiving an Award at Item in Bende LG of Abia State . Prof. Joe Irekwu introduced Gov. Chibuike Amaechi as, "My brother..."
Picking the mic, Amaechi fouled the air when he thundered, "If you are calling me your brother as per us being one Nigeria, I accept. But, if it's about me being Igbo, I reject it because am not Igbo"
This was the same Amaechi who queried why Rivers people were being punished as if they are Biafrians that were defeated during the war.
Now, to crown it all, President Buhari wondered why some Delta Igbos are denying being Igbo. He affirmed : Igbo is Igbo there's no separation.
Whatever we as Ndi Igbo are suffering today in Nigeria was caused mainly by the 1966 coup let by Nzeogwu Kaduna. The rest of Ndi Igbo suffered along side our brothers and sisters.
You see why it's very painful to hear our brothers from the other divided open their mouth like Sunday Olise to claim they are not Igbo?
What do think of this my dear?
But, some of our brothers and sisters from Delta and Rivers are not helping matters.
Can you imagine, Sunday Ogerchukwu Olise was introducing himself when appointed Super Eagles coach and, he thundered shamelessly, "am not Igbo". The small minded idiot just rampaged in ignorant stupidly to ask a question no one asked him.
Last year, while receiving an Award at Item in Bende LG of Abia State . Prof. Joe Irekwu introduced Gov. Chibuike Amaechi as, "My brother..."
Picking the mic, Amaechi fouled the air when he thundered, "If you are calling me your brother as per us being one Nigeria, I accept. But, if it's about me being Igbo, I reject it because am not Igbo"
This was the same Amaechi who queried why Rivers people were being punished as if they are Biafrians that were defeated during the war.
Now, to crown it all, President Buhari wondered why some Delta Igbos are denying being Igbo. He affirmed : Igbo is Igbo there's no separation.
Whatever we as Ndi Igbo are suffering today in Nigeria was caused mainly by the 1966 coup let by Nzeogwu Kaduna. The rest of Ndi Igbo suffered along side our brothers and sisters.
You see why it's very painful to hear our brothers from the other divided open their mouth like Sunday Olise to claim they are not Igbo?
What do think of this my dear?
Femi Fani-Kayode: Agatu Killings, Ese Oruru Kidnap And The Signs
That Vindicate Fayose
Written by Editor
01 March 2016
Femi Fani-Kayode
“We have all summoned courage.
They have deceived us to take our inheritance. We are going to get our
inheritance back. I want to say one thing: they have started again. I want to
reveal one secret here. They have started subtle moves to make Nigeria an
Islamic nation. But God will not allow it.
This was done in 1984 but it
failed. I cannot run away. I am Ayo Fayose. If you hit me, you hit trouble. If
I hit you, you will be in trouble. Nigeria is a free nation and this nation
will not be taken for an Islamic nation.Today, I decree the return of a PDP
government in 2019″- Governor Ayo Fayose, Port
Harcourt, 26th February, 2016.
Ayo Fayose’s words give cause for concern and I must confess that I share his views. Ever since my TED EX lecture in 2014 which was titled ”the Rise Of Islamic Fundamentalism In Nigeria” my greatest crime, in the eyes of my detractors, is that I have fearlessly and continuously stood up to and spoken out against the evil of islamic fundamentalism and the cancer of islamist terror in our country.
Whether it be Boko Haram and its numerous facilitators and sponsors, the Fulani militias and herdsmen, the APC hidden agenda of islamisation of Nigeria or elements within the core northern ruling class who have often promoted and, in some cases openly supported and funded, terror and the cold-blooded murder of our compatriots, I have always stood against it.
This does not mean that I am anti-Muslim because I am not. I believe in religious diversity and I consider it to be a privilige to live in a plural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation where people of all faiths are respected and are allowed to live their lives freely.
As a matter of fact I believe that our diversity is our strength and that there is nothing more beautiful than a true Muslim or a true Christian practicing their faith in accordance with their traditions. We are, after all, all children of Abraham and what binds us together is our faith and belief in one God that created the universe and that rules in the affairs of men.
What I will not accept though is the implementation of a terrorist agenda and the destruction of the lives and way of life of others by a small minority of religious zealots and ethnic bigots.
I will not accept the fellowship of those that have been brainwashed and utterly possessed by the Salifist/Wahhabi philosophy which was covertly exported to much of the Sunni Muslim world by sinister and clandestine forces that reside in Saudi Arabia. I cannot abide those that kill in the name of God and that use the great faith of Islam to oppress others and force them to do their will.
Those of us that are not Muslims are not slaves in this country and neither can we ever be. Those of us that are moderate Muslims in this country and that do not share the abominable views of the Islamic fundamentalists and the islamists cannot be slaves either. Yet that does not mean that a misguided few will not attempt to impose their will on the rest of us.
To this extent I wholeheartedly concur with Ayo Fayose’s view that there are covert moves by some extremists that are in the corridors of power to quietly and secretly islamise our country and that they are attempting to do so with contempt and impunity. If anyone doubts that this is the case or believes that it cannot happen they should read the history of Turkey and find out how what was once a christian nation was eventually transformed into a full blown Muslim state.
The truth is that Fayose has said nothing new. I have said it many times before. I saw this coming and I warned Nigerians against it but no-one would listen. Now the scales are slowly falling from their eyes. Two events in the last few days, more than any others in recent times, have confirmed this fact.
Firstly there was the horrendous massacre of over 300 people in Agatu, Benue state, a christian community, by hundreds of well-armed Muslim Fulani militias and herdsmen. In their usual way when it comes to atrocities committed by the Fulani militias, our government refused to comment on or react to the ugly incident for many days and up until there was a national and international outcry.
Secondly there was the abduction of a 14 year old Christian girl by the name of Esse from her home in Bayelsa state to far away Kano where she was kept from her parents, forced to convert to Islam, married off to an old man against her will and hidden in the Emir of Kano’s palace.
All efforts by her parents to see and free their daughter have failed and to make matters worse officials of both the state and Federal government have refused to intervene and rescue the little girl from the slavery and torment of her abductors.
I wonder how much more shame, injustice and indignity we have to suffer as a faith and as a people before we react to such wickedness and injustice? We have even been denied the right to protest because when we do so we are accused, quite wrongly, of being anti-Islam. Well I am not anti-Islam but I am anti-injustice.
I am not anti-Islam but I am anti-wickedness, anti-ethnic and religious domination, anti-slavery, anti-fascism, anti-religious extremism and bigotry, anti-pedophilia, anti-Boko Haram, anti-Boko Haram sponsors and anti-armed Fulani militias and herdsmen. I am anti-anything that brings blood, sweat and tears to my people and anti-anyone that kills, steals and destroys my nation and my compatriots.
I am anti-the dark forces from hell who have plagued our people with their unadulterated violence and their religious and ethnic intolerance over the years and who erroneously believe that they own Nigeria. The days of remaining silent out of fear of reprisals and insults or in the name of political correctness are long over.
If I am the only voice left in Nigeria to do so I will continue to speak out and stand against this evil. I will also speak out against the notoriously indifferent, lukewarm, cowardly and stoic disposition of those amongst us who appear to be happy to be the victims and who are ready to accept this barbarity and live with it.
No matter what I will not bend from this course, I will not flinch and I will not compromise. I will not run away from my calling and doing that which the Living God has called me to do. I would rather we redefine Nigeria than sit by silently as my people and those that share my faith are slowly and systematically turned into slaves by a tiny minority.
The situation in our country today gives cause for concern and raises many questions about precisely where we are heading. The assertion that Fayose has made compels us to ask, whither Nigeria? And there are many other troubling events that give us cause to ask the same question.
Consider the following. Thousands of IPOB members and Biafrans are regularly slaughtered by our security agencies. We must ask, wither Nigeria? Thousands of Shia Muslims are murdered in cold blood and regularly tormented by our Armed Forces. We must ask, whither Nigeria?
Thousands of Middle Belters and southerners are regularly raped, abducted and butchered by Fulani militias and herdsmen. We must ask, whither Nigeria? Thousands of ordinary working class northerners are regularly massacred by Boko Haram. We must ask, whither Nigeria?
Yet all hope is not lost and we must not despair. I am glad that President Muhamnadu Buhari has said that our country will not join the military coalition of Islamic nations that Saudi Arabia is putting together. This is a welcome development that has allayed the fears of many but it is clearly not enough and he must go further.
The next step that he must take is to properly address the agitation for Biafra and attempt to make life a little easier and better for the people of the east. He must acknowledge the fact that self-determination is an inalienable right and that the only way to forge national unity is by consensus and the enthronement of equity and justice and not by state-sponsored tyranny and the spilling of blood.
He must accept the fact that when you beat a child for long enough one day he will stand up, say ‘’enough is enough’’, rise up in his own defense and beat you back. It is time for us to stop beating those that call themselves Biafrans and to stop regarding Biafra as a dirty word. It is time for us to enter into a meaningful dialogue with them rather than subject them to insults and opprobrium.
It takes nothing from Nigeria if and when we make these concessions. As a matter of fact the contrary is the case: it would simply confirm our humanity and reaffirm our sense of justice and decency. Whether those that hold the levers of power in our pathologically conservative and obsessive ruling class wish to acknowledge and accept it or not, today’s reality is that Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, rightly or wrongly, has become a hero to millions of young Igbos all over the world. His name is etched in their hearts and memories.
Like Che Guevera and Fidel Castro of old he brings the hope of a new and better life to an aggrieved and abused people and a new generation. He is viewed by the majority of his kinsmen as the emancipator of an oppressed region and the champion of their collective aspirations and dreams. Simply put he has been transformed and elevated into the status of a living symbol: a symbol of the their deep yearning for liberty and freedom.
We can be rest assured that the seed that he has planted in the psyche of the Igbo youth is here to stay. As each day passes it grows bigger and stronger and it becomes more and more irresistible. The appropriate response to the agitation for Biafra is not the forceful establishment and implementation of an insidious and relentless religious and ethnic agenda which is designed to hold Nigeria together by force because this will not work. Instead it is a display of maturity, understanding, moderation, equity and fair play in all matters touching and concerning governance and the running of the Nigerian state.
A better understanding and appreciation of this most basic of all principles will bring more stability to our country and more joy to our people. Indeed it is the only way to guarantee our peace and it may well buy a united and indivisible Nigeria many more years.
Permit me to end this contribution with an insighful and timely word from Mr. Babatunde O. Gbadamosi who is an outstanding public commentator from an illustrious and distinguished lineage.
On 28th February he wrote the following on his Facebook wall:
“The “Fulani Cattle Rearers” is a remix of the Serbian Vigilantes that Slobodan Milosevic used to intimidate the rest of Yugoslavia, until the Croats and the Albanians decided to fight back. Today, Yugoslavia is dead and buried, and Croatia is one of the success stories of Europe. If some people think they can intimidate the rest of us, the arms dealers are looking for customers, and the same people that sold them guns will sell to everyone else”.
I am a man of peace and I abhor violence yet this is indeed food for thought.
Fani-Kayode was former minister of Aviation.
Ayo Fayose’s words give cause for concern and I must confess that I share his views. Ever since my TED EX lecture in 2014 which was titled ”the Rise Of Islamic Fundamentalism In Nigeria” my greatest crime, in the eyes of my detractors, is that I have fearlessly and continuously stood up to and spoken out against the evil of islamic fundamentalism and the cancer of islamist terror in our country.
Whether it be Boko Haram and its numerous facilitators and sponsors, the Fulani militias and herdsmen, the APC hidden agenda of islamisation of Nigeria or elements within the core northern ruling class who have often promoted and, in some cases openly supported and funded, terror and the cold-blooded murder of our compatriots, I have always stood against it.
This does not mean that I am anti-Muslim because I am not. I believe in religious diversity and I consider it to be a privilige to live in a plural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation where people of all faiths are respected and are allowed to live their lives freely.
As a matter of fact I believe that our diversity is our strength and that there is nothing more beautiful than a true Muslim or a true Christian practicing their faith in accordance with their traditions. We are, after all, all children of Abraham and what binds us together is our faith and belief in one God that created the universe and that rules in the affairs of men.
What I will not accept though is the implementation of a terrorist agenda and the destruction of the lives and way of life of others by a small minority of religious zealots and ethnic bigots.
I will not accept the fellowship of those that have been brainwashed and utterly possessed by the Salifist/Wahhabi philosophy which was covertly exported to much of the Sunni Muslim world by sinister and clandestine forces that reside in Saudi Arabia. I cannot abide those that kill in the name of God and that use the great faith of Islam to oppress others and force them to do their will.
Those of us that are not Muslims are not slaves in this country and neither can we ever be. Those of us that are moderate Muslims in this country and that do not share the abominable views of the Islamic fundamentalists and the islamists cannot be slaves either. Yet that does not mean that a misguided few will not attempt to impose their will on the rest of us.
To this extent I wholeheartedly concur with Ayo Fayose’s view that there are covert moves by some extremists that are in the corridors of power to quietly and secretly islamise our country and that they are attempting to do so with contempt and impunity. If anyone doubts that this is the case or believes that it cannot happen they should read the history of Turkey and find out how what was once a christian nation was eventually transformed into a full blown Muslim state.
The truth is that Fayose has said nothing new. I have said it many times before. I saw this coming and I warned Nigerians against it but no-one would listen. Now the scales are slowly falling from their eyes. Two events in the last few days, more than any others in recent times, have confirmed this fact.
Firstly there was the horrendous massacre of over 300 people in Agatu, Benue state, a christian community, by hundreds of well-armed Muslim Fulani militias and herdsmen. In their usual way when it comes to atrocities committed by the Fulani militias, our government refused to comment on or react to the ugly incident for many days and up until there was a national and international outcry.
Secondly there was the abduction of a 14 year old Christian girl by the name of Esse from her home in Bayelsa state to far away Kano where she was kept from her parents, forced to convert to Islam, married off to an old man against her will and hidden in the Emir of Kano’s palace.
All efforts by her parents to see and free their daughter have failed and to make matters worse officials of both the state and Federal government have refused to intervene and rescue the little girl from the slavery and torment of her abductors.
I wonder how much more shame, injustice and indignity we have to suffer as a faith and as a people before we react to such wickedness and injustice? We have even been denied the right to protest because when we do so we are accused, quite wrongly, of being anti-Islam. Well I am not anti-Islam but I am anti-injustice.
I am not anti-Islam but I am anti-wickedness, anti-ethnic and religious domination, anti-slavery, anti-fascism, anti-religious extremism and bigotry, anti-pedophilia, anti-Boko Haram, anti-Boko Haram sponsors and anti-armed Fulani militias and herdsmen. I am anti-anything that brings blood, sweat and tears to my people and anti-anyone that kills, steals and destroys my nation and my compatriots.
I am anti-the dark forces from hell who have plagued our people with their unadulterated violence and their religious and ethnic intolerance over the years and who erroneously believe that they own Nigeria. The days of remaining silent out of fear of reprisals and insults or in the name of political correctness are long over.
If I am the only voice left in Nigeria to do so I will continue to speak out and stand against this evil. I will also speak out against the notoriously indifferent, lukewarm, cowardly and stoic disposition of those amongst us who appear to be happy to be the victims and who are ready to accept this barbarity and live with it.
No matter what I will not bend from this course, I will not flinch and I will not compromise. I will not run away from my calling and doing that which the Living God has called me to do. I would rather we redefine Nigeria than sit by silently as my people and those that share my faith are slowly and systematically turned into slaves by a tiny minority.
The situation in our country today gives cause for concern and raises many questions about precisely where we are heading. The assertion that Fayose has made compels us to ask, whither Nigeria? And there are many other troubling events that give us cause to ask the same question.
Consider the following. Thousands of IPOB members and Biafrans are regularly slaughtered by our security agencies. We must ask, wither Nigeria? Thousands of Shia Muslims are murdered in cold blood and regularly tormented by our Armed Forces. We must ask, whither Nigeria?
Thousands of Middle Belters and southerners are regularly raped, abducted and butchered by Fulani militias and herdsmen. We must ask, whither Nigeria? Thousands of ordinary working class northerners are regularly massacred by Boko Haram. We must ask, whither Nigeria?
Yet all hope is not lost and we must not despair. I am glad that President Muhamnadu Buhari has said that our country will not join the military coalition of Islamic nations that Saudi Arabia is putting together. This is a welcome development that has allayed the fears of many but it is clearly not enough and he must go further.
The next step that he must take is to properly address the agitation for Biafra and attempt to make life a little easier and better for the people of the east. He must acknowledge the fact that self-determination is an inalienable right and that the only way to forge national unity is by consensus and the enthronement of equity and justice and not by state-sponsored tyranny and the spilling of blood.
He must accept the fact that when you beat a child for long enough one day he will stand up, say ‘’enough is enough’’, rise up in his own defense and beat you back. It is time for us to stop beating those that call themselves Biafrans and to stop regarding Biafra as a dirty word. It is time for us to enter into a meaningful dialogue with them rather than subject them to insults and opprobrium.
It takes nothing from Nigeria if and when we make these concessions. As a matter of fact the contrary is the case: it would simply confirm our humanity and reaffirm our sense of justice and decency. Whether those that hold the levers of power in our pathologically conservative and obsessive ruling class wish to acknowledge and accept it or not, today’s reality is that Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, rightly or wrongly, has become a hero to millions of young Igbos all over the world. His name is etched in their hearts and memories.
Like Che Guevera and Fidel Castro of old he brings the hope of a new and better life to an aggrieved and abused people and a new generation. He is viewed by the majority of his kinsmen as the emancipator of an oppressed region and the champion of their collective aspirations and dreams. Simply put he has been transformed and elevated into the status of a living symbol: a symbol of the their deep yearning for liberty and freedom.
We can be rest assured that the seed that he has planted in the psyche of the Igbo youth is here to stay. As each day passes it grows bigger and stronger and it becomes more and more irresistible. The appropriate response to the agitation for Biafra is not the forceful establishment and implementation of an insidious and relentless religious and ethnic agenda which is designed to hold Nigeria together by force because this will not work. Instead it is a display of maturity, understanding, moderation, equity and fair play in all matters touching and concerning governance and the running of the Nigerian state.
A better understanding and appreciation of this most basic of all principles will bring more stability to our country and more joy to our people. Indeed it is the only way to guarantee our peace and it may well buy a united and indivisible Nigeria many more years.
Permit me to end this contribution with an insighful and timely word from Mr. Babatunde O. Gbadamosi who is an outstanding public commentator from an illustrious and distinguished lineage.
On 28th February he wrote the following on his Facebook wall:
“The “Fulani Cattle Rearers” is a remix of the Serbian Vigilantes that Slobodan Milosevic used to intimidate the rest of Yugoslavia, until the Croats and the Albanians decided to fight back. Today, Yugoslavia is dead and buried, and Croatia is one of the success stories of Europe. If some people think they can intimidate the rest of us, the arms dealers are looking for customers, and the same people that sold them guns will sell to everyone else”.
I am a man of peace and I abhor violence yet this is indeed food for thought.
Fani-Kayode was former minister of Aviation.
Femi Fani-Kayode: Agatu Killings,
Ese Oruru Kidnap And The Signs That Vindicate Fayose
While reminding those in positions of authority that their failure to provide
enough security to safeguard lives and property of Nigerians is an impeachable
offence, the group asserted that the deliberate inability of government to
effect section 14 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution has clearly stated as
follows: “The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a State base on the
principles of democracy and social justice” smacks off promotion of impunity.
National
Coordinator of the group, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, who disclosed this at a
press conference in Abuja, listed some recent issues of concern to human rights
in Nigeria to include: the undue detention of Colonel Nicholas Ashinze,
Shi’ites threat to revolt and the growing number of youth fleeing South-east
and North-east over killings. He therefore called on Buhari to declare a State
of Emergency on human rights.
According
to him, “We note that President Buhari has only recently directed the relevant
security agencies to investigate just one out of many cases of unprovoked
attacks and mass killings of Nigerians by armed Fulani herdsmen. What the
Nigerian government should do is to dismiss both the IGP and DG of DSS for not
nipping in the bud these rampant killings. NIS and Customs must be reorganized
and our borders fenced and secured to stop inflow of arms.”
HURIWA
further said: “We have written to the Federal Attorney General and Minister of
Justice on the urgency of ensuring that the unconstitutional prolonged
pre-trial detention of this serving military officer is remedied. We have
written to the Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai and demanded that the
undue detention of Colonel Ashinze be redressed. We are yet to receive the
responses of these key office holders.”
“We
appeal to members of the Islamic Movement to respect Constituted authority and
to await the determination by panels set up by the NHRC and the Kaduna State
government on the petitions concerning the recent bloody encounter between the
military and member of the Shiites.
“We also
wish to commend the top hierarchy of the Nigerian Army for setting up a human
rights desk but we appeal to the Chief of Army Staff to upgrade this Human
Rights desk to a directorate to be headed by a serving General because of the
serious nature of the concept of human rights and constitutional democracy.
There are overwhelming numbers of allegations of human rights violations
involving the military against civilians so a mere desk headed by a captain is
not good enough even though we applaud the Chief of Army Staff for recording
this feat.
“The
alleged killings of IPOB members and the continuous harassment of peaceful
protesters must stop. The attacks on Ogoni land resulting in fatalities must be
investigated and those who carried out unlawful killings of civilians must face
the full wrath of the law. We believe that the Chief of Army Staff would
provide the requisite leadership to redress all these violations. The NHRC must
wake up and work.”
“We wish
to bring to your attention about a frightening g statistics that we derive from
field studies by our observers in North East on the growing list of youth
fleeing to Western nations and some relatively peaceful Far East and Far East
Asia for refuge because of real fear for their lives from a combination of
forces majorly the terrorists and some evil forces within the Nigeria Armed
Forces.
“We note
that although the Army hierarchy together with the other segments of the
Nigeria Armed Forces have adopted measures to check the excesses of some
military operatives who take delight in carrying out extra judicial killings of
Innocent Citizens but the mindless killings of IPOB (Indigenous People Of
Biafra ) members and the wave of terror attacks in the north east has driven at
least 25, 000 youth of Igbo origin and at least 50,000 minority tribes people
originally from north east into involuntary exiles in Europe. We appeal to
foreign governments to grant asylums to these Nigerians under attack until such
a time that the Nigerian state will start prosecuting mass murderers.
“The
Nigerian government has so far failed to rein in these mass killers and even
killers in the security forces are yet to be punished for the unwarranted wave
of attacks of unarmed civilian protesters in the south east genuinely
campaigning for self determination. We appeal to the Nigerian Government to
restore constitutional governance in all parts of Nigeria so all citizens will
freely coexist as equal citizens.
“The way
Nigeria is now with armed hoodlums rowing freely and unleashing violence and
some elements within the Armed Forces killing innocent citizens the wave of
irregular migration of Nigerians will continue because life is sacred and every
human being will do everything within his/her power to preserve this precious
divine gift of life. A stitch in time saves nine,” the group warned.
