30th May 2016 To Mark Biafra 50th Year Anniversary / Remembrance Day Of Our Fallen Hero / Heroines

                   (Nkpor Massacre)
30th May 2016 To Mark Biafra 50th Year Anniversary /                  Remembrance Day Of Our Fallen Hero / Heroine   
                      Biafrans in Greece (IPOB)

                             

UNBELIEVABLEPHOTOS: RECOVERED CORPSES OF IPOB MEMBERS, WHICH SOURCE SAID WAS ALLEGEDLY USED FOR RITUALS BY GOV OBIANO, THEIR PRIVATE PARTS GONE (VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

These are some of the indigenous people of Biafra that were abducted by the Nigerian military as it was allegedly sponsored by Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, but they never returned. 

There bodies were later found without clothes and their organs and private parts all gone... 

See graphic photos below... 

May there souls rest in peace (Amen)........

   

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 An Introduction, Presented by Mazi Nnamdi Obbodoechi, (Aka Ojukwu IgboNile), the IPOB Greek National Coordinator, today being 30th May 2016 on the 50th years of Biafra Anniversary / Remembrance Day  of Biafran Fallen Heroes and Heroines who died during the Nigeria genocidal war against Biafra between 1967-70.

My good people of Biafra, lovers of freedom both far and near, Furthering my expression today being the Biafra 50th year’s anniversary / Remembrance Day of Biafra fallen heroes and heroines, without giving the highlights to Biafra and its people. IPOB worldwide deemed it fit to remember these Biafran fallen Heroes / Heroines every year on May 30th, on which is Day/date “BIAFRA NATION” was declared to the world.

As we all know, on the  30th of May  1967, the Republic of Biafra was declared by Lt. Col. ChukwuEmeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the “People’s General and Eze NdiIgbo gburu-gburu, as a safe home / land for the people of Old Eastern Region of NIGERIA who faced pogrom in the hands of HAUSA / FULANI Islamic NORTH.

The nomenclature came from the Bight of Biafra, which is a part of the Atlantic Bay on the Southern part of Nigeria. This name “BIAFRA” and her people have been in existence for over five thousand years (5,000), before the coming of the Europeans to West Africa in 15th century AD. BRITAIN in her tricky way came to the West coast of Africa with her evil agenda, mixed oil and water together as quoted by Lord Luggard in classifying / describing his amalgamation of the NORTHERN and SOUTHERN protectorates of Nigeria in January 1st 1914.

This amalgamation was a total fraud because it was done without the full consents of the indigenous peoples, the name “NIGERIA” was coined from the word Nigga and River Niger area, that is to say that the name was in reference to the people (black/brown/colored) living around River Niger, thus Nigga-Area, thus Nigeria. What could have been the original name of the people of the former Eastern Nigeria other than “BIAFRA’’ by which we were know before the British invasion. The Biafrans have their own ways of life, they have the same value system, they have everything that qualifies them to be called and known as a ‘’NATION.’’

Unfortunately, most of us do not understand the difference between a Nation and a Country. To start with: A Nation, however, is a group of people who share the same culture, Religion, History, ethnicity and have the same value system but do not have sovereignty and political identity as it's the case with BIAFRA while a Country is a land inhabited by people of one or several nations with sovereignty and political identity / power to govern themselves. The term

‘Country’ emphasizes the physical dimensions and boundaries of a geographical area. We the Biafrans cannot continue polluting our lives with Nigeria in one country, so we are going home to establish our own “NATION of BIAFRA.’’

We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Greece and (IPOB) worldwide will not go further without extending our appreciation to those Nations / organizations that recognized “BIAFRA” during the war of genocide carried out by the government of Federal Republic of Nigeria, under General Yakubu Gowon.

We the IPOB family in Greece would like to thank: The governments and peoples of Gabon and Haiti, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Zambia, and Holy Ghost fathers of Ireland, Caritas International, MarkPress and Catholic Relief Services. Indeed, we appreciate you all, for understanding the real meaning of freedom and deemed it fit to support Biafra. IPOB World Wide thanks you all.

At the same time, we are using this awesome opportunity, the 50th Year anniversary of the birth of Biafra and Remembrance Day of her fallen heroes and heroines to solicit for your support again for the restoration of Biafra.  The wound inflicted upon Biafrans by the Nigerian Government has never healed, yet the Nigerian Government under the satanic regime of President Mohammadu Buhari is still increasing our agony by killing Biafrans on a daily basis.

We therefore call on the International Community, United Nations, European Union, African Union, and all lovers of freedom and men of good will to support the course of Biafra freedom, because we believe it’s a project that is ordained by almighty GOD (CHUKWU OKIKE ABIAMA).

To reverse back, Biafra lived from 30th May 1967 to 15th January, 1970: three years, after which the people were reintegrated into Nigeria. Biafra consisted mainly of old Eastern Region and some parts of Idoma from the lower Benue in Nigeria. The nation of Biafra is predominantly inhabited by Igbo and other tribes that make up Biafra, which are as follows: Ijaw (Izon) Ibibio, Igbanke, Anaang, Itshekiri, Efik, Urhobo (Isobo), Isoko, Ekoi, Igala Idoma, Igede, Ogoni and others.

After  almost three years of  of brutal  war waged against BIAFRA by evil and satanic Nigeria  government  which claimed  over 5.5 million Biafran  lives, many as a result of  enforced starvation which caused kwashiorkor (a high level of malnutrition) from the policy of total air, land and sea blockades of  BIAFRA LAND  by satanic NIGERIA forces commanded by Gen Yakubu Gowon.

After the genocidal war against Biafrans(1967-1970) by the Nigeria  government  in collaboration with the governments of  Britain, Russia, Egypt and most Arab Countries,,,  the then  British prime minister Harold Wilson actually  increased the support he  rendered  to Nigeria  evil regime by 50% percent. With British support till date, they are still killing the Biafrans all over Nigeria with impunity and every audacity that they are the real owners of Nigeria and thus the inscription on the Sokoto state’s  auto  plate Number “Born to rule.’’

During the war alone, the properties of Biafrans worth of billions of dollars were destroyed those not destroyed were seized and tagged as ABANDONEND PROPERTIES from which agony Biafrans are yet to come out of.

Recently, the IPOB families all over world saw the need that the only solution to our problem is the total restoration of BIAFRA. The Director of Radio Biafra and the commander in Chief of Biafra Armed Forces, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, took the struggle to restore Biafra upon himself. He ignited the light in the hearts and minds of every Biafran for the emancipation of our nation BIAFRA.

                          The Strategies Of Nigeria And the Sokoto Caliphate.

In 1965 the Sokoto Caliphate and the Federal government of NIGERIA under the leadership of  Mallam Abubakar Tafawa Balewa subverted the Yoruba and made them engage in an inter-necine war in which they slaughtered themselves in large numbers and burned down whole communities in what was called “Operation Wetie.’’ The Caliphate had also imprisoned Chief Obafemi Awolowo the leader of the Yoruba and thrown Yoruba land into anarchy. Igbos were horrified.

Then the premier of Eastern Region, Dr.M.I Okpara sent help to rescue the west from the Caliphate. Maazi Ukonu, an Igbo man was broadcasting the authentic results of the Western Region election from under the table in Awolowo’s house as the Hausa-Fulani and their ally S.L Akintola were announcing fake results, slaughtering Yoruba men and women and destroying Yoruba land.

This eventually led to the coup of January 15th 1966-whose goal was to release Awolowo from Calabar prison and install him as a prime minister of Nigeria. Ojukwu released Awolowo from Calabar prison where he was dumped by the Caliphate. On getting home, Obafemi Awolowo declared his support for the Aburi agreement among which one of the clauses was that Northern Soldiers who occupied Western Region must return to their homeland in Northern Nigeria.

Northern Nigeria Soldiers refused to leave Western Nigeria, Awolowo then allied with the Hausa-Fulani who had been killing his people and occupying their land, in one of the most shameful political acts in history, Awolowo urged his Yoruba people to join hands with the Hausa-Fulani in slaughtering thousands of Igbos and other people of Eastern Region living in Western Region and starving them to death millions of Igbo children.

In 1983, the Sokoto Caliphate and the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba Oligarchy organized a coup to topple the government of Shehu Shagari, Umaru Dikko minister of transport in Shagari’s government later confirmed that the only reason they planned and executed the coup was to make sure that Alex Ekwueme the then Vice President of Nigeria will not become the President after the termination of Shehu Shagari’s second term as President.

Buhari and the Sokoto Caliphate dumped Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison Lagos and sent Shehu Shagari to his home in Shagari village Sokoto. When Ibrahim Babangida-the snake and Maradona annulled the election of Abiola as President of Nigeria. NdiIgbo/Biafrans were at the forefront fighting for the restoration of M.K.O Abiola's mandate: when Abiola thought that he had finally concluded his secret agreement with the Caliphate and Hausa-Fulani; he immediately told NdiIgbo/Biafrans that he did not need them to be President of Nigeria, as he said in quote “I, Abiola will be the President of Nigeria without Igbo people.’’ The Igbo licked their wound and shot up their mouth.

When the Hausas-Fulani and other northerners fell on the Igbo and slaughtered 100, 000 Igbo and other Easterners living in Northern Nigeria between May and October 1966, the Yoruba Obas toured Northern Nigeria and thanked the Northerners for not killing the Yorubas when they were slaughtering the Igbo and their kins from the Eastern Region.

These are little examples of bad faith, treachery and cowardly exploitation of the Igbo and other Easterners by the Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba cohorts. Anyone with common sense should never ever trust the Hausa-Fulani and their Yoruba counterparts in any discussions, negotiations, treaties. Never ever trust them in Public Declarations or pledge of loyalty. Once the chips are down, they will send you down the river.

The Igbos and their kins from the old Eastern Region must realize that the only agenda of the Hausa-Fulani-Yoruba Oligarchs and the Sokoto Caliphate under the umbrella of one Nigeria is to dominate you, exploit and use your resources for their benefits, enslave and conquer all of you. Your only survival strategy is to fight back, to push back as fiercely as ever against their evil plan. Unless you push them back ever so aggressively, you will be enslaved.

A bull responds to nothing other than aggressive counter attack, you have been complaining about resource control, we ask you just one question; if this Oil and Gas were to be located in Sokoto, Kafachan, Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri, wouldn't all of you from Eastern Region will be begging for the issuance of visa from Ariwa Country to travel Kano, to Jos, to Maiduguri, to Katsina, to Bauchi and to Kaduna. NdiIgbo, Onye mara asu, ya suo n’ odo, Onye amaghi asu ya suo na-ala.’’  “Oji Ncha-asa aru, ya mara onwe ya.’’ “Igba nkiti N’ogbugbu ana-egbu umu nne anyi na Biafra bu aru.’’

In the year 2007, the United Nations made a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples and since every countries and Nations of the world are members in UN, they must abide by the law for self determination. It was based on these rights for determination that Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria declared his supports for two state solutions in Israel by declaring total support for Palestinian state within Israel. Nigeria supports Western Sahara’s rights for self determination under Buhari’s administration. He said, “Self –determination, Nigeria will keep faith with Western Sahara. Nigeria will stand with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in line with several resolutely.’’

In Biafra land, IPOB is currently peacefully demonstrating and protesting for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of Radio Biafra, Biafra Tv, and the Commander of the Armies of Biafra and other Biafrans which Nigerian Government detained unlawfully and and also seeking and agitating for Biafran restoration, freedom and sovereignty.

President Buhari, a man who is the Chief sponsor of Boko Haram and the violator of Human Rights. The man who disobeyed the rule of law in Nigeria is busy executing his evil agenda to islamise the entire Nigeria, using the Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen to kill and maim Biafrans. This is one of Buhari’s top agenda-but my question is: Can we allow him to fulfill this agenda?

We, Biafrans all over the world say NO to this evil agenda, because Biafrans are children of Most High God-“Chukwu Okike Ahbiama.’’

                                  Who are the Fulani People in Nigeria?

The nomadic Fulani cattle rearers are parading with them AK 47 assault rifle guns everywhere they go given to them by the Nigerian Government. They kill and destroy Biafran's lives and properties.

                                What and what are they..Fulanis are destroying?

They are destroying our parent's farm lands and crops and livelihood. They rape our mothers, sisters and daughters and they kill whosoever dares to complain, confront or challenge them with their AK 47 machine guns, their machetes, their daggers and any other weapon they can lay their hands on.

                       

                           Here are the few things we should know about the Fulanis

>Fulanis are the major problem to peace and security in Nigeria.

 >They are the most useless and wicked tribe in Nigeria.

 >They are the main founders and sponsors of Boko Haram.

 >The Fulanis scattered everywhere in the world, with different names, for example here in Greece, they are called Gypsies. They are also the beggars and those who live in the bush “Ndi Obi n’ohia.’’  To resist them is to resist evil and it is a very wise decision to do so, but to accommodate or allow them into your land is to dig your own grave for untimely brutal death. The people you call “Fulani herdsmen are among the Fulani terror groups, they are part of Boko Haram.

>The Hausas support the Fulanis because they are their slaves, and also because they are in the same satanic religion called Islam.’’

>Too many Yorubas support the Fulanis out of cowardice, they are always afraid of them.

Oh Biafrans, the most blessed people of Chukwu Okike Ahbiama in this contraption called Nigeria, our choice to secede from Nigeria and stop sharing one country with these beasts from the pit of hell is a divine project that must be fulfilled. How would it have been if the Greek government voted in a terrorist like Buhari in power to be their President? The answer to this question is a millions of Euros, which no one could answer me directly.  Could it augur well with the Greeks if they so choose to allow such a person like Buhari to be their President? Rice and sand can never be cooked and eaten together without setting teeth on the edge.

The agenda therefore is not to quit this awesome struggle for the restoration of our Godly Nation “BIAFRA.’’ Victory is ours, Yahweh Almighty is our strength!

President Buhari's support for Palestine and Western Sahara for their rights to self determination shows that Biafra shall also have her freedom as the saying goes “Charity begins at home.’’ He, Buhari does not value the lives of his own citizens and went forth expressing his support for other people, proving his inability to be the President of Nigeria.

                         

                            Evidence of President Buhari Crime Against Humanity

The cold blooded and brutal massacre of innocent Biafrans in Aba Biafra Land on 19th January 2016, this forms part of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) submission to the International Criminal Court at the Haque in the matter brought before it to investigate the ongoing ethnic extermination of the innocent Biafrans by the Buhari regime in Nigeria. Buhari said, “I have fought the Biafrans before and they know the consequences of trying it again (i.e seeking Biafra self determination), if they talk about Biafra again I will put on my uniform and fight.’’

This same Buhari then went to the United Nations and faithfully defended the rights of Palestinians to independent Nationhood. And Buhari lived up to his words in Aba during prayer  section by IPOB, Buhari as the President and commander in Chief of Nigerian Armed Forces ordered the Army, police to open fire on unnamed civilians praying before a peaceful march. After this atrocity came the cover up, Buhari ordered his soldiers to dump the dead bodies of innocent law abiding Biafrans that he swore to kill in a mass grave to cover this heinous crime against humanity.

Biafrans, men / women of good will and the lovers of freedom all over the globe, such crime will continue to happen in Africa, unless such mass murderers like Buhari is stopped by brave and conscientious people like Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of IPOB, Uche Mefor-deputy leader of IPOB, Uchenna  Asiegbu Omiomio- IPOB Chief of Directorate of State, Clifford Iroanya-IPOB Coordinator of all Coordinators ;  Ikenna Nwanonaenyi- Deputy COC, and other principal officers of IPOB.

On 30th August 2015, the combined team of Nigeria Armed Forces shot and killed many IPOB peaceful protesters in Onitsha Biafra land, just because they are demanding for the release of their leader NNAMDI KANU and RESTORATION of Biafra. Many more Biafrans' lives were snuffed because they are Christians seeking their right to be free cum self determination.

Fellow Biafrans and lovers of freedom: Is it a crime for Biafrans to be free from hate, oppression, intimidation, marginalization and slavery? Is it by force to be together in Nigeria? Can you force a woman to be your wife without a cogent agreement?  Is there any problem when one who feeds you suddenly decides to stop feeding you? Do Biafrans have the right to exist as a People?

Since the Nigerian Government sees Biafra as a divorced woman who does not deserve the respect to be cherished and honoured, then Biafra opts to find her (Our) way back home, where our children will live in peace and harmony, where peace and unity will be the order of the day, where the government will know the importance of their citizens and where people would think first of what they would do for their Nation, not what their Nation would do for them. That home is “BIAFRA,’’- the land of the rising Sun, the land flowing with milk and wild honey. The land where the Asylum seekers will dwell in peace and feel at home, the land where justice, equity, fairness will occupy the hearts of every body.

How can you beat a child and tell the same child not to cry? My great people of Biafra, can history ever be forgotten? Can the security population of the affected ever be propitiated? Can those pain inflicted by the impostors ever be obliterated? Can the soured nipple of lactating mothers very turn apple again? Can men fermented palm wines be ever tasty to the throat again? Can our elements of unity they took into captivity, ever be reinstalled?

Can the mysteries they induced on us ever be restored?

Can Biafrans mode of living ever return as it once was in the time of old? Can they re-establish the bond we once enjoyed? We can commit to our memory that we are under occupation in Nigeria. Remember that a slave, who loves his or her chain, wants to be in slavery forever. What effort are you making to liberate your fellow Christian brothers and sisters in Nigeria?

                                   What I want to tell Nigeria and the World

We the Biafrans all over the world stands with boldness to tell Nigeria and the world that Biafra does not represent war, self-determination is not war. It is a right backed by United Nations charter on the rights of indigenous people world over for self-determination which the International Community is aware of. Singapore was once part of Malaysia. Pakistan was once part of India, Bangladesh was once part of Pakistan, East Timor was once part of Indonesia, Sudan was once part of great Egypt and Eritrea was once part of Ethiopia.

South Sudan was once part of Sudan.. Namibia was once part of South Africa; Gambia was once part of Senegambia. Ukraine was once part of USSR. Bosnia was once part of Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montego, Serbia and Slovenia were once together in Yugoslavia. Crimea was once part of Ukraine, Czech and Slovakia were once together as Czechoslovakia. United States of America was once part of British Empire, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Armenia, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and etc were once part of the Othman Empire.

One day, in some hours and it is very near, I will be writing with boldness and in bold letters that “BIAFRA” was once part of Nigeria-the Zoo! Unity by force is slavery. It is unacceptable. Nigeria and Biafra can be neighbours, but it is not by force of arms to live together in a country that does not have the same value system. Biafra must peacefully secede from Nigeria and there is no two ways about it. Biafrans must sing a new song of freedom to the Promised Land!

We the Biafrans in Diaspora and those at home have decided with every zeal to take our destiny in our hands. We will join hands and say, “Enough is enough to this  oppression, intimidation, killings, humiliation, marginalization, economic strangulation, impunity and injustice of the zoo called Islamic Republic of Nigeria against Biafrans (children of the Most High), the Creator whose name is Chi-Ukwu Okike Ahbiama.

We also call on Greek Government as they are the father of democracy in the world to support Biafran freedom, so that their fellow Christian brothers and sisters dying in Nigeria will be secured and protected in a safe side/place which is: “BIAFRA.’’

All hail Biafra, on Biafra we stand…

Biafra is the final solution on Africa crisis.

Birikwanu Umu Biafra!!

 

  Ihe Anyi Ga-Eleba 

Anya N’ubochi Nke 

Tata Bu Maka 

Omenala Nakwa 

Asusu Igbo

Umụ Biafra, ụnụ anwụchula, nke onye chiri ya zere, Onye biri ibe ya biri, ma onye sị n’ụmụ Biafra agaghị ebị nkukwa ya. Osịsị fụrụụnụ- atụ nkwe, ufere mabie ya ogụọnụ. Ndu mmiri, ndu azu, mmiri atana, ma –azu anwuna. Anyị agaghị asọ gbagbu, wee ghara ịga ọgụ!  Ututu na-atu oso, ngwanu ka anyi tinye uche n’ihe ga-abara anyi uru! Matakwanu na nwata buru muo uzo, ogbagbuo onwe ya n’oso! Ona-abu ukpana nwata ezughi eju, obonyusiba oku ka owe hu ukpala (ukpana) ya. Ona-abu akoruo egeruo! Ngwa genu nti maka Omenala Igbo na-asusu Igbo n’ ubochi tata. Anyi agaghi abu onye ubiam nke gburu nza, wee si na ya ga-esi ya esi, huo ya ahuo, mee ya mmiri ose (pepe soup) nuo mmiri ya, umu ibe unu ahugonu ka nwanza ha-aga eme ihe ndia nile?

Onye na –arutu aka n’asusu n’ omenala Igbo na-abalia bu mazi Nnamdi Obodoechi (Ojukwu IgboNile), onye nlekota umu Biafra na Greece n’ okpuru ochichi Radio Biafra.

Nke mbu: Gini bu Omelana?

Omenala bu etu ndi si ebi, etu ha si emekwa. Imatu: otu ndi si ebi nwere usoro, dika ihe ejiji ndi Igbo diche. Ihe oriri n’ omenala NdiIgbo puru iche. Usoro ha si eme ihe nke ha, pukwara iche. Otutu ihe ka NdiIgbo nwere, kpara ha oke n’ etiti ndi mba ozo dika omenala ha siri di. Omenala NdiIgbo bu kpoo, ma turukwa ugo na-ala Africa dum.

Ihe Ndi nwere n’ omenala bu oji. Oji bu okwu, eweputa oji, NdiJgbo ga-ebuzo kpa ogbe, juo kedu onye toro ibe ya. Na-ala Igbo Ndi nawa oji bu Umu Nri, ma Oburu n’ onye nri anoghi nso, ndi elu Anambra awa oji, ma obu onye Anambra. Ndi nke abuo nawa oji bu Ndi Arochukwu: Ha so na-abuo na –ala Igbo. Oji n’onwe ya purutara “Odinala Jikotara Igbo.’’

Ndi Yoruba nako oji, ndi Hausa nata oji, ma NdiIgbo jizi ya eme omenala ebe ukwu. Abia n’oji, onwere oji Ugo, nwekwa oji Igbo, nwekwa oji gworo, oji gworo bu nke ndi Hausa nata karia. Ya ka anyi ji akpo ha “ndi eze gworo.’’

Umu Ibe akoba akuko maka omenala NdiIgbo chi ga eji, chi ga-abo, ma anyi agaghi akocha akuko banyere omenala Igbo. Ka anyi kwusi n’ebea, ka odiri ubochi ozo.

Gini bukwa asusu?- Asusu bu usoro okwu nke ndi kporo onwe ha otu obodo ji akparita uka. Nke ha ji ederita ihe, onodu ighota onwe ha. Mgbe otu onye nekwu ibe ga-aghotakwa, obughi ibe gi suo asusu inyobe ya enyobe.

Igakwa eji asusu gi tuoro nwanne gi ilu, oga aghotakwa ya ozugbonje. Ya mere ndi okenye anyi ji nekwu nasi “na ilu bu mmanu NdiIgbo ji eri okwu.’’ Mgbe onye obula hapuru ka ndibe ha si ebi, ka ha si eme, mebe ka ndi oso si eme, nke ahu buzi egwu ogwara ogwa. Enomizina omenala ndi ozo, ma obu asusu ha, jidesie omenala na-asusu gi ike.

Anyi ga-amata n’ odighi nma Okenye ino n’ulo nwa ewu anwuo n’ ogbu! Ya mere ebe anyi onye anyi matara nke, kedu ihe anyi nile ji hapu umu anyi dum ka ha na-awaghari n’ asusu n’ omenala nke ndi mba ozo, ma tufuo nke anyi?

Ndi si na ha bu ibe, na ndi agumagu, emela nno ihe ofe ji gba uka, maka na ha hapuru ji asusu wee kuziere umu anyi usoro n’ ukpuru, n’ iwu na-ala anyi gburu –gburu. Ndi oka okwu: n’ekwu na-asi, gwa nwata okwu n’olu oga-aghota, oga ege nti ofuma.’’

Anyị ga-amata na ngwere adịghị agba ọsọ ehihie n’ efu, ya mere ndị Radio Biafra n’ ụmụ Biafra nile bi na mba ufesị jị wee kee ajị n’ume n’ime agbam mbo Biafra inwere onwe ya na Nigeria bụ Obodo ụmụ anụmanụ. Onye isi ndị Radio Biafra-Maazị Nnamdi Kanu mere ka-anyị mata n’ onye ọbụla ga-etinye aka na nwere onwe Biafra n’’ihi n’obu na nwere onwe ka Biafra ga-akwusi egwu agwara ogwa iwere okpa oke tinye n’afo ezi nke di na-asusu n’ omelana Igbo n’ ubochi taa. Omenala n’asusu bu ejiri mara obodo obula n’ uwa, nke ndi bekee kporo “identity.’’ Omenala n’ asusu bu ike ndi obodo nile.

               Kedu ka asusu n’ omenala anyi si aga n’ obodo anyi tata?

Asusu n’ Omenala anyi buzi ihe eji ekpo ntu, ma jirikwa ya na-aga mambo. Kedu ka anyi siri gbaketa omenala n’ asusu anyi azu, ma makuo asusu n’omenala ndi ozi. Nke ka nke, Umu Igbo hapuru omaricha asusu Igbo nke Chukwu Okike Ahbiama jiri choo anyi nma, ma na-agbaghari n’ ime omenala n’ asusu ndi ozo bu nke butere iwe n’onuma Chukwuokikeabiama n’etiti anyi.

Otutu n’ime anyi agagom njem n’ elu, ga na-ala, we hu n’ otutu obodo n’uwa, jisiri omenala ha n’asusu ha ike ma ndi nkuzi ha nile ji ya-akuziri umu akwukwo ha ihe, ma na ulo akwukwo di elu ma ulo akwukwo di nta. Ha na –akwanyere asusu n’ omenala ha ugwu nke ukwu.

Govumenti obodo ha nile mere asusu n’ omelana ha ka oburu ihe mbu, iga –eji ya guo ihe obula ichoro igu n’ ulo akwukwo, kama omesia onye ahu agazie muo asusu supirisupiri nke bu English na bekee.

Igbaso asusu n’ omenala ndi ozo:-

Umu Ibe, Igbaso asusu n’ omenala ndi ocha debere anyi n’ ereghi si wenata. Okpa na-anyi eze, omela ka anyi ghara enwezikwaghi egwu ChukwuokikeAbiama. Onye obula n’ uzo nke aka ya.  Nke putara na -anyi nawazi ohia makpo ya ezi uzo, mana-agakwa ije dika ndi isi, makpo ya inwe uche.  Anyi nile na -agakwa ije n’ elu ogwu ma na-akpokwa ya Igba mbo, na nmepe anya. Kedu nu ka anyi ga-esi nodu na mmiri ncha ewe na-aba anyi na-anya? Odikwa egwu!

Omenala ndi ziri ezi na-anya ndi, nke akporo nku di na mba n’ eghere mba nri. Umu aka anyi akpafuola, ma na-awaghari n’ olulu onwu, ma kpo ya nmepe anya. Isopuru ndi okenye agbala oso n’ebe umu ntakiri anyi noo, obukwa ihe -aru ka na–akpo ikpori ndu, ma na-akpokwa ihe oma ntaramahuhu.

Mgbe elu bu ala osa, mgbe anyi na kpo nne, ikpo nwa gi oku, orunata isi, ma mgbe a elu jibido ikpo Mama, ka ihe nile ji manye n’ ohia. Umu aka anaghi egezi ndumodu Nne na Nna ha ma oli.

Lezie anya ka ihu ka umu aka anyi ma ndi nwoke, ma ndi nwanyi si nnoo agbazi oto, na-enyizi npicha aku nke ha kporo Saggi. Nwoke kpuru “trouser’’ ha okpudebe n’ ike ya, nwanyi kpuru nke ya okpudebe n’ ike ya, buru ozu ike ya agaghari elu na-ala. Nke kacha agu akwa bu umu nwanyi, onye nyiri akwa oghebe ara ya oghe. Kedu ihe mere iji eghebe ara gi oghe, ma n’ime ulo-uka, ma ebe nile. Ndi Igbo nekwu na-asi na-ahia mara nma n’ere onwe ya. Obughi na-ara ka esi ama nwanyi mara nma, ana- ama nwanyi mara nma site ezi agwa. Ya mere, ahia joro njo ka n’ edebe ka ohaneze hu ya- anya nke ndi bekee nakpo “advert.” Nne gi oghebere ara n’ ike ya oghe tupu nna gi anuo ya dika nwunye? Matakwa na-akwuna ga-ebe akwa nwa n’ula nka.

Nne gi okporo nna gi “Baby, honey, sweetie, bu nke newu n’ubochi tata? Nagbanyeghi otutu aha nile bu “Honey, baby, daddy, sweetie bu nke nesi anyi n’ onu apu, alum di na nwunye anyi buzi noo mma agha, ikpo asi, ereghi si welata. Mgbe olulu din a nwunye dika chi siri ke ya, mgbe nwanyi nakpo di ya “Nnanyi,’’ nwoke akpokwa nwunye ya ugo di ya, enyi di ya,’’ Ilu di na nwunye bu ihe obi uto n’ onu, nato mirikpo dika mmanu anu.

Ilulu di na nwunye nwere ugwu, ma burukwa ihe di nso. Ugbua ihe nile emebiela. Onye bu nwanyi n’ oge ochie ikwuru oto n’ oma ahia, ma obu n’ ulo ebe ana-ere mmai tapu odeku isi nuo, ma kwuru oto bie anya gwam? Nyirikwa trouser kpudebe ya n’ ike ya. Di ya kwuo otu, Okwuo ato, n’ihi ndi ya na ha na-anuko odeku (Beer) n’ iro kariri di ya. Osie ike ogbakwuru ha. Aru kwozi nwa na-azu n’ etiti anyi ugbua.

Onwekwaghi onye nwere egwu n’ omenala anyi, kwuo okwu ha juba gi “Onwere ihe anya huru ahughi ibe ya?’’ Matakwa n’ onwere ihe anya aga-ahu kpuo isi! Ogadi nnoo nma ka anyi rie adu wee duo onwe anyi odu.

Aru bu aru ma ruo chi! Umu nwanyi lotanu, ka ugwu unu biaghachikwa azu.  N’ omenala anyi tata, onwere otutu ihe nwanyi nadighi eme, dika,Igo oji nakwa iwa oji, iri elu nkwu, elu ngwo,n’ ikpobata nwoke ozo n’ ulo di ya, otutu ihe ndi ozo, ma tata, aru ndia nile emezuchala. Ogadi noo ezi nma ma anyi nile lota, kpofuo omenala ndi ocha, ma yiri omenala anyi dika uwa, n’ihi n’ omenala ndi ocha etinyego anyi anya n’ ogwu, ma kpukwazie anyi isi.

Akparam agwa Umu aka anyi:-Akparama agwa umu aka anyi nakpa nagbazi noo anya mmiri, n’ ihi na ha achoghi ima maka omenala n’ asusu obodo ha. Ha dabere n’ omenala n’ asusu ndi obodo ozo, bu nke neme ndi Nne na Nna ha ura-aga na-anya.Ha kpafuola, ma na chokwa ila n’iyi. Ewo lekwanu ka ndi akporo ola edo si achozi igho noo ihe eji ekpo ntu. Onye akpokwara Nwachukwu si akpa agwa dika NwaEkwensu.

Onye ka-ata uta maka nkea? Nne na nna bu ndi oke uta diri maka nkea, n’ ihi na ha hapuru oru diri ha n’ ezi n’ ulo ha, umu ha wee laa n’iyi. Taa bu gboo, ya bu ola di n’ ogbu ola, me ngwa ka imeghara odachi, ka nwere ohere ikpochigha umu aka gi azu, n’ ihi n’ omuru nwa azughi azu, ya n’ ume omumu bu nwanne.

Aha abara onye n’edu ya, ma n’egbukwa ya:-N’ezie n’ezie aha abara onye n’ egbu ya, ma n’edukwa ya. Nkea mere ndi nne na ndi nna anyi ha jiri hie aka nri na-aka ekpe na-anya ma chemia echiche ime, wee guo umu ha-aha. Ka anyi lee n’ otutu aha Igbo dika omenala anyi  si di, ma hukwa udi aha ha na-agu, dika Onyinyechukwu, Amarachukwu, Chikaodiri, Ugochi, Chukwuemeka, Akachukwu, Ngozichukwu, Chukwudi, Chukwuebuka, Uchechi, Nnamdi, Ihuoma, Chinedu,  Chinyere, Nnaemeka, Chijioke, Ijeoma, Somto, Onyineye n’ otutu aha ndi ozo. Ha nile ndia n’enye Chukwuokikeahbiama otito, ma n’egosikwa nsopuru aha ya.

Nkea gosiri na-anyi bu Igbo bu umu Israel, umu Chukwuokikeahbiama. Umu nnem aha n’edu, ma nke ka nke, ezi aha ka ego. Onye aguru aha oma, ma akparamagwa ajo karia udele ma sigbuo nkapi, onye ahu ihe ojo mere ya. Ya mere ka anyi kpacha anyi na-aha anyi na-agu umu aka anyi. N’ubochi tata, ahugom ndi aguru Ifeanyichukwu, otufuo Chukwu, ma zabazie Iffyson, hukwa onye abara Ugbochukwu, ana-azazi ugoson. Bikonu umu nnem n’ umu nnam jidenu aha aguru unu n’ihi n’ ihe oma sin a-aha eme.

Anam adukwa onye obula odu ka ufodu kwusi igu umu ha-aha efuru efu, dika aha ikpe okwu nke ndi bekee nakpo “Teasing name,’’ aha ndia nebute ihe isongongo. Kedu ka iga –esi guo nwa gi aha dika “Akidiamaokeala, Asiributonti, Nwammuo, Egobumkpo, nakwa Irokanaulo n’ otutu ndi ozo. Bikonu ka anyi wepu aka enwe n’ ofe ka oghara igwo aka mmadu. Matakwa n’ obu mmiri ka eji eghu akwu

Onye aguru Nwammuo, muo ga-akuru ya. Onye aguru Ejuala gana-akpu dika ajuala. Ka anyi jiri ire anyi wee guo eze anyi onu, n’ ihi na mmiri doro n’ eju doro nwa nkita.

Asusu Igbo kedu ka anyi ga-esi akwado ya?

Mmadu di ma mmadu akojuru ala Igbo tata kariri akari. Onweghi onye choro ikwalite asusu Igbo, onye obula na-agba mbo ijisi asusu bekee bu asusu ndi “England” ike karia asusu Igbo. Ndi ocha ole na-asu asusu Igbo, ma n’esokwa omenala Igbo dika ufodu nime anyi gbasoro asusu n’ omenala ndi ocha?

Ajuju: Ndi ocha ole na-aza aha Igbo ma obu aha ndi Biafra ndi ozo dika Onyinye, Ngozichukwu, Nnamdi, Udoka, Chidinma, Uloma, Chidi, Chinedu, ma obu Adaku? 

Aha ndi ocha ina-aza, imara ihe omimi di na ya, ma obu ihe oputara? Aha ojo ndia dika Sandra bu agwo, Jabez bu ihe mgbu, onwu, oria nakwa ihe isi ike. Ka anyi gba mbo guo umu aka anyi aha ziri ezi, n’ ihu Chineke na mmadu ka udo wee chia n’ ime anyi, ma chikwa n’ ime ha. Iseee!

Kedu anyi ga-esi mee ka asusu n’ omenala Igbo sie ike?:-Okwesiri ekwesi buru ihe ziri, na anyi ga-eme ka asusu n’ omenala Igbo sie ike, dika asusu n’ omenala ndia nile anyi nagbaso. Nke mbu: anyi ga-eji asusu Igbo wee na-akuziri umu aka anyi ihe n’ ulo akwukwo, nakwa asuru ha Igbo n’ ulo. Iga-amubakwa ha ka esi asopuru okenye, ma obu n’ulo, ma obu n’ezi. Kuziere ha ka esi ekele ekele. Kuzikwara ha maka omenala Igbo n’usoro n’ usoro. Kuzikwara ha onye ribe, ya nye nwanne ya- ya bu “Onuru ube nwanne agbala oso dika Nnamdi Kanu mere ka ona enwu enwu dika oku n’etiti ndi IPOB. Ndi Nne na nna anyi ha jiri “Onuru ube nwanne agbana oso wee briri mgbe nwanne di nso.

Ugbua buzi, onye nu ube nwanne ya, ya n’oso, gini kpara ya? Anyi hapuru ihe kwesiri ka anyi mee, ma gbaso ihe n’ekwesighi ka anyi mee, ya mere ihe n’ekwsighi ime n’ etiti anyi tata ji neme. Ka anyi biko ba nzozirim, Ka anyi kwusi igbaso n’inomi asusu n’omenala ndi ocha. Ma nke kachasi ihe nile, Kuzikwara ha inwe ezi ako n’ uche, obi ebere, nakwa itu egwu Chukwuokikeahbiama n’ ihi n nkea bu ezi oru diri mmadu nile, ihe obula onye obula mere ga-aba n’ ikpe, ma ezi ihe ma nke ojoo.

Obodo Nigeria Abughi Beanyi:-Ndi Nna-Nna anyi ha nekwu nasi “aku ruo ulo okwuo onye kpara ya.’’ Ka odi ugbua, aku anyi toziri na mpaghara mba diche iche, dika Lagos, ugwu Awusa, na-ala Yoruba ndi ozo, ebe ufodu n’ime anyi chere n’ obodo a nile bu-ebe obibi.

Kedụ mgbe ụmụ Biafra, tụmadụụmụ Igbo ga-alata, wee mara n’ Obodo Nigeria abụghị be-anyị.  Anyị ga-amatakwa n’ osịsị adịghị aghụ nwata na-anya ugboro abụọ. Kedụ ka-anyị ga-esi na-agbaso ndị na-achọghị anyị? Kedụ ka-anyị ga-esi na-amị ndị na-achọghị anyịọnụ? Ọbụrụ anyị ihe Ihere rienne n’ ụmụ Biafra ụfọdụ atụfụola omenala anyị dum, wee chịrị aka makụọ omenala ndị mba ọzọ?

Na ịma-atụ: ọbụ soso ndị Igbo na Nigeria na-agbaso ụzọ ihe enyịmaenyị bụ nke ndị bekee kpọrọ “Mode of dressing’’ na Nigeria. Iga-ahụ onye Igbo ebe oyi akwa ndị Hausa nke ana-akpọ “Danchiki,’’ ma nke ndị Yoruba akpọrọ “Babariga” were ya n’eme nganga n’ ezị. Ugboro ole ka ịhụrụ ndị Hausa na ndị Yoruba ka ha yi akwa omenala ndị Igbo, m’ọbụ nke ndị Biafra ndịọzọ?

Ụdị agwa ọjọọ di otua mere ha jị akpọ anyị ndị nenweghịọgụgụ isi, na ndị akọ n’ uche ha na-ezụghị ezụ. Kedụ ka onye ika nma ga-ejị bụrụzịẹ onye ịna-agbaso nzọm ụkwụ ya? Nzuzu NdiIgbo n’ ụmụ Biafra ndịọzọ emego ha ndị iberibe n’etịti ndị ha ka nma. NdịỊgbo mepere obodo nile nke Nigeria, ma obodo nke ha tọgbọrọ n’efu, ma bụrụkwa mkpọmkpọ ebe. Ọbụ ihe ịchịọchị ebe ndị kpuru isi na-adọkpụzị nọọ onye anya ya abụọ ghe oghe!  Ga n’ ugwu Hausa, na mpaghara Lagos, ụlọ obibi nile, Kọmpin nile (Companies), Ọnọdụ ahia nile bụ NdịIgbo wuru ha dum, n’ihi na ha achọghị  ilaghachị azụ na-akọ n’uche ha ka ọdị mgbe ochịe.

Nke kachasị nke, ọdọ mmiri nile dị na Lagos ka ha namachị, ma wee n’ewu ọdụahia Ha rụchaa,” government Lagos” achụpụ ha, ma ziga ha ebe ọzọ, ha ebidokwa mmepe n’ebe ahụ. Achọrọm ka ụnụ mata na “Passing six, abụghịkwa passing sense” na-asusu bekee. Nkea na-agbam anya mmiri n’ ihi n’ejịghị akpata atufuo abụ ogaranya. Kedu ka-ala Biafra ga-esi togbọrọ n’efụ NdịIgbo ahapụ ya, magbaketa ya azụ? Asị “Onye jebịrị ije ya ruo ụlọ.’’ Onye ọbụla hapụrụ ala nna ya, wee je nemepe ala ndịọzọ bụ arụ, ma bụrụkwa amaghị ihe.

Matakwanụ n’ onye amụ-ibi anaghị anyụ nsi n’ ọdọ ata, ya mere ka anyị bụ ndị Biafra chezie be-anyị ka ndị boko Haram ghara iwakpo anyị na mberede. Na –ala Nigeria, ụmụ Biafra bụ ndị mbu ụzọ, ma ugbua, ha buzi ndị ikpe azụ n’ ihi iberibe na nzuzu ụfodụ n’ime ha. Nwannem na nwannam, taa bụ gboo, echi dị anya, lọta gị onye mmechie lọta, ka ihere mee ndị n’ edufu gị, ka ha yirikwa ihere nọdụ ihere dika uwe. Iseee!Ejim oherea we sị kam gwa ndị iro Biafra aṅụrịkwana n’ihi na maazi Ele si anyị elekwana ka-ejịụta gbanwuo ya, na ya bukwanụ dịbia.  Ndi British nyere aka kpuo asusu n’ omenala anyi bu Igbo na-ala, ka –asusu ‘SupiriSupiri English ha wee buru oka ibe. Kedu ka- anyi onwe anyi ga-esikwa nye akakwa gbukopu asusu n’ omenala anyi, nodu ejighi ya kporo ihe?

Ụmụ Biafra site n’ụbọchị tata chegharịa ka ugwu wee bụrụ nke anyị dịka ọdị na mgbe gboo. Ndị Hausa na ndị Yoruba ma nke ọma n’ụmụ Biafra bụọka ibe n’ ihe ọbụla, ya mere ha ji agba mbo ihụọdịda nke Biafra, ndị British n’ otu aka ahụ sokwa amụnye ọkụ na- anukwa ahụrụ mgbowara aja site n’ibunye ndị Bok Haram ngwa agha ọgwụrụ mba iji nyụọụmụ Biafra ikpakwụ. Nkwado ọjọọ ndị British, ndị Russia, ndị Egypt; nakwa ndịọgbakọ Arab nile kwadoro ndị Nigeria kpalitere ndị agha Nigeria ịji gbuo mmadụ karịrị nde iri ise na puku iri ise (5.5 millions) na-asụsụ bekee.  Ihe ọbụla Biafra nwere mmebi mmebi, ụmụ nwaqnyị di ime ọnwụ, ụmụ ekụ na-aka ọnwụ, ndị Biafra ka nọ nọdụ agha ahụ debere ha wee ruo n’ụbọchị tata. Nnamdi Kanu onye isi Radio Biafra kpọrọ onye ukwu n’onye nta, ka onye ọbụla jikọta aka ọnụịhụ na-anyị nwetara Biafra n’ihi n’ ọbụ nkea ga-akwusị nsogbu anyị nile.

Anyị agaghị ahapụ Biafra n’ihi na nne ọkụkọ hapụ kwọm kwọm, gịnị ka ọga-eji zụọụmụ ya.Na ipiakọta akuko anyi n’ ọgbakọ nke ụbọchị taa, achọrọm k’ ụnụ mata n’ Ọṅụ Biafra bụọṅụ gị, Ụdo Biafra bụỤdo gị; Ọdinma Biafra bụỌdịnma gị; Enweghịọṅụ Biafra bụ enweghịọṅụ gị; Iru ụjụ Biafra bụ iru ụjụ gị; Ndo (Shade) Biafra bụ ndo gị; Ugwu Biafra bụ ugwu gị; Akụ Biafra bụ akụ gị; Obi ọma Biafra bụ obi ọma gị; Biafra turu ụgo, gị onwe gi eturu ugo; Mbuli elu Biafra bụ mbuli elu gị; Ọga n’irụ Biafra bụọga n’irụ gị, ihe ọbụla metutara Biafra emetụtawo gị; ike Biafra bụ ike gi; ndụ Biafra bụ ndụ gị;  Biafra bụ ihe nketa gị n’elu ụwa dum. Biafra bụ be anyị, ya mere kwagide Biafra na-aka Nigeria, na-asusu n’omenala biafra n’ihi na nwere onwe Biafra bụ nwere onwe gị. Biafra bụ ndụ anyị, Biafra bụ ebe mgbaba anyị; Biafra ka-anyị ga-eso, ma –ugbua, ma mgbe ọzọ. Iseeee!

Anam ebunye Maazị Nnamdi Kanu, onye isi umu Biafra n’ uwa nile ụkpa ekene,nakwa Uchenna Asiegbu, onye isi Umu Biafra nke anakpo Directorate of State (DOS) na-aha ichafu, Carol Chidinma Munday; Uche Mmefor-Osota Onye isi umu IPOB n’ uwa, Barrister Emma Mmezu;; Tony Nzurumaike-onye isi Umu Biafra na Germany, Isaiah Ubah-onye isi umu Biafra na Ireland, Agujiegbe Charles Mabjito-Onye isi umu Biafra na Russia,Agunobi-onye isi umu Biafra na Sweden, Thomas Onyema; Chika Edoziem -onye nnochite anya umu Biafra n’ Europe, Cliford Iroanya bu C O C, n’ onye nesota COC, Maazi Ikenna Nwanonenyi, n’ otụtụ ndị nlekọta ụmụ Biafra na mba ụwa dum, tụmadu ụmụ Biafra na Greece si ka ChukwuAbiama gozie ụnụ nile, ma mee ka Biafra la-ala ahụ ChukwuAbiama kwere anyị na nkwa. Iseee! Abụm otu onye n’ime ụnụ, onye nlekọta ụmụ Biafra na Greece, Maazị Nnamdi Obbodoechi (Ojukwu IgboNile) n’ ewetara ụnụ ihe gbasara omenala na-asusu Igbo na mpiakota.

 Ndewonụ ndịọma anyị jị eme ọnụ, Umụ ChukwuokikeAhbiama!  Umụ Biafra ndụ Unu! Umụ Biafra na Greece ndu gi!! Umụ IPOB nile na mba ụwa ndụunụ ooo.Ka ọmesịanụ. Unu ga-anukwa ya ozo ma odi na mkpa!Biafra! Biafra!! Biafra!!! Ka –anyi ga-esoooo ma ọna eje-eje ma ọna-ala-ala Biafra ka-anyi ga-esoooooo

b) Biafrans In Austra

BIAFRANS IN HOLLAND

BIAFRANS IN IRELAND

                             BIAFRANS AT NKPOR IN ANAMBRA

YOU ARE A 

HERO/HEROINE.

Good bless you as you do 

what is right.

Every body can be a hero/heroine even if their names are not remembered but remember that every good work has a price which comes even when you don't know it's with you.

Today i will be going straight to issues concerning teachers whom thought they were not remembered in any way.

Today in ‪#‎Biafraland our children are going down educationally because all we have in our schools today is none qualified teachers and never serious staffs, commitioners, ministers, principals, head masters and head mistresses. Every thing you do today is all about hard works, it is a very shamefull thing that in nearest future children from Biafra land may not be able to stand children from other countries or rigion.

Can we wake up today and fill this pit of hell and failur we have been diging for ourselves, a teacher whom her daughter just finished her secondary school will just bring her to be enployed as a teacher in a school where she(mother) teachs, invigilators who were sent to invigitate schools which supose to be a secret calls the school authority inform them of their visit and party will be oganised for them. 
What a nonsens, what are we doing to our future leader! Politicians do take their children out of the country for better education that their children will continue ruling you after them and you are helping them on that!

Wake up! YOU CAN BE A HERO/HEROINE by teaching a child to become a good president tomorrow even if he don't remember you.

Teach our children with english and explain it to them in their language, most especially when it come to science subjects and give them the best of praticals at all them for it is the best way of learning, be friendly to them and aply jokes and stories mostly the ones that will lift their learning spirits.

Learn to teach your students how to learn for is very important, show them that you care and they will care too, don't see your teaching job as just a means of making money but as what gives you joy, see it as part of you, your life and your students your family.

Remember that when you are training another person's child, so is another training yours.

‪#‎Biafra needs you to grow her children for her future, don't focuse on selling books and snacks in the school, don't give things you don't know as asignment to your students, burn your candle and learn more that you may be a better teacher tomorrow.

Your learning as a teacher starts after school against the next day, that good doctor you failed to make today may be the bad doctor to give you the wrong injection that will kill you tomorrow.

HEROS AND HEROINES DAY IS COMING.

What have you achived? Are you seeing yourself as a hero? Heroine? Or a failur?

Try and make things right. 
You are the right one to make things right.

God bless ‪#‎Biafrans 
god bless ‪#‎LostChildren.

Tomorrow, for every Nigerian, it's a democracy day, but for the lovers of freedom, for Biafrans ....for the children of the rising sun, tomorrow is the Heroes Day. A day set aside to remember our heroes past.
A day we remember that child who fought for survival when Nigeria, backed with Britain wanted to exterminate us from the surface of the earth. That was after the pogrom in the 19 northern states. When they killed almost all Igbos living in the North. About 700,000 Igbos both military, civilians, women, children and even pregnant women together with the babies in their stomachs were not spared. They were all massacred ....and a day like tomorrow, we remember them all.
We remember our fallen heroes, people like Christopher Okigbo whom after his publishing centers were bombed down in Enugu joined the Biafran soldiers and fought gallantly, a courageous act that made it possible for me to be writing this today.
Tomorrow we remember those kids who died not because of guns, but because of blockade executed against the kids, when Nigeria noticed that they can't defeat the Biafrans on the battle ground.
We remember that unknown soldier in my village who volunteered, went to war and never came back.
We remember the old and sick who couldn't leave the war torn areas because of sickness and old age and was all killed.

We remember those Asaba people called out to shout ONE NIGERIA but was machine gunned down in a most ungodly way by soldiers led by Murtala Mohammed.
We remember that young man who burnt himself to death in America as to draw the attention of the world to the atrocities being committed in Biafra.

Tomorrow is that day ......We remember them all.

For the records, I believe in Biafra, and I believe one day it will come to reality. But this doesn't mean I don't wish Nigeria well. I wish YorubaHausaFulani well in their Nigeria after we have gone in peace.

I thank President Buhari so much, because without his utterances, lopsided appointments and unguided utterances, we wouldn't have reached this level.

His arrest of Nnamdi Kanu has unified us all the more.

All lovers of Nigeria should work towards it's division.

Long Live United States Of Biafra

‪#‎SayNoToIslamization

‪#‎SayNoToGrazingBill

‪#‎FreeBiafraFreeNnamdiKanu

 These people were shot at by the Nigerian Army for doing exactly what this picture shows them doing - some of them dead. General buhari says that if you are Igbo, you do not have the right to stand on the street holding hands with your tribesmen anywhere in Nigeria. Whereas his own people are constantly terrorising Nigerians with AK47.

Are you proud to belong to a country where people are shot dead for standing in a group while terrorists who are killing, maiming, raping, beheading and injuring innocent people are compensated for a job conscientiously concluded?

- IMO 310516

SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the massive extrajudicial killings in Nigeria’s South-East

It happened in quick successions. The day was December 17, 2015. News had just come over the radio of a court ruling in favour of the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Jubilant crowds poured out into the streets of Onitsha, the commercial capital of Anambra State. A group of soldiers stationed at the Head Bridge Market opened fire on one of the crowds.

By the time the smoke cleared, three people laid dead with over a dozen sprawled on the ground with gunshot wounds. The soldiers fled the scene but not without taking with them the three corpses.

Later in the afternoon, five more bodies were discovered meters away from the scene bringing to eight the number of people killed on the spot. Of wounded victims taken to hospitals, four later died, bringing to 12 the total number of victims who perished in the fatal shooting.

Three of the dead men were identified as Michael Nweke, 37; Peter Chukwuma Nwankwo, 26; and Mathew Ndukwe Kanu, 25. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that until his death in the hands of soldiers, Michael Nweke was a private security guard employed by the Catholic Reverend Sisters’ Convent at Nkpor in Idemili North local government area of Anambra State. He was a native of Aguekka Village in Ekka Community of Ezza North LGA of Ebonyi State.

Peter Chukwuma Nwankwo, an Onitsha-based trader, was a resident of Ezenwankwo Street in Ugwuagba Layout, Obosi. He hailed from Amaokpo in Nssakra Omege Community of Ezza South LGA of Ebonyi State. The third victim Mathew Ndukwe Kanu was an artisan in Onitsha and a resident of Obosi. He was a native of Ndiodo Community in Akanu-Ohafia LGA of Abia State.

Anxious family members went from police stations to mortuaries in search of missing or dead relatives. The search continued into the New Year. Leaving no stone unturned, the search party that included members of IPOB and a human rights organization, Intersociety for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law, hired divers to search the River Niger fearing the corpses might have been dumped in there.

On February 15, 2016, two months after the killings, 31-year old Sunday Nweke, younger brother to Michael Nweke, received a phone call directing him to hurry to the Onitsha General Hospital with a photograph of his late brother. There he met some IPOB members who led him to a mortuary attendant. Sunday identified the body of his late brother. The attendant, whose identity was not revealed, disclosed that some soldiers of the Onitsha Army Barracks, accompanied by some police personnel from the Onitsha Central Police Station, deposited the bodies on December 21, 2015. The attendant claimed he and his colleagues were warned not to say anything or release the corpses to anyone.

Similarly, Frank Chijioke Nwankwo and Grace Onyinyechi Kanu, relations of Peter Chukwuma Nwankwo and Mathew Ndukwe Kanu respectively, received phone calls to come over to the Onitsha General Hospital. They too were able to identify the bodies of their brothers killed two months before.

Traders at the Onitsha HeadBridge Market told PREMIUM TIMES that the ill-fated crowd shot by the soldiers were neither armed nor protesting. Azu Okwuashi, a trader at the market, said there was nothing provocative about the activities of the crowd.

“They were mostly young men who ran out into the street to jubilate when they heard a court had ruled in favour of the release of Nnamdi Kanu. They were not protesting. Why would they protest what for them was a good news?” Mr. Okwuashi said.

Nnamdi Kanu, director of London-based Radio Biafra and leader of separatist Biafran organization, IPOB, was arrested in October 2015 by the State Security Service. The news of his arrest generated mass protests across parts of Enugu State, Delta, Imo, Abia, Cross River, Anambra, Akwa Ibom and Rivers State.

Despite meeting bail conditions, Mr. Kanu is still held, a situation that has continued to agitate his supporters within and outside the IPOB.

Prior to the Onitsha killings, PREMIUM TIMES had on December 2, 2015 reported the Inspector General of Police ordering his anti-riot force to ‘maximally’ restrain pro-Biafran protesters.

Earlier, on November 16, 2015 the General Officer Commanding 3 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Hassan Umaru, at a press conference in Maxwell Kobe Cantonment, Rukuba, Plateau State, warned “all those threatening and agitating for the dismemberment of the country that we shall apply the ROE (Rule of Engagement) to the fullest”.

From Onitsha to Aba, Enugu to Umuahia, activists say, ‘maximum force’ has been the operational code for the unprecedented police and military brutality that has led to the extrajudicial killings of an unknown number defenceless civilians across the zone.

Human Rights organisations like the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), the Intersociety for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law, Amnesty International, Center for Human Rights & Peace Advocacy (CHRPA), and Forum for Justice have for years been documenting cases of extra-judicial killings in the South East, including what has been termed the murderous excesses of the special police unit called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), stationed in Awkuzu, Anambra State.

Between August 2015 and February 2016, about 170 “unarmed citizens” were shot dead or critically injured while about 400 others were arrested, charged or detained without trial. The right groups allege “torture, inhuman and degrading treatments in the hands of personnel of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF)”.

There are scores of reported cases of disappearances, abductions and pretrial killings of suspected members of IPOB or MASSOB (Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra).

Statistics made available to PREMIUM TIMES by the rights groups show for example that four people were killed in Awka and Onitsha on August 30, 2015; 13 killed in Onitsha on December 2, 2015; 12 killed in Onitsha on 17th December 17, 2015; eight killed in Aba on January 18, 2016; six killed in Aba on January 29, 2016 and 22 killed in Aba on February 9, 2016.

Among the four citizens killed in Onitsha and Awka on August 30, 2015 were Ebuka Nnolum, a native of Enuguabo-Ufuma in Anambra State; and Obasi Maduka of Oshiri in Ebonyi State. Of the 13 citizens killed in Onitsha on December 2, 2015 were Anthonia Nkiruka Ikeanyionwu (Anambra State), Kenneth Ogadinma (Abia State), Chima Onoh (Enugu State), Angus Chikwado (Anambra State) and Felicia Egwuatu (Anambra State).

And of the four citizens who later died in hospital after being shot by soldiers on December 17, 2015 for jubilating Nnamdi Kanu’s court victory, only one had his identity revealed as Okwu Friday. The identities of the three others were not made public as requested by their respective families.

Emeka Umeagbalasi, Head of Intersociety for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law told PREMIUM TIMES that human rights groups were not always able to detect and capture every case of extra-judicial killings or torture by policemen or soldiers in the South East.

“Some of the victims’ families are too afraid to come forward to report to us even when they know the identities of the policemen or soldiers that took their sons away,” Mr. Umeagbalasi said.

Massacre in school compound

What nobody was afraid to talk about was the mass killings by soldiers and policemen on February 9, 2016 of 22 IPOB members during a prayer session in a school compound in Aba, Abia State.

Human rights activists have called it an execution.

Emma Nmezu, IPOB spokesman, said to avoid unprovoked attacks of the type witnessed on December 2015 at the Onitsha Head Bridge, members of IPOB were advised to keep their activities off the road. Following this advice, over 100 IPOB supporters had on the fateful day assembled for a prayer meeting at the National High School, along Port Harcourt Road, Aba.

Survivors said that about 30 minutes later, at noon, the group was singing when a detachment of soldiers, policemen and naval personnel from a joint task force stormed the school compound and without much altercation began to shoot into the crowd.

Twenty-two people were shot dead on the spot. Over 30 others were left with various degrees of gunshot wounds. Among the 22 victims of the massacre were Uche Friday (30), from Asa in Abia State); Emeka Ekpemandu (35), from Owerre Nkwoji in Imo State; Chiavoghi Chibuikem, from Obingwa in Abia State; Nzubechi Onwumere (from Orlu in Imo State); Peter Chinemerem Ukasoanya (27), from Isialangwa North in Abia State; Chigozie Cyril Nwoye (23), from Umuna in Ezeagu, Enugu State; Chukwudi Onyekwere (26), from Aboh Mbaise in Imo State; and Chibuzor Maduagwu (28), from Amauzari in Mbano, Imo State.

Survivors’ accounts also had it that 12 of the 22 dead bodies were taken away by the soldiers who came in Hilux vans. The killer soldiers were said to have come from the 144 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, located at Asa in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia. At the time of the massacre, the 144 Battalion was commanded by Lt Col Kasim Umar Sidi.

The soldiers were joined by men of the Abia State Police Command as well as naval ratings from the Finance & Logistics Command of the Nigerian Navy, stationed in Owerre-Nta, Abia State. The Abia State Police Command was headed by Commissioner of Police Habila Hosea of service. The Area Commander was an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Peter Nwagbara.

The two officials declined to comment for this story. While Mr. Hosea did not answer or return calls, Mr. Nwagbara insisted all questions on the matter should be directed to the public relations officer of the command.

The Abia State Police Command publicly admitted to shooting and killing two IPOB members “for disturbing students of the National High School in Aba”.

Among the survivors of that shooting incident were Ikechukwu Ugwuoha, Amos Ezekiel, Okechukwu Nnebedum Nkume, Abia State Zonal Coordinator, Donatus Okeke and Joseph Okolie who had come for the IPOB meeting from Port Harcourt. They were arrested by the police, arraigned for “treasonable felony” along 15 other IPOB members and are currently remanded in Aba Prisons.

Bodies found in borrow pits

Four days after the killings at National High School, scavengers on February 13, 2016 raised the alarm upon finding 13 dead bodies in a borrow pit located along Aba Port Harcourt Road.

The borrow pit was months earlier converted to a refuse dump by the government of Abia State. IPOB claimed the bodies in the pit included those of its members arrested and taken away by soldiers who stormed the prayer meeting in the school premises. The dead men were obvious victims of extra-judicial killings.

Photographs seen by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that the men were lying face down with pieces of clothes tied over their eyes. The bodies were dumped in a group of eight, three and two respectively.

We put most of the photographs gathered during investigations for this story in this link because they are too gory to be displayed without warning. Click on this link to view them. (Warning: Images are gory)

Eight of the dead men had their hands tied behind their backs with Biafra flags said to have been among personal items taken away by the soldiers after the school compound shooting days earlier. An amateur photograph earlier taken with a mobile phone captures some soldiers and other unidentified persons dumping fresh corpses from a van into a mass grave. The 144 Battalion military barracks is about 10 kilometers away from the Borrow Pit.

Concerned members of IPOB and the human rights organization, Intersociety for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law, were among the first people to visit the borrow pit on Sunday, February 14, 2016. As words spread, representatives of Amnesty International came to the site on Thursday, February 18, 2016.

Three more corpses were discovered in another borrow pit behind a mosque located between the Timber Market and the Arewa Onions Market, near Uratta Junction, along Aba-Port Harcourt Road. The three corpses were covered with leaves after being doused with chemical substances suspected to be acid and embalmment fluid. The choice of chemicals was probably to shrink the corpses to the bones, make victims’ identification difficult while keeping the bodies odourless.

Amnesty research group, led by Justine Ijeomah, was reported to have said they were “investigating the strong allegations of excessive application of force by the Nigerian security forces against peaceful and nonviolent IPOB protesters during their protests in Anambra, Enugu and Abia States”.

The Amnesty team had on that Thursday, February 18, when they first visited the burrow pit, taken photograph and video evidences. However when the team returned on Wednesday, March 2, they were shocked to find that the 13 corpses had been set on fire and were smouldering. Obviously, someone was determined to destroy the evidence. Amnesty International has video recordings of the burning skulls and skeletons.

Petitions to UN Rights Commission

Following the discovery of burning corpses, human rights groups working in South East Nigeria have petitioned the National Security Adviser, Chief Justice of Nigeria, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, United Nations Chief Repertoire on Extra Judicial Killings, the European Union, among others.

Following expressions of concern by international bodies of extra-judicial activities against indigenous groups in the South East, the Nigerian Army announced on February 21 that it had dispatched an investigative team to Aba to ascertain claims of massacre of 22 IPOB members. The announcement was made by the Provost Marshal, Nigerian Army, Brig-Gen. Ayuba Tedman Hamman, during the commissioning of the newly established Human Rights Desk, Department of Civil-Military Affairs, Army Headquarters, Abuja.

“I want to say that since COAS (Chief of Army Staff) was appointed I have been inundated with complaints of human rights reports,” Mr. Hamman said. “I think there is a lot of gap, and that’s why this desk was established…

“We have sent an investigative team to ascertain the issue in Abia State about the complaint that our men shot some people involved in peaceful protests. I have confidence in our team and I know this was a joint operation but since we are part of it, we still need to verify. We investigate and at the end of the day prosecute the culprits.”

Over three months after, the outcome of the military investigation is yet to be made public. Human rights observers say the military investigation was dead on arrival given that three days before Mr. Hamman’s public assurances, the Nigerian Army had announced it had temporarily relocated the tactical headquarters of its 14 Brigade headquarters from Ohafia to Aba in an effort to curb the activities of IPOB and MASSOB.

The Commanding Officer, 14 Brigade Ohafia, Brigadier General Lawrence Fejoku, told newsmen he was in Aba to put in check the menace of pro-Biafra agitators and other violent crimes.

Mr. Fejoku also used that opportunity to deny that the military shot and killed 22 unarmed pro-Biafran supporters during a prayer session in Aba.

The killing continues

The Nigerian Army and the police on May 30 admitted killing no fewer than five persons when members of IPOB and MASSOB trooped out across the South-East states in marches to commemorate the 49th anniversary of the declaration of the defunct Biafra Republic by late warlord, Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Activists said the crowds were unarmed and that many more people were killed than the security agencies are ready to admit.

But the army claimed that in killing the pro-Biafra activists and wounding several others, its troops acted in self-defence as well as in defence of lives and property of peace-loving Nigerians.

The Nigerian government is yet to investigate the killings.

We put most of the photographs gathered during investigations for this story in this link because they are too gory to be displayed without warning. Click on this link to view them. (Warning: Images are Gory.

                               

Archishop Anthony Obinna supports Biafran Owerri Branch 

MAY 30: Lets trade ideas, 

rather than violence- APC
• Obiano Government not sensitive

Our Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reviewed the clash between demonstrators from the group- Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on one hand, and security Agencies deployed in Anambra State as part of the larger South East, to the extent of information so far available, and wish to condole the yet unidentified families of those who lost their lives in that incident.
We further posit as follows:
1- The level of casualties which by the account of the Nigerian Army is seven dead, 11 injured and nine (9) arrested is nominally high and is clearly avoidable with greater determination on the part of all citizens to obey and work within the law, even in the struggle for self determination, and adjustment of strategies by the security agencies to preserve life.
2- We reassert that EVERY GROUP in the Nigerian polity is by the expressed guarantee of the 1999 Constitution entitled to celebrate and to protest PEACEFULLY respecting the right of others to disagree with their pursuit.
3- We rely on the provisions also specified within the constitution on right to right to hold that the casualty figures to our mind was avoidable, noting with utmost responsibility that demobilizing or causing arrest of offending citizens does not in all honesty amount to shooting to kill.
4- In this wise, we call on the security agencies to review their mode of operation, paying heed to the casualty figures just recorded in the May 30, 2016 which surprisingly was peculiarly high in Anambra State.
5- We are disturbed by reports that some persons had to travel out of their states to convert Anambra State into a theatre of conflict. Granted the veracity of this report, we would have better understood a situation where each demonstrator did his or her thing on home location, rather than importing additional security issues to Anambra State.
6- We are equally worried by the report of invasion of a church in Nkpor Agu for purposes of ‘shooting’ potential demonstrators. If the initial checks we have of the concerned church, confirming that it has a fenced premises, counts, we do not see why the place could not have been cordoned off for security checks, rather than to record casualties Hence we urge the Anambra State Police Command to investigate this isolated incident as a first step to avoid over-zealousness in performing an important duty.
7- Having held in Paragraph 2 above that each group can hold peaceful match by the tenets of our constitution, acknowledge the initial statement that they filed out ‘to ensure that the demonstration was peaceful’ and urge them to raise the success bar in future to ensure that their target is met.
8- In the same vein, we precipitately condemn the statement released by Anambra State Government through the Commissioner for Information Mr. Tony Nnacheta to the effect that the demonstration was illegal ,the demonstrators not having sought and obtained a Police permit . This idea from Agu Awka is an antiquated one, coming from a tottering government that has lost touch with reality. The need for Police permit has been proactively overruled by superior courts, and was on Monday aptly contradicted by the quest of the Nigerian Police Anambra State Police Command to ‘ensure that the demonstration was peaceful.’
9- It is our considered view that the Anambra State Government failed on its responsibility to fill a dialogue and care vacuum that led to the avoidable carnage, particularly in the light of the fact that the head of Anambra State Government and Governor, is also the Chief Security Officer of the state. We recall with pain, that this is not the first time, and that such similar failures and lack of respect for life of Anambra State citizens led in the past to demolition of suspects’ properties ahead of trial and in some cases no trial afterwards.
10- We will NEVER subscribe to a situation where a sitting state government dismisses issues around the lives of its citizens and residents with a three paragraph misstatement when duties and obligations require that that every life is important and should be cared for. Such to us demonstrated lack of sensitivity and responsibility.
11- Consequently, we call on the Anambra State Police Command, the State Directorate of the DSS and the army authorities involved IN THE OPERATIONS OF May 30, 2016 to release the names of casualties in that incident within Anambra State, including the dead and injured,as well as persons in their custody for proper stock taking and calm frayed nerves on the incident.
12- We urge all youth of Anambra State and their counterpart outside the state to embark on the peaceful path of trading ideas ,not coercion on why they think Nigeria should be discussing Biafra now, instead of the expansive agriculture, rapid industrialization, taking advantage of technology policies and strides to turn the South East into a self-sufficient economy, exploits in the tourism potentials of the zone and investments in and out of the zone in solid minerals and other economic enterprises in one prosperous Nigeria.
13- Since ideas rule the world, particularly democratic world, we expect the adoption of the persuasive mode, complimented with the will to accept that others can hold different views and therefore are guaranteed equal protection under the constitution.
14- We very strongly advise against picking up arms against the state, as such beaten path belongs to the distant past, but insist that grievances must be brought to the fore through a more responsive representation in Awka and Abuja to be squarely addressed, particularly as it affects the structures of the current federation.
15- Consequently, we urge IPOB or any other group for that matter to desist from barricading public roads, or interference with any public facility as such does not in any way guarantee further mileage of the message being projected. Rather such acts create resentment, in many quarters.
16- In the light of the expected acceptance of this piece of advice, we urge security agencies to demobilize threats in civil mode, arrest and bring to book those who in future, utterly disregard the constitutional and legal provisions to disrupt the live of other citizens without summarily taking life, as Nigeria is not at war with the South East.
We call on Anambra State Government to WAKE UP FROM ITS SLUMBER, apologise for its putrid and insensitive statement on the foregoing, and set up a judicial panel of enquiry into the immediate and remote circumstances leading to the poor management of the crisis and the resultant high casualty with a view to avoiding a reoccurrence in future.
Once again our party, without preempting the report of the proposed panel recognizes the role unemployment plays in the such saga as the May 30, 2016 incident under review and assure Ndi Anambra that the youth unemployment programmes of the federal government which will soon impact Anambra State through such projects as construction of the Second Niger Bridge, Enugwu-Onicha Express Way and the Oji River Power Plant among others .
We further assure that such programmes as post-NYSC entrepreneurship programme, direct employment of teachers and monthly transfer to the poor and vulnerable citizens, small and medium scale empowerment of youth and women and industrial incentives for those so gifted will fill some wonderful void for our dear state.

For: ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC), ANAMBRA STATE CHAPTER
Okelo Madukaife
State Publicity Secretary

IPOB/Police clash: We’re 

in democracy, people 

should be entitled to speak 

their minds- Ekweremadu 

On May 31, 2016

Deputy President of the Senate, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, has advised security agencies to always be cautious when quelling disturbances and protests to avoid unnecessary loss of lives. Ekerenmadu made the call at the Senate on Tuesday while speaking on Monday’s clashes between Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and security operatives some states in South-East and Delta. He said that the country had witnessed a lot of unnecessary killings arising from clashes by members of the public and security agencies. According to Ekweremadu, the protest by IPOB, which led to bloody clashes in Delta and Anambra could have been handled differently. `I will like to use this opportunity under Order 43 to say that the security agencies must apply caution in trying to quell disturbances. “We have had so much of blood bath in this country under different circumstances and we cannot continue to lose young men and women because the future of this country belongs to them. “It is important that this senate rise to condemn any act of killing in any part of this country, especially with the one that concern the major part of our future which remains the youth. “We are now in a democracy and people should be entitled to speak their minds and to assemble under responsible circumstances. “Security agencies must also be responsible in dealing with those circumstances to ensure that lives are not lost unnecessarily. “I just wish to bring to the notice of the senate for us to take note and possibly, the states involved to set up enquiry to find out what led to these clashes,” he said. The issue was, however, not debated by the Senate. In his remarks, President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, said that although there could not be any debate on the matter, it was necessary that actions were taken on it. “I think that the point he has raised must draw attention of all and see what necessary action will be taken in other to address this matter,” he said.  

Right from the ages, lightning, thunder, and dark clouds had always threatened the existence of the sun, maybe because of fear, envy, jealousy, inferiority complex, or whatever, i can't just tell. Already, He, who made them from the beginning gave sun the power to rule over his brothers on this earth. So, no amount of threats from the thunder, lightning, and clouds can usurp that power from sun. The sun never retreats, but often goes in to rest whenever lightning begins to show its gum like a toothless bulldog, and thunder roars like a blind weakling, while the clouds changes its countenance to a bitter and dark one. The sun always smiles while it enjoys its rest, knowing that when those people who perceived him as an enemy finish their rambling, he would just majestically and effulgently come out and display what God had really made in him. 

BIAFRA is the land of the Rising Sun currently being besieged and occupied by lightning, thunder, and dark clouds of nigerian government. "But who's he who speaks, and it comes to pass when the LORD has not commanded it'' Or can nigerian armies' rambling ever stop sun from coming out to shine? Can those long guns and bullets make sun to deny its name? If i said, it's impossible, that's just an understatment. Why does that name BIAFRA often send shivers down the spines of nigerian government more than those bloodsuckers who go around with Ak47, hacking down innocent civilians; killing and sacking communities and taking over their homes and lands. Nigeria can deprive the Igbos every other thing as they had always done from aeon, but it'll be very difficult for nigeria to deny them their identity. BIAFRA is the identity of every Igboman; it's something that lives in the heart. 

So armies' guns and bullets can never eraze it except they begin to remove every Igboman's heart, which's impossible. Inasmuch as the sun always shine after lightning; after the noise of the thunder, and the show of the darkest clouds. Biafra will surely emerge someday and smile at both its friends and foes. The brutality and cruelty of the nigerian soldiers against the IPOB/BIAFRANS/IGBOS are just like a gathering cloud without rain. This is what will make them stronger, formidable, and oneness, as their unity is the only thing that will form that needed bulwark against their common enemies.

 All the intimidation of Pharaoh still, did not make the Children of Israel to remain in a land where they were hated and used as a slave. As you hate me, the next option is to allow me to find my root. Biafra is their root, allow them to go. They had never killed a rat, nor found wielding guns, then why do you kill them? 

Why do you take them out at will nigerian goernment headed by tyranny muhammadu buhari? Will the killings stop the emergence of Biafra Nation? It's quite impossible! Buhari, your fulani kinsmen kill nigerians and take over their ancestral homes and you say and do nothing about that, but you want to continue to cage the IGBOS and kill their youths like flies. Buhari you've got to read in between the lines, to know that things have changed. Now is quite different from then.          

BREAKING! 8 Soldiers Killed in Onitsha as Militants Respond to Army Shooting of Unarmed Biafrans

31st May 2016 

Niger Delta militant group, Concerned Militant Leaders (CML), has claimed responsibility for yesterday’s attack at Onitsha river, Anambra State, where eight soldiers were reportedly killed, The Sun reports
Spokesman of the group, popularly known as General Ben, revealed this yesterday in the social media.
He also claimed the group executed the attack in Nkpor where three persons were killed and the burning of a police patrol van in Onitsha.
General Ben, in the statement, said the group’s action was to show the Federal Government and security agencies that they should not underrate the activities of the Niger Delta militants, or limit their operations to the region.
The CML group said the members were working in conjunction with the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to cripple the nation’s economy.
Ben declared: “My men were responsible for the killing of eight soldiers at Onitsha river. They were killed when my men attacked their military gunboat in Onitsha. We are responsible for the incident in Nkpor near Onitsha.

“It may sound doubtful; but we want to tell Nigerians that we are not limited to Niger Delta region. This is a warning to the Nigerian government that no amount of security threat will deter us. More attacks will still take place.
“We stand by every ultimatum given to any group or company. We will touch the soul of the economy of this nation. We are not interested in resources but, sovereignty”.

 General Ben further said it was not their intention to strike yesterday, as it coincided with the anniversary of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

“We had to execute the operation to teach the military lesson. We have been quiet for a long time, but time for action has come”, he vowed.

 Acco rding to military spokesman, 5 members of IPOB were killed, 8 wounded while 9 were arrested The Nigerian army has explained why the soldiers were forced to kill pro-Biafran activists on May 30, Monday, The Cable reports. Sani Usman, army’s spokesman, said in statement that the military shot protesters over “unwarranted attack, breach of peace and creation of wide spread panic, tension and apprehension”. The Biafra group said that at least 30 protesters commemorating the 49th anniversary of the declaration of the defunct Biafra Republic by Odumegwu Ojukwu, were killed. At the same time police said that five activists were shot dead while many others arrested. Army spokesperson justified the action, adding that the security agents resorted to rules of engagement as a result of the violent attacks from the pro-Biafra supporters. The statement reads in part: “Due to the wide spread panic, tension and apprehension that generated from the activities of the MASSOB and IPOB members, security agencies which comprised of detachment of Nigerian Navy, Nigeria Police, Department of State Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency were compelled to intervene in consonance with constitutional provisions of aid to civil authority where and when such occasion demands,” the statement read. “

The overarching imperative to ensure a reign of peace, security and stability in this circumstance was most starring. “The nature of this attack involved brazen employment of various types of fire arms and all sorts of crude weapons, volatile cocktail such as acid and dynamites. “

Instructively, troops of 82 division Nigerian army as the lead agency of the security agents had to invoke the extant Rules of Engagement (ROE) to resort to self defence, protection of the strategic Niger Bridge, prevent re-enforcement of the pro-Biafra members apparently surging ahead from the far side of the strategic Niger Bridge at Onitsha. All these efforts were in order to de-escalate the palpable tension as well as ward off the apparent threats to lives and property in the general area. “

In the aftermath of the fire fight that ensued, many of own troops sustained varying degrees of injury. These injured troops are currently receiving treatment at own medical centre. Similarly, 5 members of MASSOB/IPOB were killed, 8 wounded while 9 were arrested for due legal actions.” On this day in 1967 the late General Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra, after suffering through years of suppression under Nigeria’s military government. -  

Live On BBC: Read What the World are Saying about Army 

Shooting of Unarmed Biafra Protesters

Death toll rises after pro-Biafra protests

Posted at 15:25
AFP

At least 10 pro-Biafra supporters were killed during protests on Monday as they marked the anniversary of the 1967 declaration of their breakaway republic, according to Nigerian police, AFP news agency reports.

A police spokesman in Anambra state told AFP that five bodies had been recovered in Onitsha town, adding to the five already confirmed dead from the violence in Asaba (see earlier entry), which lies just across the other side of the River Niger.

Two police officers were also killed in Asaba.

Police say that protesters from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement opened fire on them first, forcing them to retaliate.

IPOB denies this and says that least 35 members of the group were killed in Onitsha alone on Monday.

Our Facebook readers have rallied to the defence of Biafra protesters after Nigeria’s police chief accused them of carrying out “premeditated attacks” and vowed to disarm them (see our earlier posts).

Here is a sample of views, starting with those of Agbo Anayochukwu:

Biafrans are peaceful people, but Nigeria’s security agents have been infringing on our rights as indigenous people. They have killed Biafrans in cold blood. No matter the intimidation, Biafra must be achieved.”

Deadly Biafra protests
Posted at 10:18
BBC

At least seven people were killed on Monday in the eastern Nigerian city of Asaba during clashes between pro-Biafra secessionists and security forces, the Associated Press news agency reports.

Five civilians and two police officers were killed when violence broke out at a demonstration calling for Biafran independence, according to police in Delta state.

More than a million people died in the civil war between 1967-1970, in which the army fought to prevent the east of the country breaking away to form the independent state of Biafra.

Members of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) told media that the death toll was higher than that given by police.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the other main secessionist group, also held demonstrations on Monday (30 May), the date of Biafra’ declaration of independence in 1967.

There is currently a resurgence of support for the campaign to create the breakaway state.

Obinna Onyekwere adds: These men were unarmed. They only gathered in churches and schools to remember and pray for the souls of their departed heroes. Why will Nigerians always go for soft targets? They are only encouraging these men to arm themselves next time.”

Gerald Onyekachi Ugwuanyi is also critical of the police response: These guys are not armed. They are peaceful protesters. The Nigerian government is just trying to justify their crimes against this group by painting them black. By the way, the BBC never reported the protests.

                                             Biafrans in Austra (IPOB)

                             

Matter, in the state in which it is known to us, is seen and felt by means of the physical senses; but to beings who are not provided with such senses, material things are as invisible and intangible as spiritual things are to those who have not developed the power of spiritual perception...

I am still mourning 

the massacre of my 

brothers and sisters on 

a memorial day 

Monday 30th of May, 

2016. Barely 24 hours after that heinous crime that Mohamadu Buhari President Obama's choice to rule Nigeria sent the same Islamic army on the 2nd of June. 2016. To the same Anambra state to killed scores of women, children the young and old found in their homes. I was dazed again this morning being Friday 3rd of June, 2016 when news filtered into my computer system that many Biafrans living in the northern part of the zoo called Nigeria has been killed and an Igbo Biafran woman BEHEADED IN INFRONT OF HER HUSBAND, corpses of Biafrans murdered by Buhari is still arriving from all parts of Nigeria into old eastern region. BIAFRALAND IS SOCKED IN BLOOD OF HER INNOCENT ARMLESS SONS AND DAUGHTERS. If democracy is Government of the people, is Biafrans classified as a people or animals that a primitive hunter can kill on target every time? I do not need to call the United States President Barack Hussein Obama because he has heard Biafrans melodious weeping voices as an African. 

I refuse to write a letter to David Cameron because he has both seen and read news about the massacre of Biafrans, his home government who pretended to have adopted or claim the director of Radio Biafra as their son cannot wash off his hands from the recent bloodbath in Biafraland. The British government knows us as civilised people from time immemorial hence, does not want such wise humans around the global family. Every nick and cranny in the zoo called Nigeria are awash with the blood of the British hated BIAFRANS. We are few in population according to the British fraudulent census. Biafran population exceeded that of the entire UNITED KINGDOM.

We are the remnants that survived the GENOCIDE of 1967-1970. The British right now is using an Islamic plant Mohamadu Buhari to wipe us out of the face of the earth; the Hausa/Fulanis and their conspirators are emboldened each time Buhari travels to America and Britain to receive more assurance that they are behind whatever he is doing to Biafrans. I CHALLENGE PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON TO GIVE BIAFRANS AND THE HAUSA/FULANIS EQUAL ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS, DRAW A BATTLE LINE WHOEVER CROSSES IT FIRST WILL RULE THE LOOSER FOREVER. 

 How can Hausa/Fulani come to my village, enter into my home kill my mother, father, brothers and sisters went outside the house in full glare if the public and started to jubilate saying, today we have killed more than 50 antelopes and will load them in our trucks and pour acid on their bodies so as to wipe out evidence. WHEN ALL HOPE IS GONE THEN BIAFRA COMES. 

 I'm up and will dust my clothes and body from sackcloth and ashes which I have been rolling on since Monday 30th of May-3rd of June, 2016. Biafra has already come out of her grave where Britain and her evil partners the ZOO NIGERIA GOVERNMENT quickly bounded Biafra and pushed her into the grave while she was still alive. Their desperate efforts in killing innocent unarmed Biafrans is to see that she is finally and eternally destroyed. 

 I am used to seeing blood not enemies blood but the blood of my kit and kin, therefore, the blood of an enemy means nothing to me anymore. It is unforgivable sins that are committed against Biafrans, detentions of Dr Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafrans for such a long time with torture and dehumanisation and OBAMA has the guts to challenge Donald Trump the ( 21st century Hope of the American people). I am still mourning, and wailing so is all the indigenous people of Biafra. 

 Our youthful brothers from the riverine rose up in our defense, destroying what brought death to our doorsteps, they are doing their best they genuine freedom fighters, they have killed a single ZOO soldier because they are true Biafran, we value life because it is a precious gift of God but time to kill is fast approaching, no one has a monopoly of violence. Let the IPOB leadership always inform the led on the positive steps taken so as to boost moral. 

 THE HAUSA/FULANIS ARE NO MATCH TO BIAFRANS God is on our side despite our loss, he that keepeth bearing special seed shall doubtlessly come back again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him. Obama must wake up he has slept too much, order Mohamadu Buhari to release our leader Dr Nnamdi Kanu and recognise the independent of Biafra. 

 Agreement with Nigeria has been disannulled and their statement of one indivisible and the indissoluble entity can no longer STAND. 

THUS SAYS THE LORD; ANY gods THAT DID NOT CREATE BIAFRALAND AND MADE HER PEOPLE SHALL PERISH UPON THE EARTH AND UNDER THE HEAVENS.

By Benjamin Kish.
Editor Udeagha Obasi
UmuChiukwu Writers

 DEMONS AROUND BIAFRA

Biafra was born in Rivers State on May 1967, by HRH Frank Opigo from Angiama in former Rivers State, now in Bayelsa state. Biafra is made up of: Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta, Imo, Abia, Anambra and a few others.

We the South South region need Biafran freedom more than the Igbos because our soil and rivers are polluted by crude oil exploitation.The Yorubas and Hausas do not want us to unit as a people because this is the only way they can continue to exploit our resources and enslave us for life; they keep saying we are not educated to govern ourselves.

Thank God for Mr Nnamdi Kanu who came to deliver us by taking the case to the international community where we were amalgamated by World Court in 1914.

The good news is that the old days are gone because we have realized that our enemies are the Yoruba and Hausa people, what they have stolen in the past is small compare to what lie ahead of us. Biafra is beyond oil and gas.

In life as in football, you won' t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

May God continue to bless Biafra.

The Gallant Soldier 

Goes Home.
Colonel Conrad Dibia Nwawo (1924_2016) Nwawo started his career in 1946 after he graduated from the school of agriculture in Ibadan, in that same year. He worked as a civil servant firstly in the Moore plantation in Ibadan, Nigeria and then the Cameroon until 1950 when he joined the Nigerian Army as a foot soldier.

He received officer training st the prestigious mons officer cadet school in Aldershot, the United Kingdom. A Colonel in Nigerian army, but a Brigadier in Biafra army, Nwawo was functionally the third in command in Biafra military high command, although he was senior to both Ojukwu and General Effiong, Ojukwu's deputy. Nwawo was commissioned 1954, Effiong 1956 and Ojujwu 1957.

Colonel Nwawo whose number was number 10 in the Nigerian army, was therefore the tenth officer to be commissioned in the Nigerian army having joined the army on the 1st December 1950 and commissioned on the 28th may 1954 as a second lieutenant in the then Queen's own regiment, as the colonel in Nigerian army as it was then called. Nwawo, born in 1924, died at his own home town in Onicha-Olona, Aniocha North LGA of Delta State, at the ripe age of 92.

HEROES' DAY MASSACRE: 

ST. EDMUND'S CHURCH WAS 

A SCENE OF HORROR AND BLOODSHED

By Chima Onyekachi and Ifeanyi Chijioke. 
For Family Writers.
The massacre of peaceful and law abiding Biafrans who had come from all over Biafraland to pay homage to their fallen heroes and heroines in the Biafra Genocide of 1967-1970 started from St Edmund's Catholic Parish. Two days after the incident in the church where Nigeria armed forces opened fire on innocent Biafrans inside the church, Chima Onyekachi,Ifeanyi Chijoke and Chukwuemeka Nduka, went on a fact finding mission to the church located at Maryland, Nkpor-Agu, Anambra State. 

Our entrance into the street where the church is located caused a stir as everyone in their kiosks and shops began to panic and did not want to talk to us even when we introduced ourselves as journalists. Those who talked to our investigator, Chukwuemeka Nduka, who went covert described the incident as a horror and decried the actions of the security agencies who have been visiting the church and environs since the incident, causing panic and fear.

We found our way into the church premises which was immaculate and quiet. We met two security guards and told them of our mission and requested to see the Parish Priest or Catechist. Our request was declined on the excuse that the whereabouts of the Parish Priest is unknown and that the Catechist went for a burial ceremony. We realized there is a secondary school in the church premises and requested to see the principal which was also declined. Our investigation took us round the church where shattered glass windows with bullet holes were found on the building. Everyone we tried to speak to in the premises refused to speak out of fright. 

Pastor Linus Izabi, a survivor and eyewitness of the incident spoke on phone to Chima Onyekachi of Family Writers. He spoke as thus: "I was sent to go and welcome those at St. Edmund's Catholic Church. They were over 200 Biafrans already inside, the atmosphere was calm and bubbling in anticipation of the next day event. At about 3am, reports came in that those from Aba have been halted at Nkpor junction and that Nigeria armed forces were tracing us to St. Edmund's church, so the IPOB security team raised an alarm but the soldiers were already at the church gate. The church gate was broken down by the soldiers who invaded the church premises and opened fire on innocent Biafrans. There was a stampede due to the shooting, the soldiers took the dead bodies of our people they have killed and left. The injured ones were taken to the hospital and some of them died on the way due to over bleeding. Scores were arrested and we have no contact with them till now I am talking to you. I am lucky to be alive but I am more motivated to keep fighting for our freedom." 

                                       

The invasion of a church by Nigeria armed forces has shown the desperation of President Muhammadu Buhari in collaboration with Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state to exterminate Biafrans. Has any mosque been invaded in the search for Boko Haram? This action is a declaration of war on Christians in Biafraland and should not be taken for granted. The killings are no different from what is happening to Christians in Iraq and Syria by Islamic terrorists-ISIS

 Buhari was complaining of hearing strange noises, today being the 8th of June 2016, he was diagnosed with brain and ear cancer in London United Kingdom because the blood of unarmed Biafrans and others he massacred through boko haram are "SINGING CHORUSES" in his ears and they will continue until he confesses all his atrocities and die for there is no peace for the wicked.

"Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor" The Indigenous People of Biafra DEPUTY LEADER

               Gruesome Massacre of Pro-Biafrans and 

Conspicuous Silence of Igbo Leaders – By Nwobodo Chidiebere

 JUNE 11, 2016

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” – Albert Einstein

In affirmation with Einstein’s thought provoking assertion, the dignity and humanity of man begins to erode, when we fail to raise voice of opposition against brutality and cruelty of rampaging tyrannical forces—whose mission is to suppress peoples’ democratic views and total emancipation of their mortgaged freedom via deterring instruments of autocracy. Life plunges into valley of meaninglessness and descends into bottomless pit of delusions, when people losses their connectivity touch of humanity, by turning blind eye when crimes against humanity is being perpetrated by cold-blooded beasts masked in military uniforms.

On 30th of May, 2016, the rivers of blood flowed into Niger, garments of sorrow fell on us and despicable acts of genocide were committed brazenly unprovoked, on the ancestral soil of Igbo nation. Over 40 unarmed pro-Biafran members of IPOB, MASSOB and BIM were brutally massacred, maimed, gunned down and drowned in pool of blood by murderous security agents of callousness and sadistic tendencies. The only offence of these Igbo youths was daring to raise Biafran flag in remembrance of our fallen heroes, who paid the ultimate price of death 49 years ago, to liberate their politically enslaved people from the shackles and hackles of this contraption called Nigeria.

After the detestable, barbaric and abominable acts of viciousness and extreme actions of man inhumanity to his fellow man done to Igbo Youths in Eastern region, I expected to see overwhelming torrents and myriads of condemnations to emanate from the rank and file of political, religious, business leaders of Igbo extraction; both home and abroad but to no avail. Expect for few outstanding leaders like Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu—who boycotted Presidential dinner organized for leadership of National Assembly at the State House on the evening of that fateful day and his subsequent motion on the floor of Red Chamber next morning, where he   patriotically and intrepidly brought attention of the Senate to unprofessional and cold-hearted conducts of Nigerian security officials in handling Biafra Day Anniversary in the East.

Ironically, as Sen. Ekweremadu was reprehending unjustifiable killing of Igbo youths in the Senate by the same guns and ammunitions, that were bought with their money paid as taxes, another conscienceless group from the South-East with the hypocritical name of ‘South-East Leaders for Change’ led by no other person but a so-called Igbo leader, Sen. Ken Nnamani went on wild goose chase cuummm tomfoolery at the Presidential Villa, to lobby for political appointments, when the entire Igbo nation and advocates of justice were in morning mood. The pictures of these Igbo exploiters cloaked as leaders, exchanging pleasantries and jokes in ecstatic disposition, with a Commander-in-Chief whose foot-soldiers embarked on gratuitous mission to exterminate Igbo youths, can be best described as height of insensitivity and betrayal of collective interest and Igbo notion of “ometute onu ometute imi”, which means injury to one; is injury to all.
                                            IPOB Family In India

                   NKPOR MASSACRE: INTERVIEW WITH 

                             

                              VICTIMS KIDNAPPED                  

                   

                 AND TAKEN TO THE BARRACK BY THE 

                                       

                             NIGERIAN ARMY..

The Nigerian Army led by Buratai, with authorisation from Muhammadu Buhari and Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra state molested unarmed Biafrans who gathered at Nkpor singing and praying in rememberance of our fallen heroes of the Biafra-Nigeria civil war. Many of them were brutalised, maimed and shot at before taking them to their barracks. After the previous interview with some of the victims of the Nigerian police and army's brutality on 30th may 2016, it became crystal clear that The combined forces are not only heartless but are hoodlums and babarians in uniform. These are more of the victims who were maimed and kidnapped to their Barrack and from there to State CID in Anambra with untreated wounds all over their bodies.

INTERVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:

INTERVIEWER: Good morning, Brother. Can we know your name and what happened to you?

FIRST VICTIM
My name is Chidozie Onuoha, I'm from Imo state but reside in Lagos. I came to Nkpor in Onitsha on 30th of May 2016, to honour our fallen Heroes who were part of the Genocide meted on them during the Biafra/Nigeria civil war in 1967- 1970. So we came to honour their memory on that fateful day which was on Monday morning. while we were praying, all of a sudden we saw Nigeria military men with their armored cars, they started shooting sporadically at us and I got shot on my left leg. Many were injured whilst uncountable numbers died and the Nigerian army took their bodies away. Our IPOB Brothers rushed the available injured ones to the hospitals. To our greatest surprise, the Army that shot us came there and picked us from our injury bed back to their stations. We spent like 5hrs in their station with our injury before they took us back to the hospital for treatment. That was what brought me here and I thank ChukwuOkike Abhiama that I made it alive because it was a horrible and painful experience.

INTERVIEWER: Was there any sharp object or weapon that you had that resulted to the unforgettable act?

VICTIM : My Sister, we were only praying we had nothing except our flags and cloths.
INTERVIEWER: Now that you are in this pain as a result of what you believed in, can you tell us your plan as regards Biafra agitation as soon as you recover?

VICTIM: I am a Biafran, I have come to fight for my freedom and right, I will never relent. As soon as I recover If there should be any gathering of Biafrans, i will be there until they give us freedom.

SECOND VICTIM : My Name is Osuagwu Chibuike, I am from Imo.
I am 30 years and I'm not married.

INTERVIEWER: Please can you tell us what brought you to this hospital?

VICTIM: It was also on 30th May, when we were honouring our Heroes and Heroines that the Nigeria Solider started shooting at us and they shot at my right leg, I fell down and was crying for help. They came and took me into their van. I was on top of the dead bodies of our brothers which they killed and they took us to their barrack and there they molested and further brutalized us. That was where I got this knife cut on my left hand. We stayed in their prison yard for days before they took us to State CID, after which they took us to prison and from there we were granted bail. Since we were still untreated, our brothers then brought us to this hospital for treatment.

INTERVIEWER: When they took you to that place, did they by any chance give you any kind of treatment?

VICTIM: No, they didn't give us any treatment instead they tortured us the more. Some of us were still with bullets in their body whilst having all kinds of maltreatment from them.

THIRD VICTIM:My name is Okechukwu Solomon. I am a native of Umuahia but I reside at Osisioma In Aba. I am 25yrs old and I'm not married. It was on our Heroes day which was the day we as usual intended to mark the rememberance of our fallen Heroes, while were praying, the Nigerian army started shooting at us and they shot me on my left lap and then seeing that I have been hit, I started running only for them to shoot me again on my right ankle. The pain became unbearable I had to jump inside the gutter in order to hide myself there, unfortunately one of the Hausa soldiers came and saw me there, then he started pouring Acid on my body and out of aggraviated pain I screamed so loud calling for help and then one of them asked him to stop, not to kill me but bring me along with them.
I was on top of those that were killed and then they drove to their barrack. We spent a day without treatment and there i lost consciousness. According to my brother who was in the same cell with me, on seeing that i was unconscious started shouting and at the same time telling them that I'm dying. Then they took us away and we asked them "where are you people taking us to?" They said that they were going to give us treatment, not knowing that they were lying to us, rather they brought us to State CID. From there we were taken to prison and granted bail afterwards for treatment. As you can see all my hands are now peeling as a result of acid bathe by Nigeria Army.

INTERVIEWER: Can you tell us your little experience there?

VICTIM: My Sister, our only hope is Biafra... because I saw almost 700 of our people there. Others are innocent Biafran languishing in jail. It is so sad to say how we are being maltreated in our own land. Biafra is the only thing that will save us!

FOURTH VICTIM
My name is Ifeanyi Chukwu Ndubuisi. I am a native of Ogbaru. I am 28 years old and single. It was on the same day that we were honouring our Heroes all over the world that the Nigerian army started shooting at us. They shot me on my right and left hand and then they took us away to there cell where we spent days with all kinds of ill treatment on us. But we thank God that we made it alive. That incident is what I will never forget in a hurry.

INTERVIEWER: were you with any weapon that i might have got them provoked to warrant such ill treatment on you people?

VICTIM: We have never been violent before, we are always peaceful people in all our gatherings, including protest because that is what our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu always asked of us. So are we going to start being violent on a day we were to remember our fallen heroes? One thing you have to understand is that, the Police, Army and Navy were trained to humiliate Biafrans and innocent Civilians. This is why i must continue to fight in order to make sure that Biafra is restored!

FIFTH VICTIM
My name is Chinedu Ugbana from Ebonyi State. I am 27years, married and blessed with one child. It was on 30th of May, when we were honouring our fallen heroes that the Nigerian Police and Army started shooting at us sporadically. They killed many of us, even those that were just passing by were also shot to death. It was as if we were in a state of war. If you were to see what happened on that fateful day, the way and manner at which these blood thirsty army and police were shooting at us, you will understand exctactly what I'm trying to say. We were even trying to see if we can carry our brothers' corpses that they shot but we couldnt, because as soon as they killed them, their bodies were immediately taken away. It was in the process of trying to get their corpses that they arrested me and some of our brothers. Then some of the army watched over us in order to prevent us from escaping, while the others left to continue with their shooting. They even tried to shoot at us but as God may have it, they didn't succeed and then an Hausa army brought out his knife started butchering us, the knife cut my head open and then excess blood wasted made me lose consciousness. They then took us away, while 4 dead bodies were on top of me. We were up to 70 in number that I know they took away that day.

INTERVIEWER: Who stitched your wound?

VICTIM: while I was still bleeding, one of our Biafran brothers who is in the military lambasted them before they stitched my head in the Barrack.

INTERVIEWER: You stated earlier that they took about 70 of our brothers away, butchered and shot them in the barrack. Now, can you tell us if all the people that were arrested and taken to the barrack on that very day was transferred from there to state CID?

VICTIM: Yes, I am very sure that we were up to 70 but when they transferred us to State CID we were 25 in number. And I am very sure that they poured others acid and buried them in a mass grave because we didn't hear from them since then.

INTERVIEWER: A bitter story, I must say. Do you think that you will still continue the struggle for your freedom?
VICTIM: I believe that I came out from prison to start from where my brothers who died on that fateful day stopped. And I promise them that I will never relent from this cause until Biafra is restored. This is my assurance to them.

INTERVIEW BY :: PRISCA CHIAMAKA ABEL
PUBLISHED BY BIAFRA WRITERS

 N-O-T-I-C-E

How Nigerian Soldiers 

Killed And Buried 90 

Igbos In Mass Graves At 

Onitsha Barracksm

Intersociety, a leading human rights group, has uncovered the location of mass graves and shocking details of the genocide committed against Igbos by the Nigerian army under the command of General Muhammadu Buhari on Igbo Heroes Remembrance Day, Monday, May [...] Hope For Nigeria

SPECIAL REPORT: How the Onitsha massacre of pro-Biafra supporters was coordinated — SSS operative

June 13, 2016Emmanuel Mayah

A week after the slaying of pro-Biafra demonstrators in Onitsha, details of how the mass killing was coordinated by security forces have emerged.

PREMIUM TIMES has obtained an insider account by a whistleblower, who is an operative of the State Security Service.

The same whistleblower had reached out and provided vital information to two human rights organization, the Amnesty International and the Intersociety for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law.

Blowing the whistle

The operative, who was part of the security joint operation but is now disturbed by the manner soldiers “refused to play by the rule”, contacted a trusted human rights activist.

The identity of the whistleblower is being concealed so he is not punished by the authorities. His recorded narrative is however in the possession of this newspaper.

The whistleblower stated that the operation started with medium use of force on the night of May 29.

The following morning, the joint task force moved from the Onitsha Army Barracks to the rally venue on Nkpor-Umuoji Road only to find a crowd of pro-Biafra supporters who had been battered the night before by invading soldiers in the premises of St Edmunds Catholic Primary School.

The crowd, joined by newcomers, was by now in a resistance mood.

At that point the JTF retreated to Onitsha Military Barracks. The retreat infuriated Cantonment Commander, Issah M. Abdullahi, a colonel, who ordered them back to clear the venue and roads of all “miscreants.”

With this firm directive, the JTF, dominated by soldiers and led by Major C.O. Ibrahim of the Nigerian Military Police, stormed the streets and the event venue.

The rest is history. The whistleblower said that while other members of the JTF were minimizing the use of force, soldiers recklessly opened fire at crowds, shooting at close range, and “wasting people indiscriminately.”

Passersby and people in their homes and shops were not spared of stray bullets, the SSS operative said.

He said it got to a point where injured pro-Biafra supporters, seeing the countless bodies of their colleagues on the ground, opened their arms wide, advanced towards the soldiers screaming that they too should be killed.

Three military trucks were used to cart away heaps of dead bodies.

According to the whistleblower, there are two cemeteries inside the Onitsha Army Barracks. Though reserved for fallen soldiers, victims of the massacre were buried in the cemetery close to Yahweh Church, inside the barracks.

The whistleblower added that in the evening of the same day when everyone thought the dust had settled, JTF operatives invaded the Nnewi Teaching Hospital and to the fury of nurses, abducted 12 gunshot victims and seven of their relations looking after them.

The 19, including women, were brought before the Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma. He claimed that the commissioner accused the 19 of threatening the security of the state.

He would however order that the wounded men be returned to the hospital while their family members be taken away by SARS for interrogation. Human rights activists familiar with police tactics in Nigeria say that interrogation by SARS is a euphemism for torture.

Continuing his narrative, the whistleblower said that on June 2, two days after the massacre, soldiers stormed the Nnewi hospital and arrested eight of the 12 critical injured men the commissioner had earlier sent back to hospital.

Their whereabouts remain unknown.

PREMIUM TIMES separately gathered that on June 3, five men with serious bullet wounds were transferred by soldiers from Onitsha Army Barracks to the State CID and dumped inside a cell without any medical attention.

We are unable to ascertain if the five men were among the eight abducted from Nnewi Teaching Hospital the day before. The name of one of the abducted men is given as Ugoo K.C.

The military police source added that a total of 15 graves were prepared with some taking as many as 10 bodies while some contained only five.

To hell and back: an escapee experience

‘To hell and back’ is the only way to summarize the experience of Henry Ibebuike Enekwe, the 32-year old electrical engineer who was abducted by soldiers on his way to Enugu.

News of Mr. Enekwe’s abduction was widely circulated by the human rights coalition called the Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations.

Recounting his ordeal, Mr. Enekwe, who is not an IPOB member, said he was on his way to Enugu from Onitsha to seal an electrical-installation contract with a Lagos-based businessman. In the morning of the D-Day, May 30, 2016, he was abducted by soldiers and taken to the Onitsha Military Cantonment.

“I live at Nkpor-Agu. The greatest shock of my live was witnessing the killing of three young men returning from early-morning mass in front of the street leading to St Edmunds Catholic Church Nkpor-Agu (Early-morning mass is a daily ritual for Catholic communities). I was arrested and thrown inside a military truck. I think the three young men panicked when they saw the soldiers waving their guns and barking. They attempted to run and right before my very eyes, the soldiers fired at them one after the other. They picked up their corpses and threw them like logs of wood into the same truck I was sitting inside. The soldiers moved from that street to another, arresting people and throwing them inside the same truck and killing others and picking up their bodies. They were acting like hunters on a hunting expedition.

“When we got to the barracks, I saw heaps of bodies on the ground. Those still breathing were dumped together with the dead. Another military vehicle brought in a new set of corpses. Later in the evening, all the corpses were taken in the direction of a nursery and primary school inside the barracks. I never saw anything again because we were taken into a cell,” Mr. Enekwe recounted.

While in captivity, Mr. Enekwe said he and other detainees were tortured every morning by soldiers.

“The soldiers call it morning tea. They force us to lie on a long bench and flog you with koboko (horsewhip) till you begin to bleed. When blood comes out, they pour water on wounds and continue to flog you to bring out more blood. As they flogged us, they rain curses on our mothers, our fathers and our tribes,” Mr. Enekwe recalled.

In a little office filled with sympathizers, among them a PREMIUM TIMES reporter, Mr. Enekwe told human rights activists that in the night of  Wednesday June 1, about 8.30pm, soldiers guarding his cell crudely announced to the detainees: “We don give your brothers mass burial today and if you people mess up, you will join them and nothing will happen.”

The engineer further added that in the early hours of June 3, about 1.30am, soldiers came to his cell and moved some detainees, including six groaning with gunshot wounds. They were never returned to the cell till June 4, when he regained his freedom.

Mr. Enekwe said he was lucky to have come out of military detention alive. His rescue was made possible by family contacts within the SSS. It could not be confirmed but someone in the Ebonyi State Directorate of the SSS is believed to have contacted a senior SSS colleague in Anambra. He was told that his SSS savior came six times to the Onitsha military barracks but was each time told Mr. Enekwe was not in their custody.

Inefficient Human Right Desk

In February this year, the Nigerian Army announced the establishment of what it called the Army Human Right Desk. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Tukur Buratai, represented at the commissioning by the Chief of Civil-Military Affairs (CCMA), Rogers Nicholas, had said the establishment of the desk office was borne out of the increasing interest of the local and international human rights bodies on what the army was doing in the North East and other parts of the country.

He had added that the human right desk was facilitated by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), assuring that the Nigerian Army under his leadership would investigate all cases of human rights complaints brought before it.

That has not happened. The litmus test was the invasion by soldiers same month of a prayer meeting inside the National High School Aba and the shooting dead of 22 unarmed pro-Biafra sympathizers whose bodies were later dumped in a borrow pit. The Army announced it had dispatched an investigation team to Aba but almost four months after, the outcome of the  military investigation is yet to be made public.

Massacre on Heroes Day

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that May 30 every year is set aside since 1966 for remembrance of fallen heroes of Igbo Ethnic nationality. In 2014 and 2015 the day was marked in Enugu and Aba and by Igbo diaspora in Europe, America, Canada and some countries of Africa. Programme of events include lectures, church services and solemn procession. There are no street protests or armed activities.

It was further gathered that Onitsha was chosen for this year’s celebration. An expanse of land along Nkpor-Umuoji Road, close to ALO Aluminum Industry Ltd, was chosen as venue. The land belongs to a cooperative run by a traders’ association which had acquired same for the building of residential houses by its members.

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The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) showed this newspaper a copy of a notification letter addressed to and sent to the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma, requesting security protection at the venue.

The letter dated May 23, 2016 was signed on May 24, 2016 by Uchenna Asiegbu of the IOPB’s Directorate of State. A security source said the letter became the “working document” for counter-strategies against the Heroes Day celebration.

In the night of May 29, the eve of the anniversary, blockades were mounted on all roads leading into Onitsha by soldiers, some of whom were said to have come from 82 Division Enugu. The sealed roads were Onitsha-Owerri Expressway to stop IPOB/MASSOB supporters coming in from Imo, Abia, Port Harcourt and Akwa Ibom States; the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway to prevent travelers coming in from Lagos, Edo and northern part of the country; and the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway to contain those arriving from Enugu, Ebonyi, Cross Rivers, Benue and Kogi States.

Innocent travellers and IPOB sympathizers alike were allegedly pulled out of buses, verbally attacked, flogged with horsewhip and hit with the butt of the gun.

At the Delta end of the Niger Bridge, some passengers were shot at, arrested and taken away. Some night travellers, who were neither IPOB/MASSOB members nor aware of anything called Heroes Day were equally beaten up by soldiers.

Not a few, including women and teenagers, had to run into the bush and remained there all night.

The whistleblower told a trusted human rights campaigner that to the chagrin of anti-riot policemen and operatives of the SSS, rampaging soldiers “hijacked the security operation” kicking passengers, ordering them to lie face down on the dirt, shooting indiscriminately and mouthing ethnic slurs.

Meanwhile IPOB/MASSOB supporters who had entered Onitsha before the blockades made their way to the venue of the Heroes Day celebration. In their hundreds they camped out in a primary school close to St. Edmunds Catholic Church at Nkpor-Agu. The pro-Biafra supporters said that minutes before 2am when most of them were sound asleep, soldiers invaded the school, shooting into the crowd. Those who could run did so but that did not stop the bullets hitting them from behind. The exact number of people killed in the primary school or left with bullet wounds is difficult to tell as most of the victims had arrived from different states and did not particularly know one another.

Survivors said the dead and some of the wounded were taken away in military trucks. Those arrested were packed into the same trucks carrying the dead and taken to the Onitsha Military Barracks.

The D-Day

In the morning of May 30, the D-Day, news of the killings of sleeping men at the school near St. Edmund Catholic Church had been heard in Onitsha, Asaba and different parts of the South East.

In Onitsha, dozens of trucks and vans filled with soldiers in combat gears raced down major roads and streets. Any gathering of three or more people was at risk of being fired upon.

Shootings were recorded at hotspots in Onitsha and environs including Nkpor Junction, Eke-Nkpor –Umuoji road, Afor-Nkpor to Onitsha-Enugu Expressway, Flyover Bridge by New Parts Market, Ojoto- Umuoji road, Ifite-Dunu, Ogbunike and Ogidi.

Following the blockade of every road leading to the event venue, the pro-Biafra leaders resorted to using mobile phones to coordinate their members. Thousands soon assembled simultaneously at three strategic spots: the Asaba-Abraka Junction by BridgeHead in Delta State, Ifite-Dunu and Ojoto/Umuoji. From these different spots, the three different crowds began to match into Onitsha with the open-air venue as destination.

Not everyone made it to the Heroes Day venue. Way before sunset, 14 critically injured citizens were writhing on the floor of the Nnewi Teaching Hospital, 15 at the Multicare Hospital in Nkpor and nine at St Mary’s Hospital, Nnewi.

Several private hospitals, including the Crown Hospital and St Michael Hospitals in Nkpor were equally recipients of gunshot emergencies. Same for medical facilities in Asaba and Okija.

The Acting Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Delta State, Charles Muka, had in a statement said that five members of the pro-Biafra group were killed by military officers after confrontations along the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway.

But that was only in Delta State. In the push from Delta into Anambra, two policemen were pushed into the River Niger. One drowned, the other was rescued. A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) was stabbed to death in Onitsha. His name was given as Genesis Akagha. He was from Umu Ororonjo in Owerri Municipal, Imo State.

Family members told PREMIUM TIMES that the late Mr. Akagha was just transferred to Sapele in Delta State and was to resume at his new post the same week he was killed.

Victims’ identities

IPOB and the human rights organization, the Intersociety, said no less than 29 civilians were killed in Asaba alone. The Asaba victims included Ichoku Ndu, Ebere Obidike, Nwabueze Uzonna, Okey Roland, Chukwudi Ifenna, Isaac Uzochukwu, Eberima Aguh, Henry Gideon,  Efion Apani, Abuchi Obi, Ozoemena Chukwuma, Lotenna Ifeajuna, Ifebuchi Okenwa, Wisdom Omota, Ejike Abunchukwu,  Ozobu Ogbonna, Emeka Madueke, Paschal Gideon, Afam Onyeburu, Izu Onwubiewe, Okey Agubata, Celestine Nnamdi, Obieke Lotenna, Nwabueze Oti, Chijioke Ozoro, Nwadike Chibuzo, Azuka Ifeake, Chioma Nkemjika and Obiora Okonkwo.

PREMIUM TIMES also gathered that in addition to the Asaba casualties, killings recorded elsewhere in Onitsha and environs were as high as 90 deaths. Intersociety claims a death toll of over 120.

The names of some of the victims were given as Obi Nkemakonam, Ubani Nwenneakonam, NwuzoFriday, Ilo Friday, Olisama Chukwuemeka, Awah Sopuruchi, Okoye Chinedu, Ezeilo Chuka, Onyeduna Ifesinachi, Nnamani Sunday, Chinonso Amadi, Tagbo Chibuzo, Anyanwu Chika, Egbe Johnson, Osukwe Ijeoma, Nkechukwu Ikechukwu, Kenneth Eni, Orjichukwu Chigozie, Solomon Izundu, Ebili Edward, Gabriel Onyedikachi, Ilo Ozoemena, Nwauju Charles, Onuoha Chidozie, Onyemaechi Nwaezeoma, Innocent Obodoekwe, Ifeanyi Azubuike, Adigwe Chukwudi, Ogochukwu Mbam, Obiosa Chukwueme, Ugochukwu Samuel, Onuoha Chigozie, Maduka Egwela, John Onuchukwu, Maduabuchi Onwukanjo, Izuchukwu Nwaogba, Nnamdi Okonkwo, Ibekwe Okechukwu, Felix Odianwu, Okafor Moses Madukasi and Egwu Joseph.

Like Tiananmen Square

Security operation of May 30 in Onitsha has variously been compared to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China, in 1989.  IPOB alleges ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Heads of the different security units involved in the Heroes Day operations included Col Isah M. Abdullahi who is the Onitsha Military Cantonment Commander; Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma; Major C.O. Ibrahim of the Nigerian Military Police at Onitsha Army Barracks; Deputy Commissioner of Police J.B. Kokomo, who is the deputy commissioner in charge of operations in the Anambra State Police Command; DCP Makama, Second–in-command, Anambra State Police Command;  Assistant Commissioner of Police H. Ezekiel who is the Onitsha Area Commander;  Superintendent of Police Rabiu Garba, the DPO of Fegge Police Station; Superintendent of Police, Mark Ijaradu of Inland Town police unit; CSP Kayode Olabanji of Okpoko police station.

Officers of the Ogidi Police unit also participated in the security operations but PREMIUM TIMES was unable to confirm the identity of the Head of the unit.

Aside those killed or critically wounded, dozens of others have gone missing. Family members said they initially thought their missing relatives were among the over 100 people arrested and held in various detention facilities including the Onitsha Army Barracks, the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) at Awkuzu, the Nigerian Prisons in Onitsha and the State CID at Awka.

They have gone from one detention centre to another; visited hospitals and mortuaries yet cannot find their loved ones. Following the Heroes Day rally, soldiers and SARS operatives have routinely invaded homes at midnight, abducting men from their beds. One of them is Chikezie Nwodo, a native of Enugu State.

Human rights organizations working in the South East said that before the rally, over 600 people were documented to have been arrested, tortured and being held without trial in prisons in different parts of the country.

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