Emeka Gift's Interview And Debe Odumegwu Ojukwu
HUMAN 2 DOT 0
POLITICAL ART BROADCASTING – DARING TO BE HUMAN 2.0
Touch of Light in ‘The Dark’ of
Seeing
In the darkness of ignorance comes the brilliance of
enlightenment, to highlight all the things we never knew. If ignorance was
bliss, we could all remain happy, never wanting to know any more. Yet we seek
to find, we learn to know, we wish to know truth and honesty is something
appreciated, in an experience of knowing who or what is good for us to know. At
the end of the day, we all seek peace of mind, but who can offer it
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| Emeka Gift
Meet Emeka Gift, a young Biafran man, who is seeking
freedom and independence, with the purpose of escaping the chains of injustice,
corruption and the brutal killings of his people. There is a deep rut and an
open wound, from the invading heavy boots that colonisation from Britain has
left on his culture today. The rut being trapped in 1 Nigeria, the
creation of Sir Frederick
Lugard, who was a British
soldier, mercenary, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator. It was his
idea, with input from his wife, to complete the amalgamation of invasion in
West Africa into 1 colony; the result was the creation of Nigeria. At the time
of creation it was controversial in Lagos (previous capital), where a large
proportion of the political class and media opposed the amalgamation, the rest
of the country did not get a proper referendum or benefit from a natural
democracy. Without a doubt it was forced upon the people of Biafra to join Nigeria
as 1 nation, but in nature there are 3 main tribes who still exist today, they
don’t get along, the forced amalgamation has created a breeding ground for
corruption and cognitive dissonance for everyone. The confusion over identity,
religion, tribe, politics, progress, infrastructure, terrorism, oppression,
media and economy is simply malignant for any person to witness or experience
as truth.
This written piece is a starting point for introducing the
people of Biafra,
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If you wish to get involved, please keep educating yourself on
Biafra and question how your vote & democracy is working for you in
delivering what it promises. Whatever action you take should come from your own
instincts; we may then see true progress grow as it should in the world.
THE INTERVIEW:
What nationality are you?
I’m a Biafran
Why is Biafra not
recognised the UN?I’m a Biafran
A lot of games have been played, which is why Biafra was not recognised during the
Civil War, Britain played a
part for economic gain, a lot of people were killed. The real news never came
out of Biafraland, it was false info which Britain spearheaded in providing assistance.
We were misled and compromised by Britain, they play a vital role with the UN,
they have a lot of power. Also they don’t want the world to know and Biafra
will expose a lot of lies to the world, almost 1 million children died. It has
not been easy; we have over 70 million people. They don’t want the world to
know the atrocities they committed against Biafrans. We can easily forgive past
mistakes, but they still influence the United Nations.
He’s a Biafran
Why has he been detained in Nigeria?
Because he wants the freedom of his people and he wants to stop the killings. He is asking for the freedom.
Because he wants the freedom of his people and he wants to stop the killings. He is asking for the freedom.
What do you think about the allegations of treason against him?
There are no charges, he has committed no crime. He is not a politician, he is a freedom fighter. He is only acting in accordance with the United Nations law of self-determination. I don’t think he has committed any offence.
What role are you taking in the freedom of Biafra?
I am using media to propagate my own message about the plight of Biafra. To tell the world about the atrocities Biafrans face. I am observant in noticing things, I notice there is nothing written, I setup Family Writers to channel the message we are striving to communicate. No one speaks for us, people lie about us, Family Writers are working tirelessly every blessed day to propagate this message.
I am using media to propagate my own message about the plight of Biafra. To tell the world about the atrocities Biafrans face. I am observant in noticing things, I notice there is nothing written, I setup Family Writers to channel the message we are striving to communicate. No one speaks for us, people lie about us, Family Writers are working tirelessly every blessed day to propagate this message.
Since you started working in media how have you found it?
A lot of progress, I’m not only running Family Writers, I run Twitter media too, I have come forth in telling people about the restoration of Biafra. It is a very good improvement and progress.
A lot of progress, I’m not only running Family Writers, I run Twitter media too, I have come forth in telling people about the restoration of Biafra. It is a very good improvement and progress.
Have you ever had any computer training in your life?
No, nothing at all. I know that God is involved and he sanctions some of the things we touch we instantly prosper from.
No, nothing at all. I know that God is involved and he sanctions some of the things we touch we instantly prosper from.
What do you want to do next with media and technology?
I want to take Family Writers high, Biafra is our priority, I am very sure we are getting higher, we progress every day.
I want to take Family Writers high, Biafra is our priority, I am very sure we are getting higher, we progress every day.
I love technology, I learn a lot and I keep learning about
technology. The interest makes things easier; I’m improving and learning on my
own. Interest is a very good thing, it has helped me a lot I still want to
learn more. When Biafra comes our children must have technology.
Do you feel your contribution to Biafra is all you can
do?
Am doing all I can, but I can do more, I give 100% of my time to Biafra. Whatever gives me joy I do and I’m comfortable that Biafra gives me joy.
If you could
summarise yourself what would you say?Am doing all I can, but I can do more, I give 100% of my time to Biafra. Whatever gives me joy I do and I’m comfortable that Biafra gives me joy.
Emeka Gift is a hardcore Biafran, all my life is about Biafra with truth and honesty. What I drink is Biafra, what I eat is Biafra, that is my happiness. I want the freedom and liberation of my people. We have suffered a lot, we have been killed.
There is no state in Nigeria where a Biafran has not been
killed. I don’t want to be associated with Nigerian name, all we ask for is the
freedom of our people. I will be so glad, so happy to have a Biafran passport,
that will be a great achievement in my life. I don’t care about any other
thing.
Burnt bodies of Biafrans killed
What do Biafrans want?
Independence from Nigeria, Biafra is the only thing that will bring happiness to millions of Biafrans, we need it.
Independence from Nigeria, Biafra is the only thing that will bring happiness to millions of Biafrans, we need it.
Explain this, please? Oduduwa is Yorubas, that is their radio station. They want
Biafrans blood to be shed, so that they themselves can be free. They
don’t want to pay the sacrifice of freedom, they want us to do that.
So they only associate for benefits?
Exactly
Exactly
So they won’t associate with Biafrans in Nigeria if it
means they may be killed in asking for independence?
Yes, we are a human shield. They will start
penetrating into some of the Westerners that want to help Biafra and start
deceiving them with lies. That is how they operate, so many lies from them.
During Biafra/Nigeria civil war they controlled the media. They used to lie
against Biafra. That is why a lot of people don’t know much about Biafra.
We had no media then, we didn’t know the power of media then, they deceived the
world. Children were dying of starvation due to the war; they lied saying it
was because of famine, it was engineered starvation. They destroyed us with
media, this is why we have Radio Biafra. They don’t want the world to know
our own part of the story.
They stole our money, all the money our parents had in bank
accounts the government stole it and used it to sponsor their own child
studying abroad. They then gave our parents 20 pounds, even if they had 1
million pounds in the bank, they give you 20 pounds. Awolowo is a Yoruba man,
he was finance minister then.
What do you say on the allegations that Biafrans are
violent agitators?
We are peace loving people, but if your family is being slaughtered do you continue to let them murder you? We must protect ourselves now, there will probably be another civil war, because the UN have ignored us. It is Biafra or death, our people will accept nothing else.
We are peace loving people, but if your family is being slaughtered do you continue to let them murder you? We must protect ourselves now, there will probably be another civil war, because the UN have ignored us. It is Biafra or death, our people will accept nothing else.
How can people help Biafrans?
Support us in being heard.
Support us in being heard.
Emeka Gift can be found on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/EmekaGift
Family Writers here : https://twitter.com/familywriters1
Radio Biafra here : http://tunein.com/radiobiafra
Family Writers here : https://twitter.com/familywriters1
Radio Biafra here : http://tunein.com/radiobiafra
He has a blog coming very soon for Family Writers, please follow
him for more details.
Marie of Mirrored Futures: Thank you Emeka Gift for being my first interview in
political art broadcasting, I wish you freedom, justice and a long successful
career in media and technology. But I hope with all my heart you get freedom
for your people. As my art depicts, Touch of Light in ‘The
Dark’of Seeing….the man talking is Emeka….later on in his career. 
April 21, 2016
Virtually nothing in reality and really everything in virtual
realms, this is the frustration with the virtual experience in what feels real!
There is a need for a human understanding in the world of double
standards, a new 2.0 of living to make sense. Not the sense of making some
living.
Going virtually wrong, but to get it really right.
Mirrored Futures by Marie Donelly Gift
I read this and i found it interesting to be read igbo born and brought man, HaPPy reading!!
WE CAN GET BIAFRA IN ONE WEEK –DEBE, OJUKWU’S SON
We can get Biafra in one week –Debe, Ojukwu’s son
— 8th May 2016 …Says Ikemba was an only son, his brothers were adopted
(CHIDI OBINECHE) DEBE, first son of the late Biafran secessionist leader and Ikemba of
Nnewi, Dim Chukuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu opens up on the Biafra struggle, the crises in the family over the estate Ojukwu left behind, Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB leadership,
among many other topical issues. Excerpts. Fulani herdsmen are marauding; killing, maiming and raping people. What should be the permanent so lution to it? Personally, I don’t think the grazing reserves bill on the floor of the National Assembly is the solution, because the reserves should be in the places where the herdsmen originate from, because we have different cultures, and different means of sustenance. People in the South-east and South-south are mainly farmers. You don’t graze on their farms, because the farms are their means of sustenance, just like the herdsmen see the cattle as their own means of sustenance. You don’t sacrifice one means of sustenance for
another. If they feel, for instance, that their means of livelihood in Sokoto or Kano states is cattle
rearing, they can set up grazing reserves there, which I think is okay.
— 8th May 2016 …Says Ikemba was an only son, his brothers were adopted
(CHIDI OBINECHE) DEBE, first son of the late Biafran secessionist leader and Ikemba of
Nnewi, Dim Chukuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu opens up on the Biafra struggle, the crises in the family over the estate Ojukwu left behind, Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB leadership,
among many other topical issues. Excerpts. Fulani herdsmen are marauding; killing, maiming and raping people. What should be the permanent so lution to it? Personally, I don’t think the grazing reserves bill on the floor of the National Assembly is the solution, because the reserves should be in the places where the herdsmen originate from, because we have different cultures, and different means of sustenance. People in the South-east and South-south are mainly farmers. You don’t graze on their farms, because the farms are their means of sustenance, just like the herdsmen see the cattle as their own means of sustenance. You don’t sacrifice one means of sustenance for
another. If they feel, for instance, that their means of livelihood in Sokoto or Kano states is cattle
rearing, they can set up grazing reserves there, which I think is okay.
In
France and Britain, they have ranches where they shepherd their cows. And they
go out and get their feeds. They don’t allow the cows to start roaming the
streets of London because they need to eat grasses. I believe that grazing
reserves should be done with the basic law in the siting of industries which is
closeness to the source of raw materials. They should restrict the grazing
reserves to the North, and they can come down to the South to buy the things
they need to feed their cows, instead of trampling on yam and cassava farms. Why did the president not react to the carnage in Enugu state the same way he has always reacted to those agitating for Biafra?
they need to feed their cows, instead of trampling on yam and cassava farms. Why did the president not react to the carnage in Enugu state the same way he has always reacted to those agitating for Biafra?
The most
important thing is to first identify the people. There are various ways of
committing crime,
and the intelligence of these criminals varies from one person to another. You can say that the
intelligence of the herdsmen and the collusion with the security agents are more sophisticated than that of the Biafra agitators. There are many Biafra agitators of which I am one. I am one, but I subscribe to the legal and diplomatic agitation; not the violent agitation. Not the IPOB agitation?
IPOB? We own IPOB. IPOB belongs to us. We formed IPOB. IPOB is not a group. IPOB means Indigenous People of Biafra, of which every Biafran is a member. So it is wrong for one person to arrogate to himself who is IPOB, and who is not. What happened was that most of them were misinformed. If you are agitating, you don’t block the roads. You must give unimpeded access for
free flow of the economy. It is when you start stalling the economy that you incur the wrath of the security agencies.
and the intelligence of these criminals varies from one person to another. You can say that the
intelligence of the herdsmen and the collusion with the security agents are more sophisticated than that of the Biafra agitators. There are many Biafra agitators of which I am one. I am one, but I subscribe to the legal and diplomatic agitation; not the violent agitation. Not the IPOB agitation?
IPOB? We own IPOB. IPOB belongs to us. We formed IPOB. IPOB is not a group. IPOB means Indigenous People of Biafra, of which every Biafran is a member. So it is wrong for one person to arrogate to himself who is IPOB, and who is not. What happened was that most of them were misinformed. If you are agitating, you don’t block the roads. You must give unimpeded access for
free flow of the economy. It is when you start stalling the economy that you incur the wrath of the security agencies.
The law
of riots and unlawful assembly is very elastic. It gives very wide powers to
peace officers. And by peace officers, we have magistrates, police officers
and military officers of the rank of 2nd lieutenants, and ASP
(Assistant Superintendent of Police) upwards. It
says when you perceive that an assembly is likely to be riotous, you read the proclamation. When he has made the proclamation, he gives them 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes, they can use tear gas first, and after that, if it persists, they can use arms. That is why we are suing for referendum, because we want to know those people that are interested to be Biafrans.
says when you perceive that an assembly is likely to be riotous, you read the proclamation. When he has made the proclamation, he gives them 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes, they can use tear gas first, and after that, if it persists, they can use arms. That is why we are suing for referendum, because we want to know those people that are interested to be Biafrans.
But some
people say the pacifist approach you want to adopt will take you nowhere. The problem
there is that as far as we are concerned, Nigeria is a child of peaceful
negotiation. Nigeria was
under colonial masters, and you cannot tell me that it was a stroll in the park for the independence
agitators to wrest freedom from Britain. They did a lot of constitutional conferences; they went to London, argued, joked, used wits to get independence. I never read in history that Zik bore arms against the British government. It was a diplomatic warfare. We had a civil war which cost us about four million people. We don’t have to be myopic. Our group has succeeded in being
given observer status at the UN and AU.
under colonial masters, and you cannot tell me that it was a stroll in the park for the independence
agitators to wrest freedom from Britain. They did a lot of constitutional conferences; they went to London, argued, joked, used wits to get independence. I never read in history that Zik bore arms against the British government. It was a diplomatic warfare. We had a civil war which cost us about four million people. We don’t have to be myopic. Our group has succeeded in being
given observer status at the UN and AU.
But your
leader has been in detention for several months?
Nnamdi Kanu
is not our leader. It is a misconception.
Who is your leader?
The leader of IPOB is Chief Justice Eze Ozobu, the former chief judge of Enugu State. The next in command to him is Dr Dozie Ikedife. Then we have Col Achuzia. We have many
people involved in that. It was that body that set up Radio Biafra. Radio Biafra is part and parcel of what we are doing. But Nnamdi Kanu is a director of radio Biafra? Yes he is, but not the head of IPOB. The thing is that media has its potency. And because of his visibility; people were talking to him and he was talking to them. That was why he became very popular. And he used
that to assume leadership. But the Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful and other officials always address him as their leader? He is not the Publicity Secretary. All those people were just given positions to make them relevant. The main IPOB under Eze Ozobu has a media department. They were just on the verge of creating those positions. They were very careful in creating those bodies because they were wary of this kind of thing. It is exactly those fears that have finally manifested?
Who is your leader?
The leader of IPOB is Chief Justice Eze Ozobu, the former chief judge of Enugu State. The next in command to him is Dr Dozie Ikedife. Then we have Col Achuzia. We have many
people involved in that. It was that body that set up Radio Biafra. Radio Biafra is part and parcel of what we are doing. But Nnamdi Kanu is a director of radio Biafra? Yes he is, but not the head of IPOB. The thing is that media has its potency. And because of his visibility; people were talking to him and he was talking to them. That was why he became very popular. And he used
that to assume leadership. But the Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful and other officials always address him as their leader? He is not the Publicity Secretary. All those people were just given positions to make them relevant. The main IPOB under Eze Ozobu has a media department. They were just on the verge of creating those positions. They were very careful in creating those bodies because they were wary of this kind of thing. It is exactly those fears that have finally manifested?
Is IPOB
factionalized?
You can say IPOB is factionalized. MASSOB is also part of IPOB. IPOB is for everybody that subscribes to the idea of Biafra. That does not mean we don’t have that leadership role.
So what are you doing to secure Kanu’s release from detention? He came to Nigeria. He was very
insulting on air to the Nigerian people. If he had submitted himself to the elders, the elders would have advised caution.
You can say IPOB is factionalized. MASSOB is also part of IPOB. IPOB is for everybody that subscribes to the idea of Biafra. That does not mean we don’t have that leadership role.
So what are you doing to secure Kanu’s release from detention? He came to Nigeria. He was very
insulting on air to the Nigerian people. If he had submitted himself to the elders, the elders would have advised caution.
Is it
because he strayed that the elders are not helping to secure
his release?
The issue is whether he has committed an offence. And the government is insisting he has com
mitted an offence. So you cannot go and tell the government, ok you must release him because he is our son. What we should be asking for is speedy and proper trial. After the
trial, if it is proven that he committed an offence; well, there is nothing we can do. He could have
stayed in England to lambast the administration, and nothing will happen to him. He didn’t take the
advice of the elders.
his release?
The issue is whether he has committed an offence. And the government is insisting he has com
mitted an offence. So you cannot go and tell the government, ok you must release him because he is our son. What we should be asking for is speedy and proper trial. After the
trial, if it is proven that he committed an offence; well, there is nothing we can do. He could have
stayed in England to lambast the administration, and nothing will happen to him. He didn’t take the
advice of the elders.
How best
do you remember your late father?
I remember him, especially for the few private moments we shared. Very few and far in between, but
then, very rich. And it was those things that he taught me that have today become an armour. Those
things that were thought to be very innocuous, very simple, are the things that are helping me, and have really helped me to put my head high and survive many of the travails.
I remember him, especially for the few private moments we shared. Very few and far in between, but
then, very rich. And it was those things that he taught me that have today become an armour. Those
things that were thought to be very innocuous, very simple, are the things that are helping me, and have really helped me to put my head high and survive many of the travails.
With the
renewed clamour for Biafra and the activities of IPOB, do you think he is
turning uneasily in his grave or sleeping peacefully?
No; he won’t
be turning in his grave because the best thing was his intendment on Biafra. He
said his people would be better protected in Biafra, and I share the same sentiments.
That’s why any where you see me, I will always tell you I am for Biafra. But I
am not for violent Biafra, because what I will not subscribe to is the further decimation
of our people
How
would he have handled the situation, if he were alive?
It is the
same legal and diplomatic way. And that
was why, if you remember vividly, he said the Biafra now is that of the mind.
That means he made a mistake the first time by going to war?
He
didn’t make a mistake. It was what the fad was then. But with the benefit of
hindsight, if we had adopted guerrilla
warfare we wouldn’t have lost any war. Even now, it is easy to get Biafra in
one week, if we want. How do you get it in one week? It is for every Igbo man
in every part of Nigeria to come back home, and stay at home. If you have a bag
of rice you share it with your neighbour, and we manage. We won’t stay up to one
week; there will be negotiations for Biafra. But the problem that happened
which is what being out of Biafra caused, was that immediately after the war;
people started going back to other places.
Remember
that for three years we had survived on our own; but when you go out to other
places you start digging in, and the more you dig in, the weaker you become.
For instance, it is easier for the Hausa man to take actions because when he comes
to your place, he doesn’t come with big beds and all that. He comes with a mat,
so when he feels threatened; he rolls up the mat and goes away. At times, he
abandons it. The greatest problem we have is the acquisitiveness in our people.
We acquire a lot. You don’t come to somebody’s land and start building mansions
and acquiring land and other things. It doesn’t make it easy for us to go home.
That’s why when you go to some places as an Igbo man, they offer you land free
of charge. What is the situation on the wrangling within the extended Ojukwu household?
The wrangling is very simple. It is a fight between good and bad, lies and truth.
You find out that two people are fighting, one is telling lies, and the other
telling the truth. When everybody admits that one is telling the truth, then
there is no problem.
There is
no issue there than an attempt to steal property that rightly and legally
belongs to me. It is a struggle for property, and if everybody has accepted
that this thing belongs to this man, let him be there; then there wouldn’t be
any problem. But now, feeling that something belongs to you, and maybe by their
own personal calculations or whatever, you are not tall enough, or strong
enough, or sighted enough to know that it belongs to you, they will try to take
it. Then, along the line, I was able to find out what was going on. What did
you find out? That these things belong to me. And that was why the hatred was
there, because I am not too tall, I am not the most handsome man. Now that you
have claimed what is yours, are you waving the olive branch? Will you share it equitably?
I will not wave the olive branch. The only thing as I said is that there is a pot
of beans on the fire. The pot of beans was prepared by my mum. By no stretch of
imagination can I finish the pot of beans. But you cannot come and shove me
away, and tell me you will give me part of the beans that my mother prepared
and left for me.
The
first thing you do is to agree that this pot of beans belongs to “ Akpunwa”-
(strong man). Akpunwa, can you give us some? Akpunwa, will be happy that you
even accepted that this pot of beans be longs to him and graciously give you some.
That is the truth. You cannot kill Dim Odumegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, because he
is the only child of his father. You can’t do that. That is unjust. That is
unnatural. His father acquired his wealth. If God wanted him to have 100
children, God would have done it.. But God made it in such a way that he only had
one child. And God also made that child to be very popular. But I thought you
have uncles? One is a professor, another an engineer. That is not the bone of
contention. Having a child; there are different ways. You can have an adopted
child. You can have a professional child. You can have a spiritual child. What
I am talking about is natural child, biological child. I say it without any fears.
My
grandfather had only one natural child, and that was my father. It is not that
somebody will come out and say it is because of long association. Even as I am
here, some people are claiming to be my children. Some people come and say, “I
love you uncle. I want you to adopt me.” But because of the problem we have had
in the family, I am reluctant. There was one I told please; I can’t be your
father. And he begged, and I said please, it will create problems. Ofu osisi
adigh alu madu n’anya ugboro n’abuo (one stick cannot poke one in the eyes
twice) I cannot make the same mistake he made.
The
truth is the truth. He isthe only son of his father. When my father was alive,
they were not talking. If he felt threatened by them he would have killed them
during the war. He had the power of life and death during the war. He could
have just bent over, whispered to his lieutenants to take them to the hottest
part of the war front. And they will be shot like dogs. But he did not, because
he didn’t feel threatened. He went on exile for 13 years and none of them
recovered those property. When he came back, the government gave them back to him.
When he
handed them over to his son, he was alive. He knew what he was doing when he
handed them over to his eldest legitimate child, and if he were alive, he would
have said who are these thieves? I don’t know them. But he was here, and I was
managing his property. He was here; I was with him all the way. I spoke with
him one on one, and he told me the story about everything; only for them to
turn round to say this one must be MU-MU, let us kill him. They never challenged
him when he was alive. Your father’s wife Bianca is also in court. Why? Yes, she
is in court, because she was sleeping with him. When you sleep with a man, some
of his thoughts go down in your head. And when you’re close to your parents
some of their thoughts filter into your mind.
Does it not
surprise you that we always seem to be fighting for identical things? She is
fighting the same people I am fighting. What is the problem between both of us?
It is the issue of who will be the captain. I refused her to be my captain, because
she is a woman, it is against Igbo culture. But, as a woman, she has other
ideas. She wants her children to assume the mantle, butthey are so small. It
does not follow the natural sequence. What about the WILL that your father
left behind where he ceded most of the property to the kids?
That was
part of the scheming to steal some of the property. It was a forged Will. That
is why it is in court. And that is why I am surprised that people still talk
about Will. There is no Will. The problem that is there is supremacy. She feels
she has to be my mother. She cannot be my mother. My mother is much; much older…
In fact, my mother is the friend of her mother. They were mates, living
together. She can only be my stepmother
Serve God, Save Humanity
Late Prof. Chinua Achebe has
thrown an ARROW OF GOD in his last book, THERE WAS A COUNTRY as he builds
ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH in case THINGS FALL APART since he is NO LONGER AT
EASE as A MAN OF THE PEOPLE. While another compatriot, a playwright and poet
know for his Nobel Prize in Literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka got me so amazing
about AKÉ: THE YEARS OF CHILDHOOD, thinking about how THE MAN DIED: Therefore
tell all human race saying, "YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN. We neither need
THE INTERPRETERS of hand writing on the wall nor THE TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO to
heal THE OPEN SORE OF A CONTINENT".
In today's world, Democracy,
Human Rights, Rule of Law, patriotism and Mutual coexistence above all human
diversities have become the strength of the civilized nations in this present
time. They seem to have succeeded in all things that they do. Best leadership,
best technology, best technocrats and academia, best institutions, best
military personals and intelligent officers, best security operatives and
Detective gadgets in the world, best standard of living and health care
services for all her citizens.
What else can freedom be associated with more than these attributes of human development and civilization? A nation that pursues greatest happiness for the greatest number of her citizens is civilized. A world where everyone seems to has equal opportunities of becoming whatever he or she aspires to become in life despite colour or race. A world void of discrimination between gender or disability. Life is so free as though there are little or no restrictions anywhere. There are foreseen hopes and predictable future for the yet unborn generations as all polices and implementations seem to be working effectively towards securing a future well deserved.
What else can freedom be associated with more than these attributes of human development and civilization? A nation that pursues greatest happiness for the greatest number of her citizens is civilized. A world where everyone seems to has equal opportunities of becoming whatever he or she aspires to become in life despite colour or race. A world void of discrimination between gender or disability. Life is so free as though there are little or no restrictions anywhere. There are foreseen hopes and predictable future for the yet unborn generations as all polices and implementations seem to be working effectively towards securing a future well deserved.
Man is free but in chains
everywhere. How safe are these civilized or uncivilized states of Adam? Freedom
is imperative. Yes, it is. But how long will these assumed freedoms be enjoyed
in a blood thirsty world characterized by militia insurgence, terrorism,
nuclear weapons and arms proliferation, moral decadence and social vices that
have bedeviled our time.
Much attention have been shifted
to insecurity in every country of the world today and much resources being
spent in producing sophisticated weapons and procurement of modern intelligent
devices and detectives to set up security. One would think as though the
insecurity, terrorism and insurgency are from another planet in the outer
space. Insecurities are all products of human activities, attitudes and
interests either for political, religious, economic or social reasons. By these
activities, we have succeeded in debasing our world to the extent that even the
environment have posed a lot of dangers to human existence and survival. Have
we unanimously decided to destroy our world through gross misconducts and
wickedness or can it be that there is no Daniel in our generation to interpret
the hand writing on the wall?
In the craftiness of man, the
political class has overtime interwoven themselves with the religious class so
as to have access to the people that they control. The religious class seems to
have sold their adherents in such a level of extremism to achieving their
economic relationship with the political class. It has become so hard if not
impossible to separate religion from politics since they are all about human
control and engineering. It is no longer news to hear about holy wars as if
there is a god wishing to drink human blood for sacrifice. If any war should be
holy, it should be a war against wars. A holy war should be a war against
killing of fellow humans in any form and for any reason or guise
If anyone wishes to fight for any
god by killing fellow humans and shedding blood, such person has proven that
such god is weak in action and there is a need to help such god for vengeance.
But the God that I know doesn’t need any help from anyone to fight any war if
the need arises. After all God created all things without assistance from any
man and only God can destroy without employing any one's services. Obviously
God is the most powerful and knows if to forgive, punish or to judge the world
at his own discretion without any human assistance.
So people are on their own pursuing
their selfish objectives all under the guise a holy assignment. Just to prove
that politics and religion has become inseparable, people announces a cease
fire to observe a religious festival during wars and resumes killing of their
fellow humans after religious celebrations are completed. This is a gross
religious irony and a political paradox that only time can figure out.
A world without peace is only the
one we have created for ourselves through our actions and in-actions by
breaking the golden rule of do to others as we would want them do to us. The
peace we would want to enjoy today should be the one we have sown over the
years in our society. In other words, the insecurity of today might have been
sown into creation over the years through our wrong motives and inhuman
treatments of others against the golden rule.
This is not the right time to
apportion blames to anyone or any group of people, race, tribe or religion. It
will not be in the best interest of anyone to think of victory over others. The
victory that we should pursue is victory over wrongs. If anyone has any bloody
interest against fellow flesh and blood, such interest is counterproductive as
no one is a master of violence. Obviously some people have chosen to be used as
machinations of the end but who will end before who? is another question yet
unanswered. -- like, tag, share, call if you care.
Written by
CHUKWUDI CHRIS
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CHUKWUDI CHRIS
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Sylvester
Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
read with horror and utter disgust, the garbage vomited by one Sylvester Ude
who goes by the name Debe Ojukwu in his interview with Sunnewspapers. Although
the first part of this two-part press release is devoted to dismantling and
deconstructing the lies spewed out by this man, it is worthy to note that the
Ojukwu Family of Umudim-Nnewi, Biafraland, have since dissociated themselves
from this Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu who could not pass simple DNA test
on his claim of being fathered by Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu, Ikemba of Nnewi.
Therefore, Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu is an impostor and a fraud who
should look for his real biological father.
Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu started the interview by insinuating that IPOB under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a violent movement when he said the following: ”There are many Biafra agitators of which I am one. I am one, but I subscribe to the legal and diplomatic agitation; not the violent agitation.” Even though we do not want to go into what makes Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu to claim that he is a Biafran agitator when he is a card-carrying member of Nigeria’s APC party but we would like to request Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu to provide a single evidence to show that we are violent. Is Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu aware that utterances such as these can land him in jail via a class-action lawsuit? Does this man, who is yet to identify his biological father, know that we have been mowed down by agents of Buhari for simply gathering and praying in a school football field?
To display how disorganized this man’s brain is, he made the following contradictory statements: “We own IPOB . IPOB belongs to us. We formed IPOB. IPOB is not a group. Our group has succeeded in being given observer status at the UN and AU.” Now the question is, who are the “we” that formed and owned IPOB? And which of the last two sentences are correct; that IPOB is not a group or that IPOB is “our group”? In addition, we challenge this Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu to provide any document that supports the claim that Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have been given observer status at the UN and AU. It is one thing to make a claim but it is another thing to support or substantiate such claim with documents or evidence.
In one of his lies and misinformation, Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu noted the following: ”If you are agitating, you don’t block the roads. The law of riots and unlawful assembly is very elastic. It gives very wide powers to peace officers. It says when you perceive that an assembly is likely to be riotous, you read the proclamation. When he has made the proclamation, he gives them 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes, they can use tear gas first, and after that, if it persists, they can use arms.” We are at loss to read that the football field at Ngwa High School Aba where Nigerian security agents slaughtered Biafrans is now a roadway which Biafrans “blocked.” Secondly, we state categorically that we have never blocked any road whenever we evangelize or peacefully protest because Biafrans are law-abiding, peaceful, and non-violent people. We are also appalled by the support given by Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu on the use of live ammunitions on peaceful protesters. Above all, we challenge Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu to provide or point us to this ”law of riots and unlawful assembly” so that we can see where provisions were made for the use of live ammunitions on peaceful defenceless civilians.
On the ownership of Radio Biafra as well as the leadership of IPOB, Sylvester Ude a.k.a Debe Ojukwu has this to say: “Nnamdi Kanu is not our leader. It is a misconception. The leader of IPOB is Chief Justice Eze Ozobu, the former chief judge of Enugu State. The next in command to him is Dr Dozie Ikedife. Then we have Col Achuzia. We have many people involved in that. It was that body that set up Radio Biafra. Radio Biafra is part and parcel of what we are doing.” This lying Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu forgot to inform his interviewer the year that “his IPOB group“ was formed and the year Radio Biafra was incorporated in London-UK and who are members of the Board of Directors as well as the Editorial Board of Radio Biafra. Perhaps these information would have thrown more lights on who preceded who. In addition, can Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu point to a single event where the people he mentioned as being the leaders of IPOB were publicly given the mantle of leadership by the people of Biafra or by the remnants of the Biafran High Command just like Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was bestowed publicly with the leadership of IPOB on May 30th 2014 as evidenced by this Youtube link?: (Biafra War Veterans
Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu started the interview by insinuating that IPOB under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a violent movement when he said the following: ”There are many Biafra agitators of which I am one. I am one, but I subscribe to the legal and diplomatic agitation; not the violent agitation.” Even though we do not want to go into what makes Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu to claim that he is a Biafran agitator when he is a card-carrying member of Nigeria’s APC party but we would like to request Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu to provide a single evidence to show that we are violent. Is Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu aware that utterances such as these can land him in jail via a class-action lawsuit? Does this man, who is yet to identify his biological father, know that we have been mowed down by agents of Buhari for simply gathering and praying in a school football field?
To display how disorganized this man’s brain is, he made the following contradictory statements: “We own IPOB . IPOB belongs to us. We formed IPOB. IPOB is not a group. Our group has succeeded in being given observer status at the UN and AU.” Now the question is, who are the “we” that formed and owned IPOB? And which of the last two sentences are correct; that IPOB is not a group or that IPOB is “our group”? In addition, we challenge this Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu to provide any document that supports the claim that Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have been given observer status at the UN and AU. It is one thing to make a claim but it is another thing to support or substantiate such claim with documents or evidence.
In one of his lies and misinformation, Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu noted the following: ”If you are agitating, you don’t block the roads. The law of riots and unlawful assembly is very elastic. It gives very wide powers to peace officers. It says when you perceive that an assembly is likely to be riotous, you read the proclamation. When he has made the proclamation, he gives them 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes, they can use tear gas first, and after that, if it persists, they can use arms.” We are at loss to read that the football field at Ngwa High School Aba where Nigerian security agents slaughtered Biafrans is now a roadway which Biafrans “blocked.” Secondly, we state categorically that we have never blocked any road whenever we evangelize or peacefully protest because Biafrans are law-abiding, peaceful, and non-violent people. We are also appalled by the support given by Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu on the use of live ammunitions on peaceful protesters. Above all, we challenge Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu to provide or point us to this ”law of riots and unlawful assembly” so that we can see where provisions were made for the use of live ammunitions on peaceful defenceless civilians.
On the ownership of Radio Biafra as well as the leadership of IPOB, Sylvester Ude a.k.a Debe Ojukwu has this to say: “Nnamdi Kanu is not our leader. It is a misconception. The leader of IPOB is Chief Justice Eze Ozobu, the former chief judge of Enugu State. The next in command to him is Dr Dozie Ikedife. Then we have Col Achuzia. We have many people involved in that. It was that body that set up Radio Biafra. Radio Biafra is part and parcel of what we are doing.” This lying Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu forgot to inform his interviewer the year that “his IPOB group“ was formed and the year Radio Biafra was incorporated in London-UK and who are members of the Board of Directors as well as the Editorial Board of Radio Biafra. Perhaps these information would have thrown more lights on who preceded who. In addition, can Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu point to a single event where the people he mentioned as being the leaders of IPOB were publicly given the mantle of leadership by the people of Biafra or by the remnants of the Biafran High Command just like Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was bestowed publicly with the leadership of IPOB on May 30th 2014 as evidenced by this Youtube link?: (Biafra War Veterans
Hands Over Power To Nnamdi Kanu.)
In continuation of his lies and deceits,
Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu falsely alluded to the existence of factions
and crisis within IPOB under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by saying the
following: “You can say IPOB is factionalized. MASSOB is also part of IPOB.
IPOB is for everybody that subscribes to the idea of Biafra.” We hereby state
that there is no faction or crisis within IPOB. We have an established
structure and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu remains the leader of IPOB. There are no two
IPOB’s nor are we known by any other name than Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. In addition, we pursue the restoration of the
nation of Biafra in a puritanical and holistic manner. Meaning that we do not
just associate with anyone “that subscribes to the idea of Biafra” but we
associate with those who pursue Biafra’s restoration in truth and honest and
they must be completely removed from Nigerian politics and politicians. No
genuine Biafran in IPOB is a card-carrying member of any Nigerian political
party like Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu who is a member of APC party and
the chief campaigner of Dr. Chris Ngige’s failed political bids.
To finalize his deceits and doublespeak, Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu lied thus: “It is for every Igbo man in every part of Nigeria to come back home, and stay at home. If you have a bag of rice you share it with your neighbour, and we manage. We won’t stay up to one week; there will be negotiations for Biafra.” In the meantime, this man is living cozily in Lagos but is deceiving Igbo-speaking Biafrans to return back to Biafraland. He forgot that the economy of Nigeria runs on crude oil and with the proceeds from crude oil sales, Nigeria can survive for decades via importation of anything the country wants without any input from the Igbo-speaking Biafrans. Secondly, is Sylvester Ude a.k.a Debe Ojukwu discounting Biafrans from non-Igbo speaking areas because his statement (and the interview in general) was directed at only Igbo-speaking Biafrans? Has he forgotten that the last Commander-in-Chief of Biafra is not from Igbo-speaking area of Biafra? So, in the scheme of things in Biafra, what happens to those Biafrans who are not Igbo?
There are so many unanswered questions begging for answers from this fraud called Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu and we shall delve more on his person and his antecedents in the second part of this press release. But for now, we ask Biafrans to disregard anything coming from this fraud called Sylvester Ude a.k.a. Debe Ojukwu.
Signed
Barrister Emma Nmezu Spokesperson for IPOB
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokesperson for IPOB
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