Drama In The Nigerian Court

Drama In The Nigerian Court 

Intrigue and Drama Played Out in Court. 

Federal Government Can Not Prove Their Case

When the case of IPOB vs Federal Government was called up at about 10am, three defendants were present namely Benjamin MADUBUGWU, David Nwawuisi and Chidiebere Onwudiwe. The fourth Bright Chimezie was absent. Immediately, the prosecution led by Mr Labaran Shaibu told the court that Mr Bright was in the premises and should be given 5 minutes to come in. Eventually, Mr Bright was brought in an hour later by the DSS.

Apparently prepared to frustrate and divert the attention of the court Mr Labran again told the court that IPOB members posted a photo short on social media of a DSS personal to be tracked and killed. But immediately IPOB defence team countered him and made the court to understand the ploy. The court granted the defence plea and threw away the application.

Now the business of the day: Bright Chimezie's lawyer told the court that the amended charges brought by the prosecution was only served on him this morning which amounts to gross disobedience to clear directive of the court previous date to be served within time.

After heated argument by the defence and prosecution the defendants eventually took plea of not guilty to all the charges read.
The defence team again made an oral application for Bright Chimezie to be transferred to Kuje prison and was granted. The court adjourned till Thursday for continuation of hearing.

Charles Ugwu
Reporting for Northern 
Media Team, Abuja.

AT THE COURT TODAY 
IPOB VS FG..
Updates of what transpired today at the Abuja federal high court Abuja...
Notice that the prison officials were trying very hard to stop Benjamin Madubugwu from addressing the zoo media but as a Biafran he was able to put out his message to the world...
More updates coming your way...
Stay tuned!

 

 

BIAFRA: TROUBLES LOOMS AS IPOB THREATENS TO RESUME PROTEST WORLDWIDE

WE MUST NOT ALLOW SUCH 

Information reaching us now has it that Justice Binta Nyako has concluded plans with Nigerian government to postpone the court case between Nigerian government and Biafrans still held illicitly in Kuje prison, thereby subjecting and exposing these innocent Biafrans to inhuman and degrading treatment. Let it be known that this case has been in court close to 3 years now and counting as a result of unwarranted adjournment so as to be able to scout for evidence against these Biafrans and to jail them unjustly.

We must resist this unjust move against Benjamin Mmadubugwu, David Nwawusi, Bright Chimezie Ishinwa, and Chidiebere Onwudiwe. This inhuman treatment against these Biafrans is disheartening and must be put to a halt. The judiciary they say, is the last hope of the common man, but here in Nigeria, the case is different. Judiciary is now a tool used by Nigerian government to punish those that have different believe and ideology as well as those they see as opposition to their government and actions.

Self determination is enshrined in the United Nations Charter of right of indigenous people to self emancipation which is domesticated by Nigerian government as a member nation. Therefore, it is within our legitimate right to agitate for our freedom using the same law as provided by United Nations which Nigeria is signatory to.

I hereby call on people of good conscience and lovers of freedom, equity and justice and indeed all Biafrans around the world to stand up and resist this abortion of justice and the continued illegal detention of these our brothers for close to 3 years now. Either they release our brothers tomorrow unconditionally or 10 million Biafrans will hit the street both in Biafraland and in diaspora to demand for their release. We have truly endured such an injustice, and it's enough. We shall not allow this to continue unchallenged. I am calling on Biafrans worldwide to get ready because we must compel Nigerian government to free our brothers, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawusi, Bright Chimezie Ishinwa and Chidiebere Onwudiwe. The incessant adjournment of this court case must be put to a stop .

             COURT UPDATES TUES.20TH MARCH 2018

The Nigeria (Prosecutor) file another amended charges against the defendants (Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawusi and Chidiebere Onwudiwe)

The new filed amended charges should have been filed at least two weeks before the court sitting(today).

To these charges, the defendants (Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawusi and Chidiebere Onwudiwe) took a plea of not guilty to the charges.

Hence the defending council(Bar. Ejiofor) requested two days to understudy the amended charges.

The lawyer of Bright Chimezie Ishinwa requested for his client to be transferred from DSS custody to Kuje prison. The judge, Binta Nyako granted that request, hence this evening Bright Chimezie Ishinwa will be taken to prison to be with the rest of his brothers.

Finally, the sitting was adjourned till Thursday, 22nd March, 2018 for the defending council (Bar. Ejiofor and team) to understudy the amended charges.

The Shambolic Diversionary Media Trial of Senator Abaribe & the Judicial Mistakes of Binta Nyako

-Buratai is more in danger of going to 

prison than Senator Abaribe 
-no surety will ever and I repeat no surety will ever lose his bail bond or be imprisoned because Nigerian Army is 💯% responsible when they invaded Kanu's home
-Binta Nyako as a judge does not know the law as this brilliant article has exposed

By Niyi Sijuade

Anybody stopping short of reading just the caption of this piece would not be wrong to assume that Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is on some kind of criminal trial for some offense.

The reason such assumption won’t be wrong is simple, and that is: Since October last year when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu consistently failed to appear on the scheduled dates of his trial, a section of the media has been reporting – in essence – that Senator Abaribe is, on account of that, bound for prison. Well, that’s not true.

Part of what is causing all the hoopla is a simple and straightforward story that every decent human being can easily understand. The issue is this: Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB was free on bail; and then without any cause or authority of court, the Nigerian army launched military operations against him at his home in Umuahia.

It is agreed by many, and Amnesty International and others have confirmed it, that the military assault resulted in casualties. Some credible eyewitness accounts also suggested that the army took away some people from the scene. So, in the circumstances, it is plausible that any of the fallen or ‘captured’ could have included Nnamdi Kanu. I might add that the army has denied the attack even as it admitted chasing a ‘vehicle laden with explosives into Nnamdi Kanu’s house’.

The details of the invasion and its aftermaths are what Senator Abaribe, Uchendu and Ben Madu (the sureties) have been straining to explain to Justice Binta Nyako – the presiding judge in the case. But until very recently, their voices seemed to have been eroded by the louder misconceptions of the law advanced in court by prosecutors from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation. Misconceptions that also seemed to have imprisoned the court to the wrong procedure, but which – to its credit and that of the lawyers to the sureties – the court just corrected recently by ordering the AGF to serve the sureties with an enrolled Order to Show Cause. This was on March 28, 2018.

Yet, when these things are reported – even after the last hearing on March 28, 2018 – you get the impression of an Armageddon that is soon to consume Abaribe. And in that whole gory cast, those traducing the ranking Senator are careful or careless to exclude the other two sureties, thus misleading the general public that it is Abaribe alone that stands to the damning peril they are baying. The truth is that all the three sureties stood in bail in equal amounts of one hundred million each. So, zeroing on Abaribe alone smacks of a fifth column and some mischief, to boot.

In view of this whole maze of misleading reporting, it has become necessary for people familiar with the process of bond forfeiture to speak out in rebuttal of what is beginning to look like an orchestrated attack on the character of the man, Senator Abaribe, if not a calculated but clumsy attempt to scare him or damage his political and civic standing in society. Now, for anybody who cares to know, below is the statutory due process that must be followed before a surety is imperiled enough to contemplate the prospect of being jailed.

When a Defendant fails to appear at his trial like in this case of Nnamdi Kanu, the court does not automatically or summarily revoke the bail or issue orders of forfeiture of the bond amount, not to talk of even sending the Surety to jail. There is a process the court must follow. The process is first a civil process which must be exhausted before the second phase (criminal) can ever begin. It’s all enumerated under the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA); which pertinent provisions I will indulge readers to permit me to reproduce below, verbatim.

“Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the court by which a recognizance has been taken or, when the recognizance bond is for appearance before a court and it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that a recognizance has been forfeited, the court shall record the grounds of proof and may call on any person bound by the bond to pay the penalty thereof or to Show Cause why it should not be paid” (Section 179 (1), ACJA).

Anybody reading this – layman or lawyer – can see from above that the process must first start with a written (not oral) Order to Show Cause, which the sureties are yet to be served with till date. And for good measure, it’s the duty of the Attorney General of the Federation to serve such Order on the sureties personally at their respective addresses of record. It is only after crossing this phase that a proper civil proceedings on bond forfeiture begins. And, if I might add, such proceedings is an arduous and painstaking process that can take months, and understandably so because enormous property and liberty interests are implicated.

It is after above proceedings that the next phase is triggered, as provided in Section 170(2) ACJA which states that “Where sufficient cause is not shown and the penalty is not paid, the court may proceed to recover the penalty from a person bound, or from his estate if he is dead, in the manner laid down in this Act for the recovery of fines”. Anybody familiar with the arcane rules on ‘recovery of fines’ will agree that they bear some legal safeguards the sureties can take advantage of. In other words, it will take long before the question of any of them going to prison can arise.

Now returning to the black letters of the preceding provisions, attention needs to be drawn to the use of the word ‘may’, which simply means that the court is not bound to take the matter beyond this level. Instead, the court is free to exercise sound discretion and hold harmless the sureties and their principal (Nnamdi Kanu). But in the event that the court insists on recovery of the bond money, the next phase below (prison) kicks in.

“When the penalty is not paid and cannot be recovered in the manner provided in this Act, the person bound shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.” (Section 179(4) ACJA).

As anybody can see, it is the above section that some otherwise respected media have gone rogue and fringe on; and then proceeded to jump many hoops to start proclaiming that ‘Judge has ordered that Abaribe must produce Kanu or go to prison’. They are as wrong and bizarre as someone saying in the morning that night has come already.

Still, prison is long in coming because there’s a further provision that gives powers to the court to let everybody go scot-free. It’s in Section 180 ACJA which provides that “The court may at any time cancel or mitigate the forfeiture, on the person liable under the recognizance applying and giving security to the satisfaction of the court, for the future performance of the condition of the recognizance and paying, or giving security for the payment of the costs incurred in respect of the forfeiture or on such other conditions as the court may consider just”.

So, as you can see from above, the court has the unfettered discretion to cancel or mitigate the bond, which means that no surety, including Abaribe, gets to go to prison, after all or even get to losing a cent. In the same vein, the court also has discretion to refuse any bench warrants against Kanu and ground its decision on the same rationale upon which it exculpated the sureties from any blame for Kanu’s nonappearance.

Better yet, should the court insist on calling a civil default of the bond, Abaribe and the others have an immediate right of appeal as provided under Section 186 ACJA, which states that “An order of forfeiture made under this Act shall be subject to appeal”. I don’t think that, while on appeal, any of the sureties will be headed to jail. And one would postulate that the right of appeal extends not only to the Court of Appeal but also to the Supreme Court.

Plus, there are other statutory safeguards. Order 26, Rule C of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, which regulates proceedings on Orders to Show Cause, provides that:

“An order to show cause shall specify a day when cause is to be shown, to be called the return-day to the order, which shall ordinarily be not less than three days after service.

“A person served with an order to show cause may, before the return-day, produce evidence to contradict the evidence used in obtaining the order, or setting forth other facts on which he relies to induce the Court to discharge or vary such order.

“On the return-day, if the person served does not appear and it appears to the Court that the service on all proper parties has not been duly effected, the Court may enlarge the time and direct further service or make such other order as seems just.

“If the person served appears, or the Court is satisfied that service has been duly effected, the Court may proceed with the matter.

“The Court may either discharge the order or make the same absolute, or adjourn the consideration thereof, or permit further evidence to be produced in support of or against the order, and may modify the terms of the order so as to meet the merits of the case”.

A plain reading of the foregoing will show that the process specified therein has not even started. It must begin and be followed to the letters of the law before anybody can talk of the sureties losing their money or their liberty. And in the course of this whole process, the court must ensure that the principle of fair hearing mandated by the Nigerian Constitution is followed, in spirit and letters.

What this whole saga will eventually boil down to is this: The sureties, pursuant to valid service of the Order to Show Cause, will finally be endowed with the first and golden opportunity to put Nigerian Army on trial. At issue will be a full and adversarial evidentiary airing of the military operations vis-a-vis Nnamdi Kanu. It can be expected therefore that the Chief of Army Staff and other officers in the ‘command and control’ structure will be summoned to testify under penalty of perjury. It won’t be a pretty sight.

In the end, the court will be tasked to make findings of facts and conclusions of law, conceivably sustaining the proposition that the military invasion is a supervening event and therefore the lone proximate cause of Nnamdi Kanu’s nonappearance. Lawyers call it: novus actus interveniens; and it’s a highly effective affirmative defense Abaribe and his co-sureties are entitled to in a situation like this.

So, as everyone can see, neither Abaribe nor any of the other two sureties are headed to prison anytime soon. Not just yet.

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COURT DATE UPDATE: AS A HARDCORE 

BIAFRAN,YOU MUST READ AND KNOW 

THE FOLLOWING

By Moses Agbo
For Family Writers

April 13th 2018 been Friday, is a very vital day that possessed lots of expectations as well as,a day to finally know the faith of the oppressed before Nigeria judiciary.

It is a day rescheduled for the hearing of the bail applications filed before hon.Justice Binta Nyako's federal high court 3,Abuja,after the rehearsal of a dramatic show of shame witnessed in the court on 28th of March 2018,that featured both attorney general of Nigeria as represented by his council led by Barr.Labaran Shuaibu and the presiding judge, justice Binta Nyako{Mrs.}in a marathon race out of the court room without reasons of any circumstance.

Recall that, our beloved innocent brothers, #Benjamin Mmadubugwu,#David Nwawuisi,#Chidiebere Onwudiwe and of course, Bright Chimezie commits no crime known to any laws,neither has the law spoken against them. But out of injustice, they are still in an unlawful and inhuman degradation for more than three years now.

Also remember, Bright Chimezie Ishinwa was released unconditionally following a ruling carried out by Hon.Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of Akwaibom federal high court sometime 2017, and was awarded five million naira compensation of which that ruling was floated by Nigeria Gestapo DSS. They instead, transferred him to Abuja DSS dungeon and currently in Kuje prison custody with an aim to rejoin him with others in their dead on arrival purported charges of conspiracy to commit treason,which they were desperately, fishing for means of facilitating for three years and still counting.
Note: With every sense of reasoning, the body languages of the presiding judge,Mrs. Binta Nyako,suspiciously, shows her level of collaboration with the executives arms of Nigeria government to always deny justice and pave ways for further suffocation of our rights.
This is a supposed learned judge, that openly vowed, never to entertain any motion that has to do with bail in our case,even when #Benjamin collapsed right before her eyes.

 Unimaginable enough, she boldly sat on the case bordering bail application of a caught red-handed #BokoHaram terrorist, on 28th of march and are very ready to give her ruling in the nearest adjourned date.
Binta Nyako must take note that, right on bail is not uttered in the altar of the executives, but by the provision of the laws of the land unless if there is none, she must let the world know.

Her rascal utterances does not only exposed lots of injustice and self judgment in Nigeria judicial system, but also, a disdain of the fundamental human right of all.

Like they wisely said, justice delayed is as evil as justice denied.

While we jointly educate Nigeria government about the irreversible law of nature as it concerns freedom,we also hope that justice Binta Nyako might have take note, that the rights embedded in the womb of self determination has never changed,it is a right and not a crime before any known laws of which Nigeria constitution is also subjected to. Therefore, freedom for Benjamin and others can never be negotiable.


#FreeBenjaminAndOthers!

#ProvideMNK!!

#FreeBiafra!!!
GRANT BAIL TO BIAFRAN DETAINEES 

AND WRITE YOUR NAME ON GOLD" - JUSTICE BINTA NYAKO TOLD

"GRANT BAIL TO BIAFRAN 

DETAINEES AND WRITE 

YOUR NAME ON GOLD" - 

JUSTICE BINTA NYAKO TOLD

Written by Mazi Onyebuchi Eze

For Family Writers Press

Few days away from being Internationally celebrated, is the Presiding Judge of an Abuja-based Federal High Court, Justice Binta Nyako. This was echoed by Human Rights Organizations, Human Rights Writers/Publishers and all people of good conscience globally as the Chief Judge is left with no other judicial option than to courageously grant bail to the Biafran detainees held in Kuje prison in Abuja for over three years now, on trumped up charges of treasonable felony. The detainees are Benjamin Mmadubugwu, David Nwawuisi, Chidiebere Onwudiwe and Bright Chimezie. Standing on the side of truth, justice and fairness, Justice Binta Nyako will definitely wear the world's designate rank as the PILLAR OF JUSTICE AND THE PROTECTOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA, in such a time like this when bigotistic tyranny has brought all the voices of human rights and dignity under steel suppression. Boldly taking this step of granting bail to these extra-judicially detained Biafrans, come Monday 25th June 2018 being the next court sitting date, the Chief Judge must brace up against the oppressive antics of the Nigerian government. This is a government that derives joy and satisfaction in sadism. The Chief Judge, acting to her professional calling, will not get her judicially trained conscience relieved of guilt of biasness and victimization, but will ostensibly get her name inscribed on gold, stoutly daring the despotic antecedents of the oppressive government.

Obviously, the International community is aware that the issue of the Biafra agitation is insurmountable, despite the continuous incarceration of these Biafran agitators in Kuje prison, amongst others detained elsewhere across Nigeria. The agitations for the restoration of the nation of Biafra has potentially become an evolution with over 95℅ of 80 million Biafrans ardently involved globally. This is confirmative of the fact that through the medium of world acclaimed democratic process referred to as REFERENDUM, there is absolutely no window of justice available to Justice Binta Nyako to continue with the callous suffocation of her invaluable judicial career and integrity. She must have to courageously extricate herself from the web of script playing to service the interest of the Nigerian government. She has to set these promising young Biafrans free from detention. Human Rights Analysts the world over, will pour unprecedented encomiums on Justice Binta Nyako as she favorably rule on the bail application of these men on Monday 25th of June 2018, in defense and protection of justice and human rights in the most despotic democracy in Africa. This is the only remedial course of action available to her, in the restoration process of her already battered professional career and dignity as a Chief Justice in the Nigeria smeared Judiciary. She must realize that she is seriously under moral obligation to do the needful so that the prosecuting counsel will be forced to produce substantial evidences, witnesses and exhibits that will escort the case to it's logical conclusion.

She must also understand that starting up a case since 8th of November 2016 which has lingered up till date without any foreseeable end, is a major dent in her professional career as a Judge. This is one case that has witnessed series of amendments of charges by the prosecuting counsel, incessant court adjournments, verdicts somersaults and of course, quite a number of hearings on the bail application by the bench. As the window for further applications by the Nigerian government has been courageously shut, she must not be hesitant in granting bail to these detainees so that the case can  appropriately progress. As a respected Chief Judge, Justice Binta Nyako should be aware that granting of bail does not in any way suggest an end to any case brought before the court. Rather, it is an invitational challenge on the plaintiff to really prove the authenticity of the case before the eyes of the law beyond every reasonable doubt. She should also as a matter of expediency, be aware that the continuous immoral absence of the prosecuting counsel, Shaibu Labaran from court sittings under manipulative excuses with particular reference to the event of 30th May 2018, can no longer be entertained and encouraged. It must be noted that the Nigerian government's representative surreptitiously secured the outright unlawful detention of these Biafran non-violent freedom fighters with her consent and approval. Because there exists in Nigeria, crass disregard and disrespect to the courts by the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), the issue of unavoidable absence is no longer tenable. Shaibu Labaran who is the Chief Prosecuting Counsel in this case has always used this ploy to scuttle and delay proceedings.
Monday 25th of June 2018 remains a day with history. It is a day the career of one of the high ranking judicial principals in Nigeria will either be made or marred. Justice Binta Nyako will be clearly standing between two choices of either toeing the path of justice by granting the detained, the much needed bail or taking sides with her oppressive masters to do the awful. But whatever be the outcome of that historic date, humanity is waiting to pass the verdict.

Edited by Peter Oshagwu
For Family Writers Press

Ipob Has Abolished States In Biafra Land

                           
                 IPOB Has Abolished States In Biafra Land
                                     

          IPOB HAS ABOLISHED STATES IN BIAFRA LAND
                         Know Your Province

Yes, the operation of states in Biafra land have spoiled everything, brought evil seeds in our society that is the main reason why IPOB under Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, decided warmly to operate the awesome Nation of Biafra in PROVINCES methods.

All Must Hail Biafra

These are the 25 PROVINCE of BIAFRA:

1.Agbor
2. Asaba (Ahaba)
3. Aba
4. Owerri
5. Umuahia
6. Orlu
7. Ikot Ekpene
8. Uyo
9. Eket
10. Ogoja
11. Calabar
12. Enugu
13. Oji-river
14. Akwa
15. Onitsha
16. Nnewi
17. Okigwe
18. Annang
19. Abakaliki
20. Yenegoa
21. Warri
22. Ahoada
23. Ugheli
24. Degema
25. Port Harcourt (Igewocha) 

Questions And Answers

Question And Answer

THIS ANSWERS MANY OF THE QUESTIONS IM ASKED DAILY, SO PLEASE SHARE AND BE IN THE KNOW!! .. (thanks Emma you have said it all!)

1) How can you convince Nigerians that the leadership of IPOB don't know Kanu's whereabouts

Answer: Our ongoing efforts to compel the Fulani government of Buhari to produce our leader is gathering momentum and will become more direct very soon. The recent Amnesty International report on the activities of Nigerian Army for the year 2017 made it clear that at least 12 people were shot dead by soldiers that invaded the home of our leader in Umuahia on the 14th of September 2017. This is a verifiable fact. We still don't know how they came up with the figure 12 when they saw 28 bodies. Even in their legal defence, the army acknowledged going to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's home to look for him. Any right thinking society will not need further convincing that Nigerian Army is culpable in the disappearance of our leader. Short of picking up arms, anything and everything will be done by the global family of IPOB to force the Buhari regime to produce our leader sooner rather than later because they invaded his residence and killed 28 of our people who were there with him on that fateful day of 14 September 2017. Since that invasion, he has not been seen and evidence of gun shots in his bedroom indicate the army shot at him. Why is it that extensive gunshot damage to his bedroom is not being reported? The live footage of the invasion abound and was widely reported at the time. It is not the duty of IPOB to convince the public, that responsibility lies with the media to publish the facts of the matter and allow people to draw their own conclusions. It is your duty and that of every responsible media outlet to inform the world, not just those that reside in Nigeria, regarding what truly transpired when Nigerian Army invaded, with lethal force, the home of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The most logical question to ask is, why did the army invade his home with lethal force if not to kill him? He was out on bail preparing to go to court on the 17th of October 2017 with no outstanding warrant against him and the next thing we know is Nigerian soldiers storming his home a full month before he was due in court, killed 28 people, arrested countless others, with the whereabouts of our leader unknown. Under such circumstance, would it not be sensible to think that the army must have killed him? We don't need to convince anybody that we are unaware of our leader's whereabouts, all we need to do as we are doing is present the facts of the matter as they are. Any impartial observer of the treatment of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and parents will reach the inescapable conclusion that Nigerian Army must have killed or abducted him. To suggest otherwise will mean that the army is a law unto themselves which will confirm that Nigeria is a bona fide Banana Republic. After all no court of law in Nigeria gave the army the go ahead to invade his home.

(2) Since Kanu disappeared, IPOB seems not to be as vicious as it were, has government succeeded in its attempt to reduce the group's influence in the South East.

Answer: First of all we must correct this misleading impression that our leader simply disappeared. He is not a ghost and although he is a super naturally gifted individual, going by his predictions, we know he is still mortal and could not have grown wings and flown when the army invaded his home and attacked him in his bedroom. Secondly, anybody peddling the myth that IPOB influence has waned is only doing so to impress his or her paymasters in Aso Rock. The name IPOB has become a lucrative source of income for idle minds and government informants in Ohaneze Ndigbo looking for money and South East governors seeking reelection. Every man, woman and child across South East and South South is IPOB. So rather than diminishing, our influence is growing daily from strength to strength. We are still rallying all over our towns and villages but we remain conscious of the fact that nobody can command media attention and large following the way our leader does, so it is impossible to replicate the large crowds that turn out to welcome him on his tours. If you are expecting millions to march on the streets on a daily basis when we evangelise then you will be disappointed because we have different approaches and strategies. In the run up to our referendum this year, the world will witness something totally unexpected and unique. Operation Python Dance II it must be stated was initiated by Nnia Nwodo and South East governors to diminish the rising popularity of Nnamdi Kanu. It was borne out of greed, envy and jealousy and nothing more. The only thing they accomplished is to finally expose themselves for the self-confessed saboteurs they are. Hence our resolve that Ohaneze Ndigbo will never successfully hold any public gathering in Biafraland unless the topic under discussion is self determination.

(3) IPOB silence is it a strategy or FG has succeeded in boxing the group to a corner

Answer:

I don't know where you keep getting this twisted impression from that IPOB is silent. Did Lai Mohammed the Nigeria Information Minister and the Presidency not confirm a few weeks back that IPOB is more dangerous than Boko Haram? How can a group that cost Nigeria millions of dollars in media consultancy and lobbying be described as silent. There are to ways to generate heat, one is by visible fire like firewood, charcoal and gas but the other is microwave. You don't see microwave radiation, it is silent but more deadly. We protest when it's time, we apply some other pressures as at when necessary. Whatever methodology we apply, the outcome is decisively the same always. We have rendered the name Nigeria useless before the civilised world. Biafra is getting closer and closer with the passage of each day. The warped narrative that IPOB has been subdued due to the abduction of our leader is false. Our activities are going on in earnest all over the world and preparations for our referendum is gathering momentum, so we remain unstoppable as ever.

(4) Kanu's wife threatened that if her husband is not found there will be no election in 2019, what are the plans of IPOB for the 2019 general elections having failed to stop the Anambra election

Answer:

Let me correct this impression, we did not say we will stop Anambra elections, we said we will boycott it and we did so successfully. The fact INEC announced a result is to be expected. Nigeria is by its very essence corrupt and the powers that be wouldn't want to make public their humiliation at the hands of IPOB that was why INEC inflated the figures to give the exercise some respectability. The wife of our leader is right in insisting there will be no elections because we will not vote. They can falsify and publish fake results, that's up to them but we will paralyse activities in and around Biafraland on election days come 2019. We challenge INEC to publish true copies of result sheets from polling booths in Anambra governorship election. Less than 1% of eligible voters participated in that poll and we are confident we will achieve maximum compliance with Buhari's name on the ticket. In fact we are certain that Middle Belt and Southern Kaduna will join our election boycott due to this regime's support for Fulani terrorists. If what Fani-Kayode and Yoruba elders are saying carries the day, we expect total boycott of the presidential election too in Yoruba land. Aso Rock should worry more about other nationalities who have expressed their desire to boycott all elections until the national question of which way Nigeria is resolved via referendum.

(5) Should Igbo man emerge as Nigeria's president, will that change the quest for Biafra campaigned by IPOB

Answer:

We have crossed the point of no return. If they like let them give an Igbo grand-mother or Ibibio woman the presidency for 10 consecutive terms, it won't change anything. They can pave every road in Biafraland with gold, still nothing and we mean nothing, will ever alter our resolve. Our mind is made up and firmly set in stone. Whatever outcome we are confronted with after the referendum, we have to live with. The people of Biafra will decide in a referendum not a few compromised and dirty politicians negotiating our future away in the name of restructuring Nigeria. IPOB is not like anything Africa has ever seen before. We are uncompromising in our quest to restore Biafra and that is the only outcome acceptable to us.

(6) Kanu once said he would ride on the wings of civil disobedience to actualise Biafra, however he is nowhere to be found. What the IPOB's latest plans to ensure Biafra is achieved with or without Kanu.

Answer:

You conveniently forgot to mention that a detachment of Nigerian Army stormed his home and killed him or took him away. When people say he is nowhere to be found, it is either they are gifted with ignorance or their faculties are not entirely intact. If the United States were to invade Nigeria and in the process storm Aso Rock to take away Jubril or whoever is impersonating Buhari, would you say Jubril is nowhere to be found? Sensible people will say, ask the US because they invaded his residence. This is not complicated philosophy but simple common sense. People should apply their thinking faculties when evaluating the impact of the full military invasion and massacre of 28 people that took place at the residence of our leader on 14 September 2017. We are a well oiled machine that can function perfectly well with or without our mentor and leader because the blueprint he himself laid down is what we are following. Mazi Uche Mefor is our deputy leader and with the support of the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (DOS) under the able leadership of Mazi Chika Edoziem, our modus operandi remains intact as laid down by our supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Our deputy leader and DOS oversee the day to day operations of our global movement in the absence of our leader. We are following the philosophy of our leader which no doubt is guiding us remorseless towards our singular goal of Biafra restoration in the not too distant future.

(7) How do IPOB tend to run Biafra govt if actualised

Answer:

It is up to the people of Biafra to elect who will serve them not IPOB. IPOB will not metamorphose into a political party but there will be laid down rules and principles which will form part of the constitution as Biafra will be run as a transparent constitutional democracy. Nothing like it would have been witnessed in Africa before. Rights and freedoms of citizens will be weaved into every facet of day to day governance and law enforcement. For example, there will be no armed police patrolling the streets looking for who to intimidate, extort money at gun point from, molest, rape or kill. Soldiers will never be deployed on the streets of Biafraland to quell civil disobedience only in times of war. Law makers will be mandated by law to hold weekly surgeries at their constituencies. Education will be free and compulsory to university level. Every human being will be equal before the law regardless of sex, religion and orientation. Every nationality like Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio, Igede, Idoma, Igbo will be autonomous self governing regions with 100% resource control enshrined in the constitution. Biafra will be a confederation of equal nationalities. No politician or law enforcement officer can order the detention of any person without the permission of the courts. Children of politicians and officials of state must attend public schools nearest to them. Same applies to hospitals. The culture of allocation will be abolished and government will be decentralized. Police chiefs will be elected not appointed. A culture of independent powerful judiciary capable of ruling against a sitting government will be encouraged. There will be absolute separation of powers. No hint of totalitarianism will be tolerated. The list is endless but be rest assured it will not be like anything that obtains in black African countries.

(8) Any time frame for Biafra to be actualised with or without Kanu

Answer:

We hope to restore not actualize Biafra in the nearest possible with our able leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu leading us to victory. There is no timetable because only the Most High Chukwu Okike Abiama can determine when the appointed hour will be not man. What we know is that we are doing everything humanly possible to restore Biafra in the shortest possible time.

(9) Ipob have continued to insist that Kanu is in custody of the Nigerian government, this they have denied, what efforts is being made to ensure that Kanu's whereabouts is disclosed.

Answer:

We are insisting and will continue to insist until the army comes clean about what they did with him. They can deny all they like but the facts speak for itself. Nigerian Army and Buratai in particular must tell the world who sent them to assassinate our leader and what they were doing in his house. Therein lies the clue to exactly what became of him. Binta Nyako's court feigned ignorance of this important question but we don't think that a jury at the appellate court will so easily exonerate them. Regarding army denial that he is not in their custody, what do you expect them to say. The culture of lying and deception has eaten so deep into the fabric of the society in Nigeria that people are no longer repulsed by it. Lying is a way of life in Nigeria so the army will be expected to try lying themselves out of the mess they are in. The 64 million dollar question remains, what were the army doing in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's residence and who sent them? Until the army can answer this question, every idle speculation and denial by them is nothing more than an exercise in futility.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

Nnamdi Kanu Quotations In This Struggle

                              

     Nnamdi Kanu The Leader of IPOB's Quotations

#One of the prophecies of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, they will come to your houses only but to kill you and take over your land ,killings in Benue, Taraba, killings in rivers Anambra Enugwu killings every part of the zoo called Nigeria. #everybody support Biafran referendum now.

I AM NNAMDI KANU - BEFORE I CAME

(1) Before I came there was no Radio/Television defending the people of Biafra in Nigeria. I
brought Radio Biafra on my Arrival.

(2) Before I came there was no #Unity among the people of Biafra, especially those living within the Riverline area and those living on the hinterland, On my arrival, I preached Peace Unity and oneness among them, I united them

(3) Before I came there was no monument built for our #5.2 million fallen heroes who died defending our beloved land (Biafra), On my arrival I build a cenotaph in Enugu which was destroyed by Uwazuruike with
the help of Nigeria Police, and I organized a memorial and burial ritual for those that were killed between 1967/1970

(4) Before I came the word Biafra wasn't recognized by Microsoft word, On my arrival,
the word Biafra is now recognized on MS Word.

(5) Before i came there was no leadership that could bring all Biafrans together worldwide as one family, On my arrival, I brought them all together and they are now converging in over
120 countries of the world speaking with one voice.

(6) Before i came there was fear among the people of Biafra to speak about Biafra in the open places such as market, churches, schools etc, there was fear of wearing a common Biafra designed cap, shoes or clothes, On my arrival the spirit of fear left my people, today our people can stand in Lagos Yoruba land and Abuja in Hausa land wearing Biafra cloths and flags boldly and fearlessly asking for Biafra freedom. they can now assemble in different places such as church, marketplaces, schools and etc.

(7) Before i came there was no strong campaign for Biafra freedom in the international community, on my arrival, the UK and European Union parliament now speak about Biafra freedom, amnesty international now speak about the killing of Biafrans in our own land.

(8) Before I came many countries of the world don’t know much about the Biafra people and the pogrom committed against them, On my arrival almost every country of the world now know about Biafra and even authorize our gathering in their various countries as Indigenous people of Biafra.

(9) Before i came no radio or tv broadcaster was able to reveal the evil happening in this contraption known as Nigeria, On my arrival, i exposed everything, i brought the devilish act of the Nigerian government and the military to the ICC and rest of the world.

(10) Before i came there was no accurate report of the Nigerian soldiers kidnapping and killed of the Biafrans in land, On my arrival ,every single Biafran kidnapped or killed is being reported to the international community with verifiable evidences .

(11) Before i came there was no hope for the future generation of Biafrans worldwide under one Nigeria, On my arrival hope is restored and the people of Biafra are now speaking with one voice seeking for theirfreedom.

(12) Before i came the people from Igboakiri known as Igbanke in EDO state, People of Igala in KOGI state, People of Idoma in Benue state, People from Ijaw, Itshekiri, Isobo (Urohbo), Igede, Anang,Ibibio were told that Igbos were not their flesh and blood, they told them that Igbos were their enemies . On my arrival all the aforementioned clans have realized the truth , they have reunited within one umbrella of Biafra because of the historical fact and figures which i brought to them. today they are proudly Biafrans.

(13) Before i came no igbo speaking Biafran can close their shops for a freedom protest
which they know can be attacked by the Nigeria Boko Haram military forces, On my
arrival protest upon protest has been called and obeyed, men, women, children and adults
were matching out in millions and many were killed on different occasions by the Nigerian military force yet the struggle continues they say no retreat no surrender ,they believed that is Biafra or Death.

(14) Before i came no Nigerian media house can write or speak about Biafra or carry any Biafra news. On my arrival, Biafra news is the best selling news both online and at the vendor's news stand, all the heavy weight media houses such as CNN, BBC, FOX NEWS, AL JAZEERA, FRANCE 24, NEW YORK POST etc carries Biafra news on daily bases.

(15) Before I came our Igbo speaking politicians cannot speak about Biafra on any national tv and radio stations in Nigeria, On my arrival Biafra issue is been discussed even in the House of senate , uncountable programs of Biafra has been going on in Nigeria today....#SupportBiafraUpcomingReferendum....
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Muhammadu Buhari, His Two Headed Dragon

Muhammadu Buhari, His Two Headed Dragon 

MUHAMMADU BUHARI, HIS TWO-

HEADED DRAGON AND

 HIS 'WAR' AGAINST TERROR (PART 1)

"No-one is more hated than he who speaks truth"- Plato.

These deeply profound and insightful words of Plato, Ancient Greece's greatest and most revered philosopher, who was a student of the great Socrates and a teacher of the great Aristotle, are as true today as they were in 400 BC when he wrote them.

You will not read the following account about President Muhammadu Buhari's so-called "war against terror" in Nigeria's mainstream media because they have mostly been compromised and intimidated by the Federal Government. You can however read it in this two-part essay if you are interested in knowing the truth.

I urge as many of those that care and that can get through it to spread the word and let the international community know the truth about what the Nigerian people are passing through.

Despite the hatred and aggression it always attracts towards its purveyor, truth remains truth and, for the sake of posterity, it is worth defending and, if necessary, dying for. And the truth about our war against terror is as follows.

Today Nigeria is in the terrifying grip of a bloodthirsty two-headed dragon which is empowered, fuelled and energised by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The first head of that dragon is that of Boko Haram and the second is that of the Fulani herdsmen and terrorists.

This two-headed dragon feeds on the flesh and blood of the Nigerian people and until it consummes or captures every living soul in our nation it shall not relent, refrain or desist.

I say this because, like the leader of the horrendous Nightwalkers in HBO's famous classic series, "Game of Thrones", the rider of Nigeria's Nightwalker dragon is our very own President Muhammadu Buhari and he brings nothing but death and destruction.

Those that expect him to master it, tame it or cut its two heads off are expecting him to drop his most awsome weapon and to fall out of the sky in mid-flight.

He will never do it and it will never happen because that is his strength, pride and source of power. He needs the two-headed dragon from hell to take him to his next destination and to his next level.

Simply put, without the blood-sucking, flesh-eating, bone-crushing and life-taking dragon-beast that he controls and rides, Muhammadu Buhari is nothing.

Blood is the currency in the realm of the spirit and the spilling of it gives him power. The more blood is spilt the more power he gets.

This explains why such little emotion is displayed by our President and next to no concern is shown by him when the people of Nigeria are abducted, enslaved, hacked to pieces and slaughtered by either of the two heads of his beast.

When one scrutinises Buhari's so-called war against terror over the last three years the first question we must answer is whether we can really expect one terrorist to fight another terrorist successfully?

Simply put, the question is whether darkness can defeat darkness or whether evil can overwhelm evil?

Consider the following.

In 2000 Buhari asked the late Governor Lam Adesina of Oyo state "why are your Yoruba people killing my Fulani people" when Fulani herdsmen and terrorists suffered a series of heavy reprisal attacks and killings after they had attacked and killed many Yoruba farmers in Oyo state.

In 2001 he told the Nigerian people that "Muslims should only vote for Muslims".

In 2001 he told the Nigerian people that it was his intention to "spread sharia law ALL over the country".

In 2002 he told the Nigerian people that "Christians have no business with the matter and should not complain when limbs are being cut off in the name of sharia because those limbs are Muslim limbs and not theirs".

In 2003 he proclaimed that the Muslims of Nigeria should "all work together and win power at the centre because when the Muslims of the north join hands with our Muslim brothers in the south-west we are more in number than the Christians".

In 2013 he told the Nigerian people that "an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North".

In 2014 his trusted political associate and a man by the name of Alhaji Lai Mohammmed from Kwara state who played a key role in his 2015 presidential campaign and who was later appointed as his Minister of Information announced to the world that it was "wrong, unjust and unconstitutional to proscribe Boko Haram and to describe them as a terrorist organisation".

In 2016 his official spokesman at the Presidency, Mr. Femi Adesina, told the Nigerian people that Buhari would not comment on the cold-blooded butchering and murder of no less than 808 Christians in Southern Kaduna on Christmas day and Christmas eve by Fulani terrorists because the Presidency "regarded the matter as a state-affair".

In January 2018 Buhari told Governor Samuel Ortom and the elders and traditional rulers of Benue state that "the Fulani herdsmen and cattle-rearers are your brothers and you must find a way to accomodate them" after those same terrorist herdsmen had butchered over 1000 innocent people in Agatu occupied their land two years ago and hundreds more all over the state since that time.

And it is the same story all over the Middle Belt and the south where Fulani terrorists and herdsmen slaughter innocent Nigerians in the most gruesome and horrific manner and circumstances and destroy and steal their homes, farms and land without any fear of being brought to justice or being resisted or confronted by any of Buhari's northern-Muslim-led security agencies and Armed Forces.

So now I ask, which "war against terror" or "war against Boko Haram" or "war against the Fulani terrorists and herdsmen" are we referring to or is Buhari fighting? Can he really be expected to fight himself?

To people like Buhari unarmed men and women who do not threaten others with violence and who have never killed anyone, like members of Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB, are the terrorists whilst murderous and zombie-like beasts that take pleasure in slitting open the throats of babies and infants and in slaughtering thousands of innocent and defenceless men, women and children are not.

I am sorry to tell the world and the Nigerian people that the Federal Government has been lying to them. They have not been waging any serious war against terror, no Fulani terrorists or herdsmen have been arrested or brought to justice and Boko Haram is as deadly and strong today as it has been in many years.

If anyone doubts that they should find out how many local government areas Boko Haram control and how often they attack and carry out successful operations in major cities in Borno and Yobe states.

They are killing as many people today as they did five years ago but the difference is that the govermment has suppressed the information and ordered a media blackout of these terrible events.

On the abduction of the girls from their school in Dapchi, Yobe state the situation is even more pathetic because it could have been avoided.

When you pay millions of dollars in ransom to Boko Haram over 3 years, when you lie to the world that you have defeated them, when you release thousands of their footsoldiers and commanders from prison and claim that they have "repented" and when you compel the media to supress the truth about the gains they have made in parts of the country why should you or anyone else be surprised about what happened in Dapchi?

It was bound to happen because you have empowered and emboldened them!

Worse still is the fact that the Govermor of Yobe has said that the soldiers that were guarding Dapchi were removed 24 hours before the attack and abduction took place.

The question is who gave the order to remove them and why?

Again the fact that military intelligence (DMI) had formally informed the Nigerian Army and the Federal Government that an attack on Dapchi was imminent and that the warning was brushed under the carpet and ignored raises even more questions.

Finally some time back the Daily Trust Newspaper and BBC Hausa Service reported that on two separate occasions the military came very close to capturing Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, but that they were ordered by someone in Abuja to step down the operation, back off and let him go at the last minute. This again begs the question: who gave the order and why?

We need to know what is really going on because it looks as if some of these people were complicit in these terrible and shocking events!

All this is bad enough yet nothing exposes the level of deceit and insincerity of the Buhari administration more than their reaction to the abduction. First they said "no girls were kidnapped!" Then they said "sorry we lied!"

Then they said "ALL the girls have been rescued!" Then they said "sorry we lied!"

Then they said "SOME of the girls have been rescued!" Then they said "sorry we lied!"

Then they finally admitted that 110 girls had been taken and that none of them had been rescued, seen or heard from since. WHAT A GOVERNMENT!

Worse of all some of the parents of the abducted girls were detained, threatened and harassed by security agents and the military simply because they told the world the truth about what has happened to their girls and because they were exposing the lies that the government kept churning out.

If anyone doubts this they should please ask Stephanie Hegarty of the BBC who has done an excellent job in this respect and who has kept the international community aware of all the events with her twitter handle and her excellent reportage with the BBC.

That is how bad the situation is and our government has clearly lost control. They are more interested in covering up their own deceit, incompetence and complicity than fighting or stopping the activities of Boko Haram. (TO BE CONCLUDED).

IPOB Delta State Condolence Visit To Late Achuzie Family

                             

                                    IPOB DELTA STATE                     

                COMMISERATE WITH THE 

           FAMILY OF LATE CHIEF JOE ACHUZIE, 

                     AS THEY PAY A     

          CONDOLENCE VISIT TO THEM

                                     Report by Family Writers Press
With deep sense of humor, heart full of agony, eyes full of tears but with total submission to the will of Almighty God, the Indigenous People Of Biafra, (IPOB) Delta state chapter under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on 4th March, 2018, paid a condolence visit to the family of Late Chief Joe Achuzie, the Hannibal, Biafra Air Raid, Ikemba of Ahaba and the Biafra warlord, as they mourn their father who died recently after a brief illness at the Federal Medical Center, Asaba, Delta state. IPOB Delta state family, in a speech presented by state coordinator Mazi John Chukwuma, made it clear to the family of the deceased, stated that IPOB world wide sincerely appreciated the love and the contributions of their father, Biafra air raider during the Biafra war that lasted for three (3) years, in the struggle for the emancipation of the Biafran people, which took the life of millions of innocent children, men and women.

"We were denied of our own history as a result of its removal from the curriculum of the Nigerian schools but here we are today, with full knowledge on our identity (Biafra), made possible by our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu through his teachings on Radio Biafra Platform, hence our decision to be here to condole with your family".

 To this regard, IPOB Delta state and IPOB world wide under the leadership and command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, whose whereabouts is still unknown, want to promise our late father that Biafra he fought for will be restored under our watch. IPOB under Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will make sure that Nigeria is completely obliterated from the world map. We will never forget his efforts, even till death our father still stood for Biafra. Sometime last year, 2017, our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was here to visit our Father and was welcomed with open hands to show that the bond called Biafra is what runs in our veins, Mazi Chukwuma concluded.

However, in a appreciation speech, made by his daughter, Dr. Miss Chineze Annette Achuzie, who incidentally is the last child of the Achuzie's family, show her profound gratitude to IPOB world wide on how they were able to remember their father and their family during this grieving moment caused by the death of our father and prayed that God gives IPOB strength to continue to fight for the unfettered restoration of Biafra. "We lost our father but Biafrans in general lost a true Hero" said Dr. Chineze.

Also in company of the state coordinator was IPOB Delta state Executives and some representatives from IPOB VETERAN Delta state chapter, Family Writers Press correspondent was also live to cover the epoch event.

IPOB Delta state and IPOB world wide, join the family of Late Chief Joe ACHUZIE as they mourn the demise of their father and he will forever remain in our hearts until Biafra is restored and beyond.
May your gentle soul and and the souls of all the Biafrans who departed through this journey continue to chastise the Nigerian state until she is obliterated, Amen.

#Jee nke oma Hannibal Biafra
#Jee nke oma Biafra Air Raider
#Jee nke oma Biafra warlord
#Jee nke oma chief Joe ACHUZIE

We love you but Chukwu-Okike-Abiama loves you the most, Iseee.
Stay tuned with Family Writers Press as we bring to you the full condolence message from IPOB Delta state chapter and  IPOB VETERAN on the visit to the family of Late Chief Joe ACHUZIE. Coming soon on thebiafraherald.com..........