Covid-19 Pandemic and the smuggling of Almajiris : Open Letter To The Cross River State Executive Governor, Professor Ben Ayade

Covid-19 Pandemic and the smuggling of Almajiris : Open Letter To The Cross River State Executive Governor, Professor Ben Ayade

Your Excellency Sir,

In view of the ravaging Covid-19 Pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives globally, with very many infected victims grappling with reality, I very sincerely wish to draw your attention to the ongoing desperate attempts by Northern migrant Almajiris moving Eastwards. They have allegedly been released in droves albeit surresptiously too from the North, due to heightened wave of the deadly virus infection within that region. The nauseating Almajiri system operational in that part of Nigeria has become a disgusting nuisance to many and they are presently hiding under whatever cover to sneak into  Cross River State.

Disturbing reports are rife regarding the movement of these almajiris being deported from Kano and Kaduna States with  the craftiness of sneaking into Southern/Eastern parts of Nigeria. I wish therefore, to plead with you Sir, that your government seriously tighten all land, air and sea borders of the State against easy accessibilities, with crack team of Cross River State Covid-19 Task Force Officials, manning them. This measure if strictly adopted, will preventively, stem the spread of the epidemic across the territories of the State.

It is equally pertinent for you Sir, to duly beam your searchlight on the existing Almajiri Settlements within, to pro-actively curb additional influx of these set of beings  into our State. The life of all Cross Riverians must have to be jealously protected from the danger of this deadly disease.

Your Excellency Sir, whatever action that needs be expeditiously taken to protect and safeguard the life of the good people/residents of Cross River State at this critical period in human history, should be accordingly taken, without any reservation. It has become a glaring reality that Covid-19 plague is mercilessly dealing with the world, with no definitive curative antedote reliably made available to save victims.

All deliberate policies/efforts must therefore be optioned to contain and defeat the Northern Arewa attempt to sinisterly dispatch the Almajiris to the Eastern States and especially, Cross River State, to infect our people with the virus.

I however, salute your courage and swift response in ordering the trucks laden with these Almajiris, back to their States of origin. High level of surveillance aimed at keeping our State/people safe at all times must be maintained.

#GodBlessCrossRiverState!

Faithfully yours,

Benpraise Loveson Agweye
(Concerned Cross Riverian)

Nigeria Government Instigating Identity Crisis Among Biafrans

Nigeria Government Instigating Identity Crisis Among Biafrans

By Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi
For Family Writers Press International.

Let me tell you something, Many people don't actually know exactly what Nigeria did to us during and after the war. I have a document where a missionary narrated his experience in Calabar. How the Nigeria Federal Government invaded Calabar and massacred people.

He would have been a victim, if not for a Middle belt commander of the Nigeria military who is a Catholic. It was so terrible. Today, the atrocities of these Nigeria forces is blamed on the Igbos. Some even said Ndị Igbo carried it out themselves. Imagine Ndị Igbo using the limited weapons to fight their own people? By the way, is Igbo the only soldiers in Biafra?

Like I said, many things happened, forcing people to deny their identity.

Older Onitsha men and women till this very day still don't regard themselves as Igbo. They detest Igbo and always call you 'nwa Onye Igbo'(son of an Igbo man/woman). They push you out with this sad look that spits racism. 'Bịa nwa onye Igboa' always said in a derogatory manner. Those that lived in Onitsha after the war can bear witness to this.

Imagine if Onitsha were to be included in today's South South like the military government of IBB wanted to do. We will have many 'detribalized intellectuals' from there writing how they don't have any Igbo ancestry. Their non inclusion in South South tamed the futuristic madness that would have enveloped them.

So you can imagine what is going on in the mind of an average Asaba man or Anioma in general. I mean those of them with acute identity crisis. One told my brother he is not Igbo. The war and the policies Nigeria embarked on after the war was just to destroy Igbo people through divide and rule. They used lots of prominent Ndị Igbo from Anioma, Ikwere, Etche etc to perfect this. That is why today, a brother to Kaduna Nzeogwu will shamelessly come out to say he is not Igbo.

The creation of South South is a blunder, and the name Niger Delta is a slave name. I still don't understand how someone located in Imo state should be answering South East, while someone in the extreme East in Calabar will be answering South South. How can Rivers and Akwaibom be answering South South, while Imo and Abia lying next to them are called South East. These things are completely abnormal. But it is good for the agents of division, who for more than 50yrs profited in the division of Eastern people.

When people say 'Niger Delta people', I laugh and want to roll on the floor. What is Niger Delta People? Who are these people? People who live in the bank of the river or those that have oil? Is it the Efik or the Ijaw? The Edo or the Igbo? Is it in places we have people with oil deposit? Will Sokoto join  if crude oil is discovered in the state? Do oil contribute to the identity of a people?

The issue is that people like Elechi Amadi who was contracted to deceive his people and sow the seeds of identity crisis among youths never got time to confess their dealings with the Nigeria Federal government, who took it upon themselves to dismember and destroy the Igbo heritage. Reading through the novel 'Concubine' will tell you that there is no difference between Elechi Amadi and an average Egbema man.

It pains me to see Igbo man deny his identity, but I have resolved that I will always work on my emotions when I encounter one. If Onitsha of all people can fall a victim of this identity crisis, who wouldn't?

When I see Igbo people who detest their brothers because of the state Nigeria carved them into, I pity them. Nigeria has done worse than any deadlier terrorists group out there can ever boast of. Nothing destroys a people more than stealing their identity from them. This is exactly what Nigeria did by removing history from our educational curriculum. Today, people in their 30s and 40s have lived based on lies the Nigeria government planted in them through their dubious media. The result is that we now have a people who embrace their killers and rapists that defiled their mothers during the genocidal war of 1967/70. Before the Biafra genocide, there was a pogrom that took the lives of more than 30,000 Easterners. Why didn't their fathers tell them that it was the Igbo in the present South East  that killed their people in that pogrom? Or don't they know that Efik, Ijaw, Ikwere, Onitsha, and Anioma people were also massacred in that pogrom of 1966.

We that are aware of these lies have a lot of work to do. The educational system in Nigeria has destroyed lots of brains. Pushing these people away won't help, even though they appear very much ignorant and annoying.

That some of them claim they were forced to be Igbo is the very height of it. But we must continue and not relent.

That the five South East states can make a nation is very undoubtable, but that is not whom we are. We are a people even before they started dividing us.

We are all Biafrans; and that we shall remain.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist.


Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba
For Family Writers Press International.

Covid-19: The Radical Revolutionist

Covid-19: The Radical Revolutionist

Before now, there was tension all around the world and it was as if world war 3 is around the corner. From South to East, there was problem, from North to West, there was crisis. It was as if God has allowed the evil ones to take over the world. North Koreans were preparing a war with United States, Iranians were preparing retaliation war with same US. Palestinians were busy battling it out with Israel, while Israel never breathed with the troubles in Gaza.

It was as if the evil men of the world have seen an opportunity to dictate to the believers. Some of the western countries have started seeing President Donald Trump as the problem of the world, all the Muslim countries see PM Benjamin Netayahu and Israel as the problems of the Muslim world, some Nigerians see IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as the only torn on the flesh of Africa most especially Nigeria. In US, it was as if, if Donald Trump is not impeached the world would not be again. In the Muslim world, it was as if, if Solomon’s temple is not given to them, the whole world will collapse. In Nigeria, it was as if, if Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not killed and IPOB decimated, Nigeria will not be again but to no avail, none of this people were the problems of the world.

God being the game changer, the only being that can write straight on a crook line, the Mighty Man in battle who knows the best for His people, the only God who watches when others are asleep, who promised never to fail his faithful. According to the Holy Book, “He has made no one powerful enough to proclaim His works, who then can reveal His marvelous deeds, who can calculate His majestic strength and wholly relate His great goodness? Nothing can be added to them or taken away from them; no one can comprehend the wonders of the LORD.

When man thinks he has finished, then He only begins and when He stops, man is puzzled by it all." The Ten plagues as recorded in the bible are the adversities God sent to the Egyptians when Pharaoh refused to let the Hebrews go free. The plagues which are recorded in the book of Exodus are a manifestation of God’s power over not only Pharaoh, but also over the gods of Egypt. Ten times God through Moses, allowed Pharaoh to change his mind, be remorseful and turn to the one true God, each time increasing the harshness of the consequence of the plagues suffered for defiance to his request. Ten times, Pharaoh because of pride and arrogance refused to be taught by the Lord and received "judgments" through the plagues it manifested upon his head from Moses the deliverer. In many ways God has warned us but we refused to hear His voice.

The burning question demanding an answer is, when are these so-called leaders and rebellious dictators, members of ruling class dripping in the blood of millions ever going to be held accountable for the vast human suffering they have and continue to sow across the world? Coronavirus, just like the plagues God sent to Egyptians; came at a point the world and some world leaders thought they were strong enough to change the plans of God, when the world was heading into damnation, at the point when some heart-hardened men were planning to come against the sons and daughters of the Most High. At some point in life revolution is needed to be taught and corrected.

Covid-19 if you ask me, came to teach us the lesson of our life, to soften the heart of the wicked, to let us know that we are created; we are never the creator, to draw us back to our right senses and bring us back to our Creator. Coronavirus came at the time our rich political leaders have started seeing themselves as the Alpha and Omega, as demigods. They thought of themselves as the owners of the world, seeing the citizenry as slaves they can kill at will. It came to teach them a great lesson, to let them know the importance of good governance.

Before now, these political vampires especially Nigerian politicians rival one another in displaying their stolen goods, in the idolatrous images of high-rising condominiums, business ventures, and fleets of ostentatious cars, corpulent bank accounts, flamboyant lifestyles and other excessive ways of life. Covid-19 came to teach the political elites a lesson of their lives, to let them know that it's better to equip hospitals with modern and original drugs. And still they travel abroad for medication, investing in Swiss Banks, some have started confessing they never knew how dilapilated our hospitals are until the emergence of Covid-19.

But one thing these men of dishonor who prefer displaying their ignorance forget is that absolute power does not only corrupt absolutely, it also destroys awfully. And forgot to remember that political power is for the service of the people governed, but when it is inversely used to fleece the masses and destroy the life-supporting structures it will not only affect the masses it will also ultimately consume those who exercise it.

Nigerian rulers were obviously turning the power of governance into a license to financial and administrative recklessness cum immunity from probe. But Covid-19 is the biggest radical revolutionist that came to teach and educate both the poor and rich some hard lessons. And that has beome the only way out of the mess.

Written by Obulose Chidiebere N.

Edited by Domendu Emilia
For Family Writers Press International

THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF THE BIAFRAN HERO

THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF THE BIAFRAN HERO

Historically, a hero is that individual who fights and retreats with the intent of surprisingly launching back for victory. Anyone who fought, gets captured or carelessly killed in a battlefield cannot be said to be a hero but a coward. A hero is not only articulative but wise in reasoning, ably determining when the battle is dangerously life threatening. He can  initiate an escape and then re-strategies for a definitive re-launch. There abounds very notable world heroes in our contemporary times who actually engaged in battles, ferociously fought and retreated. They came back and successfully concluded their fights even unto victory. Such personalities include Abraham Lincoln, Puli thevar who fought and defeated the British and Nawab of Arcot in 1755. Jayi Rajaguru He was a prominent figure of Indian independence movement in the state of odisha, B. R. Ambedkar was the Founding father of Republic of India and the architect of the Indian Constitution, he played role in country's struggle towards indepndence.

HISTORICAL BIRTH RECORD OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU

The trusted and fearless leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) globally, Prince Nnamdi Okwu-Kanu, a celebrated living Biafran Hero, who herein forms the basis of this write-up, was born at the heat of the Nigeria/Biafra war between 1968 and 1969. He hails from Afara-ukwu, Ibeku kingdom in Umuahia, Abia State, Biafraland. He was naturally and thoroughly bred without additional food supplement due to the devastating war condition. His upbringing and growth really experienced toughness. This foundation saw him through moments of persecutions in the hands of the Nigerian government. His uncompromising stance against all sheds of evil gave him unmatchable edge over the likes of Mazi Raphael Uwazurike amongst others. Mazi Nnamdi Okwu-Kanu attended his Primary School at Afara-ukwu, Ibeku and his Secondary School at Federal College, Umuahia, Abia State, Biafraland.

His higher educational and political career witnessed exceptional feats. He attained his University Education in London, Great Britain and on completion, joined the All Progressives Grand  Alliance (APGA), a political party formed by the late People's General, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu. This he got involved with, all in the bid to have his fellow Biafrans liberated from Nigeria-orchestrated bondage of servitude. He was made the party's coordinator from his London base due to his potent commitment and intelligence. Mazi Nnamdi Okwu-Kanu had the ample opportunity of becoming a billionaire like others but instead, chose to toe the path of truth and justice, seeing how corrupt, insincere and visionless most APGA party members had disappointedly become. He left the party eventually for MASSOB, a movement founded by Mazi Raphael Uwazurike, to join forces with him for the liberation of his Biafran people.

HIS DETERMINATION TO HAVE HIS PEOPLE LIBERATED

As young and articulated hero he really was, bubbling with unmatchable zeal and commitment, he totally dedicated all he had to the Biafra restoration movement to it's logical conclusion. His assumption of the directorship of Radio Biafra stemmed from his wisdom and dexterity to the liberation struggle. It should be noted that just like APGA, MASSOB also reneged on it's original vision and goal. Members started hobnobbing with Nigerian corruption indices. This honest liberation activist (Mazi Nnamdi Okwu-Kanu), could not stomach the deceits. He therefore confronted the leader, Mazi Raphael Uwazurike,   telling him pointedly to his face that he has deviated from the original plan of the movement. And because he remained unconvincable to continue to be part of their fraudulent activities under the guise of freedom fighting, they out frustration, labelled him a traitor, seeking for ways to permanently do away with him. He was kidnapped and cajoled, yet he remained defiantly unruffled. He finally formed his own freedom fighting movement called the INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB).

To further prove how ruggedly determined he was towards the total liberation of his people, he openly declared to the Nigerian government that he was coming home to Biafraland on the 15th of October 2015. This he realistically did, shunning the despotic policies/threats of the hellish enclave of a country. On arrival in Lagos, he was quickly arrested, tortured and eventually detained by the Nigerian security operatives for two good years without trial. God in His awesome ways, intervened and the courageous and indefatigable Biafran liberation leader was released in the first quarter of 2017. Between the period of his freedom from extra-judicial incarceration and the Nigerian military invasion of his country home at Afara-ukwu Ibeku, Nigeria as a country was abysmally collapsing through his tours and campaigns for freedom across the entire Biafraland. This unanticipated moves prompted the desperate Nigerian government to plot through the military, his assassination on the 14th of September 2017.

MILITARY INVASION OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU'S FAMILY RESIDENCE

On that fateful day of 14th September 2017, a battalion of the Nigerian army aided by the Nigerian airforce, murderously carried out a military expedition/invasion of his family residence at Afara-ukwu, Ibeku, in Umuahia Abia State, with the primary purpose of getting him assasinated. But he was miraculously evacuated away from reach by M Branch, travelling through dangerous routes to safety in the blessed land of Israel.

THE HERO'S SOJOURN IN ISRAEL FROM BIAFRALAND

Armed with the full knowledge of the intent of the British government fronting for Nigeria against the IPOB leader and the Biafra restoration quest, his arrival in Israel was necessitated by pre-emptive highly classified Israeli government's arrangement.

His stay in Israel, afforded him the honor and privilege to:

* Roundly disarm the evil intents of the Nigerian government through his consistent shopping for the support of relevant world powers in the Biafra restoration project.

* Fully sensitize IPOB family members in the diaspora.

* Travelled extensively to Western Europe, Asia, Australia, etcetera, soliciting for needed assistance in the liberation struggle.

* His chain of brilliant performance earned him invitations to both the United Nations and European Union on the 10th and 18th of September 2019 respectively.


These and others are encouragingly being outlined to fast track Biafra freedom. Most powerful nations of the world including the United States of America, Israel, Russia, etcetera, are exceptionally showing interest now on issues relating to Biafra. A day is coming when the celebrated Biafran Hero, Mazi Nnamdi Okwu-Kanu will stand out in the midst of his Biafran brothers and sisters in Biafraland, matching majestically and gloriously, and lifting the Biafran flag high without harassment, oppression and threat of death. The waters and land of Biafra with the skies over her, will enjoy safety, security, peace and tranquility, devoid of enemies' incursions. That awesome day which is highly imminent, as ordained by the Almighty God Himself, will witness an unprecedented cooperation of the elements of creation. God's love and glory will saturate the entire Biafra territories with inviting glamour, to the amazement of humanity.

The recent biased and grossly compromised ruling of the ECOWAS court, the massive military invasion/occupation of Biafraland, coupled with the visaless invite of Africans to   the country come 2020, by the Fulani cum Islamic government of Nigeria, will never ever stop the Biafra restoration mandate. The glorious return of the Biafran Hero, Mazi Nnamdi Okwu-Kanu, is divinely ordained by Chukwuokike Abiama (God Almighty) and certainly must be, Amen. Biafrans must be free!

May God richly bless all the civilised international bodies and nations of the world that have sacrificed and are yet sacrificing for Biafra and her citizens!

God bless the nation of Biafra!!

God bless Mazi Nnamdi Okwu-Kanu, leader of IPOB!!!

Written by Deacon Sam Izodinma
IPOB Igweocha Elders Council Chairman

Edited by Peter Oshagwu
For Family Writers Press International

NIGERIA: A COUNTRY WITHOUT A FUTURE

NIGERIA: A COUNTRY WITHOUT A FUTURE

A country without security,
A country that breeds terrorists,
A country without power supply,
A country where peaceful protest is against the law,
A country where a demand for referendum is a case of treasonable felony,
A country rated as the most miserable place on the planet,
A country where there is zero hope.

This same country, where an imposter is the President.
This same country, where the Army recruits Boko Haram terrorists into the military,
This same country, where the Police collaborates with Fulani terrorists herdsmen to stop kidnapping,
This same country, where terrorists and Kidnappers are paid one hundred billion Naira.

Oh! This country without any industrialization,
Oh! this country with only one seaport amid so many rivers,
Oh! this country with abundance of wealth yet the poverty capital of the world,
Oh! this country with abundance of crude oil deposits, yet import petrol,
Oh! this country with enormous gas reserves, yet no power supply,
Oh! this country with enormous and brilliant medical doctors
yet no adequate medical facility.

Why should there be humans living in this contraption?
Why shouldn't the youths look for greener pastures in far away lands? Why shouldn't the youths look for means of livelihood instead of mere existence?
why shouldn't the youths demand for freedom from this entity of damnation?
Why shouldn't the youths demand a better life and justice system to live like humans?
Why, just why?

Written by Anioke Chukwunonso
For Family Writers Press International

BIAFRA: CALL FOR DIALOGUE NOW WITH IPOB OR FORGET ABOUT 2019 ELECTION, FANI-KAYODE TELLS BUHARI

BIAFRA: CALL FOR DIALOGUE NOW WITH IPOB OR FORGET ABOUT 2019 ELECTION, FANI-KAYODE TELLS BUHARI

Kingsley John Chibuzor
Reporting For Family Writers Press

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on Saturday 21st July 2018, paid a condolence visit to Femi Fani-Kayode on the death and burial of his mother-inlaw, late madam Leticia Chinyere Chikwendu, at Umuire in Umuahia North local government area of Abia State. In an interview with the Family Writers Press, Dr. Femi Fani-Kayode expressed deep appreciation for the turn out of thousands of IPOB family members from different clans and provinces within Biafraland to condole with him and his family. He thereby requested that he be taken to the destroyed residence of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the courageous and highly intelligent leader of the IPOB, by the Nigerian army which was murderously invaded on the 24th of September 2017, with a number of Biafrans killed. This he said was to enable him get on- the-spot account of atrocities committed.
Dr. Femi Fani-Kayode seeing the extent of damages carried out in the residence of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu at Afara-ukwu, Ibeku in Umuahia, Abia State,  as he got to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the company of IPOB family members, wept for such acts of inhumanity meted out against an individual who never killed, even in the 21st century. He expressed bitterness at the wanton destruction of damaged vehicles riddled with bullets amongst other properties within the compound. The highly enlightened freedom fighter and lawyer further gave the narrative of the massacre of Biafrans by the Nigerian military during the Nigeria/Biafra war between 1967 and 1970, which recorded the death of over 3.5 million Biafrans including men, women and children. 300 Biafran  combatants of Igbo extraction, serving then in Northern Nigeria, were secretly executed by the Nigerian forces. It was the raping and killing of Biafran men, mothers and young women which infuriated late General Odimegwu Ojukwu to wage a war of defense for the Biafra nation.

Analysing the present precarious situation in Nigeria, Dr. Femi Fani-Kayode emphasized that the only option, is through the instrumentality of a round table dialogue between the Nigerian government and the IPOB that will bring remedy. President Muhammadu Buhari has to engage the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in a meaningful and peaceful dialogue now or there will be absolutely nothing like election come 2019, most essentially because IPOB remains the heartbeat and voice of the Eastern region.

He called on the family members of the IPOB worldwide, to remain resolute and undeterred with their "Peaceful Method" in seeking for self-determination which is an inalienable right of the people as enshrined in the laws of the United Nations. Your dreams must surely be realized in the nearest possible future he re-echoed, pointing out that invaluable sacrifices have been made for this cause.

AN OPEN LETTER TO A LETTERED PRESIDENT

AN OPEN LETTER TO A LETTERED PRESIDENT

Dear President Donald Trump,

   I am delighted to write this warm and heartfelt letter to you. Ever since you emerged as the US President, this is my first time of writing officially to you. Perhaps, words are not sufficient for me to express my joy over the pyrrhic victory you recorded in the last US Presidential election. Though, there was a serious clandestine gang up among the power brokers. Many fought tooth and nail against your candidacy

Media giants, such as CNN, BBC and a host of other media outlets took it upon themselves to defame and run down the political efficacy of your person. But against all odds, you surmounted and rattled many political Thomas in the global politics. Once again, congratulations over your victory and also for the giant stride your administration has recorded in the shortest period of time. I have always believed in the political mojo of your candidacy and that was the reason why Biafrans all over the universe campaigned vigorously for your success when you went to the poll irrespective of the strong repudiations from some political mischief makers that miscalculated our collective resolve

Sir, this letter will be presented in three folds. First, to remind you the plight of the oppressed people of Biafra. Secondly, to bring to your knowledge again, the murderous disposition of the man (Mohammed Buhari) you are slated to meet on the 30th of April, 2018 in the White House and lastly, I will summarise by  making a passionate appeal to your government to act now before the situation of things will get out of hand. Remember, a stitch in time they say, 'saves nine'
             
               PLIGHT OF BIAFRANS

Sir, Biafrans are the indigenous people occupying the Eastern part of the British creation called Nigeria. 95% of Biafrans are Christians and republicans in nature. Since the forceful amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorate in 1914 by the British economic hitman named Lord Lugard, Biafrans unfortunately have continue to be an endangered specie. Millions of Biafrans have been killed and chased away from their ancestral homes by the marauding children of Othman Danfodio. From 1966-1970, Nigerian government in collaboration with Britain orchestrated the worst genocide in the history of mankind against the children of Light (Biafrans) which saw the starving of one million children to death and the total of 6 million innocent Biafrans losing their precious lives in a war that was completely avoidable

Biafra is a land blessed with rich natural resources and great human potentials. Our natural resources ranges from crude oil, coal, gas, limestone, rubber and many more that time and space wouldn't allow me to outline but in the midst of this plenty, Biafrans are still fraternising with poverty. It is a known fact that Nigeria is called today an oil producing country as a result of the huge crude oil deposit in Biafra land. Even the best brains that navigate the economy of Nigeria are Biafrans. We constitute the economic live wire of Nigeria. Without the material and human potentials of Biafrans, Nigeria is nothing but a walking corpse

Biafrans are facing the worst fate in the history of human race. Shell with other multi national corporations that are into oil exploration have polluted Biafra land through a wide spread oil spillage. Our old retirees can't cultivate on the farm land again (unprecedented oil spillage has contaminate the farm land) and aquatic life totally destroyed.This atrocious act is been executed with an affirmative approval of the Nigerian government. As an oil producing region, coupled with the billions of US dollars that accrues into the government coffers annually, there are no good roads, schools, hospitals, no standard international and local airports, seaports, no job opportunities for Biafrans and the penchant for official corruption is rife. Only infinitesimal nonentities from the region are benefiting from the lopsided structure of Nigeria.These political scoundrels only fight to protect the interest of their family members and cronies at the expense of aggrieved millions of Biafrans scattered all over the world. They have never represented the interest of Biafrans and will never do

Biafrans have continue to live in fear and misery. More than 30 million hard working Biafrans are domicile in Europe, America and Asia as a result of these economic and political emasculation. There is no better life and future for Biafrans in Nigeria hence, the frenzy to seek for a greener pasture beyond the shores of Africa becomes inevitable. A people swimming in abject poverty in the midst of plenty. The most humiliated and oppressed people in the world. How long will this persist? This is an important question that is begging for a serious answer

UNMASKING THE MASS MURDERER CALLED MOHAMMED BUHARI

Sir, frankly speaking, I am highly elated that you have finally invited Mr Buhari to the White House. It is a political move I have been expecting to see for a very long time but remember, he that dines with the devil must do that with a long spoon

Sir, are you aware that the man you will be meeting on the 30th of April is a mass murderer? He was among the psychopathic beasts that ordered and supervised the killing of 6 million Biafrans from 1966-1970

On the 20th of January 2017, he ordered the slaughtering of 11 peaceful and armless Biafrans who were on a solidarity march to your government (Trump Solidarity Rally) in the city of Port Harcourt on the day of your inauguration! Are you also aware that between 2015 and 2018, more than 10 thousand Biafrans have been killed with machine guns and chemical weapons? And unccountable numbers illegally incarcerated in military dungeons? The man named Mohammed Buhari singlehandedly spearheaded the military invasion of the home of the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (Nnamdi Kanu) in Afaraukwu, Abia State under the code name, 'Operation Python Dance II' which led to the killing of 28 innocent civilians and many decimated and rendered incapacitated for life. What a collateral damage! Till date, nobody knows the way about of the leader of IPOB, the mother and father after the brutal military raid

Are you aware that between 12 and 14 December 2015, over 1000 Shiites (IMN- Islamic Movement Of Nigeria) were massacred through a bloody military operation under the command and control of the man you will be meeting on the 30th of April? Not only that, the leader of the Shiites movement (Sheikh Ibrahim Elzakzaky) was brutalised, humiliated and shot several times. As it stance now, he has lost one of his eyes and partially paralysed because of the ruthless torture and inhuman condition of the dungeon where the murderous government of Nigeria dumped him. The wife was not spared. She was shot multiple times on the stomach while three of his sons who were on vacation were shot point blank in different locations

Sir, are you aware that the man you are slated to meet on the 30th of April is a terror sponsor? Bokoharam (a terrorist organisation) once appointed him as their sole mediator. Since his government came on board in 2015, he has released and compensated dreaded bokoharm commanders with millions of US dollars.This has aided the rampaging and unrepentant killers to acquire more lethal weapons and reinforced to maim innocent citizens with impunity

Sir, are you truly aware that there is a serious ethnic cleansing that is on going in Nigeria? In a place called middle belt, mothers, fathers, young youths and children have been massacred in cold blood. Infrastructures worth millions of US dollars destroyed and thousands of people displaced from their homes. This pathetic situation compelled an influential former Major General named Theophilus Danjuma to accuse the military of colluding with the terrorists to snuff life out of innocent civilians. He called on the people to rise to the ocassion of defending themselves againt the marauding herders or they face the worst extinction in the near future. Devilishly, some criminal elements masquerading as 'ASO ROCK CABAL' angrily called for his head for speaking the truth

On the 24th of April 2018, two catholic priest and 13 other parishioners were shot and dismembered into pieces and the man called Mr Buhari sees nothing bad about it. Nobody has been arrested for all these mayhem. We have not heard any form of condemnation from the PAPACY. All we hear are conspiratorial condemnations that holds no ground from the Nigerian Presidency. They tell trivial lies of how the police and the army are working lazily to apprend these depraved killers (Fulani terrorist organisation) who are operating under a Presidential cover

I want to also bring to your knowledge that the man you are slated to meet on the 30th of April does not have respect for the rule of law and constituted authority. This is a man that has disrespected several court injunctions,  hounded and cowed the judiciary to become mum. He has intimidated and arrested political opponents on trump up charges. A man that has no regard for merit and competence. He appointed his cronies and incompetent love ones to man all the security formation in the country without considering the principle of FEDERAL CHARACTER. He is nothing but a treasury looter and a mass murderer enmeshed in clannishness and self ego

           MY PASSIONATE APPEAL

Sir, I am not in any way trying to castigate President Buhari or neither are my penning down all these things about him in other to flog up sympathy. I am only writing the truth and nothing but the bitter truth. A lot of terrible things have been committed under the political stewardship of Mr Buhari but surprisingly enough, democratic role models like America is not raising an eyebrow. Does it mean that Biafrans are not valued when compared to the kind of response that the power brokers gave to the Syria gassing saga? Is it because we are blacks that comes from a dark Africa? America with other power brokers (France and Britain) never hesitated to send ballistic missiles to bomb down Assad chunk of chemical facilities to ashes. Millions of Biafrans have suffered the worst fate more than the people of Syria but nobody has been held to account for it. What did we commit to deserve this wicked conspiracy from the people we share the same faith with and political inclination? It is rather disheartening that things are falling apart this way

Sir, I want to appeal to your conscience that America and other world leaders must 'act now' before the situation of things will blow out of proportion. I must state the obvious fact that Biafrans are running out of patience and if something is not done urgently, we might resort to any defensive mechanism at our disposal to revise this ugly trend which many will not like including you

We are not asking too much! We are not asking for Ministerial appointments, the position of the Senate President, to become the President or the vice President. We are only asking for a well organized and supervised REFERENDUM. Biafrans should be given the opportunity to decide their political future. It is their political right. The call for a REFERENDUM is never a call for war. We want to test the POPULARITY of 'one Nigeria' through the Ballot. One Nigeria through the barrel of the gun is nothing but a full blown fiasco

Instead of resorting to the use of violence in fronting our lofty demands, we whole heartedly embraced the path of REFERENDUM. We believe strongly that REFERENDUM will quell and solve all the problems that have breeded internal wrangling, suppressed peace and development for more than 57 years now and still counting, in Nigeria

Sir, your government must persuade President Buhari and his co travellers to set a date and conduct a transparent REFERENDUM. There is no alternative or option to this demand

However sir, you must order President Buhari to release all Biafran political prisoners that are languishing in different prison facilities in Nigeria. He must release Benjamin Mmadubugwu, Bright Chimezie Ishinwa, David Nwawusi, Chidiebere Onwudiwe and other legions of political prisoners unconditionally. Biafrans are peace loving people and not trouble makers. These innocent Biafrans have not committed any crime that will warrant their torture and illegal detention. Thousands of Bokoharam (a terrorist movement) members who have wrecked unimaginable disaster are been released, compensated and recruited into the army, police and secret intelligent agencies by Mr Buhari and no individual has the temerity to question him over such a security miscarriage. He is an overlord that rules with iron fist

Conclusively sir, I am so glad that you are making America great again! America has returned to it's glory because of your charismatic leadership. Obama almost reduced America to a toothless bull dog in the eyes of other power brokers. I will call you a child of necessity. You came when Americans and the world at large needed you the most. Thank you very much sir, for cleaning up some of the mess Obama left behind. But remember, to whom much is given, much is also expected of that person. You must make every concerted effort to reposition things in Africa. Africa must be a liberated people under your watch. This is a task you must complete

God bless Biafra!

God bless America!

In God we trust!

Accept my letter in good fate!

                         Yours Truly

                      Kalu Nwokoro Idika
                 
                    For Family Writers Press

You can email Kalu [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @KaluNwokoro

DISREGARD LAI MOHAMMED ILL CONCEIVED UTTERANCES---IPOB

IPOB PRESS RELEASE: DISREGARD LAI MOHAMMED ILL CONCEIVED  UTTERANCES---IPOB

NOVEMBER 26, 2017.

IPOB URGE THE PUBLIC TO DISREGARD  LAI MOHAMMED ILL CONCEIVED  UTTERANCES.

IPOB family and it's leadership worldwide do not wish to join issues with Lai Mohammed or those who may desire to indulge in the laughable fantasy that IPOB has been weakened as a result of the successful boycott of the fraudulent Anambra elections. Lai Mohammed's comments should be viewed as a cleverly contrived diversionary tactics to deflect attention away from the devastating impact of the boycott on the psyche of the corrupt ruling class in Nigeria. We are therefore inclined to ask all right thinking people to disregard this latest outburst from Lai Mohammed or better regard it as one of those his numerous ill thought out, ill conceived utterances.

By now the public must be well accustomed to these wild proclamations that bears no resemblance to reality. They said the same thing about ending the recession but as we all know, the ravaging impact of this economic recession is still being felt by ordinary people till today. Over the years many opinionated commentators have relentlessly harped on the fact that Biafra was dead and buried. Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo popularised this myth when he told journalists last year during an interview that Biafra was dead. But today, the activities of IPOB, ably led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has not only confirmed that Biafra is alive, it has proven that Biafra is the only issue capable of determining when Nigeria comes to an end not the other way round.

Admittedly, not many people understand the inner workings or the strategies IPOB deploy periodically to accomplish its stated objectives, so wild and idle speculations will be thrown about by enemies of Biafra in the hope of derailing our movement. Again we are not moved nor disturbed by any statement coming from Lai Mohammed's Ministry of Information because having spent so much money to ensure a complete media blackout of all IPOB related news stories, our impact continues to resonate and dominate political space in Nigeria.

As of today, IPOB remains the largest political movement on earth and we didn't get to this position of preeminence by allowing ourselves to be easily distracted by blatant lies that cannot stand up to scrutiny. Our focus remains the upcoming Biafrexit referendum in the middle of next year, where anticipated voter participation, especially in Anambra, will be nearly 100%. Nigerian government and her agents can say or do whatever they like, we IPOB can guarantee the people that we are on course to peacefully remove Biafra from the Luggardian contraption Nigeria.

It is on record that IPOB is firmly entrenched in more than 100 countries around the world and deeply rooted in the subconscious of a people determined to sacrifice whatever it takes for their freedom. To kill IPOB will mean having to dismantle family meetings all over the world at the same time, which is an impossible task for anyone to accomplish. IPOB has been set up in such a way that it can only grow not diminish. New family meetings are opening up all over the world on a weekly basis, so how can such a colossal movement be weakened by mere utterance.

It is very unfortunate that some Nigerians, who form the primary audience of Lai Mohammed's propaganda machinery, would allow themselves to be deceived by the cheap lie that IPOB have lost the confidence of the people. The same people that were meant to have lost confidence in IPOB obeyed the command of our leader to boycott Anambra elections which they did. Not even the vastly inflated INEC voters figures concealed the fact that IPOB succeeded in accomplishing their desired objectives of demonstrating that Anambra people want to be free from Nigeria.

Despite illegally tagging IPOB a terrorist group, numerous unlawful detentions, compromised judiciary, unlawful arrests and sustained campaign of calumny against IPOB, the people boycotted Anambra elections. What it proves is that IPOB is in charge because less than one percent, 0.45% to be precise, of registered voters actually participated in Anambra State elections.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

Detained Biafra Activists In High Spirit, As IPOB Donates Gifts, Food To Victims In Degema, PortHarcourt Maximum And Ahoada Prisons

Detained Biafra Activists In High Spirit, As IPOB Donates Gifts, Food To Victims In Degema, PortHarcourt Maximum And Ahoada Prisons

Written By Ibeh Gift Amarachi For Family Writers Press.


In the display of generosity and  rhythm of "Biafranism", which interprets into Love and Selflessness, the Indigenous People Of Biafra under the Leadership of citizen Nnamdi Kanu, accorded Drugs, Food Items and Clothes to IPOB detained victims at Degema, PortHarcourt Maximum and Ahoada Prisons.

The detained activists who are currently facing serious health issues arising from the brutality of Nigeria Security agents, had in the process, contacted infections, due to the nefarious and zero hygienic state of Nigeria Prisons.
They were accorded medications by IPOB such as drugs, following the prescription of the Prison Clinic Officials, who lack Good Medication to facilitate the cure of the faded health status of the detained IPOB activists remanded in various Prison custodies.

Over a hundred Indigenous People Of Biafra, are caged in various confinements facing unfounded charges of  treasonable felony, unlawful gathering, belonging to an unlawful society, murder, robbery and several uncorroborated charges, bothering on their rights to Self Determination.

The detained victims are clustered inhumanely in cells incapable of accommodating them, which has resulted to pernicious infections.
Just recently, the Nigeria Prisons Service outcried over the dranconian number of the Indigenous People of Biafra being remanded in various already congested prisons in the South-East and South-South regions, totally devoid of adequate facilities and logistics.
This inefficient prison facilities and space have been disastrous and hazardous to the wellbeing of the  detainees, which is enough evidential and factual reason to strike out the unsubstantiated charges over the innocent civilians exercising their right to Self Determination in accordance with the charter of the United Nations.

It is preponderant to let the world to know that, without the aid granted by the Indigenous People Of Biafra under the Leadership of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu, massive number of  IPOB detained victims would have lost their lives, as a result of starvation, untreated Infections, due to poor health facilities and overcrowding in Nigeria Prisons.


The Victims  however, appreciated the benevolence accorded to them and vowed never to capitulate in the quest for Biafra restoration, despite their unlawful incarceration and molestation.
They encouraged Biafran agitators "OUTSIDE WORLD" as they tagged those who are not on detention, to keep fighting for our Motherland, as they will never back down on the lawful quest.


The Indigenous People Of Biafra are urging the International Community and Human Right Organisations, to hastenly come to the aid of Biafrans suffering in various Nigeria dungeons and confinements, for their immediate release.

IPOB: OPEN LETTER TO ORJI UZO KALU

OPEN LETTER TO ORJI UZO KALU

Orji Uzo Kalu

Dear Orji Uzo Kalu,


Having read your warning that you should not be attacked for your comment that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has absconded the country and now is in London, I pray you will not in anyway see this my letter as an attack, but rather as words flowing out of a heart that has so much admired you, but now don't know if I stand confused or outrightly disappointed.

Sir, sometime ago in my university days, I picked interest in you after reading your background history. Learning that you actually became a student activist, and even participated in the "Ali Must Go" protest against the education minister of your time, made me admire you so much. Your personality enkindled the revolutionary spirit in me and I grew to pick interest in speaking for the oppressed and the marginalized. You paid the price. You were suspended due to your active participation in that protest, but this did not deter you from powering on. The school that suspended you has seen how you walked your way into becoming an 8years Governor. From nothing you rose up to something. Some people might say you enjoyed help from your rich mum, but we know that it is not everybody that will be as successful as you became, even with a billion dollar loan.
You left school to build your own business. Unlike the typical Nigerian who would go straight into crude oil business, and let the corruption in the oil industry grow and transform him into supper rich man, at the detriment of the masses, but you went into palm oil business. You were buying palm oil from the Eastern Nigeria (Biafra Land) to sell in the Northern Nigeria. When the business grew, you expanded into buying and reselling furnitures on a large scale. That you became the youngest Nigerian to receive the national merit award from President Ibrahim Babangida, at the age of 26 in 1986, is thought provoking. Your rise to power can not be said to be miraculous because right from the beginning you have shown the resoluteness and determination of a leader.

Today, as a little boy turned man, I stand to ask, what happened to my man Orji Uzo Kanu? Is he still that student activist I admired so much or has he changed? Does it mean that no revolutionary can ever swim the corrupt waters of Nigeria and come out incorruptible? Sir, reading you this days leaves me wondering. And I know many people are feeling same. Watching you refer to Igbo youths as 'abuses hurling boys' all in the bid to be scored as "good" by the Fulani Masters swept off the respect I have for you.

Sir, it is quite unfortunate that after Buhari unleashed operation Python Dance II on the peaceful Igbo communities, starting from Afara Ukwu Ibeku, the only thing you were quick to tell the world was how Mazi Nnamdi Kanu absconded from Nigeria to London through Malaysia. In your own words, you said ..."Kanu was not taken away by the military. Kanu went to Malaysia from where he travelled to the United Kingdom. Nnamdi Kanu is in London right now as we speak. He was not arrested by anybody. He left the country on his own”.

Sir, that you made this statement when British government said it has written to Nigerian government asking for the whereabouts of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is also a British citizen is being mischievous and a sellout to your own people. How could you be so insensitive to the plight of your own people? You have been justifying the operation Python dance II, and have said no much thing concerning the torture and gruesome murder of Biafran youths. Sir, when I look at these youths peacefully protesting and demanding for referendum for Biafra, I see you in them. I see the boy Orji Uzo Kalu at the University of Maiduguri that led "Ali Must Go" riot. The only slight difference I see here is that you were gifted with suspension while the Biafra youths were mercilessly tortured by Nigerian military, forced to drink mud waters that led to their death, and also kidnap and shot many of them to death.

You claimed that you have asked the commander of the 14 Brigade Brig. AK Ibrahim about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's whereabouts and he said they don't know where he is. You also claimed you visited the commissioner of police and he did not know Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's whereabouts too. You even vouched for the Department of State Service even without asking them. With these, you concluded that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has absconded to London through Malaysia, using a fictitious relation of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as your proof. These were your words ..."One of his relations has spoken to me and explained everything because I wanted to see him and talk to him wherever he was and see how I could meet some Federal Government officials on his issue. I also wanted to see ways of talking to the President about him, and find common ground but his family told me that he has left the country, unless they are lying to me." Sir you also spoke with assurance in these words “I believe, whether he had left the country or not, he is not with the military because I asked the Commander of the 14 Brigade, Brig.-Gen. A.K Ibrahim, who is a very fine and good soldier, well educated and dedicated, and he told me that they don’t know his whereabouts and I am sure, the Department of State Services have the same information. I also visited the commissioner of police and he said he didn’t know his whereabouts and that they are also looking for him,”

Sir, how did you feel covering for the military that denied ever attacking Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's house, even when the video of the said attack was recorded live on Facebook? What actually are you protecting? What is your gain here? What happened to the man that challenged Ex- President Obasanjo's 3rd term bid? Has the Man suddenly died?

When you elders act in a certain way against your own people, and yet complain about attack from the youths, I wonder whether being an elder means being out of touch with reality. We all were here when Northern elders backed their youths when they unconstitutionally gave Igbos quit notice to vacate their enclave. We saw Southern Cameroon seek for independence and their leaders resigning from Parliament, all in solidarity with their people. But what did Igbo leaders do in the face of genocide against their people? They joined hands with the killers of their own people, due to crumbs from the masters table. Pathetic! Sir, these youths are not angry because you and other leaders are standing against dividing Nigeria. They are angry because they have watched you elders stand every time with their oppressors. You people have disappointed them even when they least expected it. Who would have believed that our Governors, you inclusive, will rise from a meeting after their youths have been extra judicially killed by the Nigerian military, only to support their killers by proscribing the activities of IPOB in South East Nigeria. Something Nigerian government have claimed they looked upto in branding IPOB a terrorist organization. Just as you all have the right to your opinion that Nigeria remains one, don't you also think that the youths have right to their own opinion, that Nigeria gives them right to referendum, so that they can decide whether they should be in Nigeria or not. That you leaders felt protected in Nigeria, and your children happy with brighter future abroad, these youths are not sure of their tomorrow. Nigeria have destroyed all the hope they have, killed their dreams and rendered them hopeless. Don't you think they have a right to challenge the amalgamation of 1914?, knowing fully well that the people they today see as founding fathers of Nigeria couldn't have signed the amalgamation document that binded the Northern and southern protectorate together, since Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in 1904, Obafemi Awolowo in 1909, Abubakar Tafawa  in 1912, Ahmadu Bello 1910 and Michael Okpara 1920. Who then signed the 1914 Amalgamation?

Sir, you said that Nnamdi Kanu absconded to London through Malaysia and I began to think if Nigeria have common boundary with Malaysia or would he have travelled to Malaysia without his travelling documents because the last time I checked those documents are still with the Department of State Service who illegally abducted him on 14th October, 2015 en-route his homeland. The youths are simply demanding leadership from you elders. Something they have seen in the leadership qualities of Nnamdi Kanu. Sir, I simply advice you all to start being leaders devoid of selfishness to these Igbo youths and see them prostrate before you all in adoration. Anything other than this will continue to send you all down until you all end up to the bottomless pit.

May Chukwu Okike Abiama save Biafrans from selfish leaders.

Yours sincerely
Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi
For Family Writers Press

WIZKID: LINDA IKEJI AND UNWORTHY STARS

WIZKID: LINDA IKEJI AND UNWORTHY STARS

By Ifeanyi Chijioke

For Family Writers

These are celebrities and should gossips be the other of the day; what are we learning from public figures like them. In Europe; a star is often expected to have a character that is worthy of emulation. This is so because people are looking up to them and they can influence a lot of underage and aspiring youth. Music industry is the worst in Nigeria; while their movie industry is nothing to write home about.

Corruption has affected everything in Nigeria and moral unit is nothing to consider. I once asked an aspiring musician how his musical career affects him. He boldly told me he always feels like using and dumping women; according them no respect or respecting their emotional feelings. He told me that he sees respecting women as weakness “They are nothing but bitches" he said. These musicians have lost respect for famine gender that needs tenderness; they can shout at them any moment and try to assassinate their characters; they have failed to understand that a woman is a balloon that deflects once thrusted. There is a need to start teaching them once again what being a star should be all about.

I have sought to question their tender beginning; what music is all about to them and why they should not always rant or feel proud. Unlike writing that is more sophisticated and professionally based, music is a thing of "beats" in Nigeria. Having sweet beats with meaningless lyrics, Music in Nigeria is devoid of inspiration and good English, I often ask what these musicians have that they should be celebrated, this is why I can't play a Nigerian music except 2face, and few of them. To me, lyrics is more important than beats and I can't always listen to how baby was kissed and held tight, I want to listen more of quotes and inspirational words that can help and inspire me.

Linda Ikeji is a Biafran woman,  she doesn't need to be fully involved in IPOB activities to be a Biafran. In our land, we respect women and treat them with caution. We don't publicly attack them and try to destroy their love life by making claims that are untrue, especially as regards to sex or love life. It may be quite strange to Linda Ikeji but our women shall be protected in Biafra. Wizkid must learn to desist from Biafran women and know they are special to us, we Biafrans forbid abusing our women and coming from a Yoruba is more of the reason we need Biafra, you can't be violating our culture and way of life in the name of one Nigeria.

There is need to start learning from Biafra, and need for stars to know that as public figures,  they play important roles in the society and must desist from unruly characters that are bound to influence. The case of saying baselessly that a Biafran woman was used and dumped by a classless Yoruba boss is quite odd. I strongly believe that is Yoruba women that go from one place to another like mad dogs. Biafran women must be respected because that is what they stand for "respect".