"In The Language They Will Understand", Buhari Stated.

President Muhammadu Buhari, in a recent interview, openly declared that his government is ready to repeat the genocide which the Nigerian State committed against Biafrans between 1967-1970. Record holds it that Britain masterminded the genocidal war levied against Biafrans, with Russia, Egypt and others as allies.

My focus on this article is on the brazenly open and defiant declaration of the Nigerian government's readiness to bring about a repeat of that evil once again, on Biafrans.

Systematically, the genocide is already on and is being driven tactically.

Recently, there was an attack on the home of Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This precisely happened on the early hours of Sunday morning being 6th June 2021, which resulted in the killing of his Personal Assistant,  Mr. Samuel Okoro (Biggie). He was barbarically burnt to ashes in Barrister Ifeanyi Ejioffor's Toyota vehicle. The Barrister's household attendants are yet to be released by the combined squad of the Nigeria Army, Police and Civil Defense, which in commando-style, invaded his home in Oraifite town, Ekwusigo Local Government Area, Anambra. They came fully armed on armoured carrier tank, toyota hilux vans and other vehicles, to intimidate and terrorize unarmed indigenous people. If this is not a clear indication of war, one then wonders what it really is.

On Wednesday 10th June 2021, a group of Fulani terrorists operating within Lokpanta, a location within Okigwe and Abia territory, abducted travelers who plied that route to various parts of the East. The abducted passengers, most of whom were women, appeared raped and devastated upon release. The women especially, would not stop crying.

The ongoing Owerri massacre has become a routine for over forty (40) days now and it is being carried out by the Nigerian joint military operations on innocent civilian population of Imo State, in a bid to systematically downgrade the Igbos. These are confirmations of the genocidal threat - "IN THE LANGUAGE THEY WILL UNDERSTAND".

The current DCP Abba Kyari, is from Borno state, Northern Nigeria, where terrorists have decimated hundreds of thousands of people and taken over their properties. Yet the Fulani led government under Buhari, is bent on repeating a genocide on peaceful populations in the East, as he threatened, for daring to ask for a referendum in the exercise of their legitimate right to self-determination as enshrined in the United Nations Charter of which Nigeria is signatory. For years now, the call for a referendum for Biafra has been met with acts of aggression. The East has become militarized, with soldiers and policemen firing live ammunition into peaceful protesting crowds and going on to abduct people from their homes at night for summary executions. 

The world should be aware that Biafrans are being exterminated and it is a well thought-out plan by the Nigerian government under Buhari. The principle of self-determination is prominently embodied in Article 1 of the Charter of the United Nations. It's inclusion in the UN Charter marks the universal recognition of the principle as fundamental to the maintenance of friendly relations and peace among member states. 

All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right, they freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social and cultural development. This is therefore, to alert the world that another genocide in effect to the comments of Muhammadu Buhari (the only Nigerian President that never grants a live interview or press conference), is ongoing in Biafraland.

An adage says that "it's only a tree that stands still after is threatened of being cut down". A goat when threatened would defend itself with it's horns, how much more a people with brains and God on their side.

Written by

Donald Okorie

Edited by 

Chukwunyere E. Emenogu

For Family Writers Press International

Nigeria, Desperately Beating The Drums Of War

 Nigeria, Desperately Beating The Drums Of War

To all the proponents of the Nigerian oppressive government, pertinent questions that need be asked are: Who really is fanning the embers of war in the country? Why is the Nigerian presidency carefully avoiding holding a meaningful dialogue with the "messengers of death"? Why has the military tactically refused, unleashing it's might on the Fulani killer herdsmen in their mad quest for control and domination in Benue State? Right under the nose of President Muhammadu Buhari, his home State, Katsina, the terrorists whom he proudly referred to as his "misguided brothers", had boldly kidnapped secondary school students in their numbers and he woefully failed to authorize the deployment of military might against the perpetrators. But elsewhere in the South-East, full blown military operation has been visited on the innocent, peaceful, law abiding civilian population. Is the demand for a REFERENDUM, a call for war? In Buhari's own words, all those that carried out protests at Lekki tollgate in Lagos, wanted him removed from office, really? Why have the operatives of the Department of Security Services (DSS), not yet been deployed against Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, the bandits' negotiator?

The Nigerian government remains the war drummer and this fully activated, will certainly consume all if caution is blatantly thrown to the winds. People are really fed up with the seeming endemic economic strangulation and spate of state-orchestrated insecurity ravaging the country. The government has consciously, visited the entire scenario with biasness and complacency. At the time when people can no longer fold their hands and be killed, the atmosphere is earnestly being charged for the unexpected. They will assuredly rise up with questions that need definitive answers. The citizens are totally saturated with mere life existence and need uncompromised security even in their beguiled esteem. All that the government can pride itself with, is shamelessly negotiating with dare-devil terrorists and at public glare, paying whooping ransom worth billions of dollars to them. The terrorists in reciprocation, have aggravated their attacks on the indigenous civilian populace, effortlessly kidnapping and killing as many students amongst others, as they could.

For simply and rightly demanding for a referendum and assemblying self-defence volunteers in the mold of Eastern Security Network (ESN), the Nigerian government got rattled in it's protection ambiguity for the forth most deadliest terror group in the world, whose evil activities have most terribly, been brought upon the people. The Aso Rock cabal has unleashed both the military and police on the civilians of mainly Igbo extraction (South-East), while Fulani terrorists maintain field days in their annihilative drives in Ebonyi and Imo States, respectively.

Recall that the same Nigerian government in the year 2018, handed over to the Islamic terrorists, unhindered (legitimate) resources through their admission into the Nigerian military and police.  It is therefore justified to categorically demand here that the army be immediately and unreservedly withdrawn from the streets, roads and communities, across Biafraland. Let the provocation  be brought to an end.

Written by Anioke Chukwunonso

Edited by Peter Oshagwu

For Family Writers Press International

True To Their Radical Islamic Ideology, The Fulanis Blame Others For Their Boondoggle Choices

 

Nobody was a better proponent of restructuring than I was before 2019 general election (selection?). On 17th October 2018, as a guest columnist on daily Sun Newspaper,  I made a strong case for restructuring with an article titled “VP SLOT, ATIKU AND SOUTH-EAST.” 

 

Fearing that the outcome of the 2019 election was already pre-determined, for the record, I joined my voice to those of the non-political and honest advocates looking for a win-win. The ascension to the political throne, in 2015, was followed by an up thrust in violence visited on the indigenous tribes on the table leaving the Fulani as the only tribe with full access to the seats at the table. It must be pointed out that the inaction of both domestic and international actors left the Fulani with no reason whatsoever to consider any suggestion or demand, other than their quest for blood – blood of baboons and dogs!  

 

Barack Obama did a maximum damage through his chief strategist, David Axelrod. History will forever be unkind to him. It was shocking, in 2015, to hear Northerners (non-Fulanis and non-muslims with Muslims) parrot the divide and rule talking points of David Axelrod's lobbying firm which was holding fort for APC, while I was coming from Jos end route Abuja; deflecting blame from Fulani for Boko Haram carnage in the North and placing them on President Jonathan. Well, with the demand for a Middlebelt (Kwararafa) Republic, it’s clear that they now understand that it was Obama doing British propaganda job albeit too late. 

 

One of the things taught by history is an Islamist's unending pointing of finger and lack of responsibility. They prefer to pass the buck and play the victims' card for their monstrous creation and self-serving expedition. As an example, Islamists blamed the crusaders even though Jihadism was the reason for its creation. Islamists blame the Jews for rising up and defending themselves. The same way Fulani Islamists blame Biafrans for setting up Eastern Security Network (ESN), for the defense of their homeland. 

 

Fulanis, as good students of radical Islamism, have learned the art of blame game. They have taken it up via another notch with the following: 

(a) That letter from the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) to Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Bayero, is a must read and a red flag. The Fulani group (There is no coalition in the group), is blaming Biafrans for their self consuming hatred, wickedness and poor choices. It is recommended. 

(b) The high illiteracy – especially female illiteracy rate, is a widely known time bomb ticking. That as well as the Almajiri policy is blamed on Biafrans (Of course when South is mentioned, we know who they are referring to), by people who have run the country from its inception. 

(c) We all know the genesis of terrorism and insecurity in Nigeria. However, the Fulanis are shaming and blaming the victims of their terrorism and the people asking for referendum (those they incorrectly refer to as secessionists), for the failed state status of Nigeria. 

It is not the intention of this writer to exhaust all the blames oozing from Fulani Islamists. Rather, the intended outcome is to stir conversation and make it a part of historical archive. 

 

To conclude, it is boondoggle to think or have a belief that anything other than complete and total dissolution is needed in Nigeria. The statement, “Divided we fall, united we stand”, has found its exception in Nigeria's situation. Now, the reality of the situation in Nigeria is that logically, it is deductible that “Divided we stand, united we fall.”  Know that and know peace! 

 

Written and edited by Chibueze Daniel 

 

For Family Writers Press International

Double-Faced Fulani Cabal Draconian Measures, Are Bonkers

 

Scholars have argued on several fora, that the Fulanis (without cynicism to their Arabic descent), are not smart enough to run a twenty-first century government. This assertion has witnessed a deluge of attacks from the woke corporations and celebrities whose established financial links to globalists are open secrets, (those whose profit racketeering is rooted in conflicts. For example, the billionaires became stupendously rich while the middle-class incurred losses and in most cases, lost businesses built painfully and patiently over a decade as the pandemic peaked).  

 

It is clear who is running Nigeria on Fulani behalf from the time of the incomplete decolonization through the MI6 convincing of Chukwuma Nzeogwu, to lead their coup to this moment. It is why a nomadic tribe from the Sahel that is hell-bent on conquering all indigenous tribes in Nigeria, is greenlighted while the victims of their atrocious acts, who are majorly Judeo-Christian adherents, are shamed by the world league of mainstream media for the simple reason that free access to Biafran oil and gas, is the bedrock of British foreign policy. 

 

However, while the Fulanis make a pretense of being in charge, let us highlight their double faced dictatorial policies that are bonkers: 

(a) There exists more or less, six terror groups in the North, killing the indigenous tribes of Gbagi, Nupe, Bachama, Beron, Jukun, Idoma, Hausa, Tiv, etcetera. Meanwhile, the combined team of Nigerian security forces are in Biafraland unleashing mayhem on defenseless civilians. 

(b) While the Fulani cabals claim that the Fulani herdsmen are foreigners, the same people are killing indigenous tribes and claiming their lands under military protection. At the same time, the National Identification Number (NIN) has been tailored to make them citizens while exposing the data of the indigenous people to a terrorist sympathetic National Communications Commission (NCC) Director-General, Isa Pantami. 

(c) At the time that the late Buhari (who was never scripted or shy of the media), campaigned during Goodluck Jonathan's administration, Twitter and of course other social media, were flooded with despicable, untruthful materials from Buhari and his campaign organization, totally critical of President Jonathan. It is the height of idiocy for the greatest beneficiary of social media, to ban Twitter. Machiavellian law explains that as a trait of a tyrant. 

(d) The most chilling of the draconian policies is the announcement by Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), that Nigerians must give up their International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI). This is not even practiced in communist China where the government surveils the citizens. With that in mind, it is now obvious that the digital footprint of every Fulani presidency critic is required for a witch-hunt. 

 

In conclusion, aside these fiats being bonkers, these executive orders are unprosecutable because they have no legislative or judicial back up. An executive order shall not be allowed absolute operation unless we have surrendered to a despot. The indigenous people must all rise up to the reality of Fulani hegemony. A word is enough for the wise! 

 

Written and edited by Chibueze Daniel 

 

For Family Writers Press International

Changing The Deceitful Narrative Of Possible Igbo Dominance Of Niger Delta People

It is most unfortunate that quite a number of the indigenous land owners in the artificially crafted South-South or better still, Niger Delta region so-called, have pitiably remained indoctrinated with the misleading narrative that the Igbos will most assuredly dominate them, in the event of the final emergence of the sovereign nation of Biafra. Some have rightly expressed the fear of Igbo socio-economic dominance due to either stark ignorance or tainted knowledge, should they be joined in a seperate nation with their kits and kin from the South-East religion. It therefore remains rather more puzzling to clearly spot out who actually is dominating who in the present architectural setting of Nigeria. Are the Igbos dominating? Why this unfounded fears of their possible domination of their own blood under the Biafra setting?

There is no gainsaying the fact that this unique human race has remained historically ingenious in virtually every progressive sphere of life. They are naturally wired to thrive and survive adventurously in whatever circumstance without any government assistance. The Igboman naturally prefers his entrepreneuralship with other considerations becoming secondary. The despicable, fallacious and grossly misleading narrative of possible domination, cannot  in anyway, survive intelligent constitutional framework of an emergent Biafran State. The deceitful theory is being floated to further puncture the unity and goal of the people, and so must be completely erased and jettisoned from our subconsciousness. So-called Niger Deltans or South-Southerners should forge a consolidated front even globally with their Igbo brethren to realistically advance this self-relization quest. The concocted and grossly unworkable Nigerian union brought upon us as a people, through the instrumentality of the British talored amalgamation of 1914, has over the years, been our greatest undoing. Nigeria has expired.

According to the proposed ideological  philosophy of the emerging Biafra nation known as the United States of Biafra (USB), the Constitution would be a joint draft of all relevant stakeholders from the various ethnic groups that will constitute the new nation. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has pointedly stated that the entire stakeholders from the concerned ethnic groups will make up the Constitution Drafting Committee. This will uncompromisingly,    be saddled with the writing and articulation of the document which will be overwhemingly accepted by all. This Constitution will determine the shape of administration/governance as well as the prudent management of all Biafra resources. Each member State will completely administer/manage it's resources without external dictate or control, to the benefit of citizens. The only expectation from the central government, is a token tax for the purpose of well defined national administrative expendiency. This emphasis from the IPOB leader, hinges on the principle of true federalism as the only recipe for inclusive and people-oriented government. This position has remained clear enough to douse such propounded fear of dominance of any tribe against another as all have equal stakes. 

It is therefore pertinent to clinically disabuse the minds of the frightened pertaining the flying misleading narrative of any sort. All must join hands in synergy, to ensure that this colonial chain of slavery plaguing us as a people, is totally and eternally broken. The Fulani cabals who have mortgaged our resources (oil wells) from across the Niger Delta must be stopped from ripping us off the benefits of our God-given inheritance. Their blatant feasting on the region while they surreptitiously speculate falsehood of Igbo dominance against us as our problem, must be stopped. It is a diversionary tactic orchestrated to sway us from the criminal ownership of our oil wells to the tune of twenty (20) by the Sultan of Sokoto while none of such belongs to an Igboman. This is the main import laid bare by their false and evil narrative aimed at further alienating us from our brothers and sisters within Biafraland. We must have to discountenance this kite of division being flown against us by our enemies. Believing in their Igbo domination theory amounts to simply taking a position of inferiority that the intelligence of the Igboman is superior to ours. These Fulani run Nigeria government must not be allowed to further pauperize us with their acrimonious narrative. We must accelerate our relevance by diligently working on ourselves beyond playing the second fiddle. No one can ignore us. We must imbibe the culture of acquiring new skills through self development. The emerging Biafra nation will be exceptionally detribalized and self fulfilling.

Written by Benpraise Loveson Agweye

Edited by Onyebuchi Eucharia

For Family Writers Press International

Restructuring can’t stop herdsmen from invading our farms – Prof Akintoye

 Restructuring can’t stop herdsmen from invading our farms – Prof Akintoye

Leader of the Yoruba Self-Determination Movemenet Ilana Omo Oodua, Banji Akintoye, has said restructuring cannot stop Fulani herdsmen from invading farmlands.

According to him, neither can the review of the 1999 Constitution solve the problem on the ground.

Akintoye also stated that the slow pace of development in Yoruba land is caused by the 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorate.

He was quoted in a statement titled, ‘At YPF’s 1st Democracy Lecture; Statesmen, Dons, Lawyer, Declare Verdicts on the State of Yoruba Land.’

“Restructuring cannot stop the Fulani Herdsmen from invading our farms. It won’t stop the central government from subjugating the states. We have seen how President Buhari is using Executive powers to overrun the National Assembly, Judiciary and the State Governors.

“If restructuring gives room for state police, such a policing system will not have an equal status like the central police. By the way, the Fulani will still control the military and armed forces. Virtually all the Military Training Schools in Nigeria are domiciled in the North. Everything was deliberately planned.”

“Therefore, our road to redemption in Yoruba Land is to have a country of our own where the intellectuals will preside over our commonwealth, and not the current system that promotes urchins above the philosopher-kings across all board”, Akintoye said.

Genocide In Eastern Nigeria: 350 Killed In 160 Days, 600 Missing And 2500 Abducted Or Arrested By Nigerian Soldiers, Police, Others

 Genocide In Eastern Nigeria: 350 Killed In 160 Days, 600 Missing And 2500 Abducted Or Arrested By Nigerian Soldiers, Police, Others

…150 Igbo Christians killed by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in 160 days or since January 2021

 

 

Special Report: Updated

Onitsha-Nigeria, Friday, 11th June, 2021

 

Time For World Bodies To Take Action

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law is drawing the urgent and ‘red signals’ attention  of Governments of the United States, the UK, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Brazil and the European Union; the Secretary General of the United Nations, the UN Security Council, the United Nations Human Rights and Humanitarian bodies, international human rights and justice bodies, the International Criminal Court, internationally respected persons, international religious freedom bodies and other disciples and apostles of human rights, justice and democracy across the globe. This urgent international clarion call is sequel to ongoing genocidal attacks on defenseless civilians in Eastern Nigeria, done in total disregard to the country’s international obligations and laid down rules including respect for human rights and sanctity of human life as well as rules governing internal policing operations and armed conflict.

 

Government Forces And Fulani Herdsmen On Rampage

The ongoing attacks are so horrifying and genocidal that the present Muslim dominated and controlled security forces and the state backed Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen have laid siege on the two regions and rapaciously engaged in indiscriminate and wanton killing of their defenseless citizens and falsely labeling them in the whole as “terrorists that must be pursued and massively killed”. Just two days ago in a national private television interview, the seat of the country’s Presidency stopped at nothing in further threatening the two regions with a full scale war including total land, air and sea blockade and attendant mass killing and starvation or economic and humanitarian terrorism. The country’s Presidential Seat also indirectly labeled the citizens of the two regions in the whole as “criminals”.

 

Nigerian Security Forces Now ‘Ethnic Militias’

Intersociety has strongly maintained till date that the present Nigerian Government has caused grave harm to the country’s military, police and other security agencies by turning them into ‘ethnic militias that serve only the interests of the country’s Muslim citizens’ especially members of the Muslim Fulani Ethnic Nationality. Since January 2021, no fewer than 150 defenseless Igbo Christians have been hacked to death by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen across the Southeast and till date, the security forces have looked the other side and not even a single Fulani Herdsman has been arrested and put on trial. But same is not the case with attacks on security personnel and Government facilities blamed on “unknown gunmen”-who the Government said are Igbos; cashing in on same to presently abduct and disappear thousands and kill hundreds since January 2021. Rather than using intelligence based crime detection, investigation and prosecution skills and their technologies in going after such criminal elements, the Nigerian security forces are going about letting loose on unarmed, innocent and defenseless Igbo citizens, hatefully targeting and massacring them and falsely labeling them as “terrorists”.

 

Criminal Characterization With Intent To Genocide And Depopulate

It is on record that Nigeria’s Presidency and its Inspector General of Police have threatened Igbo People and issued several directives to the country’s security forces ‘to kill them at will and at sight and wantonly destroy their properties’ with total disregard to rules of engagements and human rights principles; and in response, the security forces now go about shooting and killing Igbo civilians, falsely labeling them and wantonly burning their properties. In law, “a citizen is not a criminal until he/she is fully processed through reasonable suspicion, investigation, and arrest, legally permissible detention, fair trial and fair hearing, conviction and sentencing”. But this is not the case in the present circumstance as defenseless Igbo citizens are indiscriminately and randomly shot and killed; or arrested or abducted, shot dead in captivity and criminally labeled without any form of conclusive investigations. Others such as transfer of criminal liability, crude and excessive use of force are also widespread. Citizens arrested unarmed and taken into custody are also indiscriminately killed in their large numbers and falsely labeled. Criminal citizens can only be killed if armed and at the same time combatively involved and violent.

Nigerian Government Is Test-Running Genocide And Depopulation In Imo And Abia

Genocide, derived from the Greek genos (“race”, “tribe”, or “nation”) and the Latin cide (”killing”) and defined as “the deliberate and systematic killing, or annihilation, or destruction of a group of people in their large number on the basis of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race”; is up and running in Eastern Nigeria especially since April 2021. This is contrary to tagging of same in several quarters as “looming or impending genocide” in the Southeast. The heinous war crimes act of depopulation, targeted at wiping out the productive and reproductive young male generation of the present Igbo Nation-State and cutting down its future male populations is also up and running at high speed in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo as well as Igbo part of Rivers, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom. According to our updated findings, Imo and Abia States are the worst hit accounting for majority of the killings, disappearances and abductions or arrests. The recent increase in massacre in the two States was so alarming and shocking that not less 140 civilian deaths were independently projected to have been recorded between 25th May and 1st June 2021; with Imo recording at least 100 civilian deaths and Abia 40. The increase in security forces targeting and killing defenseless civilians in Imo took a maddening dimension since 5th April and became deadlier between 25th May and 2nd June 2021 following sit at home on 31st May 2021 in honor of the Civil War time persecuted and massacred Igbos.

 

Killing Of 500 Igbo Christians In 160 Days  

Unknown to most global citizens and human rights and democratic entities including international watchers, no fewer than 500 civilians, all Igbo Christians have been massacred in eight of the named nine States. The killings took place in the 160 days or between 1st January and 10th June 2021. While soldiers of the Nigerian Military and Police personnel are responsible for 350 deaths, the state backed Fulani Jihadists accounted for at least 150 deaths perpetrated mostly in Ebonyi State. Not less than 600 civilians have also gone missing mostly in the hands of soldiers and other military personnel and 2500 others in all including the 600 disappeared civilians have been abducted or arrested and thrown into custody after being controversially labeled. It must be stated further that these new findings by Intersociety were gathered through emerging new facts, reliable ‘closed sources’ and ‘open sources’, media reports, reports from local activists, the victims and their relatives and other eyewitnesses as well as verified videos and photos. Our latest findings were also built on our earlier special report, issued on 31st May 2021.

 

350 Civilians Killed By Security Forces In 160 Days

Soldiers of the Nigerian military and operatives of the Nigeria Police Force are responsible for shooting and killing no fewer than 350 Igbo civilians, all Christians; out of which soldiers and other military personnel accounted for 210 deaths or 70% and Police and others 140. The shooting and killing of over 90% of these defenseless and unarmed citizens has also been found to be directed and targeted at innocent and defenseless citizens; shot and killed on the ground of their ethnicity and religion. Many of those shot and killed between May and 10th June are young male segment of the Igbo population. Out of the 350 killings across the eight States since January 2021, Imo and Abia recorded about 68% or 230 deaths. In other words, not less than 150 civilian lives were lost in Imo in past 160 days of 2021; and not less than 100 were killed in one week or between 25th May and 1st June 2021. The killings in Imo majorly took place in Owerri and environs and Orlu and environs. Abia State recorded the second largest number of civilian deaths with 80 killings which majorly took place in Aba and environs and Umuahia and environs. Killings were also reported in Asa and Ohafia parts of the State. In Rivers State, no fewer than 40 civilian lives were lost. Akwa Ibom State accounted for 35 civilian lives, Anambra 30 civilian lives, Ebonyi 25 civilian lives and Cross River 20 civilian lives. Delta State is recorded with no civilian lives lost, but is likely to be among those States with forced disappearances and custodial killings or unlawful executions.

 

The 350 “circumstantially ascertainable or projectable” killings included those instantly shot dead and others arrested unarmed and killed and did not include victims of military abductions, who were abducted and bundled or taken to undisclosed or secret locations, killed and buried in secrecy. Also independently investigated and found was the fact that out of the total military and police killings including the referenced 350 extrajudicial killings, the non state actor violent citizens combatively involved are not more than 30 in the whole; meaning that over 90% of all the slain citizens were killed extra-judicially and outside due process and law. Over 90% of the slain civilians were also falsely labeled  and criminally stigmatized.

 

600 Abducted And Disappeared In Captivity In 160 Days

The number of defenseless civilians dominated by young male Igbo citizens, abducted and disappeared between 1st January and 10th June 2021 has now risen to at least 600. The security operatives responsible for 70% of the disappearances are soldiers of the Nigerian Army and other military personnel, while Police and DSS accounted for the remaining 30%. Till date, the whereabouts of these abducted civilians are neither available in their families’ records nor in the official records of the Nigeria Police Force. By the existing laws of Nigeria, Nigeria Police Force, not the Military is legally charged with the responsibility of ‘arresting, detaining, granting administrative bail, investigating and prosecuting the reasonably suspected criminal civilian citizens. Intersociety is reasonably presuming the 600 abducted and disappeared citizens as ‘having been killed in captivity or unlawfully executed’. This shall stand until the contrary is established. The 600 abductees are part of not less than 2,500 arrested or abducted by police, soldiers and DSS across the nine named States. By law including the recent judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja, “Nigerian Army and any other branch of the Armed Forces lack power to arrest, detain (and torture), investigate and prosecute citizens (civilians) who are not subject to the Armed Forces Act of 2004 or other military laws in force”. Yet the Army has flouted and breached the law including the judicial pronouncement and still rapaciously engaged in indiscriminate abduction of civilian citizens from their homes or on their way home from work, etc.

 

2500 Abducted Or Arrested And Held In 160 Days

Soldiers, Police and DSS are collectively responsible for abduction or arrest of not less than 2500 civilians in the named nine States. Out of this number, 600 represent forced disappearances and 1900 others are those arrested and held in police cells or remanded in Prisons and they include the recently transported over 300 Igbo citizens dumped in Benue Prison facilities. Intersociety has analyzed and found that in Imo State where not less than 700 were abducted or arrested, Police and DSS are holding 200, Prisons or Correctional Centers at least 170, Army 100 and ‘outside’ (i.e. those bundled and held in Benue Prisons) 130. In Abia State with at least 420 abductees or arrestees, Police and DSS are holding 200, Army and Navy 100, Prisons 70 and outside 50. In Ebonyi State with 350 abductees or arrestees, Police and DSS are holding 200, Army 60, Prisons 50 and outside 40. In Rivers State with 350 abductees or arrestees, Army is accountable for 150 abductees, Police and DSS 150 and Prisons 50. In Anambra State with 250 abductees or arrestees; Police and DSS are holding 150, Army and Navy 50, Prisons 20 and outside 30. In Delta State with 150 abductees or arrestees, Army and Police are holding 100 and Prisons 50. In Cross River State with 150 abducted or arrested Igbo Christian citizens, Police and DSS are holding 80 and Army 70. In Enugu State with 150 abductees or arrestees, Police and DSS are holding 60, Prisons 40, Army 30 and outside 20. In Akwa Ibom State with 100 abductees or arrestees, Police and DSS account for 70, Army 20 and Prisons 10.

 

235 Security Personnel Killed In 160 Days

Not less than 235 security operatives have been killed by “unknown Gunmen” across the named nine States in 160 days and they involved 48 soldiers, 120 police officers, fifteen Civil Defense personnel, eight Customs officers, seven Air Force personnel, five Naval personnel and 31 Community Policing vigilantes; out of this number, 175 were lost in the Southeast and 60 in the South-south States of Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Delta. The killing of those security personnel and attacks on Government facilities remain strongly condemned. Also contrary to false information given by the Brigade Commander of 34 Brigade, Obinze, near Owerri, Brig Gen Raymond Utsaha, it is our investigative finding that Police, Army and other military personnel are solely responsible for 99% of civilians killed in the Southeast and not “IPOB”.

 

State Backed Jihadist Herdsmen Killed 150 Igbo Christians In 160 Days

Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen aided by the present Government of Nigeria to invade the two regions and settle in their forests, bushes and farmlands since 2016 have since January 2021 or in 160 days hacked not less than 150 Igbo Christians to death and till date, not even one Jihadist Fulani Herdsman has been apprehended by Army, Police or DSS and put on trial. Our archived statistics showed that no fewer than 30 Igbo Christians were hacked to death in the 29th March 2021 Jihadist Herdsmen attacks in about six communities in Ishielu, Ebonyi State and Ihamufu in Enugu State. In April 2021, nine Igbo Christians were abducted and hacked to death by Jihadists in Kibiya District of Kano State and between March and April 2021, not less than 20 Igbo Christians including the President General of Omor Community were hacked to death in the forests of Oyi, Anambra East, Awka South and Ayamelum Local Government Areas of Anambra State

In a series of killings that swept across Ngbo and other neighboring communities in Ohakwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State carried out by same Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in April, over 17 Igbo Christians were hacked to death and on the night of 30th/31st May 2021, not less than 52 Igbo Christians were killed in Igbo boundary communities between Ebonyi and Benue States. Just yesterday, 9th June 2021, at Ikpa Ora, between Umulolo (Okigwe) and Arondizogu, along Okigwe-Arondizogu Road, at least 12 Igbo Christian passengers were waylaid by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and abducted and forcefully taken into the nearby forest and till date, their safety and whereabouts have remained unknown. Attached Photos: Obinna Ejekwu, 30 and Onyebuchi Amadi, 27 killed by Police in Umuahia on 29th May 2021 and falsely labeled     

Signed:

For: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Principal Officers:

·         Emeka Umeagbalasi, Criminologist/Board Chair

·         Barr Chinwe Umeche

·         Barr Chidimma Udegbunam

·         Comrade Samuel Kamanyoku

Contacts:                                      

Phone/WhatsApp: +2348174090052, Email: [email protected], Website: intersociety-ng.org

 

References:

·         https://intersociety-ng.org/updatedhow-nhss-tactical-team-of-soldiers-police-dss-burnt-body-of-barr-ejiofors-pa-to-ashes-and-falsely-labeled-three-innocent-others/

·         https://intersociety-ng.org/six-wrongly-arrested-and-falsely-labeled-imo-citizens-freed-by-nigeria-police-force/

·         https://intersociety-ng.org/strongly-calling-for-investigation-review-release-discharge-and-acquittal-of-all-wrongly-arrested-and-falsely-accused-citizens-in-connection-with-rising-wave-of-attacks-on-security-personnel-and-go/

·         https://intersociety-ng.org/graphic-details-ofhow-soldiers-police-ors-in-the-east-hatefully-falsely-label-abduct-innocent-citizens-and-spill-their-bloods-for-gallantry/

·         https://dailypost.ng/2021/06/10/scores-of-travellers-allegedly-kidnapped-by-herdsmen-in-imo/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2YxL9nez0nBnW_13kv6lurVd6Ap2CyTb2YjjWKWFeLJ6dh0cLkpufT2wU#Echobox=1623342975

·         https://www.sunnewsonline.com/buhari-promises-south-east-tougher-times/?fbclid=IwAR1Y5LD_xgHWYbUfsOLueOYEkDTyOud6k5roFvm5ecY_E1DK8eCmNhYmnU0

·         https://afnews.ng/why-we-are-arresting-incessantly-in-imo-cp-reveals/?fbclid=IwAR2HvisDBh1itkyUbSUrzBJ628O2UoAhg7a9jtxrj9W5sgdYr7obi1f4BlA

·         https://afnews.ng/how-abia-police-allegedly-killed-8-persons-labeling-them-unknown-gunmen/?fbclid=IwAR1Hxdlz5iAoSdoMpYi2vlUf_yy207o2dYiq0qJaLCYDhK2pCNF01RFp2sw

·         https://thesouthernexaminer.com/attack-on-ejiofor-residence-intersociety-accuses-security-agents-of-murder-p5530-221.htm?fbclid=IwAR36agTFnr2760O_fh9qGY4Ij5o__ru5Nqb0oeH4sZk-FZDIbS_7josnSfI

·         https://thenigerialawyer.com/ipob-killed-128-military-police-personnel-army/?fbclid=IwAR2EBJqkQqigVSzBaDDBjC7DF4DjJehPGTJ3dz96xwbMm33jhZBeKXDtTe8

·         https://sundiatapost.com/security-agents-killing-our-people-imo-reps-member-raises-alarm/?fbclid=IwAR0MXaxpTBBgivv6l6nSrnJfwrJ7vjLMRxjt0ye2EtXRZFyAjapnX-gZnao

·         https://gazetteafrica.com/nigeria-82-civilians-reportedly-executed-by-government-forces-in-imo/?fbclid=IwAR0r-Qmnwv-wgVfqOt2QqFHYchT6DtXaZVFq8Wiz_m-UnVBCpH43W8wts4o

·         https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/06/35-unidentified-corpses-dumped-in-fmc-owerri-residents-of-s-east-cry-out-were-bleeding-hiding-living-in-fear/?fbclid=IwAR2CfnxPzYMZWTvyunXQKfNn1pHeqtEwcl23VhDvcYm5gDjg2xnLLwPzdIU

·         https://njenjemedia.com/graphic-video-how-nhss-tactical-team-of-soldiers-police-dss-burnt-body-of-barr-ejiofors-pa-to-ashes/?fbclid=IwAR1J9oW-Ji_Hh-ujN7q5EtmYXLyCjxvNBxJJyuwIvs7LXAD57lWN3nL5Z7Q