Unknown Gunmen Saga: Strategy Floated To Dent IPOB's Image

  

The Nigerian government's strategies have been so bigoted, an obstinate and unreasonable behavior of the Fulanis in all ramifications. The trajectory of the Fulani tribe as enunciated by their accidental national leaders is quite clear. For the records, it is well known by even the international community that the Fulanis are single-handedly sponsoring about five different terrorist groups in Nigeria.  

 

Everything was working out perfectly well, for the Islamization agendum, right from the time Barrack Obama blackmailed Goodluck Jonathan on the international stage, down to the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as President and Commander-in-Chief, until they realized, to their chagrin, that IPOB was uncanny. 

 

The reputation, as the only obstacle to those terrorists and their plans, by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, is manifestly observed from afar. There is an acute display of fear, and understandably so, by the Fulanis (and of course, the Fulani presidency cabal) since they ran into – unprepared and overconfident- the stiff resistance mounted by IPOB. 

 

The Fulanis through the terror umbrella organization (Miyetti Allah), had unleashed many terror groups such like Boko Haram, ISWAP, Fulani Herdsmen, to mention but a few. It was the herdsmen that they use in land grabbing, killings and destruction of food and crops in Middlebelt, Eastern and western regions. 

 

On the 12th of December 2020, after an unfruitful overture and waiting for the Eastern Governors to form a regional security outfit to curb the spate of Fulani herdsmen killings, the Eastern Security network (ESN), was formed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to defend the Eastern region against the Fulani terrorists in the Eastern bushes and forests. ESN works as a non-state security, whose sole responsibility is to counter the terrorists and their habitations in the bushes and forests. 

 

The attack on ESN and the cover given to Fulani terrorists by the Fulani controlled Nigerian military, with the applaud of the unambitious and poverty stricken Nigeria gutter-media, is shocking but not surprising. Any non-terroristic government would appreciate ESN and accept all the help it can get. It is obvious what the priority (or the misplacement thereof), by the Nigerian government is. Hence, the destruction of the peace in Orlu and other parts of the Eastern region under the auspices of ESN by Nigerian military speaks volumes.  

 

Later, an unattested and unrealistic story of the Unknown gunmen came up. And according to government perspection, the Unknown gunmen targets, are the security agencies. The Nigerian government’s lack of evidence, swift and flimsy link of Unknown gunmen to the ESN is reminiscent of a regular pattern of state-sponsored proscription and terrorist tagging of peaceful movements and pampering, rehabilitation and empowering of terrorists. The irony of this unfounded allegation is that the police have been killing people and blaming unknown gunmen as it happened in Enugu recently. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB leadership have come out to blame the government and distance ESN from the activities of Unknown gunmen, to no avail. This is because government is looking for an excuse to continue committing genocide. 

 

The Owerri prison break on 5th April 2021, was a true evidence of the lies of Nigeria government. According to a video footage, it was clear that the Unknown gunmen are Fulanis and not from the Eastern part of the nation. Even the language spoken, body stature and modus operandi were totally Fulani. 

 

The murder of Ahmed Gulak in Owerri and the accusation of IPOB also proves another lie strategy. It was well known that there was someone with Gulak in his vehicle at the time of the murder and also the act of moving without security in a troubled zone proved that the whole thing was a setup.

The recent activities of unknown gunmen by burning police station in Sokoto, Lagos, Abuja, proves beyond doubt that the activities of the unknown gunmen can never be related to IPOB as the body is only based in the Eastern part of the nation. 

 

Another observation from the whole debacle is that unknown gunmen, in form of soldiers, have been in existence before this present Biafra struggle as they were part of the people that killed so many in Kalakuta Republic, even Fela's parents, in 1977. 

The self acclaimed Minister for Bandits negotiation cum Islamic clergy, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, recently on the 21st of June 2021, accused the military of working hand in hand with bandits; even in supply of weapons to them. This goes a long way in indicting the federal government, as the sole controller of the army, in the unknown gunmen saga. So my question is, how can IPOB formed in 2012 be related to activities started in 1977? 

 

Indeed common sense is never common in sense! 

 

Written by Onyemachi Gabriel 

 

Edited by Chibueze Daniel 

 

For Family Writers Press International

Nigerian Media: Chasing Rats While The House Is Burning!

The way and manner with which the mainstream media in Nigeria tows the government line through the circulation of deceitful/false information and subjecting the unsuspecting public to darkness, is to say the least, most despicable.

Since the militarization of the South-East region began, there have been irrefutable trending news about unlawful arrests, torture, extra-judicial killings, extortion and intimidation. The compromised Nigeran media yet insists on propagating verbatim, reports from the police and other forces. Their statements, headlines and entire reports have turned out to be outright lies or partly made up. The military totally denied the bombardment of innocent Orlu citizens, whom they deliberately targeted within the area in order to provoke a reaction from the operatives of Eastern Security Network (ESN). So many innocent citizens were killed. The embarrassing issue of an innocent man unlawfully arrested and tagged "ESN's second in command" after the slain Ikonso, is a shameless lie dished out by the Nigerian armed forces and carried by the media. That man is above 60 years and does not fall within the age bracket of ESN members, talkless of being a commander. 

The issue of the army denying the bombing of Orlu which was said to have been publicly supported by the Nigerian media, is most saddening. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Igbo Service), dutifully carried out investigations on the same matter and discovered that a house in Uli in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, was actually touched by air strikes. The Nigerian media have reneged on their journalistic ethics in pursuit of complicits against the plight of the people. They fail to investigate and apply their conscience by interviewing the people concerned to establish the truth. When Ahmed Gulak was assasinated in Owerri, Imo State, in what clearly appeared to be a politically motivated attack, the police quickly concluded that it was ESN operatives that carried out the attack without verifiable evidence. Some able-bodied Biafrans were innocently killed and many others were arrested on mere accusation. A co-occupant of the vehicle that conveyed Gulak had described the assailants as having the appeaeance of ESN members, outfits and vehicles. These formed all the evidence the police needed to extra-judicially perpetrate their heinous act. The Governor later debunked the police story and accepted the killing had political undertone. The killings, torture, arrests, extortion and the assault on civilian communities in Imo State have continued unabated. 

The outrage questioning such concocted evidence was presented through few courageous media outlets which despite threats, have continued to expose the excesses of the army and police on the innocent. Majority of the media houses only depend on the fraudulent police press statements for their publications. An innocent oil worker who visited Imo State for a burial, was paraded as a culprit but was later released because a family member of his in the armed forces intervened. He was detained and asked to bring ten million naira as bail bond by the police team led by Abba Kyari. An innocent church attendant was shot and stripped naked by the same police. He was framed up and presented as an "unknown gunman". The conspiracies of the police with the media via press comferences have helped them to cover up numerous unjustified killings and brutality. Since no one asks questions, they just conduct press comferences that are riddled with lies and the media helps them to propagate hatred and distrust.

There are ongoing secret killings and massive arrests of indigenous citizens. They are being taken away from their houses to unknown locations for possible execution and yet, the Nigerian media keeps mute. Why the blackout on the genocide being committed in the South-East region?

The Nigerian media have been writing all manner of junks and propagating lies about Igbo Muslims in the East, relocating to the North for safety. They said that IPOB are threatening the Igbo Muslim community in the South-East. The media is hereby challenged to provide verifiable evidence about this claim. It is both baseless and malicious targeted at tanishing the image of Biafrans. IPOB has never threatened anyone who has no hand in terrorizing the Biafran people. IPOB is a peaceful and armless movement that peacefully co-exists with other ethnic groups and religious faithfuls within Biafraland. The Nigerian media should desist from instigating ethnic bias, hatred and religious bigotry. How can IPOB threaten their own people, their own flesh and blood? The very same people they are sacrificially fighting to protect?

The struggle for freedom is for all tribes and religious beliefs within Biafraland. In Biafra, you can believe in whatever you want and live peacefully without intimidation.

The agitations across the land stem from years of injustice and government's grave inaction. The media must take responsibility and take unbiased lead against the foregoing for a change! That which clearly stares in the face, cannot be denied.

The Nigerian media should be professional and uphold at all times, journalistic ethics in all it's reportage. It should stop instigating hate by towing the line of a vampiric and insincere government. It can courageously take the lead by ushering in the much needed difference through the publication and propagation of the truth. 

Written by Samuel Uchenna

Edited by Emmanuel Iwuchukwu

For Family Writers Press International

Implications Of The Joint Military Attacks On South-East Region

The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abba Kyari and his tactical team, have been officially deployed to the South-East where  cases of banditry, kidnapping, killings and sacking of villages by the indigenes are absolutely non-existent, except for the new wave of Fulani terrorist attacks on villages in Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia States. This is a quagmire that has prevailed unchallenged by both the State and Federal Governments.until  Eastern Security Network (ESN) surfaced. This is a vigilante outfit formed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to protect the villages and farmlands from Fulani terrorist attacks within the region.

It is imperative to note that Mr. Abba Kyari hails from Borno State, a Boko Haram ravaged state. It therefore beats my imagination that the Nigerian government has never deemed it fit to deploy the so-called super corp, Mr. Abba Kyari and his tactical team to the Mohammedian North despite the daily killings, banditry, kidnapping and sacking of villages in that region.

In Yorubaland, Igangan to be specific, has been dealt with dangerously by the same Fulani terrorists without any Abba Kyari, his tactical team and military joint operations deployed to the rescue. It seems to me at this juncture, that there is a well thought out scheme by the Fulanis with the active support of the federal government of Nigeria to exterminate the indigenous populations in Nigeria. Because in Buhari's one  Nigeria, all heads of military, paramilitary and other non-arm bearing federal government agencies, are headed by the fulani ethnic group which is fuelling fears and rumours from all quarters, of a sinister plot by the Fulanis to dominate, subjugate and finally levy war against the indigenous population in a bid to achieve an age long dream of dipping the Quoran in the Atlantic Ocean. I am of the opinion that the joint military operation going on in the South-East, is born out of frustration with the successful campaign by Eastern Security Network (ESN), against Fulani terrorists destroying  farmlands, raping women and killing poor farmers in the process. The Nigerian government being the chief sponsor of Fulani terrorism in Nigeria, decided to recruit Boko Haram and other terrorist groups into the military which are being deployed to the South-East in continuation of what the Fulani killer herdsmen could not accomplish.

The activities of Mr. Abba Kyari, the Deputy Commissioner of Police - DCP, in the region, are totally questionable. An adage says thus: ''no one chases rat when his house is on fire".' Nigeria has been on fire in the North where Abba Kyari hails from, why the negligence of the terrorists in that region and why the deployment of his tactical team and a joint military operation in the South-East? Why the extra-judicial killings of Igbo youths in Owerri and other parts of Biafraland?

sufffice it to say that Igbos in Buhari's Nigeria have been marked for total decimation!

Written by Donald Okorie

Edited by Anne Okon

For Family Writers Press International

Biafra: Better Landlocked Than Brainlocked

 Biafra: Better Landlocked Than Brainlocked

Many things have really been said about how Biafrans  are landlocked. And to some, it is a  enough reason for Biafran to remain in Nigeria as entrapped slaves, that will never consider the option of freedom. Interestingly, a landlocked country is that sovereign entity that lacks access to the sea. It is encircled by massive land and has no direct ocean connection. As a result of being cut off from the sea, such is usually unable to participate in international open ocean activities. With all these, people feel justified when they argue that Biafra cannot survive as a separate entity outside Nigeria.

The questions that are beckoning for an answers therefore are: Does being landlocked prevent economic development? Does having access to the sea empower countries or fasten their developments? Of course, if the answer to the second question is yes, Nigeria would not have remained as backward since she is not landlocked. There are forty four (44) generally acknowledged landlocked countries and five (5) partially recognized ones in the world today.

READ HERE Igboland is not landlocked

Resultantly, 475.8 million people or 6.9% of the world's population, live in countries with no access to sea waters. These countries account for 11.4 percent of the total land area on the planet.

Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country at 2,724,900 square kilometers, while Vatican City is the smallest landlocked state at 0.44 square kilometers. Ethiopia, with 101.8 million people, is the world's most populous landlocked country, on the opposite of what Vatican City is, with 820 people.

There are 16 landlocked countries in Europe and Africa respectively. 15 landlocked countries in Asia and just two landlocked countries in America. Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Central African Republic, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Laos, Paraguay, Rwanda, Uganda, and West Bank amongst these 49 landlocked countries of the world, they even have Naval forces. They guard vast inland water bodies such as seas, lakes, rivers, and other endorheic basins with watercraft and naval personnel.

Yet, some deluded folks present "being landlocked" as a reason for Biafra to remain entrapped within Nigeria. 

Isolation and seclusion from international seas even come in various degrees.

Three countries are landlocked by a single nation on the present political world map: Vatican City and San Marino (both encircled by Italy) and Lesotho (surrounded by South Africa). In the next level of isolation and semi-enclaved countries, seven countries are surrounded by two neighbors which are Andorra (between France and Spain), Bhutan (between China and India), Eswatini (between Mozambique and South Africa), Liechtenstein (one of the double-landlocked countries, between Austria and Switzerland), Moldova (between Romania and Ukraine), Mongolia (between China and Russia), Nepal (between China and India). Three countries in this group have restricted international recognition. They are: the West Bank (between Israel and Jordan), Transnistria (between Moldova and Ukraine) and South Ossetia (between Georgia and Russia).

Finally, there are countries that are double-landlocked; meaning that they are only bordered by landlocked states such as Liechtenstein (surrounded by Austria and Switzerland) and Uzbekistan (surrounded by Austria and Switzerland), Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan).

Austria, Serbia and Zambia are the landlocked countries with some of their neighbors each, having with eight countries on their borders. Therefore, to many bigoted Nigerians who unfortunately think that being landlocked is a curse, I will not fail to let such know that it still comes with a few other advantages.

Landlocked countries are frequently spared the worst effects of oceanic weather, such as tsunamis and storms. They also have the ability to monitor all commodities and people entering and exiting the country via land borders. And equally, they are protected against maritime incursions. 

Biafrans are too sophisticated to be handled or intimidated. Too educated to be cowed, especially in a country like Nigeria. They are too blessed to be under Fulani Janjaweedism. We change the environment and the cause of nature to our advantage. Every difficulty bows before us because we are a people blessed by God above others.

Bless us and be blessed, curse us and go under. Remember, no red sea can hinder the Israelites. Every road block is to our advantage and advancement. We know whom we are, we transcend heights, we reach the farthest, we race the fastest, we grab the swiftest, we survive the harshest, we endure the most painful, we laugh the loudest and we are builders.

The difference is clear! Nigeria is brainlocked while Biafra is landlocked. Northern Nigeria is brainlocked while Biafra is landlocked. When you are landlocked, you can still do wonders in your world but when you are brainlocked, you are similar to a dead person.

Whether landlocked or not, we are not bothered! Freedom is all we need and freedom we must surely get.

Written by Chidiebere Obulose

Edited by Ogah C.S. Maduabuchi

For Family Writers Press International

Biafra: Igboland is not landlocked

 Biafra: Igboland is not landlocked

Oguta Lake

By Aloy Ejimakor

IT’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in course of time – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie, institutionally purveyed since the end of the Civil War, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or has no access to the sea. The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to debunk this lie with some simple historical and topographical evidence that are even in plain view, if you care to dig or do some basic physical explorations of your own.

Suffice it to say that it is a profound tragedy that entire generations of the immediate post-war Igbos never bothered to check but seemingly accepted this brazen institutional falsehood, largely intended to taunt the Igbo and put them down. A few that knew it to be false just didn’t care anymore. And that history was constructively banned since the end of the Civil War made it worse, plus the fact that most people don’t take physical geography (or even adventure) that serious anymore, otherwise they would have discovered that Abia, Imo and Anambra states have varying short-distance paths to the Atlantic through Imo, Azumiri and Niger rivers.

It’s not really rocket science, as you can easily confirm this if you know how to read (or plot) Google Earth; or you conquer your fear of swamp snakes and walk through these areas on foot. There are also many other hardly explored waterways and slithering tributaries, including the remote reaches of Oguta Lake and Urashi River at Oseakwa (Ihiala) that meandered through Igbo-delta wetlands to the southeastern ends of the Atlantic waterfront.

These rivers have varying lengths of short navigational paths to the Atlantic, and in some cases, are far shorter nautically (and even on footpath) than the Port Harcourt, Calabar and Ibaka seaports are to their side of the Atlantic. Many of these pathways, including particularly the ones from the outer reaches of Imo and Azumiri rivers terminate at the Atlantic at no more than 15 to 30 nautical miles to the beachhead. To put it in lay language, one nautical mile equals 1.8 kilometres.

Thus, the contiguity of Southeast (not even the greater Igboland) to the Atlantic is nautically less than the Atlantic is to the seaports in Calabar, Onne, Ibaka, Lagos and Port Harcourt. If you discount the territories unfairly excised from Igboland during state creations and the damnable boundary adjustments, it will be far less. To be sure, Ikwerre land or Igweocha which bears the greater portions of the Port Harcourt seaport was dredged up to 50 miles to the Atlantic front through the Bonny River.

Onne seaport was dredged up to 60 miles to the Atlantic and Calabar seaport was dredged some 45 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Ibaka seaport is about 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic and the Lagos seaports dredged up to about 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Compare all these to Obuaku in Abia State, which is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic from the confluence of Imo and Azumiri rivers, of which Azumiri, on its separate merits, lies not more than 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic beachfront.

The less obvious one is the little-known Oseakwa (Urashi) in Ihiala (Anambra State) which is mere 18 nauticals to the Atlantic, all with its 65 feet of natural depth, unarguably comparable to no other river in Nigeria. Additionally, what is geopolitically known as Igboland today is far smaller than what it was and legally supposed to be.

As far back as 1856, Baikie – one of the earliest and credible geographers of ancient Nigeria, had this to say: “Igbo homeland, extends east and west, from the Old Kalabar river to the banks of the Kwora, Niger River, and possesses also some territory at Aboh, an Igbo clan, to the west-ward of the latter stream. On the north, it borders on Igara, Igala and A’kpoto, and it is separated from the sea only by petty tribes, all of which trace their origin to this great race” (Baikie, William Balfour, published with a sanction of Her Majesty’s Government in 1856).

But with that infamous post-war abandoned property policy and the egregious institutional injustices in boundary adjustments, coupled with the widespread anti-Igbo gerrymandering, Igbos physically and psychologically lost political hold of their vested ancestral lands, all to the point of not caring anymore about their historical contiguity to the Atlantic, which their ancestors beheld and called ‘Oshimiri’ – The Great Sea.

The psychological beat-down and gang-up got so bad and institutional that some of the descendants of these Igbo ancestors (nearest to the Atlantic and now lying outside southeast) are no longer sure whether they are Igbo or not. The worst injustice was in 1976 when the Justice Nasir Boundary Adjustment Commission made a serious and targeted agenda of carving out core Igboland territories into some neighbouring states of the South-South. But they didn’t quite make an absolute success of it.

They missed the southernmost Southeast lands that possess rivers that meandered through slices of Igbo-friendly South-South territories and ended up at the Atlantic, thus unwittingly (and luckily) placing Igboland and its right of access to the sea under the canons and realms of customary international law.

As it stands, international law of the sea guarantees Igboland (whether it remains Nigerian territory or not) unhindered access to the nearest sea (in this case: the Atlantic) peacefully through any of the various short-distance rivers, waterways and tributaries that originated from Igboland but ultimately washed into the Atlantic through contiguous South-South territories.

For avoidance of doubt, there’s particularly the Obuaku confluence in Ukwa West (Abia State) that flows through greater Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State before expanding out and washing into the near-reaches of the Atlantic. And the River Niger which ultimately joined the Atlantic through a vast network of hardly explored creeks and mangrove swamps that abut the Bight of Biafra (officially corrupted to Bight of Bonny, after the war).

Nigeria is subject to the International Law of the Sea and is, therefore, bound to abide by its provisions, should the need arise in a scenario of persistent sovereign oppression of the Igbo as an identifiable (and protected) indigenous group within Nigeria. The others are the United Nations Treaty of the Sea and the African Union Treaties and Conventions on the Sea, including particularly the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, which Nigeria ratified and domesticated in 1983.

The pertinent provisions are mostly embedded in the copious protections relating to the collective economic and commercial rights of indigenous peoples lying within a Treaty nation. Ndigbo are undoubtedly an indigenous people presently lying within Nigeria.

So, international law will surely come into play should a belligerent or legal conflict arise out of Nigeria’s oppressive institutional resistance to granting a seaport to Igboland – an issue so fundamental and compelling that it bears the fulcrum of what is agitating the Igbo to the point of seeking an alternative to Nigeria.

Published by Family Writers Press International. 

The Belated Brinksmanship Of South-East Governors And Biafra’s Relentless March To freedom

   

 

In the political game of brinkmanship between the South-East Governors and the Biafra agitators, it is the immutable law of nature that one side shall eventually crumble. The side that shall emerge victorious in the end is unarguably, the people of Biafra. This is because every nation comprises of two political classes notably: the elites and the masses. And the elites’ power always derived from the masses which is also withdrawable at any given time.       

 

Surprising though, the political elites in Nigeria have continued to lay aside this natural law of politics. The prime example of disregard to the collective wish of the people is well showcased through the South-Eastern leaders’ recent communique, with Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, released to the press. In the middle of the huge swell in popularity for self-determination, the regions’ leaders audaciously maintained that they are not in support of any agitation for Biafra. Although quite unfortunate, the governor’s public statement does not cause discerning people any despair or sleepless nights as they cannot offer any better than that. 

 

Without doubts, these governors themselves are drowning in the stormy political sea of one Nigeria. As the agitation for Biafra keeps gathering momentum, the Fulani regime and their jihadist cabals jitter at any slightest move in the region. Likewise, the governors of the South-East, who are also the stooges of the Fulani jihadist regime, are anxiously trying to prove to their political ‘godfathers’ that they have the ongoing turmoil and horrendous violence in Biafraland under total control. Still, they cannot mask the ongoing bloodletting and senseless killings of civilians in the region by the Nigerian security forces.   

 

The political battle to pull in the South-East to forge ‘‘one Nigeria’’, pushes these governors into a limbo. For one thing, they lack the support of the majority of South- Easterners whom they claim to be speaking for. Even worse, referendum for Biafra’s restoration is their political villain. Because of the fear that independent Biafra might turn these so-called leaders into political nonentities, they now engage in gamesmanship and propaganda in order to stay afloat. What is more, each of the governors can never risk antagonising their masters from the Northern part or the Fulani controlled regime in Abuja with whom their political relevance hangs.     

 

The tragic irony is the governors’ own very cloudy perception of their spokesperson's role. Even though they see themselves as political heavy weights responsible for the South-East region, the dominant political power in Nigeria still lies with the Fulani jihadist groups. This unsavoury truth is well illustrated by the presidency’s latest uncompromising demand that open grazing must be implemented down South. This comes despite the Asaba declaration by all Southern Governors just a couple of months ago, in their resolve to ban open grazing. Since the presidency refused to listen to the entire governors of Southern Nigeria, it implies that whatever the few governors from the South-East say, can be easily overturned.   

 

Although the communique claims to reflect the wide range of the views of the South-East leaders, it is undeniably designed for only publicity convenience. Without consulting with their people first, these governors freely pledged commitment to ‘one Nigeria’. Such is the extent to which these elites are notoriously out of touch with their own people. Their agenda is not driven therefore, by the ordinary people’s wishes which is referendum but by their wretched hunger and thirst to remain in power. 

Because the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), are the bugbear of this Fulani Jihadist regime, the South-East leaders are frustatingly, distancing themselves from IPOB. No wonder, their communique’s proclamation that IPOB does not speak for the region, stems from dishonesty.

All that is needed as proof is the overwhelming strict compliance with the Sit-At-Home order the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, issued to commemorate the Biafra’s Fallen Heroes/Heroines. In a nutshell, leaders from the South-east region are completely out of step with the political realities of the times we live in and as such, should never be taken seriously in whatever stand they take concerning Nigeria. Charity they say begins at home. If these Fulani stooges in the name of elites want to be taken seriously, they need to firstly heed the wishes of their people and reflect such in their decisions. 

 

Written by George E. Anukwe

 

Edited by Chukwuemeka Okechukwu

 

For Family Writers Press International

N100 Million Bounty Placed On Kanu: Ohaneze Ndigbo, Reno Omokri, Shehu Sani, Fault Northern Groups

On Wednesday 16th June 2021, a viral video of a consisting seventeen Northern groups, referred to as Northern Consensus Movement (NCM), brazenly displayed their idiocy through the placement of a N100 million naira bounty on the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The President of the group, Dr. Auwal Abdullahi, while addressing a press conference, made the provocative pronouncement via  a video clip. 

 

In a swift reaction, Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-cultural group in a statement by it's Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, on Friday 19th June 2021, berated the move and accused the warring factions in the leadership of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and various Islamic terror organizations of the North, as masterminds of the killings and destructions in the South-East region. Ohaneze Ndigbo called on the Northern groups to place their N100 million bounty on Miyetti Allah and the slain Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau’s successor whom it alleged, had unleashed terror and series of heavy havoc on the citizens. The Igbo socio-cultural group, however, dismissed the claim that Northerners are being killed in the South-East, maintaining that there had not been any such killings recorded anywhere in the region. The organization further accused them of embarking on a mission aimed at subverting the ambition of South-Easterners in producing Buhari’s successor, come 2023. 

  

The Igbo organization stated, “we would not want to join issues with faceless groups that are not known in the North but in as much as with impunity, they are making attempts to orchestrate crisis in the country by not only placing a bounty on Nnamdi Kanu over the alleged killings, but are equally out to escalate tensions. For record purposes, there had not been any killing of Northerners in the region, except for the yet to be uncovered murderers of Ahmed Gulak in Owerri, Imo State. With the exception of the nefarious activities of the "Unknown Gunmen" and the rampaging Fulani killer herdsmen, there have been relative peace and tranquility. These faceless Northern groups are being sponsored by  desperate, Northern politicians on ill-conceived agenda. They should also place the same bounty on the new leader of Boko Haram terrorist group, that  just emerged after the death of Abubakar Shekau. Nnamdi Kanu has identifiable addresses in London and in Germany where IPOB offices are widely located. There is absolutely no need wasting energy and resources, searching for him as he is not hiding. He is not in Nigeria, he has an address in London as a British citizen. They should just use the N100 million bounty given to them by the frustrated and very desperate Northern politicians, who are trying to destabilize the South-East, for easily grab of the 2023 presidential slots of major political parties in Nigeria, to fish out and prosecute their brethren terrorists. 

 

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo scribe continued, “They should place the bounty on Shekau’s successor who has no address, who is living in the forest and leading the terrorist groups that picked up arms against Nigeria in the last six years. They should not cry more than the bereaved for Biafrans will wholesomely take care of the South-East region and ensure that normalcy returns. As far as we are concerned, that bounty is inconsequential and totally political. It serves only as a means of heating up tension in the polity". 

 

On the other hand, Reno Omokri, aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, asked via his twitter handle: "Why would a Northern group place N100 million bounty on Nnamdi Kanu’s head? The North has bandits who abduct school children almost on weekly basis. They also have Boko Haram. Use that money to place bounties on the heads of leaders of bandits and Boko Haram.” He also wrote in the same spirit: “The same groups that defended Dr. Isa Pantami for expressing joy at the killing of non-Muslims, the same ones who defended Sheikh Abubakar Gumi for saying that Christian soldiers were killing Muslim herdsmen, have gathered to place a N100 million bounty on Nnamdi Kanu’s head. Is it not madness?” 

 

Meanwhile, Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central at the 8th National Assembly, has slammed the Northern groups. 

Reacting, Senator Sani faulted the move, stating that the group should have channeled their efforts towards ending the terrorism and banditry currently ravaging their region. The former lawmaker made the remark on Friday 18th June 2021, in a post on his official Facebook page which read: “We have terrorists and bandits here up North, killing and kidnapping our people; why not the Northern groups place a price tag on the heads of their leaders instead of placing them on someone far abroad?,” he asked. 

 

Written by Onyemachi Eme 

 

Edited by Chibueze Daniel 

 

For Family Writers Press International