Monday, 28 June 2021
Implications Of The Joint Military Attacks On South-East Region
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Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Biafra: Better Landlocked Than Brainlocked
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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
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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.
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
The Belated Brinksmanship Of South-East Governors And Biafra’s Relentless March To freedom
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N100 Million Bounty Placed On Kanu: Ohaneze Ndigbo, Reno Omokri, Shehu Sani, Fault Northern Groups
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Saturday, 19 June 2021
Nigeria: Twitter Ban And The Deadly Motive Behind The Creation Of "TribeNaija" Social Media App
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Twitter Ban And The Deadly Motive Behind The Creation Of "TribeNaija" Social Media App
TribeNaija is a newly built Nigeria-inclined Social Media Application (App) that was launched on Saturday 12th June 2021, being Nigeria's Democracy Day. While people were deeply involved with the celebration of the democracy day, the Nigerian government ingloriously busied itself with the digging of graves for the citizens. The App in question which is presently available for Google download via Playstore and IOS, according to the government, is designed to rally all tribes in Nigeria together for continued existence. What a disgusting motive even in this 21st century! Definitely, when something is destined to happen, nothing prevents it. Everything unfolding in the country, points to the direction of definitive fulfillment.
It is well noted that Nigeria is steadily on a journey of no return. Things are really falling apart. It is glaringly clear that the same architects of misfortune bedeviling Nigeria, are the people craftily evangelizing for unity. This is the more reason why they are desperately giving lopesided support for continuity, thereby bringing everything to stagnancy.
The Nigerian government felt humiliated and embarrassed that the citizens, despite desperate efforts to outrightly ban the social media blogging giant (twitter), are yet unpreventably, tweeting via the same platform. After the ban, the government resolved to launch an App which it can exclusively control at the detriment of the unsuspecting. With this child of circumstantial App called "TribeNaija", Nigerians are further caged for a second time running in the year just after the ill-conceived National Identification Number (NIN) project.
This App is designed to surreptitiously monitor the rightful activities of the innocent citizens. It is specifically floated in a well customized manner that is aimed at tracking and installing private datas of users for surveillance purposes. And one disappointing factor about our people, is their rejection of wise counsels. When the warning came about the so-called National Identification Number (NIN) registration, as a coded plan orchestrated for the extra-judicial killing of Southerners, they never believed. When the plot became eventually executed, it then dawned on everyone that the Nigerian government was up to strategic annihilation of the people. Citizens could feel somewhat relaxed in their homes but the Nigerian government remains adamantly out with dehumanizing agenda. Anyone marked as a threat to it's invented nefarious initiatives, would summarily get tracked down for elimination.
Quite contrary to the established standard of Facebook regarding posts, that of TribeNaija unilaterally compels users to be of One-Nigeria" ideology. Using TribeNaija App without supporting "One-Nigeria", results in courting their trouble of elimination. This is one of their many plots of enforcing their seemingly overdue social media law against "hate speech" and the primary target is the Southern part of the country. The Igbo (Biafran) and Yoruba agitators who remain defiant in their quests for freedom, will become irresistably cowed. These are the sets of people that are being targeted in the extermination policies tyrannically driven at all cost through these inventions.
The outlined methods are being employed by the Nigerian government to further plunge the global community into darkness pertaining events happening in the country. With TribeNaija App under their firm control, the citizens' rights will be greatly curtailed. People can be blocked and deactivated at will. But it is foolhardy to think that everybody will support the obnoxious, crude and primitive policies in Nigeria. The category of people being targeted are those that were forcefully given the Nigerian citizenship (diaspora based agitators). Such were not born Nigerians and their parents were never Nigerians but were helplessly so christened. These are those lots that cannot speak honor in favor of Nigeria despite growing despicable atrocities that are being committed successively against the people. Nigeria, over the years, is a name associated with slavish chains, abuses of fundamental human rights, deaths and bitter bias against some tribes. This TribeNaija App must be clinically avoided because it is a death trap well placed in the hands of the government.
Written by Ifeanyi Chibueze James
Edited by Peter Oshagwu
For Family Writers Press International
Friday, 18 June 2021
Open Letter To Governor Hope Uzodima Of Imo State
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The Joy Of Slavery: The Painful Trial Of Some Deceived Ethnic Nations In Nigeria
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The Joy Of Slavery: The Painful Trial Of Some Deceived Ethnic Nations In Nigeria
In chapter 5 of Frederick Douglas work, "Narrative of The Life", Mr. Douglas said and I quote: "Our food was coarse corn meal boiled. This was called mush. It was put into a large wooden tray or trough and set down upon the ground. The children were then called upon and like so many pigs, they would come and devour the mush; some with oyster-shells, others with pieces of shingle, some with naked hands, none with spoons. He that ate fastest got most; he that was strongest secured the best place and few left the trough satisfied".
This has been our ordeal in Nigeria, but many have blindly refused to understand the curse Nigeria is to our existence and survival. In Nigeria, people have eaten worms in the place of food, others still drink from the same pit they toilet. Some parts drink oil and gas polluted waters, no grasses on their land for even domestic animals to eat and be healthy, yet they fight baselessly and accuse their own brothers, calling themselves "Niger Deltans" and insisting never to be identified as Igbos. What a pity! Yet, tarched and haunted houses are where they reside.
Albert Einstein said "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed". Things have become so bad that people seem to have been denied their reasonings. So, they no long stop to question some anomalies. And that is what Sir Albert classified so well as being in resemblance of a dead state.
It may perhaps be fairly questioned whether any other portion of the African population could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery we are enduring here in the name of "one Nigeria". For instance, there is absolutely nothing evil that has not been meted to the nation of Biafra today, yet entrapped in Nigeria. They have tried to cripple our intellect, darken our mind, debase our moral nature, obliterate all traces of our relationship with mankind.
And one thing that is most astonishing is how we have lived with the mighty loads of this most frightful bondage under which we have been groaning, since the 1914 amalgamation. We have been physically and mentally tortured and they have made us see our brothers as our enemies. Our brothers and sisters in the coastal areas are seeing their kit and kin in the upland areas as their worst enemies. Mental degradation and torture are the causes.
Now, we are more like happy slaves, jubilating over our misfortune. We are foolish slaves that fight our brothers and sisters instead of our chains. We are happy slaves in jubilation, dancing and urinating on the graves of our dead, killed by our real enemies.
What do we gain in all these? Izon (Ijaw) Urhobo, Isoko, Ogoni, Igbo, Niger Deltans, South-East or South-South people, are all brothers and sisters. Let us not give our enemies more chances to feast any further on our ignorance. We are better together than being divided. This is the glaring truth!
Written by Chidiebere Obulose
Edited by Ogah C.S. Maduabuchi
For Family Writers Press International.
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
The Ikeduru ESN Camp And The Nigerian Joint Forces' Deceptive Claims
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The Ikeduru ESN Camp And The Nigerian Joint Forces' Deceptive Claims
At the early hours of Tuesday 8th June 2021, the Nigerian joint armed forces claimed that they invaded the camp of Eastern Security Network (ESN), at Ikeduru in Imo State, apprehended some ESN operatives and burnt down their building.
And one is supposed to be surprised at such a false claim. Does Mazi Nnamdi Kanu commanded that Eastern Security Network (ESN) camp should be situated at residential quarters? Has it not been severally proven that the camping places of these gallant men are located in the bushes and forests of Biafraland? Even without being told, any informed person in Nigeria at the moment should have noticed how the Nigeria police and military have continued to operate with criminal impunity, especially across Biafraland. When they see people going about their normal businesses, they would unjustly arrest them and tag them any criminal name of choice, intimidate them and force incriminating words into their mouths.
Reasonable and responsible persons in the shitholic country called Nigeria, is supposed to ask the police the following questions:
* How many of the ESN men were in that house you burnt when you invaded it?
* What were the proves that the building in question is really within ESN camp?
* And when did you notice that ESN started living in residential homes, because even your army proved it at Orlu in the same Imo State that ESN personnel were in the bushes, wherefore they went to bomb them with helicopter gunboats.
Without mincing words, the Nigerian uniformed men need to essentially learn how to be more objective in their reasonings and stop tagging people wrongly without investigations. When they finally learn, maybe they can start proper investigations before dishing out fallacies to the general public. They should also know that people have known their cunning craftiness.
We have seen many cases where these terrorist groups in uniforms have set people up in order to incriminate them. We have seen many cases like the Ikeduru scenerio where they set people's homes ablaze and tagged them one name or the other, to justify their deceptive claims.
Nigeria and her security forces should well understand that the people can be fooled actually, but not all the time. Sooner than later, they will inevitably feel the wrath of the people.
Written by Chidiebere Obulose
Edited by Ogah C.S. Maduabuchi
For Family Writers Press international
FWPI Editorial: Instigations Behind Biafra Agitation
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FWPI Editorial: Instigations Behind Biafra Agitation
Biafrans are people with great historical and cultural pedigree as widely recognized and attested to by renowned global anthropologists, colonial administrators and foreign missionaries. They are known as a people with unusual/uncommon human qualities, striving with rare dynamism, versatility and ingenuity. Since the creation of the Nigerian contraption by the British overlords, Biafrans have virtually been everything to the Nigerian state and have persistently helped in the consolidation of the entity. This has been made possible through the sweat, doggedness, blood, talent and invaluable treasure of this very unique human race.
Foremost nationalist of the Nigerian independence, Uwalaka J.N. (2003), noted that it was Igbo Biafran in the person of late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, that took the front seat for the Nigerian independence drive against the British. Even when every other individual appeared skeptical or evasive to the ideology of Nigeria. It was Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe's care and concern for all Nigerians, that formed the opinion of Chief M.C.K. Ajuluchukwu, when he stated that "late Chief Obafemi Awolowo fought for the interest of the Yorubas, late Ahmadu Bello did likewise for the North while Nnamdi Azikiwe devoted his life, time and energy, preaching and serving the overriding interest of the entire Nigerian citizens. The Nigerian independence despite Zik's devotion and efforts, power was eventually transferred to late Tafawa Balewa as the Prime Minister.
Nnamdi Azikiwe was made to serve as a mere ceremonial President that represented the Queen of England. Yet, Biafrans keyed in, until consumed by the idea of one Nigerianism with great prices for independence and unity, paid. The prices paid rightly confirmed the statement of Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife when he bluntly described as "tree of liberty, through the blood of Aba women as well as that of Enugu coal miners, being completely watered". Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, in a statement, also asserted that "the blood of martyrs shall water the tree of liberty". The watered blood thus, came from no other tribe or people but that of Biafrans during the pre-independence Nigerian era. Before and after independence, the tree of One-Nigeria has uninhibitedly gulped the blood of Biafrans with series of killings and deaths.
With the above sundry examples, Biafrans have really experienced unmitigated slaughter at different occasions or incidents in Nigeria. In 2014, unarmed Biafrans were gruesomely massacred at Onitsha Head Bridge by the combined armed team of the Nigerian security forces during a peaceful protest staged for the release of the arrested leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). On the 29th of May 2015, Biafrans were massively killed in Aba High School where they converged to pray, preparatory to the Annual May 30th Biafra Memorial Service. This is done in memory of Biafra fallen heros and heroines. In 2016, another wave of genocide was visited on Biafrans by the Nigerian armed forces at Afara-Ukwu, Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State.
This mayhem was callously carried out at the family home of the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Many corpses of the slain were so terribly mutilated to avoid recognition, due to acidic substances poured on them by the Nigerian security operatives. The effect of that murderous genocide eventually claimed the lives of the parents of the IPOB leader, His Royal Majesty (HRM), late Eze Okwu-Kanu and Lolo Ugoeze S. Okwu-Kanu. The heinous activities of the grossly Fulani infested Nigerian government against innocent Biafrans, remains grievously unpardonable because such acts are inhuman. The criminal activities of the Nigerian Army, Navy and Police did not however subside as the oppression of the people persists. Massive killing and victimization yet continue in Imo State amongst others in Biafraland by both the Nigerian uniformed security personnel and Fulani killer herdsmen.
The only notable crime of Biafrans has remained their embrace of the Nigerian ideology. They believed in Nigeria so much so that it has become their greatest undoing to the extent that their benevolence, hard work and achievements are now being compensated with jealousy and bitter hatred. Their prowess and ingenuity are being misjudged for domination, their versatility has become exploitation. All these added up to the dread they have for Biafrans who are today being derided, suspected, massively killed, marginalized, molested and slavishily treated by the Nigerian state. The heroic and pioneering role in the national development are being jettisoned. Biafrans, due to their republican and industrial nature, vastly spread incomparably in numbers across Nigeria, more than any other tribe.
They have immeasurably contributed to the economic and socio-political development of their adopted places of residence outside Biafraland. They successfully thrive against adverse conditions of life in their undaunted efforts to earn a living and further contribute to the economy and social upliftment of the areas. Biafrans have built roads to alleviate the suffering of many rural dwellers. They have engaged in bringing education closer to remotest indigenous rural dwellers, they have established communities in uninhabitable locations where people dreaded and yet, they have remained used as sacrificial lambs of appeasement by the Nigerian Fulani run government. Putting oneself in the shoes of Biafrans therefore, in the light of these gruelling exemplary narratives, it yet remains puzzling what optional or different measures could be adopted in response. Would the protagonists of the Nigerian ideology, not seek their own freedom to definitively restore the dignity and survival of their own people? Let your conscience be the judge!
Written by Onyebuchi Eucharia
Deputy Editor-In-Chief
Family Writers Press International
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Hope Uzodimma, Adaka Boro, Ken Saro-Wiwa And Self-Consuming Hubris
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Biafrans Are Ruled With "Rods Of Iron"
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"In The Language They Will Understand", Buhari Stated.
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Monday, 14 June 2021
Nigeria, Desperately Beating The Drums Of War
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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
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Double-Faced Fulani Cabal Draconian Measures, Are Bonkers
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Changing The Deceitful Narrative Of Possible Igbo Dominance Of Niger Delta People
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Restructuring can’t stop herdsmen from invading our farms – Prof Akintoye
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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.
Sunday, 13 June 2021
Genocide In Eastern Nigeria: 350 Killed In 160 Days, 600 Missing And 2500 Abducted Or Arrested By Nigerian Soldiers, Police, Others
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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:
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