Against The Sustained Enslavement Drive, Propelled By Britain, Biafrans Remain A Free People

 Against The Sustained Enslavement Drive, Propelled By Britain, Biafrans Remain A Free People

Time has come for the truth to be laid bare. Biafrans are a physically and mentally strong people, and a people who do not toil with their spirituality. They are a people who never fears take up life's challenges. Biafrans do not bow to circumstances. In like manner, bowing to a fellow human being is something a Biafran never acceptse. Biafrans know and worship only one God, The Creator of all things(Chukwu-Okike).

History told us that Biafrans never had any business or communication with fulanis from futajalon until the unwelcomed arrival of the coning British, who exploited the welcoming soft spot of Ndigbo and Biafrans at large have for God, and everything God-related. 

The agents of the western world were able to get into Biafra because the came as christian missionaries. However, they had ulterior motives. Britain willingly betrayed the trust of Biafrans, formed a system of governance that was strange to Biafrans, amalgamated different peoples with different ideaologies, different beliefs and way of worship. 

Britain brought various peoples with about eight thousand (8,000) different languages and cultures together for their devilish interest and handed its government to the Muhammadian fulanis, as against Biafrans.

Ndigbo and Biafrans at large including Igbanke, Ibibio, izon (ijaw), Anag, etcetera will never stoop as low as becoming equals with uncircumcised fulanis, much less become servants to anyone in the Biafran's own land.

Britain brought their Bibles and false teachings to Biafrans and taught them to turn the other cheek when slapped, but they gave guns to the Muhammadan fulanis and told them that Biafrans are like their slaves. Britain and the western world tried through the Islamic fulanis to wipe out their christian converts for the sake of crude oil.  

The only fulani slaves in Biafra land are the puppet politicians who deliberately chose dancing to the tune of their fulani masters, rather than listen to the needs of the people they claim to serve.

After the genocide in Biafra (1967 - 1970) headed by Britain, it was easy for them to place embargoes on all that benefited Biafra and encouraged production in the Muhammadan north and funded them with monies stolen from Biafra land.

Now, these Fulanis believe that they are the sole providers for Biafrans. 

Biafrans have not forgotten themselves and history. So, they do not want to continue in the evil enclave called nigeria.

Fulani cows are desecrated and are an abomination to Biafrans. It is common practice for fulanis to engage in sexual intercourse with these cows and sell them at exorbitant prices to Biafrans.

Beastiality is a taboo in Biafra, as well as associating with those who practice such.

Biafrans are not greedy people, they want to exist on their own to build their economy with what they have left. It is proper for a people to choose what they want and as such, Biafrans are saying "NO" to fulani cows and other desecrated products they use as excuses to invade Biafra land.

Biafrans are peacefully calling for the release of their son, brother, savior and leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu whose only crime is calling for the freedom of his people.

Biafrans want a referendum to determine their future.

God bless Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

God bless Biafra

Written by Chidiebere Obulose

Edited by Cindy Etuk

For Family Writers Press International

Biafra: Will You Be Among The Worthy Hundred Men?

 Biafra: Will You Be Among The Worthy Hundred Men?

The leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has severally said that all he needs to restore Biafra is a hundred (100) men. These are to be individuals who undiminishingly posseses the entire qualities required for wholesome emancipation of Biafra

And whenever I remember this, it brings back the memory of what King Martin Luther said in his book, "Stride Toward Freedom". Luther said: “For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be, what is once well done is done forever.” 

Mahatma Gandhi never had more than one hundred persons absolutely committed to his philosophy. But with this small group of devoted followers, he galvanized the whole of India, and through a magnificent feat of nonviolence, challenged the might of the British Empire and won freedom for his people.

This method of nonviolence will not work miracles overnight. Men are not easily moved from their mental ruts, their prejudiced and irrational feelings. When the underprivileged demand freedom, the privileged first react with bitterness and resistance. Even when the demands are couched in nonviolent terms, the initial response is the same. Nehru once remarked that the British were never so angry as when the Indians resisted them with nonviolence, that he never saw eyes so full of hate as those of the British troops to whom he turned the other cheek when they beat him with lathis or heavy stick. But nonviolent resistance at least changed the minds and hearts of the Indians, however impervious the British may have appeared. “We cast away our fear,” said Nehru. And at the end, the British not only granted freedom to India, but came to have a new respect for the Indians.”

The above statement has just brought home the clarity of what Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has in mind when he said he only needed 100 men.

The implication is not lost on most people, although only a few understood the real life application. Hence, only a select few knew that to move the world, the only thing needed is just a lever and a support. With as little as 100 people Mahatma Gandhi conquered British imperialism and by extension the supposed valmighty America and forced them to their knees. And these things happened at the time the world is still developing!

It is at this point of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu being away, incarcerated in DSS dungeon, that the question has become imperative. It is this moment that has indeed afforded us the weapon to separate men and women from boys and girls. Indeed, many have resorted to fighting each other, name calling, overwhelmed by manipulative cognitive warfare, misinformation and duplicitous character. Such people who embarrassingly confess loyalty to Paul or Apollos thereby creating a schism in the body of Christ are not worthy of the call, according to the "Holy Bible".

As the saying goes, “what is worth doing, is worth doing well. Are you doing what you supposed to do or you are busy looking for whom to accuse. With all these emotive and immature attitude of many of many who claim to be fighting for freedom, it will be assumed they do not really understand what freedom fight is about. Many want to be noticed on social media. They want to make a video or an audio. They want to have one million followers. They want to monetize freedom fighting, Biafra freedom fighting. Only a few knows how to read and make sense of it!

You may wish to ask "what is the lesson to gain from Gandhi"? It is that Gandhi used a nonviolent approach. The same approach that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is using today in a far more pronounced terms than Gandhi did.

The only difference is the the presence of infiltrators. The 100 men of Gandhi was pure within themselves.

This is why Kanu is in need of such spotless men and women. With that, Biafra will be restored within the shortest imaginable time.

Written by Chidiebere Obulose

Edited by Chibueze Daniel

Family Writers Press International

Thugs Sponsored By Sen. T. A. Orji And Chinedum Orji Attack Amaokwe Ugba Community

 Thugs Sponsored By Sen. T. A. Orji And Chinedum Orji Attack Amaokwe Ugba Community

A group of loyal thugs to both SenatorTheodore Ahamefule Orji, former governor of Abia State and to his son, Chinedum Orji attacked Amaokwe Ugba community in ibeku, Abia State with machetes at Ụzọ-Ubi area on 15th April 2022.

These thugs who were led by one Loveday Egeonu, son of a known controversial man, Nkwalankwa, hacked down several indigenes of the said community at the incident, and left some others with dip machete cuts.

The hoodlums did not only perpetrate this act with machetes, but also fired gunshots at some of the villagers who tried to run for safety. Then they abducted three of their victims and took them to their ring leaders. Among whom those they abducted are Mr. Onyemaechi Nwoko and one one Mr. Ikechukwu Anyanwu.

On getting the news of the incidence, operatives of the police anti-cultism unit made fast to arrested two of the ring leaders for their involvement in the assault.

The rest of the gang members includes, but not only Mr. Loveday Egeonu who led the attack, and who arrogates himself on as a "proud member" of the "Vikings" a.k.a. "The Arrow Baggers cult". One prove of this is in a Facebook post he made on 26th February 2017. Amongst other members of his gang who carried out the attack are Kelechi Anyanwu, Emeka Gbufor, Bright Nwabuko and "Obere".

Prior to this incident, precisely on 7th January 2022, Mr. Onyemaechi Nwoko had led this same gang of cultists in a failed attempt to attack members of Amaokwe Ugba Community. In 2020 and 2021, the President-General of Amaokwe Ugba Ibeku, Hon. Tobias Osukwu had as well alleged that Chinedum Orji and his father, Sen. T. A. Orji threatened and attempted to murder him and some other indigenes of Amaokwe Ugba, Ibeku for opposing the Orjis' appropriation of Amaokwe Ugba's ancestral lands. Tobias Osukwu had raised an alarm on social media in late 2021, inciting that the Orjis wrote a petition to the Nigerian security forces accusing him(Hon. Tobias Osukwu) of being a member of "the group terrorising Abia, Imo and Rivers States", and that the false accusations in the petition had been intended at tricking the Nigerian government into killing him.

Furthermore, The victims of the Friday attack have been admitted at the police clinic in Umuahia, Abia State.

In respect to the arrest of the suspected culprits, some eye-witnesses at the police station on that Friday evening told family writers correspondent that Senator T. A. Orji sent his representatives, which included Barr. Anthony Anyanwu and Sir Chidi Onwuchuruba(the Commissioner for Lands, Abia State) to demand the immediate release of the detained criminal suspects. And the police went on to release the suspects the following day without hesitation.

So we are notifying the public about this continued political onslaughts, being meted against Biafrans by corrupt politicians, because it has to stop. Our people cannot go on watching those thar vowed to protect the land, now being the terror to us.

The people of Amaokwe are calling for the intervention of the Abia State government, and all people of goodwill.

This evil must stop now. And those kidnapped must be released right immediately.

Family Writers Press International, reporting.

United States accuses Nigerian police, military, DSS of human rights violation, corruption, impunity

 United States accuses Nigerian police, military, DSS of human rights violation, corruption, impunity 

United States (US) authorities have indicted the Nigeria police, military, and Department of State Services (DSS) for corruption, human rights violation, and impunity.

US Department of State said this in the 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Nigeria.

“Impunity, exacerbated by corruption and a weak judiciary, remained a significant problem in the security forces, especially in police, military, and the Department of State Services,” US Department of State said in the report.

“Police, the military, and the Department of State Services reported to civilian authorities but periodically acted outside civilian control.

“There were credible reports that members of the security forces committed numerous abuses.”

The report contained incidents of extrajudicial killings, stifling of free speech, human rights violations, political witch-hunting, and others issues in Nigeria.

"On August 20, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated that more than 24,000 persons were registered as missing in the country, with the majority from the conflict area in the North East. There were reports of disappearances by or on behalf of government authorities." 

"According to Amnesty International, the whereabouts of at least 50 suspected supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra group arrested in Rivers State between October and November 2020 remained unknown at year’s end. "

The US said the opaque nature of disciplining offending officials encourages impunity and that the systems shield erring officers found culpable in multiple crimes.

“The government regularly utilized disciplinary boards and mechanisms to investigate security force members and hold them accountable for crimes committed on duty, but the results of these accountability mechanisms were not always made public,” US Department of State said.

Two of Nigeria’s antigraft agencies – the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were cited for inconclusive prosecution of public officials charged for corruption.

The US Department of State report accused the antigraft agencies of being selective and “focused on low- and mid-level government officials.” It, however, acknowledged that both organisations brought indictments against various active and former high-level government officials.

“Many of the corruption cases, particularly the high-profile ones, remained pending before the courts due to administrative or procedural delays,” the report said, stating that the government deliberately underfunds the judiciary to make it ineffective.

On human rights violations, the report noted that the National Committee against Torture established by the Ministry of Justice has been hindered from working effectively due to a “lack of legal and operational independence and limited funding.”

“Prison and detention centre conditions remained harsh and life-threatening,” the report said. “Prisoners and detainees reportedly were subjected to gross overcrowding, inadequate medical care, food and water shortages, and other abuses. Some of these conditions resulted in deaths.”

Governor Soludo, should trade with Caution

 Governor Soludo, should trade with Caution 

The current governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo has Inaugurated a committee, which he said to have instituted for the purpose of reconciling the government with every victims of misdeeds in the state. 

This is a good move from the governor because it appears like saying "the government should take responsibility for every disorder in the society". Because, in societies with decent leadership, some of such disorders and chaos are usually minimal. However, Soludo should be extremely careful with the way he is going about achieving this, to avoid stepping on the will of the same society he is wanting to make right.

The journey of governance or leadership should be rooted in integrity and human development. These are supposed to be the basic tenets of leadership which Professor Chukwuma Soludo should rightfully harness in order to give the indigenous citizens of Anambra a reason to once again believe in the political stratagem of the South East leaders. But yet again, he has shown to be no different from others in the corrupt political class of governance.

It cannot be over-emphasized that the exercise of civilian's disobedience amidst a government's dehumanization, genocide and subjugation is a civil right. This is what the people of Anambra, and the whole Biafra have communicated.

The Anambra Governor should revisit what his original targets were at the time of his assuming the governorship office of Anambra State. He should be more aligned with doing what his people need from his government, not fighting the people's will.

Reconciliation is beautiful. But, what is your actual direction. The Citizens have gone beyond the hypocrisy of religious propaganda and can easily tell when they are being manipulated. Those members of your reconciliation committee, are they representatives of the people? Will they serve the best interest of the people, because that is what it should all be about?

Do not make the mistake some other leaders have made. The committees instituted by some of them in the past have rather turned to witch-hunt the people instead of servicing them.

Your peace and reconciliation committee should be ladened with the root cause of whatever you are willing to stop and not propaganda.

Make your bold steps in pushing for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, then the sit-at-home protest will stop in the whole Biafra land. Stop forcing the stop from a wrong angle.

#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu

#FreeBiafra

Written by Anioke Chukwunonso

Edited by Ogah C S Maduabuchi

For Family Writers Press International 

IPOB disassociate self from Imo INEC Attack, says Nigeria Govt, Politicians Sponsoring Terror Attacks To blackmail the Movement

 IPOB disassociate self from Imo INEC Attack, says Nigeria Govt, Politicians Sponsoring Terror Attacks To blackmail the Movement 

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has dissociated itself in the ongoing insecurity in Biafra land. It will be recalled that on 14th of April 2022, unknown gunmen numbering about 12, stormed the Ihitte Uboma local government area in Imo State and shot dead a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Okorie Anthony, at the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration Exercise, CVRE.

These masked men have been terrorizing the region for many years now. IPOB through its media spokesperson, Emma Powerful dissociates IPOB from the terror attack and vowed to unearth those behind the dastardly act. The press statement reads in full

"We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU, strongly condemn the attack on INEC staff at Ihite Uboma LGA of Imo State.  We are also warning these traitors and enemies of Biafra behind these barbaric attacks to stop or be ready to reap the reward of their atrocities. IPOB cannot afford to allow them to continue to terrorise our people or demonise our peaceful organisation as some uninformed people appoint accusing fingers at us.

IPOB is not happy with these criminal activities going on in our region because we don't want this to continue and we are going to expose those behind this evil in the region.  Anybody involved in this act will regret it. We totally disassociate ourselves from this act of criminality.  IPOB volunteers and ESN have no hands in this criminal act that criminals randomly carry out against our people. 

We have made it clear to the public severally that IPOB Family members are not unknown gunmen and we cannot be because we have objective which is to restore Biafra as a free, Independent and Sovereign Nation.

Anybody who is involved in this evil act on INEC officers at Ihite Uboma LGA will pay dearly.  The masterminds  are being sponsored by unfortunate politicians thinking they can jeopardise our decision to make Biafra freedom a reality. 

We want to make it publicly known that IPOB and its security units did not attack INEC officers in Imo State. We are aware that Nigeria Government and their collaborators are sponsoring these criminal groups to attack our people in the name of IPOB to instigate crisis so people can disassociate themselves from IPOB activities and the entire world will see IPOB as terror group but they will fail and will not raise their ugly heads again. We promise them so. "

IPOB will not relent in discovering those behind this devilish activities and  expose them.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB. 

Gross Human Rights Violations: DSS Claims That Idara Has Been Transferred To Kanji Military Barracks In Niger State

 Gross Human Rights Violations: DSS Claims That Idara Has Been Transferred To Kanji Military Barracks In Niger State

After 158 days of detaining Godwin Idara, and totally denying her family and lawyer the access to see her, in the Department of State Service (DSS) have continued to aggressively violate the rights of this innocent girl. Now, they claim to have transfered her to a military detention facility in Wawa Kainji, Niger State.

The 20years old Godwin Joy Idara was abducted in Enugu on 8th November, 2021. According to the DSS, the investigations about her case was concluded since 15th January, 2022. They further told the lawyer that Idara's offence was that she wore Biafra colored attire during her birthday celebration, and that she also campaigned for Biafra on her social media wall, Facebook precisely.

DSS in a document served on 5th April 2022 also stated "That on 13th February, 2022, the Idara was transferred to the military detention facility Wawa Kainji, awaiting trial".

The family members of Godwin Joy Idara have been asking "Why would a civilian case of our daughter be transferred to the military, after an investigations conducted by the DSS"? And more especially when the concluded investigation by DSS did not show their daughter's vto have committed any crime known to law?

"Why have DSS refused us to see our daughter and confirm if she is alive after 158 days of abduction"?

"Why have DSS refused to charge our daughter to court since her abduction on 8 November 2021 in Enugu state"?

"Please, we are calling on human rights organizations and media authorities to help us in saving our daughter from the unlawful incarceration and gross violation of her fundamental rights as a human."-- Idara's family cries.

Family Writers Press International

Reporting 

Biafra, Oduduwa, Ambazonia Agitators Plan One-Million-Man March in June, at EU headquarters in Belgium says IPOB

Biafra, Oduduwa, Ambazonia Agitators Plan One-Million-Man March in June, at EU headquarters in Belgium says IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra has said it is planning a one-million-man march with pro-Oduduwa and Ambazonia agitators at the European Union headquarters in Belgium to press for their freedom.

The movement said this followed the consistent moves by the three nations for their freedom.

The Media and Publicity Secretary, IPOB, Emma Powerful, said this in a statement on Tuesday.

Powerful said the rally for the emerging nations in West Africa aims to disclose their predicaments to the world on that day.

The group said the EU authorities had approved the rally in Brussels, Belgium, for the three emerging nations in West Africa and other nations in Africa.

The killings and burning of houses in these three emerging nations have gone beyond human comprehension. Many people are dying every day at the hands of the Nigerian and Cameroon governments.

The statement read in full

Following the consistent  moves to restore  Biafra, Oduduwa and Ambazonia by the global movements pursuing these three nations, we the global movement and and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra ably led by our great and indefatigable leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU, wish to announce to the good people of Biafra, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom across the world that the emerging nations in Africa are expected to hold a one million man march at the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on the 14th and 15th June 2022. The one million-man march for the emerging nations in West Africa will disclose our predicaments to the world on that day. 

The emerging nations of Biafra, Ambazonia and Oduduwa  are expected to be in Belgium on 14th and 15th of June 2022 at European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to inform the European Union that they are prepared  to be on their own.

The authorities in Brüssels Belgium have approved our ONE MILLION MAN MARCH in Brüssels Belgium on that day for the three emerging nations in West Africa and other nations in Africa.

The protest for these emerging nations will display our needs to get these nations and every Biafran, Oduduwa and Ambazonian citizens living in Europe, America Asia and home to be present on that day to grace the epoch event. It will be a landmark event and we must let Europeans to know reasons we pursue these nations' existence. 

This is to show Europe and the entire world why we need these new nations in Africa to emerged. 

Therefore, our people must make sure they let the world understand our predicaments and what we are facing in the hands of Nigeria and Cameron. The Nigeria Government and Cameron government are terrorists nations and we will not allow them to trample on our people and kill them at random. 

The killings and burning of houses in these three emerging nations has gone beyond human comprehension, our people are dying every day in the hands of Nigeria and Cameroon governments.  

Our people should come out enemass to let them know that we are seriously in need of these three emerging nations.

IPOB, Ambazonia and Oduduwa nations are expecting their sons and daughters scattered all over the world because of the humiliation, torture and killings going on in our land.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

The Nigeria DSS Should Tell Us The Whereabouts Of Godwin Idara

 The Nigeria DSS Should Tell Us The Whereabouts Of Godwin Idara

Family Writers Press International(FWPI) has on the 10th of April, 2022 received another report on how the Nigeria Department of State Services(DSS) have continually resfused go provide Godwin Idara before the court or tell her whereabout people and lawyer.

According to Barrister Nnaemeka Ejiofor, Idara's lawyers; "Each time we go to court for the enforcement of Godwin Joy Idara's fundamental right application that was filed in the month of November last year 2021, the Judge keeps giving us excuses. She keeps saying that she is not ready for the hearing of Godwin Idara's case. As a result, she has kept on adjourning the matter without any reasons for us to take home".

Recall that Godwin Joy Idara was abducted in Enugu on 8th November 2021, and an information was later received that she has been transferred to Abuja DSS Headquarters. But since her abduction, all efforts made to see her by both her lawyer and her family members  have proved abortive. The DSS have cruelly denied everyone the chance to see Idara and assertain what her condition is even like.

This case of Idara's illegal abduction was filed before Justice Maha's presided Federal High Court 11, Abuja in the above stated month. And the last court hearing date was 6th April 2022. But immediately it was time for Idara's matter, the Judge looked at Idara's lawyer and said "I'm not ready for this matter now, therefore, come back in the next 4 months, 21 July 2022".

This led the applicant's lawyer to start wondering what is actually going on? He told the Judge that this matter is about the enforcement of his client's fundamental right which was filed since November 2021. Barrister Nnaemeka reminded the judge that the DSS have blatantly refused to charge the girl to court or even allow the lawyer or parents see her in their custody.

Yet, the judge ignored him and moved on to another matter. That is how Idara's case of 6th April 2022 was not also heard.

So, the lawyer decided on that same day to make some more serious investigative moves on the true state of Idara, considering the obviously suspicious behaviors of the Judge. It was then that Barrister Nnaemeka Ejiofor learnt from the DSS that Godwin Idara is no more at their DSS custody in Abuja. But they did not tell where she has been moved to.

The question now is, Where have they kept Idara?

According to the lawyer, the DSS said that the investigations about Idara was concluded since 15th January, 2022. They further told the lawyer that Idara's offence was that she wore Biafra colored attire during her birthday celebration, and that she also campaigned for Biafra on her social media wall, Facebook precisely.

However, the DSS should have charged Idara to court, regarding these accusations. Yet till today, they have refused to do so.

Currently, Godwin Joy Idara is no more at DSS custody in Abuja. On one, including the family and lawyer knows where the DSS kept her and continuously subjecting her to torture.

The DSS should be reminded that Self-determination is a fundamental right of every human. This is clearly stated in the United Nation's Charter, which the Nigerian government is a signatory to. How then does campaigning for freedom on social media become unlawful?

Why are the human rights organizations so deadly silent about this matter? Why are the women rights organizations not saying anything to condemn this evil that is being meted on an innocent girl?

The DSS must tell the whereabout of Godwin Joy Idara to her people and lawyer. Or release her outrightly bacause she has not committed any crime known to law.

#freeidaragold 

#FREEIDARAGOLDBIAFRA 

Family Writers Press International, reporting

Insecurity: Governor Soludo Should Recall What The Real Safety Threats Of The Anambra People Are

 Insecurity: Governor Soludo Should Recall What The Real Safety Threats Of The Anambra People Are

As long as the executive governor of Anambra State have continued making pronouncements regarding the security challenges in the State. I do wish to call his attention to the list of security threats bedeviling the people of Anambra, and the wider South East region. They are:

1. Akuzu SARS

2. Nigerian Military Officer with no official identify

3. Fulani herdsmen

4. Political Thugs.

If the Governor of Anambra State truly desires to fight insecurity to a standstill in his state, he should first visit the Akuzu Abattoir. That police station is supposed to be investigated and closed down completely. The disappearance of various youths of Anambra have mostly had a trace to the Akuzu police station. Why is there no panel of inquiry and an independent investigators assigned to uncover the atrocities by the police in that station.

The next thing Governor Soludo should look into is why there are Nigerian Military Officers with no official identify in Anambra. This is the most recent and brutal of all the security challenges. Chukwuma Soludo should as a matter of urgency, request the identity of all military officers who are posted to Amass road blocks along our peaceful communities. This will help protect lives of citizens and commuters along our roads and checkmate unprovoked killing of civilians. Enough of such wanton killings by unidentifiable Nigerian military personnel.

The Fulani herdsmen is the next in this list. According to word terrorism index, this group is the 4th most deadliest terror group in the world. The former inspector general of Police called them foreigners right on the floor of the Senate. So, they should be rightly seen as such. These Invaders have consistently raped our mothers, killed our fathers, kidnapped our young girls and occupied our farmlands. They pose community insecurity and must be evacuated from Anambra. The only security system that has fought the excesses of this group is Eastern Security Network(ESN).  Gov. Soludo should do something imminently about the remaining activities of this group. It is most necessary now because, averting any possibility of food scarcity in Anambra should also be part of his plans.

Finally, the harms being caused by political thugs must be stopped. These are politically active and paid civilians, used to stir tension within the state. They are used by politicians to destroy the people and their collective economic stability. Examples of political thugs are the touts popularly called "AGBORO", used to suppress the voice of the average citizens, and protect the interests of corrupt leaders.

If the executive Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo wishes to eradicate insecurity and promote social and economic development within Anambra State then he must tackle these terrors and not keep a blind eye. If he feigns ignorance of these, and keep unfairly trying to wrongly involve IPOB in the insecurity of Anambra, then he is either not honest about his plans on security, or he is hypocritical.

Written by Anioke Chukwunonso

Edited by Ogah C S Maduabuchi

For Family Writers Press International

Nigeria govt To Use Some Faceless Civil Society Groups to Launch Attack Against IPOB ---Intelligence Reports

Nigeria govt To Use Some Faceless Civil Society Groups to Launch Attack Against IPOB 

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described as laughable and disgraceful a plot by the DSS, Army, Police, NSCDC in partnership with some few civil society groups to peddle lies and false information against IPOB Movement.

IPOB, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the plot  was uncovered by its intelligence unit, vowing to expose and disgrace them.

It further accused the Nigerian government and its security agencies of being behind the killings and insecurity in Nigeria, urging its media teams to get ready for the real fight for Biafra restoration projects.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described as laughable and disgraceful a plot by the DSS, Army, Police, NSCDC in partnership with some few civil society groups to peddle lies and false information against the group.

The movement, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the plot  was uncovered by its intelligence unit, vowing to expose and disgrace them.

It further accused the Nigerian government and its security agencies of being behind the killings and insecurity in Nigeria, urging its media teams to get ready for the real fight to protect the image of IPOB and Biafra restoration projects from Nigeria blackmail.

The statement read in Full:

"The attention of the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great and indefatigable leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU has been drawn to the laughable and disgraceful meeting held by DSS, Army, Police, Civil defence Corp partner with some few civil society groups to join hands to propagate lies and false information against IPOB. 

The M.Branch uncovered the meeting where agreement and MOU were signed with civil society groups and some human rights group except Intersocity group and Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch. The agreement was reached to tell lies against freedom fighting movement championing the liberation of the people of Biafra. 

IPOB intelligence unit uncovered this evil meeting attended by faceless human rights and civil society groups who agreed to peddle falsehood against IPOB across the world but IPOB family will expose and disgrace them. 

Amnesty International and Intersocity group were deliberately excluded from the meeting because the organisers know that these transparent Right groups would not key into their wicked plans to be telling lies.

We are waiting for them and their lies  because they will regret their decision and agreement soon.  IPOB will not relent in exposing them to the world. We are urging IPOB media teams to get ready because the real fight for Biafra restoration projects is about to begin, and everybody will be ready to tell the world the truth about IPOB activities. 

Nigeria government and its security agencies are behind the killings and insecurity in Nigeria. They are only trying to use it to tag IPOB as terror group but they will not succeed because the world knows that we are not terrorists. If we were terrorists, we cannot maintain our presence in over 100 nations. The lies being propagated against us by the Nigeria Government will continue to fail. Nigeria Army, DSS and police created this insecurity to demonise IPOB and its leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU." The statement concluded 

Unguarded Utterances, Generalizations And Lack Of Credible Intelligence Threatening The Formative Stability Of Gov Soludo’s Government--Intersociety

 Unguarded Utterances, Generalizations And Lack Of Credible Intelligence Threatening The Formative Stability Of Gov Soludo’s  Government--Intersociety

Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria

Sat 9th April 2022

 The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law has identified unguarded utterances, generalizations and lack of credible intelligence as fundamental threats capable of undermining the formative stability of the Government of Prof Charles Soludo in Anambra State. The person of Prof Charles Soludo may also need to work hard to wriggle himself out of ‘over knowledge mastership syndrome’. This, if not corrected or tamed now, may lead to the new Gov being left or isolated by people of good conscience especially the ‘homeland’ democratic forces in the State. The ‘homeland’ democratic forces in the State have since resolved to join hands with the new Gov to turn Anambra State positively around on condition that their constructive voices must be heard and acted upon when freely given.

 

It is therefore a global elementary knowledge that sensitive security issues are not handled through unguarded public utterances and ‘generalizations. It is also instructive to point out that the backbone of security and intelligence in the world lies on detection, thorough verification of the detected and their handling styles anchored on pre action muting on what has been detected and un-muting of same after what has been detected has been operated upon through  intelligence and ICT powered operations. In Criminology, generalization, false labeling, criminalization and stigmatization of members of a general population or a particular group or associating them with acidic social deviances and violent crimes are the most undoing of any governing authority or policing organization. These are also totally forbidden in modern world of detective and investigative security and intelligence.

 In the Igbo System of ancient and oracular periods, “no matter how wise or knowledgeable an elder is, he must not be invited to preside over a sensitive matter he knows nothing about” and it is tantamount to “killing him” if he ventures into same. That is to say that he must seek to be fully briefed if he is to preside over it well and wisely.  In the case of the ongoing formative stage of the Government of Charles Soludo, it is our finding that the Gov meant to govern the State well, but appeared to have chosen to start on riotous and loquacious path. In other words, Intersociety is not certainly sure that the new Gov was well briefed and armed with credible state actor intelligence. Intersociety has severally investigated and found that between 80% and 90% of the state actor security intelligence and investigative information on the state of insecurity in the Southeast are highly disputable and questionable and these have led to wanton waste of innocent lives and destruction of nonviolent properties by deployed armed state actors.

 For instance, in the Southeast, a predominant ‘blue-collar’ or ‘street crime friendly social setting’, it is now the security and intelligence position of the state actors that “the armed robberies and armed robbers, kidnappings and kidnappers, cultism and cultists, rituals and ritualists, murders and murderers, rapes and rapists, vandalisms and vandals, car-snatchings and car-snatchers as well as white-collar or cyber crimes and their criminals have all disappeared from the streets of the Southeast and replaced by “ESN/IPOB terrorism and terrorists”. This is to the extent that out of tribal hatred or ethnic profiling, every act of street criminality is blamed on “ESN/IPOB”. This is even when it is the informed position of the Lombroso and Sutherland or Chicago Schools of Criminology that “the forefathers of Governments and other control systems including soldiering and policing organizations are social deviances and crimes or their deviants and criminals”. In other words, without social deviances and crimes, there could not have been Governments and other control systems. In every ‘blue-collar’ society, ‘blue-collar’ or street crimes and criminals abound and in every ‘white-collar’ or bureaucratic society, white-collar or pen and computer criminals abound.

 In the case of Anambra State, therefore, there is clear lack of credible state actor intelligence regarding the individual and group identities of “citizens in crime” in the State. In other words, in as much as some bush or forest  hideouts are held by the armed wing of the mainstream Biafra agitators, motley of violent criminal persons and entities, who patronize street criminalities, also abound in an ‘industrial scale”. The State is also under invasion by several armed splinter groups claiming to be “fighting for Biafra”. Just last week, a solid and credible contact close to Intersociety spotted a brown new Coaster bus marked “Izzi Youth Movement” possibly from Ebonyi State. The Coaster Bus was spotted along Obeledu-Oraeri-Igboukwu Road at about 7.30pm, fully loaded with young men and most likely armed with assault rifles, and on further independent trail and contacts, it was discovered that “they are heading to a camp within the State”. Survivors have also attested to the fact that “they recently encountered some forest camped violent entities/persons In Nnewi South axis (i.e. Ukpor area) speaking Ebonyi dialects and got nearly killed when greeted them with “All Hail Biafra/Nwachineke”.

There is also the likelihood of the presence of ‘copycat and fifth columnists’ armed squads possibly oiled by clandestinely destructive state agents to engage in sundry violent crimes with intent to blame same on the mainstream Biafra agitators. We are also intelligently and independently not unaware of the fact that there are several urban based violent criminals that specialize in snatching exotic or flashy cars and smart phones and forced or criminal electronic transfer at gun points of several millions of naira. In Idemmili North axis, for instance, an independent detective recently told Intersociety “that the boys go out in the morning with five cars and come back in the evening with fifteen flashy others”. There is also legal difference between “IPOB and ESN members”. In the eyes of UN System, “civilian person ancestrally found within the location of the Bight of Biafra in Nigeria including Gov Charles Soludo of Anambra State is a Biafran” while anybody that is a member of the armed Eastern Security Network engaging in universally outlawed violent activities is deemed to be in conflict with int’l and local criminal laws.

However, the above is not to say that the armed members of the mainstream Biafra agitators are saint or free from all blames or insecurity and other unsafe conditions in Anambra State. They have also not been responsible for the violent criminal activities in the State. This is more so when patterns and trends of their violent self defense activities are trade-marked, such as “the armed protest” of 7th April 2022 at Nnewi North and Aguata Local Government Area. From our collected intelligence, the attacks had their trademarks and were said to be “a protest through a barrel of gun against Soludo”.

 The beloved new Gov Charles Soludo is hereby expertly advised not to rush IPOB matters to avoid plunging the State into “another Imo State”. Solution to IPOB matters is not short term soluble but likely going to require medium or long term solutions. From our findings, a litany of goodwill still abounds for the Gov to move the State forward developmentally and securely. The primary task before Gov Soludo is: clean the State especially Onitsha, Ogbaru, Idemmili North, Oyi, Awka, Ekwulobia, Ihiala and Nnewi; open up drainages and waterways ahead of this coming rainy season, stop open defecation at Onitsha Upper-Iweka to Niger Bridge axis, identify and rout out touts and criminal revenue agents wrecking havoc in Onitsha and environs, clear blocked drainages across the State of illegal structures, rehabilitate failed State roads and monitor the conducts, activities and movements of his newly confirmed Commissioners especially those in charge of “Homeland (Security) Matters/Affairs” and Finance; the reappointed “mistakes of the Obiano Administration”.

 Additionally and finally, the new Government of Soludo must go for fresh and sound intelligence so as to credibly ascertain the following:

The number of violent crime armed groups and armed territorial self defense groups in the State and  patterns and trends of their activities

·         The groups among them that belong to street criminal entities and those that belong to violent self determination or self defense struggle

·         Those among them that are deviants and constitute threat to street or urban persons and their properties

·         The mission of the Ebonyi variant of the violently armed persons that are camping in several bushes and forests in the State

·         Whether there are copycat or fifth columnists’ armed entities oiled by clandestinely destructive State or Jihadist agents

·         The possible  camping of private militias among the motley of armed persons in the State

·         Those among the motley of violently armed persons responsible for incessancy of car snatching including the snatching of exotic/flashy cars from at least seven Catholic Reverend Fathers between Feb 15 and middle of Match 2022 around Ichida, Nnobi, Awka-Etiti, Igboukwu and Obeledu axis 

·         The Gov should also inform the citizens of the State the real target groups of the State Government’s “Amnesty” and whether the “Amnesty” is meant for armed robbers, car snatchers, phone snatchers and criminal electronic money thieves, house breakers, arsonists, burglary offenders, kidnappers, cultists, rapists, ritualists, hired killers; or whether the “Amnesty” is meant for armed agitators alone

 

Signed

For: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Emeka Umeagbalasi (Criminologist & Graduate of Security Studies)

Board Chair

Chinwe Umeche Esquire, LLB, BL

Head, Democracy and Good Governance

Obianuju Joy Igboeli 

Esquire, LLB, BL

Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Chidimma Udegbunam 

Esquire, LLB, BL

Head, Campaign and Publicity

Contacts:

Phone/WhatsApp: +2348174090052

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://intersociety-ng.org

The Suspension Of Imam Shiekh Nuru Confirms That Nigeria Islamic Leaders Endorses Terrorism

  The Suspension Of Imam Shiekh Nuru Confirms That Nigeria Islamic Leaders Endorses Terrorism

About eight days after "terrorists(pet-named bandits)" senselessly attacked a train on Abuja-Kaduna route, the Nigeria President, Muhammad Buhari, and his Security Chiefs are yet to respond in either condemning the act or fishing out those that perpetrated it. The lives of the men and women lost to the terror attack do not seem to bother them or matter. The perpetrators of this evil still roam about freely. This has been the attitude of those leading Nigeria, especially the Buhari's regime, since inception.

The urgly terror act was heavily criticized by Sheikh Nuru Khalid, the Chief Imam of Apo Jumat mosque, Abuja. He made this criticism on Friday, 1st April 2022 during their Jumat preaching. Imam Nuru acknowledged the failure of everybody, especially religious leaders who could not teach the people that life is sacred, parents who could not teach their children that killing is bad, the governors, and other persons in government. He made a special emphasis on President Mohammadu Buhari, who had made a campaign promise during the 2015 presidential election campaign. Buhari promised in 2015 to end insurgency and terrorism in a short time, but has done little or nothing to that effect.

The Imam expressed his complete disappointment with the Buhari's regime, and states his readiness to bear whatever might be the outcome or consequences of his outspokenness.

And as usual with the Nigerian governing system, where victims and critics of wrongs are purnished, Sheikh Nuhu Khalid was suspended almost immediately after the preaching. 

The very disturbing fact about this situation is that nothing has been done to the terrorists themsselves, or Sheikh Gumi who is the chief mediator for the terrorists.

This shows that the Buhari led Fulani Nigeria government is in love and has been enabling the operations and acts of terrorism, rather than fighting it against all odds.

This further justifies the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB) in their quest for a separate State of Biafra.

Biafrans have respect for the sacredness of life and want to restore their sovereignty.

A peaceful referendum is most important at this point because, there is a need to separate a seemingly carnivorous animal kind of humans from sane ones. The two are not same, and should not exist together.

#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu

#FreeBiafra

Written by Onyemachi Gabriel

Edited by Cindy Etuk

For Family Writers Press International

Biafra: The Distinctively Clear Voice Of The People, Amidst A Seeming Political Propaganda

 Biafra: The Distinctively Clear Voice Of The People, Amidst A Seeming Political Propaganda 

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB) represents the interests of over 90% of the indigenous Biafra populations, entrapped in the British contraption, Nigeria. This is a fact. And it is obvious to all anyone who is sincere enough to tell him/herself the real truth.

You cannot give what you do not have.

In this era, the Kanu led IPOB have proven to possess a similar capacity as our forefathers who rose above their fears, fought against the terrors of the western invaders and finally drowned themselves in the sea, instead of being enslaved. IPOB have today, shown same fearlessness, rejecting the terror of the British created state of Nigeria, and have fervently protested the unprovoked incarceration and detention of her leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Peace is the most beautiful price anyone can have and that is what Nigeria cannot give. While the intellectuals in Biafraland are busy talking about the cancellation of the sit-at-home protest being observed by Biafrans, which IPOB have cancelled because of political infiltration. They should remember that IPOB permits the people to decide to sit at home willingly on Mondays or go out to do their businesses. The IPOB leadership only condemns any effort geared towards enforcing whatever happens that day. That is a peaceful measure.

Anambra is a clear example of the people's willingness to protest the unlawful incarceration of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and militarization of BIAFRA by the terrorists infused Nigerian military. The recently elected Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo should desist from acting like a tool, instituted for the purpose of dissuading the collective will of the people. He should stop gearing more of his efforts towards trying to stop the voluntary Sit-at-home protest in Anambra, than he is doing towards finding the cause of the exercise.

The people of Anambra, and all Biafran in extension have shown via several fashions that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the only leader they will listen to his commands.

Efforts towards Kanu's unconditional release is what Soludo should more committedly concern himself with. This is something the voce of the people is clearly saying.

Nigeria and her handlers must also understand that without Justice, there cannot be peace. Biafrans on the other hand, are also not looking for an imaginary peace, but a total freedom. No country or community survives amidst propaganda, Nigeria has toed this ugly path in continued injustice, disobedience to the rule of law, brutal enforcement, militarized genocide and demonization of freedom of speech.

The people of Biafra have spoken and shown the Nigerian government and the world her determination to exit this unworkable amalgamated union called Nigeria built on ethnic bigotry and religious propaganda void of any unilateral value system.

#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu

#FreeBiafra

Written by Anioke Chukwunonso

Edited by Ogah C S Maduabuchi

For Family Writers Press International

Nigerian Military Continues Their Unprovoked Intimidation And Abduction Of Eastern Citizens

 The Military Continues Their Unprovoked Intimidation And Abduction Of Eastern Citizens

The operatives of the Nigeria Military in Enugu have stormed the homes of Mr Earnest Eze and Mr Ignatius Ifo in Nsude, Udi LGA, Enugu State.

This very ugly incident took place in what can best be likened to a "well planned kidnap operation".

It happened at about 3:00am in the early hours of Friday, 1st April, 2022.

According to the wife of Mr Earnest, the military men drove into their compound in five(5) Hilux buses, broke into their house and forcefully took away her husband, Mr Earnest in the presence of herself, Earnest's elder brother and Earnest's dead-frightened children, without saying a word or telling what the reason for such invasion.

After which, they drove off to the home of Mr Ignatius and took him away in a same cruel manner.

Till now(5 days later), the whereabouts of both Mr Earnest and Mr Ignatius is not known. Family members of the two have gone to make reports in the nearest police station, and to Enugu "82 division army barracks". But were not given any useful information regarding their own.

This is a kind notification to the public.

Let it be on record that the Nigeria military did not state the offences of these men. So, if they have committed any offence known to law, they should be provided and taken to court for necessary proceedings, instead of continuing to hold them in an unknown location.

Nothing must happen to either Mr Earnest Eze or Mr Ignatius Ifo.

Men and Women of goodwill should step in to prevail on the Enugu State command of the Nigeria military, and on the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to provide these innocent citizens.

This Clampdown on the Eastern Citizens mostly the Igbo people must stop. We must all rise to unanimously condemn it.

It is Earnest and Ignatius today, it might be anyone tomorrow.

#FreeEarnestEze

#FreeIgnatiusIfo

Family Writers Press International, Enugu Correspondent, reporting

Biafra Liberation: Why Kanu's Nonviolent Approach Remains The Most Fitting

 Biafra Liberation: Why Kanu's Nonviolent Approach Remains The Most Fitting

As a theologian, Martin Luther King Jr. regularly thought on his notion of nonviolence. In his debut book, "Stride Toward Freedom", and other following books and articles, he detailed his own "pilgrimage to nonviolence." Luther King Jr argued that "true pacifism," or "nonviolent resistance," is "a bold confrontation of evil via the force of love". King thought that "the Christian teaching of love, acting via the Gandhian method of nonviolence, was one of the most formidable weapons available to oppressed people in their quest for freedom" because he was both "morally and practically" devoted to nonviolence. 

As a freshman at Morehouse College, King Jr studied Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience, which exposed him to the concept of nonviolence. King was "fascinated by the idea of refusing to collaborate with an evil system" after growing up in Atlanta and witnessing segregation and bigotry on a daily basis. 

Dr. Mordecai Johnson, the then president of Howard University, spoke to King in 1950 while he was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary. Dr. Johnson, who had recently returned from India, spoke about Mohandas K. Gandhi's life and beliefs. According to King, "Gandhi was the first to turn Christian love into a tremendous force for social transformation. I found the means for social revolution that I had been seeking, in Gandhi's emphasis on love and nonviolence".

Despite his academic commitment to nonviolence, King did not personally see the efficacy of nonviolent direct action, until the Montgomery bus boycott began in 1955. During the boycott, King put Gandhi's ideas into practice. Despite threats to his life, King eventually decided not to deploy armed bodyguards with the help of black pacifist Bayard Rustin and Glenn Smiley of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. But he rather reacted to the violent situations, like as the bombing of his home, with compassion. King learnt how nonviolence could become a way of life that could be applied to every situation through his actual experience in organizing peaceful protests. The notion of nonviolent resistance was described by King as the "guiding light of our movement. "Gandhi provided the means, while Christ provided the spirit and drive". King would say.

Six important concepts guided King's view of nonviolence. Firstly, it is possible to resist evil without resorting to violence. Secondly, nonviolence aims to gain the opponent's "friendship and understanding," rather than shame him. Thirdly, evil should be opposed rather than the people who conduct evil deeds. Fourthly, nonviolence advocates must be willing to endure without vengeance, as suffering can be redemptive in and of itself. Fifthly, nonviolent resistance avoids both "external or physical violence" and "internal or spiritual violence": "The nonviolent resister not only refuses to kill but also refuses to detest his opponent" Love in the sense of the Greek term "agape", which means "understanding" or "redeeming good will for all mankind," should motivate the resister. The sixth principle is that nonviolent resistance requires "strong faith in the future," based on the belief that "the cosmos is on the side of justice".

Years after the bus boycott, Dr. Martin Luther King became increasingly committed to nonviolence. An India trip in 1959 helped him connect more intimately with Gandhi's legacy. King began to advocate nonviolence not just in a national sphere, but internationally as well.

Following the rejection of nonviolence by Black Power activists such as Stokely Carmichael, King lamented that some African Americans had lost hope and reaffirmed his own commitment to nonviolence: "Sometimes in life, a person develops a conviction that is so valuable and meaningful that he will stand by it to the end. This is what nonviolence has taught me ".  "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that," he concluded in his 1967 book. 

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, arguing that violent revolution was impractical in the context of a multiracial society. Only love has the power to drive out hatred. The nonviolent way of the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB), in their quest to restore Biafra remains the best way to go. We can see how possible it is to be committed to nonviolent without resorting to violence.

IPOB as a nonviolent organization has dramatically shown that Biafra restoration can be achieved without firing a gun shot. But just as it is said that "in every twelve, Judas will still exist to cause havoc", same is happening in Biafra restoration quest. Some criminal minded person has always hid in the cover of IPOB to cause troubles. But the message of IPOB leader is always clear to every ear.

Severally, you may have heard Kanu say that Biafra will be restored without a shot of a bullet. Yet, you find people that claim to be his disciples, advocating for a Biafra through war. This is a confusion believed to be the master-mind of Biafra enemies. But sincere Biafrans must continue to walk by the code, "Nonviolence".

And in all, Let Love Lead.

#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu

#FreeBiafra

Written by Obulose Chidiebere.

Edited by Okechukwu Chuks.

For Family Writers Press International.

Biafra: The Heavy Handedness of Nigerian govt precipitated IPOB self defense in Eastern Region – Report

 Biafra: The Heavy Handedness of Nigerian govt precipitated IPOB self defense in Eastern Region – Report

The intensifying violence Self defense associated with the IPOB movement in Nigeria’s Eastern Region is fuelled by the excessive militarised response of the state security forces as well as collective feelings of marginalisation and misinformation, a new report has said.

The report – Multiple Nodes and Common causes: National Stocktake of Contemporary Insecurity and State Responses in Nigeria – was authored and released on Friday by the Centre for Democracy and Development in West Africa (CDD). The report states that Nigeria faces an epidemic of insecurity, including IPOB agitation for separation, banditry in the north, and the perennial farmer-herder conflicts.

 IPOB, with its Security Network, the Eastern Security Network {ESN} has intensified their struggle for liberation in a radical push to separate from Nigeria and create an independent state of Biafra, decades after an initial effort caused a devastating civil war (1967-1970) which Britain secretly supplied arms to Nigeria to supress the determined Biafran people.

In their more organised self defence approach since Nigeria government launched heavy military attack on them. Alleged attacks blamed on IPOB and ESN operatives have resulted in the killings of state security personnel and civilians. The attacks have targeted police stations, government properties, and other public facilities, including INEC offices and custodial centres. Although in many occasions, IPOB has completely denied involvement in these violence attacks, the IPOB movement blamed Nigerian government of sponsoring terror attacks to blackmail and tarnish the good reputation of IPOB before international community. 

The group have continued to enforce a sit-at-home every Monday to protest the continued incarceration of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is standing trial in Abuja. The weekly sit-at-home protests, with substantial compliance, mean schools are shut to avoid endangering pupils and suspension of socio-economic activities.

In its report, the CDD said military action by the government in 2016 worsened the IPOB crisis.

“Since the launch of a military operation known as “Operation Python Dance” in 2016, the region has witnessed an intensification of confrontations between IPOB and the Nigerian security forces – especially, the police, the Department of State Security (DSS), and the military,” CDD said, and then referenced a report by PREMIUM TIMES exposing massive extra-judicial killings by the Nigerian security between 2015 and 2016.

Among the factors contributing to the recent intensification of violent separatism in the region, CDD identified: “a violent defensive counter-response to the state’s militarised approach; a pronounced perception of contemporary marginalisation in Nigeria’s current federal political and security architecture; and the development and spread of false narratives legitimising armed mobilisation as a pathway to a regional secession.”

“For many interlocutors in the region — both those identifying as formal members of IPOB and those who rejected the movement’s aims — the militarised response of the security forces to the initial emergence of separatism was frequently highlighted as a key driver of the group’s counter-mobilisation,” CDD said.

The organisation further said that “attempts to address the conflict arising from secessionist agitations – which remain the most significant node of conflict in the region with a bearing on national cohesion – need to account for the central role of the state as a perpetrator of violence and injustice in any resolution.”

The Nigerian government has not only proscribed IPOB but also officially labelled it a terrorist organisation, thus ruling out formal discussions with the group.

IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu is currently in detention where he is standing trial for treason and other charges.

There have been calls by political and traditional leaders from the Eastern Region for Mr Kanu’s release as part of efforts to calm the situation in the region. President Muhammadu Buhari has, however, rejected such calls, saying the trial of Mr Kanu should run its course.

On Saturday, traditional rulers from the Eastern Region restated their demand for Mr Kanu’s release. They said this was part of their agreement with IPOB leadership who in turn agreed to end the sit-at-homes on Mondays in the region.

Published by Premium Times 

Re-Edited by Family Writers Press International. 

Biafra Emaciation: History Of Household Intellectuals' Consistent Treachery And Conspiracy of Silence

 Biafra Emaciation: History Of Household Intellectuals' Consistent Treachery And Conspiracy of Silence

In the Catalonia referendum vote in 2017, the question that was on the ballot is: Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic? The “Yes” side won in a landslide, with (90.18%) voting for independence and (7.83%) voting against. Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan leader at the time, rejected every offer of compromise from Madrid, and stood with his people’s demand. Although in exile now, his commitment and consistency, and of course the patriotic support of his successor has kept the demand for Catalan's independence alive.

The Catalan government is already autonomous, with far reaching control, in the exception of a few things. Still, their intellectuals are at the forefront of the demand for total and absolute independence. The new set of leadership has made it clear to Madrid that their loyalty lies with their people.

Compare that to a long list of Biafran intellectuals and politicians' treacherous behaviors. It is not the advances of the Biafran enemies that is painful, it is our elites' failure to repel them. The overwhelming weakness and double standardness of these learned folks is badly annoying and disgusting.

After the gruesome and brutal war of cultural and historical obliteration, levied by the United kingdom against Biafrans in 1967-70, these intellectuals without hesitation, and in total sabotage of the guerrilla warfare, grovelled to the enemy and negotiated for themselves and their acolytes, leaving the masses in limbo.

At first, they pretended to be fighting for the people, without disclosing their loyalty to the Fulani agreements they signs before assuming any political or appointed post. Do not worry yourself by thinking about it. You already know by the actions of  some of them like Orji Uzor Kalu who used his Sun Newspaper to exploit the emotions of the people and generates revenue for himself. This aside from embezzlement of public coffers. Yes he did nothing to rescue Aba!

It is hard to tell which is usually worse: their deceptive demand before or disgraceful leadership after entering into corridors of power. So, with total disregard to their infamous roles under military dictatorships, once Olusegun Obasanjo (the Western government’s spy) was smuggled to office in 1999, they moved to resource control and constitution amendment. Once they receive some form of settlement, they always move on to something else. Something that would spike the emotions of the people and make them appear representative. That is why you should just wait before you jump into the bandwagon of the people singing praises of Chukwuma Soludo, the newly elected Governor of Anambra. It is very appealing and tempting, we want him to succeed, but we know how this usually ends. 

If he was there as central bank governor without as little as removing the Arabic inscription in the currencies of Nigeria, a thing he publicly criticized, do you really think he can disobey Fulanis(their political masters)? In case you are confused, the Fulani made him CBN governor. The only way he can defeat them is for him to work with the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB). Something the Catalan leaders did effortlessly. But, only time shall tell if he can do that.

To tell you how inconsequential and debased these double agents are, once Mazi Nnamdi Kanu came along with his serious demand for a referendum, the sleeper cells became activated. They started demanding “restructuring.” They even threatened a sabotage of 2019 general elections without restructuring. Well, 2019 has come and gone but since Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was abducted by Nigerian government agents from Kenya, they have all gone mute. Their muteness is neither surprising nor shocking but rather speaks volumes.

With the myriad of problems intentionally placed upon indigenous people by United kingdom such as deplorable road networks, unending strike from every sectors(especially education), poor infrastructure, zero functional airports and seaports, etcetera, the least expected of them was demand for equity. Instead they jostle among themselves for the position of the most favored slave; a spiteful and shameful position in total support to the oppressors and disregard to the suffering of the oppressed.

This disregard is why one Peter Obi would be bold to declare his intent to preside over Nigeria while Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is being tortured in the Department of State Services, DSS dungeon. This he did despite the insecurity partly caused by police brutality and uncouth politicians, benefitting from crises and trying to set the stage for a lopsidedness.

It is not their willingness to run that is the problem, but the lopsidedness of the system. How can a Catalonia that is autonomous encounter problems, yet somehow, someone thinks that a Nigeria president of Igbo extraction will succeed, without redress to structural imbalance and rigged system? Not to talk of the absolute charade of the entire exercise. And this is the problem. It is the reason some one like Ike Ekweremadu and his colleagues and the entire Biafraland political actors would continue to draw salary at the expense of the people, without a fight. Would a political class that feels the pain of the people not fight or at least commit to a mass resignation?

The Catalan intellectuals path to redemption should be the part of Biafra intellectuals too. But their history of inconsistency and silence is so decayed.

#JusticeforBiafra

#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu

Written by Chibueze Daniel

Edited by Ogah C S Maduabuchi

For Family Writers Press International

Nigeria: This Brewing Plague Is Avoidable

  Nigeria: This Brewing Plague Is Avoidable

Senseless attacks and destruction of lives and properties has unarguably become a norm in the geographical location, called Nigeria. This has remained so since the forceful marriage of divergent cultural and religious ideologies by the British. Britain colonized Nigeria, and has been the sole benefactor of the forced union, to the detriment of the indigenous peoples who have continually shown disapproval in various ways.

A disgraceful pitch invasion and destruction of valuable items in Abuja on the 28th day of March is a product of irritation about everything concerning Nigeria. People are well fed up of the system that has no working face.

Just for space of a few days back, there have been series of terrorist attacks on innocent and defenseless citizens, while the President Buhari's led government appears helpless.

One of the most pathetic is the bomb blast attack by the Fulanii terrorists on a passenger train, along Abuja - Kaduna route. So many precious lives were lost to this incident, and so many were taking away to unknown destinations. Yet there is no government to help.

Injustice and clampdown on people's rights, especially the Biafran people have unabatedly continued.

Last year 2021, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB) was kidnapped in Kenya by security agents of the Buhari government, brutally tortured and extraordinarily renditioned him to Nigeria. This man has been unjustly detained under unimaginable conditions in the facility of the department of state security(DSS).

It is actually important to note here that IPOB leadership have been intelligently wedging what could have since become the outcome of this terrible injustice on Kanu.

Kanu has very large followership and lovers who call on the universe daily for interventions on his behalf.

Most of these people are not even under the command of his freedom movement, IPOB. Among them are persons that a willing to get to any length in seeing Nigeria bow. So, continuing to detain him will eventually spell what we humans cannot clearly begin to imagine for the moment.

Recently, even people that are not from Kanu's tribe or religion are beginning to show great concerns about the man's ordeal in the hands of the Nigerian government and her corrupt security agencies. This is grave pointer.

In a tweet, Nasir Isa Usman had asked a compelling question: "ls Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the person attacking us here in kaduna, bombing Abuja-Kaduna railways, hijacking airport runways"? 

If the answer is capital No, then he should be released from @DSS terrorist dungeon.

Another tweet from Alhaji Shehu Galadima's handle reads;  "We keep on saying release that innocent man before it is too late for all of us in this country, to evade what took place in Egypt to repeat in Nigeria, i have seen the handwriting on the wall, Allah is not happy with Nigeria for holding his own. The anger of Allah is on people of Nigeria for holding Mazi Nnamdi Kanu".

 

Another also reads: "We keep on saying : release this innocent man(Nnamdi Kanu) before it's too late for all of us in this country. There are some unconfirmed information I hardly believe or I take it with a pinch of salt because should anything happen to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,that young man is like an atomic bomb o".

Unimaginable number of lives and hard earned properties of citizens have been lost as a result of the continued existence of this British contraption, Nigeria and the destruction it represents. Yet, it seems this is just the beginning.

The world should not continue pretending not to see the handwriting on the wall. Leaders and men of good conscience should act positively to rescue indigenous peoples trapped in the contraption called Nigeria to evade impending danger.

This brewing plague can actually be averted.

A referendum holds the key.

#GodBlessBiafra

#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu

Written by Onyemachi Gabriel

Edited by Cindy Etuk

For Family Writers Press International