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My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 6:53am On Nov 14, 2015
Nnamdi’s father speaks… ‘My son ‘ll rather die than back out of Biafra struggle’ 0
BY OUR REPORTER ON NOVEMBER 14, 2015 COVER
BIAFRA PROTESTS

FROM OKEY SAMPSON, ABA

On Monday, November 9, at about 3.45pm, this reporter’s mobile phone rang and the voice on the other end was Femi Babafemi, Deputy Edi­tor, Saturday Sun. “Okey, our cover story this week is on NK (Nnamdi Kanu). Please, trace his village and talk to his family members…., take a picture of his father’s house and possibly his parents, submission deadline is Wednes­day.” It was an assignment like no other. As the thought of how to go about it was still running riot in me, another call came in. This time from an unknown caller, “Okey, I hope you people took note of what happened today (Monday)”, referring to the pro-Biafra protest which locked down the city earlier in the day. “We will like to read the story in your paper tomorrow because you people always say the truth”, the caller added. On enquiry, the caller gave his name as Comrade Chukwuemeka Mba, “an activist”.

Reasoning the caller could be of help in handling the assignment, I inquired if he knew Nnamdi Kanu and he responded positively. I then asked him over for a chat and Comrade Mba gladly accepted and it was fixed for Tuesday morning. The comrade came as scheduled and after interviewing him, the report­er intimated him of his plans to travel to Umuahia, to see Nnamdi’s parents and siblings. “I was with Kanu in 2012 when we testran the Radio Biafra and he persuaded me to go with him to his village, but I could not because of some engagements, if I had gone with him, it would have been very simple lo­cating his village, all the same I will go to Umuahia with you and we will locate the village”, he assured.

We left Aba a little past 11 in the morning on Tuesday and on getting to Ubakala, Umuahia, some 12 kilometres from Nnamdi Kanu’s village, we stopped to see a friend, an activist in his own right. We asked whether he knew Nnamdi and he re­sponded, “I don’t know that chap, but I know the fa­ther closely, he is a traditional ruler of Isiama Afara, their fence wall is backing the Ojukwu bunker, go, people will show you the place.” “Oh! Nnamdi is a Prince was the thought that ran across my mind”.

We left for Isiama Afara, the hometown of the Di­rector of Radio Biafra that has rattled the Nigerian government. As we journeyed, due to the hard looks of one’s physiognomy, the approach to deploy to elicit response from the villagers became a problem because nobody would agree to talk to us if we had said we were looking for Nnamdi Kanu’s parents as they would have thought we were security opera­tives. The thought of asking for the palace of the tra­ditional ruler of the place readily came to mind and the man we asked, pointed towards the right, “go right, you will see his signpost”, he told us.

Behold, few metres away was the palace of HRM (Eze) Israel Okwu Kanu (JP) located on HRM (Eze) Kanu Drive, GRA Extension, Umuahia. On knock­ing on the gate of the main entrance into the palace, it was opened by a boy in his tens who was later joined by a man that was later to be the gatekeeper. He enquired of our mission and after telling him, he said: “His Majesty is sleeping”, an answer that al­most put one off balance. But before one could mut­ter any word, a lady that could pass for a half cast, in a British ascent asked, “Please, what can we do for you?” She ushered us into the palace that has the touch of modernity and offered us seats. After intro­ducing herself as Princess Kanu, the younger sister of Nnamdi, she told us the father was not available and we pleaded with her to speak in the monarch’s stead to which agreed.

As the interview was about to start, Princess Kanu said, “please, I hope you don’t mind, let me go and bring my dad” and we gladly agreed. After few minutes later, the monarch entered into the waiting room at about 4.00pm and the chat began.

Early life and trait of activism

Nnamdi’s father said the director of Radio Biafra was born in the 70s; he was not specific, at Isiama Afara. He attended Library Avenue Primary School (now part of Government House), Umuahia and went to Government College, Umuahia for his sec­ondary education. After that, he gained admission to the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), where he could not finish due to incessant strikes before he left for London to complete his university education.

Did Nnamdi show any sign of activism when he was growing up? “Yes”, the royal father answered. “He showed signs of activism when he was grow­ing up. I remember when he was in secondary school at Government College, Umuahia, he was the school prefect and he did well in leading other students. After that, when he gained admission to the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), they will be in school for one month, and in the next three months, they will be at home due to strike. One day, he called me and said because of this thing, he would no longer go to school in Nigeria and when I demanded to know why, he said he was tired of the everyday strike. What he was then doing at UNN when school was in session was to boycott class­es and stayed on his own to study privately. After a time, he told me again that he was wasting his time in Nigeria in his quest to have education and that he was going abroad to study. I weighed the possibility and I felt it was not there. He insisted and came in contact with somebody from my place who said I had helped him sometime ago and that he would help my son to travel to London and he did that. That was how Nnamdi went to London to study”.

Another thing the traditional ruler said made him believe his son could do what he is doing today was that while in school, Nnamdi was very intelligent and his teachers respected him for that and they kept telling him that his son would be somebody in fu­ture.

Nnamdi and the Biafra struggle

HRM (Eze) Kanu stated that his son was with Ralph Uwazuruike in the early years of the forma­tion of MASSOB but later left and started the strug­gle his own way and people started following him because of his uprightness, which he said created a lot problems for Nnamdi. According to him, “My son’s problem started with Ralph Uwazuruike, the MASSOB leader. After my son left him, there was a time he (Nnamdi) went for a function at Oboro, Ikwuano, Umuahia, Uwazuruike gathered his men and scattered the whole place. The people of Ob­oro arrested some of the people that came to disrupt the event and took them to the police headquarters in Umuahia. The following morning, I went to see them and admonished them to stop that type of behaviour, that all of them are fighting the same cause of Biafra freedom. That if my son wronged Uwazuruike, they should tell me and I will go and beg him. At the end, I found out that Nnamdi did not do anything but was opposed to the way MASSOB was collecting money from the poor and they go into the pocket of one man”.

Making of Radio Biafra

After the Oboro incident, as Nnamdi was going back to London, he was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. “When I was informed about his arrest, I rushed down to Port Harcourt, from there, I went to Abuja. At Abuja, the men at the DSS office treated me with respect and after explaining things to them, they asked me to take Nnamdi home. It was when we came back that my son told me he was going to appear in his true colour, to make sure that Biafra was realised”. To start with, Nnamdi left his job in Britain where he is a citizen, to be fully involved in the struggle and built the Radio Biafra/TV which has taken the country like a storm.

Arrest and detention

When asked how he feels about Nnamdi’s arrest and detention, he has this to say: “Nnamdi is my first son. His arrest pains me a lot; it is not when I start crying like a child before people will know that his arrest is paining me to the marrow. That chap has no problem, he is not a noisemaker, rather he abhors injustice. Since he was born, he had not exchanged words with we, the parents or even the siblings, always sitting quietly when we are having family meetings, but he always made quality inputs”.

Radio Biafra and justification of Nnamdi’s arrest

Nnamdi’s father said he listens to his son’s voice on radio and feels happy because he believes his son always says the truth and does not say such for his selfish interest, but for the interest of the people. He gave thumbs down to the Federal Government for his son’s arrest stating: “It was not justified at all be­cause he is fighting for the freedom of the Igbo with his mouth and without a machete or gun. It is only that mouth Nnamdi is using to demand the freedom of the Igbo and whether the Federal Government likes it or not, he will continue to speak just as I used to do which made me to represent my people three times as a local government councillor. Talking runs in our blood stream and it will be difficult for Nnam­di to stop talking”.

Family support

Nnamdi, despite his present travail, enjoys the full support of his family members in the pro-Biafra agitation. The father notwithstanding the fact that he had visited Nnamdi in Abuja since his present problem which he attributed to ill-health, but he was quick to add that he and Nnamdi’s younger ones were in Abuja to give him words of encourage­ment and seek his release. Driving further home the family’s support for Nnamdi, Eze Kanu has this to say: “Even the younger ones are in support of what he is doing and that is why the immediate younger brother and the mother are in Abuja because of his arrest. This shows that they have interest in what he is doing and we are fighting for his release.

“As for my people of Isiama Afaraukwu, they are not silent over the matter, but the only thing is that during the civil war, Biafran army headquarters was in our place including the famous (Ojukwu Bunker) which shares boundaries with my palace, in fact, soldiers were living in my house and it could be that what the people saw during the war made them to be a little docile over this matter”.

Appeal to FG and Ndigbo

“I will first of all start with the Federal Govern­ment, I’m appealing to them to release my son, he has not come to wage war against the country and the Nigerian constitution made provision for free­dom of speech and nothing will debar him from speaking. President Muhammadu Buhari should understand that the agitation for Biafra did not start with Nnamdi. If Buhari has any bad plans against Nnamdi, he should hands off because all of us want that freedom. As for Ndigbo, they should join Nnamdi in seeing to the actualization of Biafra. I’m not always happy that my son is putting his all in the struggle, the other man, Uwazuruike will be some­where behaving as if Nnamdi is his enemy. I’m also not happy that since Nnamdi was arrested, no gov­ernor from this zone or a known politician for that matter has ever asked for his release, it is not good. I don’t know whether they are afraid to speak out”, he stated.

Standing behind his son like the Rock of Gibral­tar, Eze Kanu said if his son was released today, there is no way he would advise him to forget about Biafra, stating that Nnamdi had told him it will be better for him to die than abandon the cause of http://sunnewsonline.com/new/ojukwu-never-declared-any-war-gowon-did-ikedife/

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by lolaxavier(m): 6:55am On Nov 14, 2015
Let him die...good riddance to bad rubbish...

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by madridguy(m): 6:56am On Nov 14, 2015
BIG LIE.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by kingdompropty: 6:59am On Nov 14, 2015
So for every Ndigbo that detest injustice.

Biafra,is a must.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 7:00am On Nov 14, 2015
lolaxavier:
Let him die...good riddance to bad rubbish...

How are you sure you will not even die before him

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Lurcky(m): 7:08am On Nov 14, 2015
The igbos have been cheated and cheated and its high someone at federal level including the President, (If he is not a propagandist) start listening to them start paying attention to that or leave the region and its resources alone.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Femolacaster(m): 7:17am On Nov 14, 2015
Sincerely, i am not against this man's agitation, the only thing i detest about the f00l and his almajiris is his hate speeches against other tribe and empty chestbeating.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by ArodeTsolaye: 7:19am On Nov 14, 2015
Like 9jacrip and aareonakakanfo opined earlier today. 'Our yoruba states in the Swest are the poorest, our people are hungry, yet our fellow yorubas are creating anti-biafran theads and booking spaces on biafran threads to fight biafrans for the fulani. Instead of chanelling their efforts in building our region, they prefer to chase rats in another man's house while a snake is in theirs".

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 7:25am On Nov 14, 2015
chukwudi44:


How are you sure you will not even die before him
he is currently getting fvcked by boko haram gays in DSS dungeon. I believe he now eats the half-cooked beans DSS gives him after he couldn't continue the hunger strike.

Heaven won't fall if he dies there. Ibos will continue eating their eba as they are currently doing now that he's in the Zoo's cage as a loyal baboon.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 7:27am On Nov 14, 2015
Lurcky:
The igbos have been cheated and cheated and its high someone at federal level including the President, (If he is not a propagandist) start listening to them start paying attention to that or leave the region and its resources alone.
which region's resources? Are you including SS in your mirage?

Oyel thief and land grabber.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Bobbystanley(m): 7:30am On Nov 14, 2015
That's the Spirit of an average Biafran.

Unlike the Lazy cowards from the South West .


Nnamdi Kanu the hero of my Generation.
Mandela was in prison for years and yet he achieved his goal.
Nothing can stop Biafra. The time is now!

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by mazzi: 7:30am On Nov 14, 2015
Brave father,brave mother,brave siblings in fact brave family!!! Bravery runs in this family.#nevergiveup

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by omenka(m): 7:34am On Nov 14, 2015
With all due respect I must say this man is very daft.

Do you know, sir, your son actively campaigned for PDP??

Do you know he's being sponsored by PDP in fulfilment of their pledge to make the country ungovernable should Jonathan lose??

Didn't he realise there has to be a Biafra when he was campaigning for Jonathan, or did the idea of Biafra occur to him only after Jonathan lost

Very foolish family.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by UmuEri(m): 7:35am On Nov 14, 2015
I always laugh at people who says Kanu is doing Radio For money!


These set of people doesn't even know he is a Prince!

Nnamdi Kanu is a Spirit, he was sent by God. Get that into your thick skull!

It is Biafra or we all die!

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Lurcky(m): 7:36am On Nov 14, 2015
juicee1:
which region's resources? Are you including SS in your mirage?

Oyel thief and land grabber.

The only thieves I sense here are

1) The govt who cart away profits made from resources. Collect the nigerian peoples money and do very little or nothing for them.

2) People like you who keep supporting these thieves even with their exposed acts and also robbing yourself and others the knowledge and truth. Shame

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by 9jii(m): 7:38am On Nov 14, 2015
What about causing the death of many coz of his stupidity and greed?
Just like Ojukwu fatal mistake

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 7:40am On Nov 14, 2015
[s]
ArodeTsolaye:
Like 9jacrip and aareonakakanfo
opined earlier today. 'Our yoruba
states in the Swest are the poorest,
our people are hungry, yet our fellow
yorubas are creating anti-biafran
theads and booking spaces on
biafran threads to fight biafrans for
the fulani. Instead of chanelling their
efforts in building our region, they
prefer to chase rats in another man's
house while a snake is in theirs".
[/s]



USELESS IPO-BASTARD YOUTH

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Chigold101(m): 7:41am On Nov 14, 2015
lolaxavier:
Let him die...good riddance to bad rubbish...
a man who has no cause to die for, is worthy to live.

Take it or leave it. Nnamdi Kanu will not die and everyday he is gaining the sympathy and love of both young and old Biafrans.

We love him and all Biafran activists

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by naijapips02: 7:51am On Nov 14, 2015
Quite Touching. But Eze, your son is misguided and would have to be strengthened out.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by mazzi: 7:52am On Nov 14, 2015
Now the know Nnamdi come from a well to do family,he is not a hungry activist.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by chesterlee(m): 7:56am On Nov 14, 2015
Buhari is feigning ignorance as if nothing is happening


The fool is yet to release a statement since this protest started...This act alone truly shows he doesn't regard people from eastern part of the country.

The 5% statement comes to mind. Tufiakwa!!!!What an unrepentant Bigot!!!

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 8:01am On Nov 14, 2015
omenka:
With all due respect I must say this man is very daft.

Do you know, sir, your son actively campaigned for PDP??

Do you know he's being sponsored by PDP in fulfilment of their pledge to make the country ungovernable should Jonathan lose??

Didn't he realise there has to be a Biafra when he was campaigning for Jonathan, or did the idea of Biafra occur to him only after Jonathan lost

Very foolish family.

Produce evidence he campaigned for PDP or forever remain silent.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 8:03am On Nov 14, 2015
Nnamdi is not a miscreant afterall...
Many of us are well to do. My father is a beneficiary of Nigeria, zbut he knows my stand and he respects it.
Ndi ohaneze that talk anyhow often send representatives to my house for financial support. We are well to do in my house, and although my father warns me to stay away from the struggle, he has seen my passion, and he has confirmed that even the ohaneze people are scared of what is coming.
He knows he has lived his life well, and its up to us to decide how we want ours.
Ndi ohaneze know that they have been a failure to the Igbo youths. They know it deep down, they are not strangers, I know them very well.
Let us keep up at our struggle, and show the world we are serious.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 8:06am On Nov 14, 2015
Many of those who insult us online do not even have good jobs, they live on rented apartments and are unsure of their next meal.
People that wouldn't cough if I stood close. What a pity.
Ojukwu was well to do, Nnamdi is a Prince, Opara. And they call us pitiable paupers... Lol.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 8:10am On Nov 14, 2015
Femolacaster:
Sincerely, i am not against this man's agitation, the only thing i detest about the f00l and his almajiris is his hate speeches against other tribe and empty chestbeating.
Name the hate speeches he made

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Raiders: 8:12am On Nov 14, 2015
Your son spread message of hate and incite violence against Nigerians and the government of Nigeria.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 8:21am On Nov 14, 2015
Raiders:
Your son spread message of hate and incite violence against Nigerians and the government of Nigeria.


xtrorse:

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Can you post ANY evidence where a prominent Igbo personality insulted or maligned your father or race?

Which ethnic group have built a better bridge than the Igbos who have exhibited more 'Nigerianness' by permeating every nook and cranny of Nigeria, peacefully building and establishing business empires, and growing the economy of the locals and that of the country at large, and some of them even getting married to the locals?

In the 90s, the NADECO's unlicensed and inciting Radio Kudirat was hitting the airwaves, did any of your elites condemn it?

Before the 2015 general elections, did you condemn the highly inciting Radio Chanji in the North?

Between Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani who makes lousy, provoking noise and propaganda using every available media outfit?

In the build up to the 2015 general elections certain people made careless and careless utterances thereby heating up the polity. Is any of them Igbo

The likes of FFK, Fayose, Fashola, Tinubu, Lai, El Rufai, Junaid Mohammed, Obj and Sahara Reporters who heated the polity with their utterances, is any of them Igbo?


Ever since you were born, have you seen or heard anywhere Igbos are on rampage, killing people and destroying means of livelihoods for no just cause?

How many of your elites dare challenge the Hausa-Fulani-Kanuris or Yorubas for their unjust ways? How many of you dare counter the numerous killings and destruction of lives and properties that have been occurring for many decades in the North unabated? 

The Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have over the century propagated despicable, hate speeches in their mosques and still execute the unconscionable, cold-hearted waste of human lives and reckless destruction of means of livelihoods in the North and Middle-belt. And they now have the presidency while the backstabbing Yorubas vice-presidency! Such a misnomer can only happen in the jungle! 

A number of Yorubas even go to the extent of carrying wicked lies about how Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have been peace-loving and accommodative; that it's the Igbos that always provoke their hosts in the North warranting the pogrom and other heinous crimes against the Igbos.
Yet in the same North and the Middle-belt the Christian minorities and other Southerners are maltreated, relegated to the background and even killed.

You say that Igbos are arrogant, and that they don't respect their hosts while you subtly proclaim that the Hausa-Fulanis are peace-loving and accommodative. You don’t like Igbos but you still fought and killed them to be in this fraudulent union where your likes are favoured by the injustice, inequity and lopsided arrangement in the polity. 
And your people even had the effrontery to castigate Igbos for seeking a self-determination! 

Many of you hold the view that Igbos should be grateful for being allowed to live in their part of the country, in the same 'One Nigeria'! You say Igbos disrespect and denigrate their host when Igbos choose to exercise their franchise right. And you don't seem to see anything wrong in Oba Akiolu's threat to drown Igbos in the Lagos lagoon if they fail to vote for his anointed candidate! The same threat was backed by many Yorubas including Dr Ariyo in the US who even called for genocide.

IGBOS HATE NOBODY EXCEPT YOU ARE A SWORN ENEMY TO TRUTH, JUSTICE AND EQUITY.
At the 2015 presidential election Igbos only exercised their franchise right just like other tribes.

If Igbos are the promoters of hate in Nigeria, can anyone tell us any instance where Igbos go about causing mayhem, killing and destroying means of livelihoods for no just cause?

It's only mischievous bigots in the society that turn blind eye to the evil and injustice, and permit the atrocities to flourish in the land because they gain from the lopsided arrangement in the polity. 

GENESIS OF HATRED IN NIGERIA


1* “We do not want our Southern neighbours to interfere in our development. We have never associated ourselves with the activities of these
people. We do not know them, we do not
recognize them, and we share no responsibility in their actions. We shall demand our rights when the time is ripe. If the British quit Nigeria now at this
stage, the Northern people would continue their uninterrupted conquest to the sea”. - Sir Tafawa Balewa (1947)

2* “We the people of the North will continue our stated intention to conquer the South and to dip the Koran in the Atlantic ocean after the British leave our shores.” - Sir Ahmadu Bello (1957)

3* "The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Othman Danfodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use minorities in the North as willing tools and South as conquered territories and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future
- Sir Ahmadu Bello, October 12,  1960

Ahmadu Bello, arrogantly uttered the aforementioned statement in a multicultural and multi-religious country and got away with it, and many bigots still hold him in high esteem and even shove it down the throats of other people.

4*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSosECbcmM

5*...barely six months after independence, Sir Ahmadu Bello was able to say with confidence in the Daily Times of May 3, 1961, the following:
I’m set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century.

6*...sometime in 2010, when upon the demise of President Umaru Y'Ardua, indications emerged that his erstwhile deputy, President Goodluck Jonathan, may contest the 2011 presidential election, a prominent chieftain of this same ACF, Lawal Kaita, who was a former Governor of old Kaduna State, threatened that the North would make Nigeria ungovernable, should Jonathan or anyone from the South win the 2011 presidential election, claiming that such would amount to denying the North it's birthright of ruling Nigeria.

7* It is in the same North barbaric statements like this were uttered in 2011:  ”BABOON AND DOG WILL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD”. And what was the outcome - carnage and murder of many Southerners and Christians in the North, including many Youth Corps members when Buhari lost the 2011 presidential election?

8* That true to that threat, upon the victory of Jonathan from the 2011 presidential election, massive violence was unleashed from the North by a group which called itself Boko Haram and which repeatedly took responsibility for unending mayhem which began with the killing of Youth Corp members who worked ad-hoc for INEC in that election.

9* As the barbaric killings and destructions reigned, especially with the attack by Boko Haram on the UN Building and Force Headquarters in Abuja, the Lower Niger Congress publicly posited that the nexus between the aforementioned threat by ACF's, Lawal Kaita and the Boko Haram's bloody campaigns summarily destroyed any prospects for keeping the Nigeria Union.

10* "It was, therefore, no surprise that in October 2013, following the bold announcement by President Jonathan, presenting the sudden prospect of revisiting the master-servant constitutional arrangements of Nigeria infuriated the warmongering born-to-rule Caliphate whose cause was championed by the same ACF, and who, supported by their allies from the renegade wing of the Yoruba Southwest,  launched a vicious, frontal attack on the initiative, teaming on the floor of the Conference into a majority, and driving the Conference into its first major decision, i.e. NOT TO DISCUSS THE TERMS OF NIGERIA'S UNITY. The rest of the Conference was a jamboree that provided a luxurious platform for the North/SW Alliance, parading itself as a new political party named APC, to fine-tune their violent March to the do-or-die 2015 general elections."

11* Oba of Lagos Threat on Igbos Over 2015 Governorship 
http://expressng.com/2015/04/video-oba-rilwan-akiolu-threatening-igbos-in-lagos/
Oba Rilwane Akiolu of Lagos to Igbos - Vote APC or Perish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87u255UM6Ro

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by okongo(m): 8:22am On Nov 14, 2015
south africa has not been the country of mandelas dream because aprtheid is not the only problems. ibos should look at realistics ways of solving their problems. come together and delibrate. arson and violence will waste life.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Nobody: 8:23am On Nov 14, 2015
okongo:
south africa has not been the country of mandelas dream because aprtheid is not the only problems. ibos should look at realistics ways of solving their problems. come together and delibrate. arson and violence will waste life.


Here is a list of some of your greedy kinsmen who looted and ruined the fortune of this country. And this is your idea of 'One Nigeria' where you persistently rob Peter to perennially pay parasitic Paul, and still continue to spill innocent blood to maintain the status quo in the polity.

simtosul:
The question here really is the role these men
and women played in the current state of
Nigeria.
The List of Top 20 Most Corrupt Nigerian
Leaders (dead/alive) below:

1. Oluesgun Obasanjo – He stole $25
billion from 1999-2007 ($16.4 from power
sector alone)

2. Ibrahim Babangida – He stole $15 billion
from 1985-1993 ($12.4 billion from oil wind
fall in 1990)
3. Abdulsalam Abubakar – He stole $9
billion from 1998-99
4. Sani Abacha – He stole $7 billion from
1993-1998
5. Ahmed Bola Tinubu – He stole and
continues to steal from Lagos State treasury
since 1999 till date. It’s estimated that he
has stolen $6 billion so far.
6. Muhammadu Buhari – He stole $2 billion
from NNPC accounts in the ’70s and the
money was traced to Midland bank (now
HSBC), London. Under his watch as PTF
Head, N25 billion got missing according to
PTF Situation Report submitted to Abdusalam
in 1999.
7. TY Danjuma – He fraudulently got
enriched through oil blocks from the Niger
Delta worth $20 million in the 70s after the
counter coup. Those oil blocks worth billions
of dollars in today’s value.
8. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – He stole $1.2
billion as CBN Governor from 2008-2014.
9. Bukola Saraki – Through his father,
Olukola Saraki, their bank, Societe Generale
and as a governor of Kwara State
(2003-20111) he stole $1.1 billion
10. Nasir El Rufai – Before he was made the
FCT Minister, El Rufai was broke, homeless
and was looking for loan to import taxis from
the UK. After he was made the minister, he
seized landed properties that belonged to
Nigerians and resold them with huge profit.
It’s estimated that he stole $1 billion from
2003-2007.
11. Tunde Fashola – He is the poster boy of
Tinubu. Boht of them looted Lagos dried and
left it in debt of about N1 billion. Fashola,
among other thing built his personal website
for N78 million, drilled borehole for over N100
million per each and built a kilometre road for
N1 billion. He stole $900 million from
2007-2015. He’ll soon be a minister to
continue the looting.
12. Chubike Rotimi Amaechi – From 2007
to 2015, he stole $700 million and $150
million from that money was used to sponsor
Buhari and APC.
13. Atiku Abubakar – When he as asked by
our reporter how he made his money, he
simply said “he was always at the right place
at the right time.” Atiku is an astute
businessman, but through shady deals, he
stole $500 million from 1999-2007.
14. James Ibori – He stole $150 million from
1999-2007 as governor of Delta State. He’s
serving his term for money laundering in the
UK.
15. Amina Mohammed – This woman was
the founder of Afri-Project Consortium (APC)
that was in charge of all PTF Projects during
Abacha’s regime. About $125 million was
stolen from PTF accounts from 1994-1998.
Buhari has just nominated the same woman
as a minister to continue to stealing.
16. DSP Alamieyeseigha – He stole $120
million and was arrested for money
laundering. He pleaded guilty and long
served his term.
17. Sule Lamido – He stole $110 million
between 2007-2015 and out of that amount,
$50 million was found in his sons’ bank
accounts. He was arrested and detained for
days together with his sons.
18. Rabui Kwankwaso – He stole $100
million as a governor of Kano State. EFCC has
arrested many of his aides and they are
“singing” how they siphoned the money
19. Kashium Shettima – this governor has
stolen about $80 million and still counting.
20. Rauf Aregbesola – he has milked Osun
State to the tune of $60 million.
21. Kayode Fayemi – this former governor
stole $40 million and stashed some part of
the loot in Ghana. He was reportedly bought
a bed for N50 million.
Note: The likes of President Goodluck
Jonathan and key members of his
administration including the former Minister
of Petroleum are missing.

Source: NewsDay

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by Pavore9: 8:26am On Nov 14, 2015
Why the conflicting report, did l not read in another thread that his father was not aware of his Biafra agitation.
Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by temitee4me(f): 8:30am On Nov 14, 2015
Lurcky:
The igbos have been cheated and cheated and its high someone at federal level including the President, (If he is not a propagandist) start listening to them start paying attention to that or leave the region and its resources alone.
each time I hear d phrase "igbos are being cheated",I just shake my head. when will u guys stop playing d victim?no tribe has had it all.snap out of ur unrealistic dreams and start Fielding good politicians that will remember u people.

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Re: My Son Will Rather Die Than Stay Out Of Biafra's Struggle- Kanu's Father by SonOfEl(m): 8:37am On Nov 14, 2015
juicee1:
which region's resources? Are you including SS in your mirage?

Oyel thief and land grabber.


Weeds like you disgust me, what resource do you own? Lazy freak. Pls and pls, leave oyigbo and igweocha alone.... Have you not stolen enough? Have robbers like your father and elders not claimed Igbo properties as abandoned properties? Lazy fool.

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