OVI75:
Ohanaeze bia nne baa,ALL hail Biafra Jst dnt include niger delta Rep.as part of it.

uncleck:
Only God knows where all these is leading to

cheruv:
These are the Igbo groups we know...not those traitors who tarnish our faces on account of crumbs received from buhari!

mikhe2:
you guys should keep on dreaming.....

OVI75:
Ohanaeze bia nne baa,ALL hail Biafra Jst dnt include niger delta Rep.as part of it.

cheruv:
...

Lordave:
Tomorrow you'll here that Pepper sellers association of South East has rejected Biafra.

OVI75:
Ohanaeze bia nne baa,ALL hail Biafra Jst dnt include niger delta Rep.as part of it.

Toosure70:
And you want me to waste my time to read this rubbish?

xtrorse:


Hey Mister! Stop seeking unnecessary attention for yourselves as if sane adults can be compelled to join a union in this modern age.

Why don't you concern yourself with the emancipation of your people?

And BTW, who are you in Niger delta? Be bold to identify and be identified by your ethnic nationality.

mryoungdon:
The Ndigbo United Assembly, NUA, yesterday spoke on the renewed agitation for the realization of Biafra.

Speaking to newsmen during a demonstration embarked upon by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, President-General of NUA, Comrade Peter Okala said: “The Biafran agitation is positive in the sense that our colonial masters knew our differences before making a contract of amalgamation to try if we could understand ourselves.

“But the fact remains that till date, the centre could not hold and the South East is still hated with passion by our Northern and South West brothers

“Could you imagine Wole Soyinka using Igbo people to popularize his seminar topic in far away United States of America, where he was quoted as saying that Igbo people can only vote at the direction of their stomach? What kind of a hopeless statement from a so-called prominent citizen is that?

“In Nigeria today, if one is asked to name 100 most corrupt people in Nigeria who have emptied our treasury, hardly will an Igbo man be among them.

“We are abused in every part of Nigeria as people, who could do anything to get money simply because the West is in control of the media and the North has partnered with them to marginalize the South-East.”

Okala also observed that the inability of political office holders in the South -East to join the pro-Biafra movement was not a crime because it may be a treason in Nigerian laws, but “it’s the right of every person to choose an association or a country he or she should belong to and there is no law that will empower anyone or institution to stop.”

However, a coalition of civil society organizations based in the South-East geo-political zone has advised the Federal Government to stop trying to compromise some individuals and groups, in an attempt to suppress the on-going agitations.

According to the group, such will end up escalating the issue, which may threaten national security.

In a press statement, yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State, the groups stated that the Federal Government must be told in a clear terms that those being compromised and influenced to recant are not in control of the movement and millions of its supporters and sympathizers.

The statement was jointly signed on their behalf by Comrade Aloysius Attah, for CLO; Comrade Peter Onyegiri for Centre for Human Rights & Peace Advocacy; Comrade Samuel Njoku for Human Rights Club (a project of LRRDC); Comrade Justus Uche Ijeoma for Forum for Justice, Equity & Defence of Human Rights.

Others are Comrade Chike Umeh for Society Advocacy Watch Project; Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Esq. for Anambra Human Rights Forum; Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi for Intersociety; Comrade Alex Olisa for South-East Good Governance Forum and Eze Eluchie for: PADDI Foundation.

They said the the first step was to withdraw all trumped up charges leveled against IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu and release him unconditionally with immediate effect.

Continuing, the groups said
“This is why in a bid to justify crumbs federally received, they end up on the pages of newspapers with their faceless and mushroom groups.

“A Nigeria of pluralism and democratic constitutionalism, equality and fairness with no distinction in theory and practice as to ethnicity, place of birth, education, sex, class, oligarchic or aristocratic background and religion is always a preferred option and can be safely described as a united Nigeria.

“But a Nigeria of the opposite remains the worst option, while assertion of right to independent statehood is its best alternative. This is because it is better to live free in a land flowing with poverty than to live buoyantly in a land shackled and manacled by chains of slavery and enslavement.

“To assuage the earth-shaking agitations and placate the people of the Southeast zone, all the age-long structural imbalances must be redressed especially the country’s geopolitical imbalances including lopsidedness in the number of States, LGAs, Senatorial Districts, Federal Constituencies, Federal Roads, Fiscal Allocations and geopolitical compositions of the field formations and headships of the Army, Police, Air Force, Navy, DSS, NIA, FRSC, Prisons and Customs.

“In the area of federal public office holders in Nigeria drawn from the six geopolitical zones, the Southeast zone is abysmally represented. For instance, no senior police officer from the zone is among the current heads of the country’s 12 Police Zonal Commands and the few serving AIGs from the zone have since gone on statutory retirement leaving the zone no known serving AIGs out of the country’s current Police AIGs of at least 22.

“All these are owing to age-long deliberate policy designed to stunt their promotions and posting till in the twilight of their statutory retirements when they are given retirement promotions. The composition of CPs and AIGs’ cadres of the Nigeria Police Force is also grossly lopsided in fragrant breach of Section 14 (3) of the 1999 Constitution.

“The same gross lopsided composition is the case in the Nigerian Custom, Nigerian Immigration Service, the Nigerian Prisons Service, the DSS, the NIA, Army, Navy and the Air Force.

“In the headships of SPUs, ATSs, SARS, Federal Highway Police, the Mobile Police and Border Police composition and headship in the Nigeria Police Force; same is the case; likewise the country’s federal Appeal and Federal High Court and Appeal and Supreme Court Judges and Justices in which the zone is acutely represented.

“The same gross lopsidedness and exclusion are the order of the day in federal ministers, directors, headships of federal executive bodies as well as Service Chiefs and other top non ministerial federal appointments”.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/25/agitation-for-biafra-gains-momentum-as-10-groups-declare-support/

Soyinka denies making disparaging statement against Igbos

May 6, 2015



An angry Wole Soyinka, Wednesday, lashed out at news outlets which credited to him with a disparaging statement against the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria.

In a terse statement, Mr. Soyinka attributed the report to the handiwork of “cowards” who fasten their “imbecilic pronouncements” on others.

“I have just read a statement attributed to me on something called The Cable, a news outlet, evidently one of the Internet infestations,” said Mr. Soyinka, a professor of Comparative Literature.

“My lecture at the Hutchins Centre, Harvard University, was video recorded. Anyone who believes what I am alleged to have said must be a slowpoke – repeat, a slowpoke.

“It is demeaning, sickening and boring to have to deal with these cowards who cannot fight their own battles but must fasten their imbecilic pronouncements on others.

Several online news media (not PREMIUM TIMES) had reported Tuesday that Mr. Soyinka had described the Igbos as a “greedy” group.

“The Igbos are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election, because they tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them; suffering as it were, from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain,” Mr. Soyinka was quoted as saying

The Nobel Laureate had delivered a lecture on April 29th titled, ‘Predicting Nigeria? Electoral Ironies’ at the Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs in the U.S.

The alleged comment ignited a scathing backlash against Mr. Soyinka on social media as critics likened the statement to the anti-Igbo speech of Rilwanu Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos.

But Mr. Soyinka denied making such a statement.

“Only the mentally retarded will credit this comment attributed to me regarding the Ndigbo voting pattern in the last elections,” he said.
“I strongly suspect the author of this despicable concoction, and may make a further statement, once the source is verified.”

cheruv:
These are the Igbo groups we know...not those traitors who tarnish our faces on account of crumbs received from buhari!

xtrorse:


Hey Mister! Stop seeking unnecessary attention for yourselves as if sane adults can be compelled to join a union in this modern age.

Why don't you concern yourself with the emancipation of your people?

And BTW, who are you in Niger delta? Be bold to identify and be identified by your ethnic nationality.

MrEverest:
The idiat is best ignored, he mentions SS as if its homogenous. He forgot that Igbo parts constitute up to 30% of the region. It is so sad that some of them are not seeing the bigger picture. They are not even aware that they can use the struggle as a bargaining chip in demanding for total resourse control yet in their gullibility they have allowed D yorubas & hausas to infilterate them in a divide & rule tactics, D same people that rejected their son, owns their oil wells, took NIMASA shipyard from them, refused to sign PIB into law etc. THEY DONT KNOW THEY WILL BECOME FORMIDABLE D MOMENT THEY ALIGN FULLY WITH IGBOS THAT HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED THEM.

trapQ:
This nonsense is a a result of decades of corruption and looting of public funds. Everyone wanted to "eat" the national cake. Now look where we are. Giant of Africa indeed, with nothing to show for it.

when I first traveled out to see things, I realised that Nigeria was worse than a refuse dump, a shit hole. The whole of Nigeria, including Abuja isn't fit for humans, only animals. I saw how it took contractors only 6 months to complete the new ministry in Georgia. It was a very fantastic building, but took them just 6 months to complete it, including an overhead bridge. But in my home country, its different.

Amaechi has been building the Rivers monorail for 6yrs now, also the rainbow town has taken 5yrs and still counting. Fashola has been building the light rail for years with no signs of completion. Depleted roads everywhere, coupled with a power sector that generates leas than 1/10th what we need to sustain the entire country. Our best university ranks 1300 worldwide and still isn't fit to compete with those of the rest of the world.

Our leaders have failed us, Nigeria has failed the world. ?..tell them......

ALISMILE:
Gerarehe u selfish, self centered and mindless drug peddlers of a tribe! We SS re not selfish like u biafrags! We ll fight our resource control battle on our own! U mentioned ibos in SS! I jus read somwhere now that in syria we ve turkmens ethnic group, who re turkish by origin but re syrian by nationality! So any ibo in ss who is interested in biafrag should simply emigrate and join their brothers! Period

MrEverest:
You're An ignorant juvenile. SS is not an identity even in geography! I am Igbo, who are you? Are you not proud of your tribe?? Tell me your tribe & lets compare with Igbos, are you better off?? Nobody is forcing anybody to join Biafra, It is a project of like minds, those that still believe in Nigeria Are free to remain.