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Biafra: U.S. Lawyers Break Silence On Nigeria Trip by themomentng: 7:15pm On Aug 26, 2017
Talk tough, say sure of victory over Buratai, Obiano, Ikpeazu, 13 others
Attorney Bruce Fein and his Partner W. Bruce DelValle have broken their silence, days after their trip to Nigeria during which they gathered evidence in connection with the suit lodged by 10 pro-Biafra activists.
News Express, broke the news of their visit, during which they interviewed their clients and other witnesses in Enugu.
The two senior lawyers in a statement issued in Washington, D.C. and made available to News Express by mail, talked tough, alleging mind-boggling atrocities against Igbos in Nigeria. They expressed confidence of victory in the developing legal battle.
The statement reads: “The law firm of Fein & DelValle PLLC travelled to Enugu, Nigeria—the heart of Igboland—from August 19-August 24, 2017. Our visit was to meet with our plaintiffs-clients, to gather facts and to conduct research to advance the Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) lawsuit we have filed in the United States District Court for “the District of Columbia on behalf of ten (10) anonymous plaintiffs against sixteen (16) individual defendants for extrajudicial killings and torture perpetrated under color of Nigerian law motived by the Igbo ethnicity, Christian faith, and political viewpoints of the victims.
The case is styled John Doe, et al v. Turkur Yusuf Buratai, et al, Civil Action No. 1:17-cv-0133.
“Plaintiffs are seeking compensatory and punitive damages to secure justice for the Igbo people, to give them hope for the future, and to deter genocide, ethnic cleansing or the extermination of Christians in Nigeria by radical Islamic Hausa-Fulani terrorists in Northern Nigeria.
“We are convinced that Nigeria is the most dangerous country in the world for Christians. They routinely defile the sanctity of churches by killing children hiding their tiny bodies in pews. In violation of Nigeria’s professed secular constitution, Nigeria has joined the Organisation of Islamic Unity and twelve northern states have adopted sharia law.
“The Christian Open Door Report of 2015 found that Boko Harem, the northeast Islamic terrorist organisation, had killed 11,000 Christians, destroyed 13,000 churches and 1,500 Christian schools, had created 2.6 million internally displaced persons, and forced 1.3 million Christians to flee.
“On July 11, 2017 by the Fulani Youth Consultative Forum (ACYF) issued an odious, chilling and genocidal threat to plunder the properties and evict by force and violence eleven (11) million Igbos peacefully residing in Northern Nigeria if they do not vacate the region by October 1, 2017.
“The Government of Nigeria and 19 northern states have tacitly endorsed the ACYF threatened genocide of twice the number who was exterminated by the Nazis in the Holocaust! The federal and state governments in northern Nigeria have refused to arrest even a single ACYF member.
“In our Buratai suit, the District Court issued an order granting the plaintiff’s motion to proceed anonymously because they reasonably feared lethal retaliation against themselves or families if their identities were known.
“The actions of the defendants were crimes against humanity that can be prosecuted in any jurisdiction in the world. Indeed, the Convention Against Torture mandates that signatory nations like the United States and Nigeria prosecute the crimes of torture or extrajudicial killings.
“Fourteen of the individual defendants are federal officials and two are state governors in the Southeast. One of the two, Governors, Willie Obiano of Anambra State has already apologised for the brutal killings of plaintiffs that he admits were perpetrated under his aegis. The other defendant Governor is Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State.
“The defendants have yet to answer. Several are in default for failure to respond within 21 days of the service of the summons and Complaint. We are optimistic about our chances of victory at trial or earlier.
“Defendants are represented by a small Nigerian law firm in California thousands of miles from the venue of the litigation in the District of Columbia. The defendants’ representative law firm said they have been contacted by the Government of Nigeria not by the individual defendants.
“We salute the courage of our 10 anonymous plaintiffs and their brave supporters throughout Igboland. We are unified in our insistence on obtaining justice for the Igbo people through peaceful and lawful means that disavow the lawless savagery of their persecutors. They should tremble when they reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.”

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Re: Biafra: U.S. Lawyers Break Silence On Nigeria Trip by hammerT: 7:23pm On Aug 26, 2017
Who is Buhari?

Re: Biafra: U.S. Lawyers Break Silence On Nigeria Trip by voiceoftruthNG: 7:38pm On Aug 26, 2017
Why is this not in front page?

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Re: Biafra: U.S. Lawyers Break Silence On Nigeria Trip by Arda1000(m): 8:06pm On Aug 26, 2017
voiceoftruthNG:
Why is this not in front page?
because it's a bad market for the %97

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Re: Biafra: U.S. Lawyers Break Silence On Nigeria Trip by QueenSekxy(f): 8:20pm On Aug 26, 2017
mods please move this to FP
Re: Biafra: U.S. Lawyers Break Silence On Nigeria Trip by FUNNYBONE1(m): 8:27pm On Aug 26, 2017
getting more interesting everyday
Re: Biafra: U.S. Lawyers Break Silence On Nigeria Trip by Etogist: 8:55pm On Aug 26, 2017
Nigeria has not seen anything yet. By the time we are through with this contraption they will have no choice but to ask us to leave.
Re: Biafra: U.S. Lawyers Break Silence On Nigeria Trip by jacyhelen(f): 8:08am On Aug 27, 2017
Not on Frontpage
no too much insults,lol,seems the ewedu eaters are angry!!!!

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