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Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Obi88(m): 12:06am On Jul 17, 2011 |
The pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Friday called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in Borno State in order to checkmate the security threat posed by the Boko Haram insurgency. Boko Haram, an extremist Islamic group, has virtually brought Borno State to a standstill, following series of bomb attacks targeting security agents and civilians. The call for the imposition of a state of emergency in Borno State came on the day a fresh explosion by the extremist group injured five policemen in Maiduguri. Lawmakers from the state, however, said in a statement that the use of force was not the solution to the crisis. The Igbo leaders said following the receipt of a number of distress calls from their people in Borno on the deteriorating security situation there, an emergency meeting of Ime-Obi (Elders Council) of Ohanaeze Ndigbo was held and the decision to call for a state of emergency was adopted. "We call on the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, to as a matter of urgency declare a state of emergency in Borno State. This will in effect allow federal authorities to directly handle the situation on ground," they said. The Igbo leaders criticised the activities of Boko Haram and their collaborators "who have owned up to the series of bombings in Maiduguri, Bauchi, Kaduna, Suleja, Abuja and other parts of Northern Nigeria and for the senseless killing of innocent Nigerians and destruction of public and private properties." They urged members of the extremist group to stop forthwith the spate of bombings and embrace dialogue and other legal means in expressing their grievances. "We call on the federal government and the military authorities to ensure that the lives of innocent Nigerians and especially the Igbos, who incidentally have the next largest population in Borno State after the indigenes, are protected and their properties protected from organised and unorganised looting," added Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Some of the prominent Igbo leaders who signed the statement were former Anambra State governor, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife; Chairman, Ime-Obi Ohanaeze FCT, Eze Ibe Nwosu; Chairman, Ohaneze FCT, Barrister Calistus Nwabueze Obi; former Minister of Education, Prof. Ihechukwu Madubuike, (representing Abia State); former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Agunwa Anaekwe, (representing Anambra); Prof. Fred Onyeoziri and Chief Silas Ilo (representing Anambra State). Also, the Northern Christian leaders in a statement in Kaduna signed by its chairman, Evangelist Matthew Owojaiye, expressed concern over the activities of the Islamic sect. The statement called on the government to take concrete and decisive steps to fish out those behind the bomb blasts and bring them to book. According to NOCEF, Nigeria belongs to Christians, Muslims and traditionalists, stressing that no group should impose its religious beliefs on others by whatever means. Friday’s explosion in Maiduguri occurred at the Bulumkutu area within the metropolis. The explosion, which happened at about 8 am, further heightened tension in the town and caused people to scamper for safety. An eyewitness said the explosion damaged some vehicles, which were driving past at that time. Confirming the incident, the spokesman of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the state, Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, told newsmen on phone that the bomb was targeted at a police patrol vehicle, which was on routine duty in the area. According to him, the bomb injured five policemen who were immediately rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) for treatment. Ebhaleme also revealed that some arrests were made in connection with the incident. He added that the people would be interrogated and anybody found to be innocent would be released immediately. The plight of the remaining residents of Maiduguri was worsened Friday as all the banks in town have been closed down. The instruction for their closure, it was gathered, was given from their head-offices over fears that they would be attacked by the fundamentalists. Meanwhile, for the first time since the escalation of the Boko Haram uprising in Borno State, members of the state caucus at the National Assembly have added their voice to the debate over the propriety or otherwise of the military operation in the state capital. They said the use of brute force cannot curb the menace. Addressing journalists after a meeting of the caucus, their spokesman, Senator Maina Maaji Lawan (ANPP, Borno North), maintained that the only solution to the problem is "unconditional amnesty for and dialogue with the group" that has thrown the state capital and some parts of the country into panic in the last couple of months. Lawan, who was with two other senators and three members of the House of Representatives from the state, said the federal government should rethink its strategy for bringing an end to the Boko Haram menace the same way it resolved the militancy saga in the Niger Delta, which he said was not by military operation but by dialogue and the amnesty programme. With Lawan at the press briefing were Senators Ali Ndume (PDP, Borno South) and Ahmed Zanna (ANPP, Borno Central) as well as House of Representatives members - Amina Khadi (Jere), Mukhtar Aliyu (Biu) and Kyari Gujubawu (Maiduguri). Lawan said: "If the US with all its technology and superior arms power was forced to engage in dialogue with the Talibans, we could see that brute force cannot be a solution to this situation." While urging President Jonathan to order the immediate withdrawal of the military from Maiduguri and its environs, Lawan, who is the immediate past Senate Minority Leader, said the federal government should "honestly and purposely and sincerely engage in dialogue with the Boko Haram people." He lamented that since the beginning of the military operations in Maiduguri, "innocent citizens who know nothing about the Boko Haram are the ultimate victims of the military crackdown," saying "Borno is in a state of complete siege." He said it’s unfortunate that institutions of state whose operatives are being sustained by the taxes of the people are the ones killing the same people who they are established to protect. Wondering why the JTF should go about "indiscriminately shooting innocent youths under the guise of looking for Boko Haram," Lawan recalled that a similar situation occurred in Odi and some other Bayelsa communities where houses were ransacked, innocent people killed and whole villages devastated in the guise of looking for militants." The third term senator said members of the Borno Caucus in the National Assembly had been circumspect in commenting publicly on the situation in their state because of their strong belief that the situation could be peacefully brought under control. He said they could, however, no longer continue to keep quiet as "the situation is deteriorating by the day and causing untold hardship on innocent citizens". The Borno National Assembly Caucus, however, disclosed that it would conduct an on the spot assessment to ascertain the extent of damage to lives and property as a result of the Boko Haram crisis |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by aljharem3: 12:09am On Jul 17, 2011 |
hmmmm |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by 9javoice1(m): 2:22am On Jul 17, 2011 |
Alj harem or Alj(boko)haram is your name pls you don't need to register a new name just copy and paste nonsense. without ime obi saying a word Borno state deserves to be state of emergency by now. for them to say it is something we already know and not new |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 2:31am On Jul 17, 2011 |
Why didnt they ask for the declaration of state of emergency in the Igbo kidnapping state(s) ? Did ppl not die too? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 2:46am On Jul 17, 2011 |
Why didnt they ask for the declaration of state of emergency in the yoruba kidnapping state(s) ? Did ppl not die too? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 3:24am On Jul 17, 2011 |
Ileke-IdI: Height of ignorance but for Ileke, it is the begining of politics init? Hey ma, you said you studying law right? what's up with that? Shiit ain't manifesting in your mind at all, ------------- State of emergency is necessary but does it have a political tone to it? There should've been a state of emergency since the first bombing, But my concern is why is it coming from Igbocentric group? The state of emergency is only a necessary procedure to follow, And why hasn't the FG declared such since? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 3:30am On Jul 17, 2011 |
9jaganja: Me studying law? Is this eldee? Actually, I'm doing my PhD in gymnastic. I swear. Back to important things. Nobody is saying SOE should not be declared in Borno. But were Igbo elders hibernating fall of 2010 when kidnapping was the norm (normer than usual) in the SE? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by aljharem3: 3:39am On Jul 17, 2011 |
9ja voice:what |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Rhino5dm: 5:50am On Jul 17, 2011 |
Thesame Igbo red-cap, white feather buncha of sell out? Stuupid assembly of vulture looking dolts that sold their rights for a cup of garri. I never knew any reasonable dailies will waste valuable space in publishing rants of loons. What are they good at? Collecting bribes and making useless comment. When the savage Osisi kankwu was terrorizing Abia the ediots didn't call for satate of emergency. They didn't call for state of emergency in the Niger Delta when the militants were displaying free madness, yet they are now out of their slumbber expecting another 5 minutes of fame from FG. you take them serious at your own peril. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by gidson12(m): 10:14am On Jul 17, 2011 |
hmmn!, no comment |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 11:09am On Jul 17, 2011 |
Ileke-IdI: Gym what? Where you @ lol!! I'ma find you ms, I'ma find you!! Gymnastics Did I tell you I have a natural white hair and I'm celtic/yoruba? hahahahahahahahaha |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 1:45pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
Rhino.5dm: na your papa be vulture and sell out, when opc where terrorizing people in the SW why didnt they declare state of emergency ? when NURTW where busy killing people burning the whole south, kidnaping and one chance , corpers being violated by yoruba elders and pregnant women fleeing sango ota in fear of of being used as ritual during ora festival why didnt they declare state of emergency in yoruba land? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by youngmonie: 2:58pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
bashr4: loool!!, at least we dint bring a region or the economy of Nigeria to a stand still!!, Kidknapping became the order of the day in Abia, together with arm robbery that left the state in a stand still |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 3:42pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
youngmonie: there was never a time the economy of nigeria stood still cause of kidnapping in south east,kidnapping originated in yorubaland before it moved to the niger delta, uptil today people still get missing when they enter bus(one chance)in yorubaland and never seen again cause they are used for rituals unlike the east and southsouth where kidnapping is for money ransom and the victims are released alive. you should bury your head in shame. state of emergency was declared in akwaibom the moment a yoruba party found its way there. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 3:48pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
the earlier they declare state of emergency in the north and yorubaland the better for all us in nigeria The Arewa People's Congress (APC) is a group in Northern Nigeria established to protect the interests of the Moslem Hausa and Fulani of the area. It has been described as a militant wing of the Arewa Consultative Forum.[1] The group was formally launched on 13 December 1999. It was chaired by a retired army officer, Brigadier General Sagir Muhammed, who had been an operative in the Directorate of Military Intelligence. The APC has a motto "to preserve the indivisibility of the country".[2] The group said it would begin full self-defence training for northern residents in reaction to attacks on Hausas by the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), a Yoruba pressure group in the south.[3] The emergence of increasingly militant groups such as the APC and OPC is one of the factors fuelling communal violence in Nigeria.[4] The Oodua People's Congress secretary general, Kayode Ogundamisi, has blamed the APC for the ethnic violence.[5] In January 2000 the Inspector General of police, Musiliu Smith, announced a reward of N100,000 for Gani Adams, leader of the militant youth wing of the OPC. The APC promptly raised the ransom to N300,000.[6] Speaking to the Conference of Southern Governors in January 2001, Chimaroke Nnamani, the governor of Enugu State, said the emergence of these groups was due to the inability of the federal police to provide adequate policing due to shortage of manpower.[7] In November 2006, Sagir Muhammed described the impeachment of Plateau State Governor Chibi Joshua Dariye as an affron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arewa_People%27s_Congress |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 3:55pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
The SW region remains the most secure in Nigeria.The SE is know for armed robbery and kidnapping,SS is the home of miltancy and oil bunkering,the whole of the North is home of Boko haram,religion intolerance and terrorism.So why declare state of emergency in yorubaland when the region is accommodating all UNINVITED visitors without lynching them like the northerners ? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by redsun(m): 4:19pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
What is it about the "west" and "south" that makes them where everybody wants to be,all the world? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by houvest: 4:20pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
GEJ should seriously consider this call if things continue to escalate but the downside is that too much militarization of the polity may be the loophole the army may capitalise on to stage a comeback which may also be what some of these northern elements using BM to intimidate Jonathan is banking on. So intelligence reports need be used to determine which of the hobbes choice to follow. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 4:24pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
redsun: As per the west,maybe you should ask the ibos that have turned lagos to another mecca ! |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 4:26pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: the south east is the only region you can never hear of hostility against visitors or foreigners ,the same cannot be said of yorubaland. http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/23467-youths-kidnap-5-traders.html yoruba youths kidnapping visitors and traders https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-641058.0.html youth corpers not safe in yorubaland pregnant women and infants flee yorubaland to avoid being used for rituals http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=13308 |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 4:30pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
Are you kidding ? How about osisikanku that held the ibo region ransome to the extent that the region became a bad new on cnn ? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by redsun(m): 4:31pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: I think the enterprising nature of the "ibos" is one key attractions in your west?You should grorify heaven for that. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 4:35pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: you must be joking, osisi was a village champion yorubwa shina rambo did more damage in yorubaland than osiso could have imagined but up till today opc is still terrorizing people in the west. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 4:37pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
~Bluetooth:the same way yorubas have flooded portharcourt ,onitsha and aba |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 4:38pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
redsun: Why can't they practice their enterprising nature in iboland ? Is onitsha or aba not good for that ? |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by redsun(m): 4:40pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: You are fogetting that lagos is officially the commercial capital of the dying,hence the "ibo' presence.Strictly for commerce and reaching out. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 4:41pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
bashr4:opc is unleashing terror yet ibos are still in lagos ? Compare that to what boko haram is doing to ibos in bornu ! |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 4:41pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: why should we stick to only igbo land when we can take over the economy f the rest on nigeria if we dont do it the chinese and indians will. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by bashr4: 4:44pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: you mean what bokoharem is doing to yorubas in borno , more yorubas lost their life during the election violence than igbos yet yorubas are still in the north,opc hardly operate in lagos island where majority of the igbos reside. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by redsun(m): 4:49pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
bashr4: I wonder.The guy is such a clan's man,he hardly see beyond his nose. |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by Nobody: 4:49pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
bashr4: I'm not saying you shouldn't takeover anywhere you like,just develop your area in case yorubas wake up and see you packing later in the future ! |
Re: Declare State Of Emergency In Borno Says Igbo Elders by redsun(m): 4:55pm On Jul 17, 2011 |
~Bluetooth: Are you aware that onitsha main market is number one in west africa,serious money changes hands there?All it takes is for nigeria to redefine the boundaries and the "ibo" will "restrategize". |
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