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Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Chyz2: 1:52am On Aug 13, 2012
[size=18pt]Tension in Onitsha over mosque demolition[/size]

August 13, 2012 by Emmanuel Obe, Awka 5 Comments






Police in Anambra State have denied some Muslims residing at the Headbridge Mosque, Onitsha were attacked on Sunday by persons allegedly acting on the orders of the Anambra State Government.

Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Raphael Uzoigwe, told our correspondent that the mosque was among the structures earmarked for demolition, following the government’s decision to expand the Headbridge – Upper Iweka section of the Onitsha – Enugu Expressway.

He said government had for long ordered owners of structures in the area to relocate and that the demolition was to enforce the relocation order. He said nobody was attacked.

But the leadership of the Muslim community at Headbridge said at least 10 of their members were injured when hoodlums suspected to be members of the defunct task force on parks and markets otherwise known as Ndi Mpiawazu allegedly attacked Islamic worshipers at the mosque.

There was commotion at the Headbridge when hundreds of the Muslims poured into the street to protest the alleged attack.

Addressing reporters on the incident, the leader of the Hausa and Yoruba communities in the area, Alhaji Habib Faruk, alleged that the hoodlums numbering over 50, stormed the mosque at about 4am and attacked their members.

He said, “We got information this morning that a group of boys suspected to be Mpiawazu attacked some of our members who slept in the mosque and ordered them to leave, some of them to tried to put up resistance were attacked with axes and machetes while their mobile phones were collected from them.”

Faruk said a bulldozer was moved in a few hours after the attack to demolish the mosque.

He said, “The Governor (Peter Obi) had told us that he would provide us with alternative for us to build another mosque and transact our business. But till date, we have not seen the Governor or his representative because we see everything as ploy to sack us from Onitsha.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/tension-in-onitsha-over-mosque-demolition/
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 3:17am On Aug 13, 2012
Emeka Ojukwu (1933 - 2011) President of Republic of Biafra.

The Biafran struggle is, on another plane, a resistance to the Arab-Muslim expansionism which has menaced and ravaged the African continent for twelve centuries. As early as the first quarter of the seventh century, the Arabs, a people from the Near-East, evolved Islam not just as a religion but as a cover for their insatiable territorial ambitions. By the tenth century they had overrun and occupied, among other places, Egypt and North Africa. Had they stopped there, we would not today be faced with the wicked and unholy collusion we are fighting against. On the contrary, they cast their hungry and envious eyes across the Sahara on to the land of the Negroes.

Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea. Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto tried, by political and economic blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans on dispersion would then carry Islam to Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area. The crises which agitated the so-called independent Nigeria from 1962 gave these aggressive proselytisers the chance to try converting us by force.

It is now evident why the fanatic Arab-Muslim states like Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan have come out openly and massively to support and aid Nigeria in her present war of genocide against us. These states see militant Arabism as a powerful instrument for attaining power in the world.

Biafra is one of the few African states untainted by Islam. Therefore, to militant Arabism, Biafra is a stumbling block to their plan for controlling the whole continent. This control is fast becoming manifest in the Organisation of African Unity. On the question of the Middle East, the Sudanese crisis, in the war between Nigeria and Biafra, militant Arabism has succeeded in imposing its point of view through blackmail and bluster. It has threatened African leaders and governments with inciting their Muslim minorities to rebellion if the governments adopted an independent line on these questions. In this way an O.A.U that has not felt itself able to discuss the genocide in the Sudan and Biafra, an O.A.U. that has again and again advertised its ineptitude as a peace-maker, has rushed into open condemnation of Israel over the Middle East dispute. Indeed in recent times, by its performance, the O.A.U. might well be an Organisation of Arab Unity

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 6:33am On Aug 13, 2012
Looking back with hindsight now, I wish the past generation in my own state had done something like this-there'd have been no wanton destruction. Thumbs up
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 6:42am On Aug 13, 2012
Chyz*:

The Governor (Peter Obi) had told us that he would provide us with alternative for us to build another mosque and transact our business. But till date, we have not seen the Governor or his representative because we see everything as ploy to sack us from Onitsha.”

Smart move by the governor. The FUTURE GENERATION WILL APPRECIATE HIM for this-he took potential thorns-in-the-flesh out of the equation for the good of the state.

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Acidosis(m): 6:47am On Aug 13, 2012
lmao. . . They even tried by ordering them to leave before demolition. . .but you know all these nuts with their adamant attitude. If it were to be the north I'm sure they would have gun them down. . .they won't give a notice at all.

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by gramci: 7:33am On Aug 13, 2012
If they need a place of worship they should be ready to pay for it, no free lunch.
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Dainfamous: 7:34am On Aug 13, 2012
they have to obey the law of the land

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Antivirus92(m): 7:48am On Aug 13, 2012
Thank you our governor. We hope to see more of that.

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by asha80(m): 9:10am On Aug 13, 2012
the report said that later bulldozer appeared to demolish the mosque.it did not actually say if it was demolished.i may be wrong though.
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by babarazy: 9:13am On Aug 13, 2012
something is inevitable.
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by SeunAero(m): 9:27am On Aug 13, 2012
I hope the Governor keep to his words....Knowing who he is, I trust he would do what is right that is providing an alternative place for a masjid to be built.

Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 9:32am On Aug 13, 2012
Fools in the house will come up rejoiceing. Who told you that this BOKO HARAM boiz sef be muslim. They are just hiding under islam to carry out their operation. There is no mosque in Nigeria that did not preach against THE BLOOD SUCKING SECT called boko haram. Boko Haram is Political Haram that want to deface GEJ ADMINISTRATION. And more so have u ever hear such thing happening in any other country like nigeria. May Subhana Watahala purnish them and their leaders behind it.

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nwoka(m): 9:33am On Aug 13, 2012
jerseyboy:
Emeka Ojukwu (1933 - 2011) President of Republic of Biafra.

The Biafran struggle is, on another plane, a resistance to the Arab-Muslim expansionism which has menaced and ravaged the African continent for twelve centuries. As early as the first quarter of the seventh century, the Arabs, a people from the Near-East, evolved Islam not just as a religion but as a cover for their insatiable territorial ambitions. By the tenth century they had overrun and occupied, among other places, Egypt and North Africa. Had they stopped there, we would not today be faced with the wicked and unholy collusion we are fighting against. On the contrary, they cast their hungry and envious eyes across the Sahara on to the land of the Negroes.

Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea. Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto tried, by political and economic blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans on dispersion would then carry Islam to Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area. The crises which agitated the so-called independent Nigeria from 1962 gave these aggressive proselytisers the chance to try converting us by force.

It is now evident why the fanatic Arab-Muslim states like Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan have come out openly and massively to support and aid Nigeria in her present war of genocide against us. These states see militant Arabism as a powerful instrument for attaining power in the world.

Biafra is one of the few African states untainted by Islam. Therefore, to militant Arabism, Biafra is a stumbling block to their plan for controlling the whole continent. This control is fast becoming manifest in the Organisation of African Unity. On the question of the Middle East, the Sudanese crisis, in the war between Nigeria and Biafra, militant Arabism has succeeded in imposing its point of view through blackmail and bluster. It has threatened African leaders and governments with inciting their Muslim minorities to rebellion if the governments adopted an independent line on these questions. In this way an O.A.U that has not felt itself able to discuss the genocide in the Sudan and Biafra, an O.A.U. that has again and again advertised its ineptitude as a peace-maker, has rushed into open condemnation of Israel over the Middle East dispute. Indeed in recent times, by its performance, the O.A.U. might well be an Organisation of Arab Unity
Bros you don do research wella oooo......I go like hook up with u

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by chrisxxx(m): 9:38am On Aug 13, 2012
Woe unto that man that will give out his land either by compulsion, lease, outright sale, benevolence or by whatever nomenclature given to it to an association of vampires. Good riddance to rubbish.

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 9:40am On Aug 13, 2012
No Matter how this boko haram try to deface islam Allah will deface them and they will be caught one day. Ojo gbo ni ti OLE, ojo kan ni ti Olorun. God's watch. Me even think sef say this Bh na small small manifestation of Anti Christ but na for only we naija the rubbish been dey shele
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by excondido(m): 9:41am On Aug 13, 2012
churches were demolished in ebonyi state during the expansion of the enugu-ebonyi express way during my service year. The place is very close to the nysc secretarial in the state capital, so let the muslim not claim religious motive where town planning is paramount.

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 9:42am On Aug 13, 2012
smart governor
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Series22(m): 9:43am On Aug 13, 2012
jerseyboy:
Emeka Ojukwu (1933 - 2011) President of Republic of Biafra.

The Biafran struggle is, on another plane, a resistance to the Arab-Muslim expansionism which has menaced and ravaged the African continent for twelve centuries. As early as the first quarter of the seventh century, the Arabs, a people from the Near-East, evolved Islam not just as a religion but as a cover for their insatiable territorial ambitions. By the tenth century they had overrun and occupied, among other places, Egypt and North Africa. Had they stopped there, we would not today be faced with the wicked and unholy collusion we are fighting against. On the contrary, they cast their hungry and envious eyes across the Sahara on to the land of the Negroes.

Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea. Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto tried, by political and economic blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans on dispersion would then carry Islam to Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area. The crises which agitated the so-called independent Nigeria from 1962 gave these aggressive proselytisers the chance to try converting us by force.

It is now evident why the fanatic Arab-Muslim states like Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan have come out openly and massively to support and aid Nigeria in her present war of genocide against us. These states see militant Arabism as a powerful instrument for attaining power in the world.

Biafra is one of the few African states untainted by Islam. Therefore, to militant Arabism, Biafra is a stumbling block to their plan for controlling the whole continent. This control is fast becoming manifest in the Organisation of African Unity. On the question of the Middle East, the Sudanese crisis, in the war between Nigeria and Biafra, militant Arabism has succeeded in imposing its point of view through blackmail and bluster. It has threatened African leaders and governments with inciting their Muslim minorities to rebellion if the governments adopted an independent line on these questions. In this way an O.A.U that has not felt itself able to discuss the genocide in the Sudan and Biafra, an O.A.U. that has again and again advertised its ineptitude as a peace-maker, has rushed into open condemnation of Israel over the Middle East dispute. Indeed in recent times, by its performance, the O.A.U. might well be an Organisation of Arab Unity

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by moshoodn(m): 9:43am On Aug 13, 2012
Waiting for the aftermath. . .
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by xpensivethony: 9:43am On Aug 13, 2012
This is the only good news i have heard 4rm anambra state since the inception of peter obi as governor.hausa people are so uselex that when you give them allow,they will start fighting for allowance.uselex religious bigots....

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 9:44am On Aug 13, 2012
excondido: churches were demolished in ebonyi state during the expansion of the enugu-ebonyi express way during my service year. The place is very close to the nysc secretarial in the state capital, so let the muslim not claim religious motive where town planning is paramount.
Only Allah Knws the Gov intention
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 9:45am On Aug 13, 2012
What's the big deal demolishing a mosque? If its located in a place that its not suppose to be it has to be demolished! Muslims are now puting sentiments to it and saying its because of boko haram. They should go else where and built their mosque and worship their god!

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 9:45am On Aug 13, 2012
I dont want to see anything Islamic in Alaigbo, This ppl are bad luck and trouble makers

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 9:48am On Aug 13, 2012
berem: What's the big deal demolishing a mosque? If its located in a place that its not suppose to be it has to be demolished! Muslims are now puting sentiments to it and saying its because of boko haram. They should go else where and built their mosque and worship their god!
Mind ur mouth Abeg. Na for ur own sake
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by achi4u(m): 9:50am On Aug 13, 2012
did they even need mosque before they can pray?they were known as sufferals,so let them worship on the road side.

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Nobody: 9:50am On Aug 13, 2012
CHESSBOARD: I dont want to see anything Islamic in Alaigbo, This ppl are bad luck and trouble makers
This shit happening in Nigeria is not supported by 80% of muslim in 9ja. Boko haram is about politics and not religion. Wake up.
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by deshclones(m): 9:53am On Aug 13, 2012
Never been a fan of yellow nigga ada[b]obi[/b]..but am impressed with his action...and i doubt if any true anambra blood will lease or sell his land to those blood guzzling 1diots to build a mosque..igbo anaghi achikwanu..i huru ukwu eze m?? grin grin grin

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by Series22(m): 9:53am On Aug 13, 2012
jerseyboy:
Emeka Ojukwu (1933 - 2011) President of Republic of Biafra.

The Biafran struggle is, on another plane, a resistance to the Arab-Muslim expansionism which has menaced and ravaged the African continent for twelve centuries. As early as the first quarter of the seventh century, the Arabs, a people from the Near-East, evolved Islam not just as a religion but as a cover for their insatiable territorial ambitions. By the tenth century they had overrun and occupied, among other places, Egypt and North Africa. Had they stopped there, we would not today be faced with the wicked and unholy collusion we are fighting against. On the contrary, they cast their hungry and envious eyes across the Sahara on to the land of the Negroes.

Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea. Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto tried, by political and economic blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans on dispersion would then carry Islam to Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area. The crises which agitated the so-called independent Nigeria from 1962 gave these aggressive proselytisers the chance to try converting us by force.

It is now evident why the fanatic Arab-Muslim states like Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan have come out openly and massively to support and aid Nigeria in her present war of genocide against us. These states see militant Arabism as a powerful instrument for attaining power in the world.

Biafra is one of the few African states untainted by Islam. Therefore, to militant Arabism, Biafra is a stumbling block to their plan for controlling the whole continent. This control is fast becoming manifest in the Organisation of African Unity. On the question of the Middle East, the Sudanese crisis, in the war between Nigeria and Biafra, militant Arabism has succeeded in imposing its point of view through blackmail and bluster. It has threatened African leaders and governments with inciting their Muslim minorities to rebellion if the governments adopted an independent line on these questions. In this way an O.A.U that has not felt itself able to discuss the genocide in the Sudan and Biafra, an O.A.U. that has again and again advertised its ineptitude as a peace-maker, has rushed into open condemnation of Israel over the Middle East dispute. Indeed in recent times, by its performance, the O.A.U. might well be an Organisation of Arab Unity
my guy, i'm igbo and a christian(Anglican) but your analysis about d biafran war is misleading.. D war has got nothn 2 do wit religion. D sarduana u even mention was even killed (nzeogwu kil am) b4 d war started. Rememba dat Gowon(a christian) was d GCFR of Nigeria. I knw u r happy dat d mosque is bin demolished, evn my parents r celebrating d demolition too. My arguement is dat, u should stoping distorting history. Take ur story to beer parlours.. We know better

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by dasparrow: 9:54am On Aug 13, 2012
@Post

That mosque of theirs looked bad though and the muslims were forewarned that it was going to be demolished. Why did the mosque occupants not make alternate plans on where to worship and sleep? I don't approve of them getting beat up if the allegation is true but they need to respect the laws of the land. Muslims are aware that Anambra is a predominately christian state so they can't expect the governor to give them free land just so they can build a mosque. They will need to purchase a piece of land and then build a mosque on it.
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by asha80(m): 9:54am On Aug 13, 2012
if i am not mistaken there is a mosque opposite onitsha main market.they can make use of that one until they get another one.

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Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by amosy007: 9:55am On Aug 13, 2012
Air_Lord: Fools in the house will come up rejoiceing. Who told you that this BOKO HARAM boiz sef be muslim. They are just hiding under islam to carry out their operation. There is no mosque in Nigeria that did not preach against THE BLOOD SUCKING SECT called boko haram. Boko Haram is Political Haram that want to deface GEJ ADMINISTRATION. And more so have u ever hear such thing happening in any other country like nigeria. May Subhana Watahala purnish them and their leaders behind it.
okay we don hear ur blab! Can u vermoose now.. Thank u
Re: Much Talked About Onitsha Mosque Demolished! by ACM10: 9:55am On Aug 13, 2012
Click on the link below for the pictures of the mosque and its environs.
www.nairaland.com/1009753/re-plan-demolish-mosque-onitsha

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