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Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Truckpusher(m): 12:27am On Jan 11, 2013
Our greedy neighbors in the SE are on the march again to another suicide mission...start the abandoned property lies and propaganda again and all bets are off...they'll never learn...smdh
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:27am On Jan 11, 2013
I appreciate the effort of BILIE Human Right Initiative especially in taking FG of Nigeria to court over the injustices we have been suffering in Nigeria since genocidal war against Biafra. I must say that for having courage to do this that BILIE Human Right Initiative has broken the curse in this life struggle.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:37am On Jan 11, 2013
The war of guns is over the war of pens has begun to reach out to world leaders. BILIE Human Right Initiative is registered with the UN and Nigeria. BILIE has been reminding the UN of the Rights of Indigenous People of Biafra. All hands must be on deck for in Biafra lies the destiny of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:58am On Jan 11, 2013
Truckpusher: Our greedy neighbors in the SE are on the march again to another suicide mission...start the abandoned property lies and propaganda again and all bets are off...they'll never learn...smdh

So you called Justice a greedy? Haven’t you leant in life to wish your follower human being well? So you’re expecting them not to seek for Justice and self-determination. I don’t understand sometimes the way some of us think. Is it a crime to seek for self-determination? Straight away some people regard you as enemy of Nigeria that is totally wrong.

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Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 1:00am On Jan 11, 2013
iv4fb: is this a joke?

No is not a joke is real
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 1:04am On Jan 11, 2013
Bokoharam: This is good news!

He who takes a child's belonging and raises his hand will bring down his hand when he is tired. FG's hands are now weary.

They can run but they can’t hide, the time has finally arrived.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by ak47mann(m): 1:05am On Jan 11, 2013
Igbo gadi: The war of guns is over the war of pens has begun to reach out to world leaders. BILIE Human Right Initiative is registered with the UN and Nigeria. BILIE has been reminding the UN of the Rights of Indigenous People of Biafra. All hands must be on deck for in Biafra lies the destiny of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
SOON NIGERIA WILL SEE THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED,just as the central africa now abandon by France. french president told them to sort themselves out that those days are gone while rebels are approaching faster to the capital (bagui) Nigeria will soon be exhausted and cave in...

GEJ knows it,with boko haram giving him sleepless night in the north,fulani killing xsians minority in the north is just adding salt to the injury cool
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 1:39am On Jan 11, 2013
0lumide:

Afam4neva ... You should be fired for this stupidity of yours..

You can't hide a comment because it doesn't suit your bloody emotions.

Biafrans were rebels and were treated as such. Igbos should be happy those bloody Biafrans were defeated. They had no concrete plan to help Igbos but to use Igbos' struggle to gain power, fame and wealth..

Look at all the biafran generals/elites during the war. Even the ones the stubborn Ojukwu trusted absconded with his money. See how well off their next family generation are doing living on stolen wealth? Compared to the average Igbo guy suffering in the east and looking for money to enter Lagos.

One question? Why didn't Ojukwu pack all his Naira and convert it to Biafran currency? Why leave some in Nigeria if not all to come back and claim them?

Mate I don’t know where you come from but your comment didn’t make any sense.
In-case you miss the heading here is it again.


Biafra: Group sues FG over abandoned property, others

OWERRI—A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri has been urged to decide whether the indigenous people of Biafra, who survived the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967-1970, have the right to self-determination.

Bilie Human Rights Initiative, representing Indigenous People of Biafra, made the plea in a suit, FHC/OW/CS/102/2012, which the group filed against the Federal Government and Attorney General of the Federation.

The group also urged the court to decide whether by the 1963 Constitution, which took effect on October 1, 1963, and remained in force until the midnight of September 30, 1979, the defendants were right to seize and confiscate the assets, properties, money and all treasures belonging to the claimants by promulgating the Abandoned Properties Act of September 28, 1979.

The claimants prayed the court to determine “whether the defendants were justified to violate the International Humanitarian Law and Laws of War, known as the Geneva Convention of 1949, to which the defendants acceded and ratified June 20, 1961, by bombing the Biafran civilians, killing the Biafran civilians and using starvation to kill the children, women and the elderly of the civilian population of the indigenous people of Biafra in the war of 1967-1970, in order to win the war.”

The suit is supported by a 44-paragraph affidavit sworn to by Innocent Obinna Amadi, an engineer, while hearing is expected to begin January 16, 2013.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/01/biafra-group-sues-fg-over-abandoned-property-others/



BIAFRA DRAGS NIGERIA TO COURT!



For the first time since after the Nigeria-Biafra War



1. Introduction:



BILIE HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE is a human rights organization and the only legal entity in Nigeria registered with the United Nations as an Indigenous Peoples Organization (IPO) and also as Incorporated Trustees by the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for the purpose of protecting, defending and advocating for the rights of indigenous people of Biafra and all other indigenous peoples and nationalities within Nigeria whose rights and freedoms are violated by the Nigerian Government contrary to the United Nations Charter on Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. The word “Bilie” means “Stand Up” or “Arise” in Igbo Language. We are calling on all Igbo speaking people in Nigeria to stand up for their rights. Bilie is a human rights group advocating for the rights of the descendants of the ancestors of Biafraland who are the remnants that were not consumed by the 1967-1970 genocidal war in which about three million Biafrans were killed. Bilie Human Rights Initiative is a national liberation movement for the purposes of international law with power to represent all indigenous people of Biafra in legal actions against any person Upholding justice and the rule of law or any Government whether in the Nigerian Courts or in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.



Gentlemen of the Press, we are here today to let the world know what is happening in Nigeria. The safety of the lives and properties of indigenous people of Biafra living in Nigeria are no longer guaranteed. The Biafrans were forced to surrender their sovereignty and become Nigerian citizens on the promise that their lives and properties would be protected by the Government of Nigeria. Now, it has become clear that the Government of Nigeria is impotent and incompetent to protect the indigenous people of Biafra who were not consumed by the war. In fact, the Nigeria Police and Army Officers have continued to harass, intimidate, arrest, detain and kill Biafran human rights activists who are agitating for the self-determination and independence of Biafra by peaceful means but spare the militant activists from other nationalities agitating for similar outcome. There is clear and demonstrable policy of discrimination, marginalization, oppression and racism against the remnants of the indigenous people of Biafra living in Nigeria which has caused some of them to deny their identity in order to receive favours from the Federal Government of Nigeria. The situation has compelled Bilie Human Rights Initiative to file multiple suits against the Federal Government of Nigeria and its agents on behalf of the indigenous people of Biafra to protect their human and peoples’ rights. At the moment, the two suits Bilie Human Rights Initiative has filed are as follows:



(a) Case number 1 is for the Self-determination and Independence of Biafra



(b) Case number 2 is an order seeking restraint on the part of the Federal Government of Nigeria and her agents from the continued intimidation, harassment and threat to life of the publishers and distributors of Eastern Pilot Newspaper and violation of the publication’s freedom of expression as guaranteed under the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.



The Case for Self-determination and Independence of Biafra:



On behalf of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Bilie Human Rights Initiative has filed the case, Suit No. FHC/OW/CS/102/2012 in the Federal High Court of Nigeria in the Owerri Judicial Division against the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Attorney-General of the Federation seeking to enforce the rights of indigenous people of Biafra to self-determination and independence. The said suit brought by way of originating summons requires the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Attorney-General of the Federation to appear in court to answer fundamental questions impinging on the rights of Indigenous People of Biafra which to date has remained unanswered and untested in any competent court of law.



LET the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Attorney-General of the Federation within thirty days after service of this summons on them, inclusive of the day of such service, cause an appearance to be entered for them to this summons which is issued upon the application of BILIE HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE representing INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA who are indigenes of the South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, parts of the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria and parts of the Middle Belt zone of Nigeria seeking to enforce their right to self-determination pursuant to Articles 19 - 25 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap 10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990, and to redress all wrongs occasioned on them by the Defendants in consequence whereof the Claimants pray for the determination of the following questions:



1. Whether the Indigenous People of Biafra who are the remnants that were not consumed in the Nigerian-Biafran war of 1967 – 1970 have the right of self-determination pursuant to Articles 19 – 25 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap 10, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990.



2. Whether the Claimants who identify themselves as Biafrans by indigenous identity are committing any offence by doing so contrary to any provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 or contrary to any provisions of the Criminal Code and whether it is a crime under any national or international law to mention the name of BIAFRA or for the remnants of the Indigenous People of Biafra who were not consumed by the war to maintain their indigenous identity as Biafrans with their native emblems and symbols as they do now even though they are Nigerians by citizenship and nationality laws; and if the answer is in the negative, whether the Defendants are justified to arrest, detain, shoot and or kill the children of the Claimants for identifying themselves as Biafrans by indigenous identity contrary to the rights of indigenous peoples as guaranteed by Articles 19 – 25 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap 10, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990.



3. Whether by the interpretation of Section 2 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 it is a crime for the Claimants and or the people of other ethnic nationalities held together in Nigeria against their will to exercise their right to self-determination by seeking for independence under the law as guaranteed by Articles 19 – 25 Cap 10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 and the United Nations Resolution 61/295 of 2007 known as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.



4. Whether it is lawful under the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 and under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap 10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 for the Defendants to hold the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria together by force against their will who now constitute the six geopolitical regions namely: South East, South South, South West, North Central, North East and North West, in a forced marriage akin to slavery contrary to their human and peoples’ rights of self-determination as there is no provision in the Nigerian law or international law that makes it a crime for a people to seek for freedom by the rule of law.



5. Whether the amalgamation of the peoples of the south and north by the British Government to form one country called Nigeria was with the consent and agreement of the indigenous peoples of the lands; and if the answer is in the negative, whether the Order-in-Council 1910 – 1913 made by the British Government to create Nigeria in



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1914 was null and void ab initio for lacking legitimacy as it could not form the basis of the Nigerian Constitution thereby rendering the amalgamation invalid.



6. Whether by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1963 which took effect on 1st October 1963 and remained in force until the midnight of 30th September 1979 the Defendants were right to seize and confiscate the assets, properties, money, and all treasures belonging to the Claimants by promulgating the Abandoned Properties Act of 28th September 1979 while the 1963 Constitution was in force, being more than nine years after the war and after the declaration of “One Nigeria” while regarding the Claimants as Nigerian citizens but depriving them of their properties, money and assets; and if the answer is in the negative, whether the Defendants are still justified to withhold the said money, properties and assets belonging to the Claimants.



7. Whether the Defendants were justified to violate the International Humanitarian Law and the Laws of War known as the Geneva Convention 1949 (to which the Defendants acceded and ratified on 20th June 1961) by bombing the Biafran civilians, killing the Biafran civilians and using starvation to kill the children, women and the elderly of the civilian population of the indigenous people of Biafra in the war of 1967 – 1970 in order to win the war.



8. Whether the Defendants by registering Nigeria as a member of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) in 1986 and licensing an Islamic Sharia Bank in Nigeria under the 1999 Constitution contrary to Section 10 of the Constitution of Nigeria have violated the Constitution and turned Nigeria into an Islamic country; and if the answer is in the affirmative, whether the Claimants have the right to dissociate themselves from the Defendants and refuse to answer the citizens of an Islamic country in the exercise of their right to freedom of worship, freedom of association and self-determination as a people.



AND LET THE DEFENDANTS TAKE NOTICE that the Claimants who are called Biafrans by indigenous identity and Nigerians by nationality have commenced the legal processes leading to their referendum for self-determination and shall at the hearing of this summons pray the Honourable Court for:



(a) An Order declaring that the Claimants have the right to self-determination pursuant to Articles 19 – 25, Cap 10, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990, and are therefore free to exercise their right to self-determination for independence or any other political status of their choice.



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(b) An Order declaring that the ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria are not held as slaves under Section 2(1) of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 and therefore have the right of self-determination to decide their political status by the rule of law.



(c) An Order declaring that the Defendants are liable to pay to the Claimants by way of compensation or reparation the present value of all the money, properties and assets of the Claimants seized by the Defendants as a result of the Nigerian-Biafran war of 1967 – 1970 since the properties were not seized in wartime but nine years after the war based on the post-war discriminatory policies and laws made by the Defendants to suppress the Claimants from generation to generation.



(d) An Order directing the Defendants to comply with the provisions of Article 20 (3) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap 10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 and consequently give all assistance to the Claimants in the exercise of their right to self-determination for a peaceful conduct of their referendum for independence or for any other political status of their choice.



(e) An Order granting judicial protection to the Claimants, their homes, their offices and their correspondences individually and collectively as they exercise their right to self-determination and an Injunction restraining the Defendants, their agents and privies, from interfering, arresting, molesting, intimidating, disturbing, hindering or harassing the Claimants or doing any act or omitting to do any act aimed at frustrating the Claimants’ exercise of their right to self-determination which they have commenced with a referendum.



(f) An Order compelling the Defendants to release from its prisons and detention centres all indigenous people of Biafra who are agitating as pro-Biafra Movements for Independence of Biafra by peaceful means and to drop all charges of treason or treasonable felonies made against them and to release all their properties seized by the Defendants.



(g) An Order affirming the Memorandum of Ohanaeze Ndigbo dated 28th June 2012 submitted to the National Assembly for the restructuring of Nigeria into six autonomous self-governing regions, namely: South East, South West, South South, North East, North West and North Central, as a manifestation of the Will of the People in the exercise of their right to self-determination and directing the Defendants to present an Executive Bill to the National Assembly for a law granting autonomy and self-governing status to the six geopolitical regions in Nigeria; OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE, in the role of the Judiciary as the last hope of the common man, an Order directing the Defendants to present an Executive Bill to the National Assembly for a law dissolving Nigeria in peace along the compatible ethnic groups instead of allowing the country to break up in bloodshed.



(h) An Order declaring that the Defendants by registering Nigeria as a member of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) have turned Nigeria into an Islamic country contrary to Section 10 of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 and therefore the Claimants being Christians have the right to dissociate themselves from the Defendants and refuse to be called the citizens of an Islamic country.



The facts of the case and exhibits relied on are contained in a 44-Paragraph Affidavit filed with the suit. Bilie Human Rights Initiative is by this legal action accelerating efforts to bring legal clarity to the issue of arbitrary arrests of indigenous people of Biafra. We believe that what Biafra lost after the war was its sovereignty and not its people since we were not annihilated by Nigeria as Rome annihilated Carthage.



About 99% of the population of the indigenous people of Biafra are Christians holding tenaciously to their Christian faith, believing in freedom of worship, freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of conscience, freedom of thought and freedom of expression, and separating the State from Religion. We believe in democracy as the only system of government that guarantees our fundamental human rights. Unfortunately, the Moslems from the North who were merged with us in the country called Nigeria do not believe in democracy and do not separate their Religion from the State. They do not believe in freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, freedom of thought and freedom of expression. In a conflict between the law of the State and the law of Islam, the Moslems insist that the law of Islam must prevail while we insist that the law of the State must prevail. They regard democracy as a false religion as shown by the fliers and posters they are spreading in Britain, America, Nigeria and other countries of the world where democracy is practised. This shows fundamental irreconcilable differences in the ideologies of the two peoples. All the efforts of their ethnic militia called Boko Haram are aimed at Islamizing the whole country and forcing us to become Moslems! The Biafrans saw this Islamic virus ahead of time and sought to free themselves in 1967-1970 but the odds were too much against them since Great Britain and other developed countries of the west could not see what the Biafrans saw. In the Ahiara Declaration, General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu revealed that the Biafran Struggle was not only a political or military struggle but also a struggle for religious freedom. In his words, “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.



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. Therefore, to militant Islam, Biafra is a stumbling block to their plan for controlling the whole continent.



Nigeria obtained only a military victory over Biafra but not spiritual conquest. Nigerians and their Governments treat us like a defeated people though mouthing “No Victor No Vanquished” in hypocrisy. Any person who identifies himself as an Ibo or Biafran receives persecution, hatred and rejection from Nigerians. Fair-minded Nigerians have acknowledged that the Government of Nigeria is designed to marginalize and persecute us. Alhaji Salisu Lamido Salisu, in his Conference Lecture at Arewa House in 1999, said concerning us as follows: “They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity. The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman’s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate… Now, with this government, the marginalization of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb”.



Yes, indeed, Nigeria is sitting on a time-bomb. Fair-minded northerners and westerners have acknowledged that the Government of Nigeria has been quite unfair to us. The maltreatments and persecutions have caused some of our people to deny their native identity in order to survive in Nigeria. Some of our people in the South-South region have changed their names to sound foreign in order to escape the persecution while some towns and villages have been forcefully assimilated into neighbouring tribes. Our spirits are still alive despite all the persecutions we suffer in Nigeria. This is why we are insisting on regaining our freedom because we still believe in our indigenous identity as Biafrans.



We want the Court to determine whether it is an offence for the remnants of the ancestors of Biafraland who were not consumed by the war to maintain their indigenous identity as a people and exercise their right to self-determination. We want the Court to determine whether it is an offence to mention the name of BIAFRA and believe in Biafra and preach Biafranism as a gospel of national liberation. We are fast-tracking legal efforts to compel the Nigerian Government to stop arresting anybody answering to or wearing Biafran emblem, insignia or any material that reflects their belief in Biafra. We believe that this a test case for the development of human rights law, not only for the benefit of the Nigerian legal system but also for the benefit of other countries of the world who are bound by the United Nations Charter on Human Rights.



Concerning our people who have denied their ancestral identity as Biafrans and Ibos in order to survive in Nigeria, we do not hold the denial against them as we see it as a self-preservation technique which is often caused by fear and lack of boldness. We remember the biblical example of the Apostle Peter who denied his Lord and Master Jesus Christ when his life was in danger. But as Peter repented and wept for denying his identity as a disciple of Christ, we advise our brethren who have denied their Igbo and Biafran identity to repent and return to their ancestral roots because our deliverance has come.



Gentlemen of the Press, we cannot comment on the merits of the case now since it is before the court but we enjoin you to follow the proceedings and give it a wide publicity in the interest of the public for the advancement of human rights law. The Court has fixed the case for 30th October 2012 when the parties will appear in Court for the first time.



Thank you, Gentlemen of the Press, for your patience and rapt attention to this briefing.



Signed:



Elder Eddy Anyanwu



Press Secretary

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Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 2:19am On Jan 11, 2013
ak47mann: SOON NIGERIA WILL SEE THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED,just as the central africa now abandon by France. french president told them to sort themselves out that those days are gone while rebels are approaching faster to the capital (bagui) Nigeria will soon be exhausted and cave in...

GEJ knows it,with boko haram giving him sleepless night in the north,fulani killing xsians minority in the north is just adding salt to the injury cool

Nigeria is a fraudulent entity where there is no justice and is heading for collapse soon. Nigeria has slayed so much innocent blood they are crying for justice. Sometimes I’m ashamed to say I’m a Nigeria by birth.

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Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Kezsman(m): 3:45am On Jan 11, 2013
kingsceemark: Tribal war lords, oya over 2 you guys. I know wetin dey una mind. anything wey una like make una talk, E no comot anything 4rm BIAFRANS. The GOD of ISRAEL always on dem side. KA CHINEKE MEZIE OKWU
We don't need those properties any, all we need is our freedom
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Kezsman(m): 3:50am On Jan 11, 2013
kingsceemark: Tribal war lords, oya over 2 you guys. I know wetin dey una mind. anything wey una like make una talk, E no comot anything 4rm BIAFRANS. The GOD of ISRAEL always on dem side. KA CHINEKE MEZIE OKWU
We don't need those properties anymore, all we need is our freedom
Olumide or whatever ur name is don't ever in ur life again insult Ojukwu
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by igboboy1(m): 5:56am On Jan 11, 2013
~Bluetooth:


I may offer to give you a boy's quarter if you don't mind.like I said,there's no record of abandoned property in the west during that time.

una don start again..
just like there is no record of ara-wolowo ordering starvation as a tool during the war
Just like there is no record of ara-wolowo issuing 20 pounds to all biafra bank holders irrespective if actual amount owned was in excess...

Funny enough na only for west such records go missing....Haba, fashola has said the govt should do better in storing records...
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by meetshaka(m): 9:13am On Jan 11, 2013
Mmmmmmmm! Somebody should not try go near my father's landed property and other things pr else......!!!!
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by REVOLUTNIS: 10:24am On Jan 11, 2013
Igbo gadi:

I don’t blame you, let see who is a thrash at the end of the day.
shut the Bleep up thrash
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:22pm On Jan 11, 2013
REVOLUTNIS:
shut the Bleep up thrash

As I said early on I don’t blame you, is people like you is preventing justice from taking place in Nigeria. Whether Nigeria like it or not justice must prevail.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:30pm On Jan 11, 2013
We want the Court to determine whether it is an offence for the remnants of the ancestors of Biafraland who were not consumed by the war to maintain their indigenous identity as a people and exercise their right to self-determination. We want the Court to determine whether it is an offence to mention the name of BIAFRA and believe in Biafra and preach Biafranism as a gospel of national liberation. We are fast-tracking legal efforts to compel the Nigerian Government to stop arresting anybody answering to or wearing Biafran emblem, insignia or any material that reflects their belief in Biafra. We believe that this a test case for the development of human rights law, not only for the benefit of the Nigerian legal system but also for the benefit of other countries of the world who are bound by the United Nations Charter on Human Rights.

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Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:31pm On Jan 11, 2013
Concerning our people who have denied their ancestral identity as Biafrans and Ibos in order to survive in Nigeria, we do not hold the denial against them as we see it as a self-preservation technique which is often caused by fear and lack of boldness. We remember the biblical example of the Apostle Peter who denied his Lord and Master Jesus Christ when his life was in danger. But as Peter repented and wept for denying his identity as a disciple of Christ, we advise our brethren who have denied their Igbo and Biafran identity to repent and return to their ancestral roots because our deliverance has come.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:44pm On Jan 11, 2013
Whether it is lawful under the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 and under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap 10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 for the Defendants to hold the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria together by force against their will who now constitute the six geopolitical regions namely: South East, South South, South West, North Central, North East and North West, in a forced marriage akin to slavery contrary to their human and peoples’ rights of self-determination as there is no provision in the Nigerian law or international law that makes it a crime for a people to seek for freedom by the rule of law.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:47pm On Jan 11, 2013
Whether the amalgamation of the peoples of the south and north by the British Government to form one country called Nigeria was with the consent and agreement of the indigenous peoples of the lands; and if the answer is in the negative, whether the Order-in-Council 1910 – 1913 made by the British Government to create Nigeria in 1914 was null and void ab initio for lacking legitimacy as it could not form the basis of the Nigerian Constitution thereby rendering the amalgamation invalid
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 5:04am On Jan 12, 2013
Case number 2 is an order seeking restraint on the part of the Federal Government of Nigeria and her agents from the continued intimidation, harassment and threat to life of the publishers and distributors of Eastern Pilot Newspaper and violation of the publication’s freedom of expression as guaranteed under the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Nobody: 9:45am On Jan 12, 2013
To further prove dt d God of Israel is with Biafrans- after putting dem on 20 pounds a month at d end of d war, their individual financial powers are forces to reckon with in Nigeria today. Infact ,today,dere is nothing to show for it. Pope John Paul 2 was 'wowed' when he came to Onitsha in d 90's, asking weda onitsha was part of d civil war devastation too. We said yes.
To all igbo indigenes of Delta and Rivers, I greet. To the Ikwerrean(chrisxxx) that wants to
be Nigerian hoping to be compensated by Nigeria, I still greet. If delta and Rivers werent predominantly Igbos, hw come dey keep having igbo governors?
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:25pm On Jan 12, 2013
Whether by the interpretation of Section 2 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 it is a crime for the Claimants and or the people of other ethnic nationalities held together in Nigeria against their will to exercise their right to self-determination by seeking for independence under the law as guaranteed by Articles 19 – 25 Cap 10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 and the United Nations Resolution 61/295 of 2007 known as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 12:38pm On Jan 12, 2013
The ongoing civil rights case brought by Bilie Human Rights Initiative on behalf of the Indigenous People of Biafra will receive substantive hearing on the 16th of January 2013 at the Federal High Court Owerri.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has acknowledged service of summons and has responded by filing counter affidavit seeking the court to dismiss the case on the grounds that there are no Indigenous People of Biafra in present day Nigeria.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 1:04am On Jan 13, 2013
The time has come and its now, when the good people of Biafra will take a stand...take their own destiny in their hands and fight the good fight until we redeem our rights. We have great minds let us join Bilie Human Rights Initiative and fight the good fight.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 10:31pm On Jan 13, 2013
The d day is fast approaching.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by Igbogadi(m): 5:33am On Jan 16, 2013
Today is the 16th of January 2013 let the hearing being Nigeria vs Indigenous
People of Biafra under Bilie Human Rights Initiative.
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by ajalio(f): 5:17pm On Jan 16, 2013
Any news?
Re: Biafra Group Sues FG Over Abandoned Property And Others by T9ksy(m): 8:00pm On Jan 16, 2013
Okay o, i wish you all the best of luck.

Just make sure whilst you fighting "your good fight", not to under any pretext stray into my territory.

Once again, i sincerely wish BILIE all the best.

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