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Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by hmuhammad(m): 8:07am On Jan 18, 2016
Angry pro-Biafra protesters yesterday vented their anger on residents of Oyigbo City in Rivers State as they harassed, intimidated and forced them to close their businesses and join in the protests. The protesters who were mainly youths were angry over the continued detention of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by the Directorate of State Services (DSS).


They carried placards with different inscriptions such as; “free Kanu now”, “please don’t kill our leader”, “release Kanu to attend to his health”. It turned violent when they started beating up, harassing and intimidating those that refused to identify with them. Shops and business owners were forced to close. It took the intervention of Rivers State government and law enforcement agents to save the situation. Rivers State Commissioner for Information, Dr Tam George, in a press statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday condemned the harassment and intimidation of residents of the state in the name of pro-Biafra protests. He said the ban on illegal processions remained in force and vowed that government would deal with anybody that flouts the order. “It has come to the attention of the Rivers State government that some pro-Biafra agitators have resorted to illegal procession and assaulted law abiding citizens and residents of the state”, he said. “Governor Nyesom Wike strongly condemns the acts of criminality perpetrated by pro-Biafra agitators by whatever name in the Oyigbo area of the state,” he said. He added that the state government had directed all security agencies in the state to arrest and prosecute the agitators who flout the ban on illegal and separatist processions and demonstrations in the state and urged residents to remain calm and law abiding.

http://dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/biafra-protesters-attack-rivers-residents/129261.html#qvQcRMc21AxupMHh.99

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by kingzizzy: 8:11am On Jan 18, 2016
Smells like fake news. How many businesses are open on a Sunday?

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by prettytasha(f): 8:14am On Jan 18, 2016
Observing
Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by hmuhammad(m): 8:14am On Jan 18, 2016
kingzizzy:
Smells like fake news. How many businesses are open on a Sunday?
go tell daily trust that

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by Nobody: 8:15am On Jan 18, 2016
[b]Kanu foolishly led himself into an avoidable problem. He is like a lamb cheered by goats(ipob youths) to take on a pack of hyenas(FG) grin Going by his unkempt and frustrated looks in court recently, am sure he wish he could turn back the hands of time but its too late. He enjoyed the fraudulent fame while it lasted. He wanted to be a rebel leader. A rebel leader with no military background. Which sane rebel leader will go as far as soliciting for weapons on a recorded event? His mistakes are enormous and there are better ways he could have fought his battles without spreading hate and implicating himself. Kanu is just a buttie boy overfed with the comfort of london and that pushed him to run his mouth like a tap on biafra radio. He looked like a chicken in the rain in court and was even described as standing in court without uttering a word. Am sure the Dss treatment is gradually restoring his brain to factory settings. Before the previous Biafra war, Ojukwu had a template of what biafra would look like and even presented his demands through the aburi accord in Ghana. He had military experience and a PlanB if the aburi accord was rejected. Despite this, Ojukwu regretted leading his people to a bloody massacre and has since called for a United Nigeria. Kanu's approach was to brainwash innocent youths, spread hate and bile and even instigate war on other non igbo tribes. No concrete reason why they want Biafra other than the Yorubas and Hausas hate us so we have to go. Comparing Kanu to Ojukwu is an insult in all ramifications. Kanu's predicament will never end soon. He will pay for all those hate speeches and instigating wars against peaceful Nigerians. Where are the bombs he threatened to use on Radio biafra? Where are the jet fighters? Where are Ipob soldiers he promised to unleash on the zoo? Pride goes before a fall. Kanu has fallen and all the igbo youths can do is protest. with time everyone will forget him in jail and move on with their lives. I hope uchemefor is learning from this before he finds himself in the same fate.

God bless Nigeria.


Say no to Biafra[/b]

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by fhelihx(m): 8:21am On Jan 18, 2016
Biafra again?
Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by tubouncen(m): 8:30am On Jan 18, 2016
All These beer parlour write up sef.... forcing residence to lock their shops on sunday.... A solely christian state opening shop on sunday


My nose is pro-active, i'm smelling lies

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by aldrick: 8:45am On Jan 18, 2016
This is why as a Rivers man i will never be part of biafra and would advice all true Niger deltans to embrace Niger delta republic quest and preach the gospel were ever you go... Dont be deceived by the igbos on biafra. They should go on form biafra with south east states, we are capable as south south to be a republic of our own, we will gain nothing to abandon Niger delta republic for biafra, that is pure foolishness if we do so, we rejected it and can never go back to accept ofcos our dead father will weep in their grave if we do so, are we niger deltans dogs? No we are not dogs we cant vomit and go back to eat our vomit, God 4bid... pls read below copy and share:

Ojukwu's Atrocities on Old Rivers State
Rivers communities seemed to be worse off. Apart from the
killings, torture and other forms of human rights abuse, they
were deliberately evicted from their homes towns and
replace with Igbo indigenes. As a consequence, many
Rivers people from Ikwerre, Ogoni, Okirika, Eleme and
Kalabari communities were evicted to “concentration
camps” in Igbo towns like Umuahia, Owerri, Abiriba, and
Ozuitem. That was how able bodied men, women and
children were systematically starved to death and buried in
farmlands. Ongoing massacre was only confirmed by siting
of dead bodies in New Calabar and Sombriero Rivers of
Rivers State.
An Irish priest who served in Rivers State reported how
Rivers people were maltreated because of perceive
sabotage by the Biafran Igbo soldiers. At Bolo and Ogu in
Okirika, and Onne in Eleme, the villagers suffered the same
fate. After the battle at Onne, Biafran troops removed the
town inhabitants suspected to have collaborated with
federal troops and sent them to the Rainbow Town
headquarters of the Biafran 52 Brigade in Port Harcourt.
Graham-Douglas, who was also thrown into detention,
claimed to have seen about three hundred men detained in
the Rainbow Town for no just cause. He asserted that no
fewer than sixty thousand Rivers people were sent to
different concentration camps in Igbo land.
Graham Douglas narrated the ordeal Rivers people suffered
in the hands of the Igbos in a pamphlet titled “Ojukwu’s
Rebellion and World Opinion”. He claimed that the
minorities tribes had suffered more hardships and
molestations than the Igbo could claim to have suffered at
the hands of Northern Nigerians. Biafra hired Markpress as
it image laundering and propaganda press. They countered
most of the sordid account of massacres committed by
Igbo Biafran in Niger Delta lands, like those narrated by
Graham Douglas. The world was therefore blinded to the
massacres committed in Rivers State.
Some prominent Ikwerre leaders like Elechi Amadi and Obi
Wali were marked for death. History had it that Obi Wali
was hidden by his kinsmen in a human waste dump forest
at Rumueme. Elechi Amadi was made fugitive in his
homeland. Ojukwu ethnic cleansing was coded as
"COMBING". No Niger Delta ethnic group or community was
spared of Ojukwu's combing. History recorded that Biafra
act of combing led to the Massacred of defenseless
civilians at: Ogoni (Bori), Eleme; Okrika (Ogu); Kalabari
(Bakana, Buguma and Billie); Ikwerre (Rumuola, Rumueme
and Isiokpo) and other Niger Delta communities of the
present day Rivers State too numerous to mention.
The plight of the minorities had been so alarming that
several Nigerian students of Rivers State origin in London
staged a peaceful protest against the killing and
displacement of their people. In addition to a peaceful
march from Trafalgar Square to the House of Commons in
London, they also sent out petitions to the United Nations,
the Organization of African Unity (OAU), His Holiness Pope
Paul VI, Emperor Haile Selaisie, the British Prime Minister
and other relevant groups, raising alarm of massacre of
their kinsmen in their homelands, asking them to bring
pressure on the warring parties to stop the senseless killing
of innocent and defenceless people of Rivers State for a
war the seek no part of. The petition was said to be a
landmark document that established to the world that not
all Eastern Nigeria region was part of the ideology called
“Biafra”, and dashed the claims of Ojukwu that he was
supported by all ethnic group of the region. Following the
petition, the international community mounted pressure on
Ojukwu to forfeit his struggle and negotiate for peace,
which led to an asylum window for Ojukwu’s capitulation a
few months after.

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by shachris02: 9:06am On Jan 18, 2016
This is the madness i have being warning about. There is nothing peaceful about these IPOB touts and their felon dilector.

No reasonable Nigerian, Igbo or not, support these callous individual. Only enemies of this nation do.

Please, Nigerian Army, do the needful. cool

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by Babangida70(m): 9:06am On Jan 18, 2016
PYO: Baba Daily trust don dey lie again ooo...

PMB: make dem kwantinue fa! we go use dem for the next elections just like Sahara refotas

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by Nobody: 9:06am On Jan 18, 2016
Lagos ibadan expressway junk journalism. A poorly written junk to say the least

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by Boss13: 9:06am On Jan 18, 2016
So much lawlessness in this country. The President must read the Riot Act for everybody to act straight from the North, to Niger Delta to the South East

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by IgrigiEOD: 9:07am On Jan 18, 2016
**grins*' Daily trust? an hausa/fulani paper? open businesses on sunday? This one na quota-system propaganda. These mallams should go for Industrial training in anti-Igbo propagandism @ the yoruba-owned the nation's toilet newspaper. **grins**

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by omusiliyu(m): 9:08am On Jan 18, 2016
These people are confused.

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by passionate88: 9:09am On Jan 18, 2016
shocked
Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by lonelydora: 9:09am On Jan 18, 2016
Una don come again ooo. IPOB called their fellow brothers to join in the protest and not Rivers indigenes. Obigbo (and not Oyigbo) is owned by Igbos.





Oya na, make una kill me, I don talk my mind na.

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by Built2last: 9:09am On Jan 18, 2016
Plethora of problems

Crashing oil price

Bokoharam

Biafra agitators

Niger delta militants.

Abeg where is my passport?

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by soniawarmate: 9:10am On Jan 18, 2016
They should pursue all those idiots out of port Harcourt. Rivers state is not a Biafra state and can not be dragged into Biafra madness.

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by Enesi47: 9:10am On Jan 18, 2016
hmuhammad:
go tell daily trust that
noting like sunday for igbo, it what am seeing in lagos here

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by stanuplane(m): 9:10am On Jan 18, 2016
I was in Oyibo yesterday and can tell you that this story is horse shit.

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by biafranbaby(m): 9:10am On Jan 18, 2016
Can one attack oneself?

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by tino22(m): 9:11am On Jan 18, 2016
God will help us in this country..biafrans let's unite and form a better nation..Nigeria belongs to us all ooh umunnem

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by ilyas26(m): 9:11am On Jan 18, 2016
Jobless people

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by obailala(m): 9:12am On Jan 18, 2016
There we go again
Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by Futureleader201(m): 9:12am On Jan 18, 2016

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Re: Biafra Protesters Attack Rivers Residents by EasternPride: 9:13am On Jan 18, 2016
Its just like saying Ariaria opens on Sunday and IPOB forced them to close shops.

Fake news everywhere.

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