Thousands of Igbo, an ethnic group in Southeastern Nigeria, have begun arriving Washington DC for a major protest against 75-year old Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari.

Members of the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) would
storm the White House on
Pennsylvania Avenue in
Washington DC on April 30 when
Mr. Buhari would be meeting with President Donald Trump.

In a statement to Today News Africa in Washington DC, the organizers of the protest said
Mr. Buhari, a retired Nigerian
Army General, is responsible for
the death of thousands of Igbo
activists who have been
demanding independence from the oil-rich but dilapidated West
African country.

The leader of IPOB, Nnamdi
Kanu, disappeared in strange
circumstances, fueling
speculations that he was
abducted by Nigerian security
forces following an attack on his residence.

Our team of reporters in
Washington DC would bring you
live developments inside and
outside the White House on
April 30.

The protesters would also
accuse Mr. Buhari government
of committing grave human
rights violations across the
country, and for not prosecuting
those who perpetrated them. The accusations would also
include the atrocities
perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen
throughout Nigeria.

Igbo activists have argued that
Nigeria has not treated the Igbo
fairly following the civil war of
1967-1970 that left at least two
million of their people dead as
they tried to break up.

The protests would be coming
days after the United States
government on Friday released
a damning human rights report
on Nigeria, saying grave violations continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were almost never prosecuted by the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, and both men would likely discuss further U.S. military assistance to Nigeria against the backdrop of serious human rights
violations by security forces
who use the same weapons to
kill civilians.

The U.S. annual report on global
human rights violations, released in Washington D.C. on Friday afternoon, said the administration of President Buhari “took steps to investigate alleged abuses, but
fewer steps to prosecute officials
who committed violations,
whether in the security forces or
elsewhere in the government”.

“Impunity remained widespread at all levels of government. The government did not adequately investigate or prosecute most of the major outstanding allegations of human rights violations by the
security forces or the majority
of cases of police or military
extortion or other abuse of
power,” the report said.

It said the most significant
human rights issues included
extrajudicial and arbitrary
killings; disappearances and
arbitrary detentions; torture,
particularly in detention facilities, including sexual
exploitation and abuse; use of
children by some security
elements, looting, and
destruction of property.

There were also civilian
detentions in military facilities,
often based on flimsy evidence;
denial of fair public trial;
executive influence on the
judiciary; infringement on citizens’ privacy rights;
restrictions on freedoms of
speech, press, assembly, and
movement

This was in addition to official
corruption; lack of accountability in cases involving violence against women and children, including female genital mutilation/cutting and sexual exploitation of children; trafficking in persons; early and forced marriages;
criminalization of status and
same-sex sexual conduct based
on sexual orientation and gender identity; and forced and bonded labor.

The report recognized that Boko
Haram terror group also
committed a myriad of human
rights violations, killing and
torturing and imprisoning
women and children and bombing entire villages. “

The groups conducted numerous attacks on government and civilian targets that resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated
205,000 Nigerian refugees to
neighboring countries,
principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,” the report said.

Boko Haram’s numerous
attacks often targeted civilians.
The group, which recruited and
forcefully conscripted child
soldiers, carried out scores of
suicide bombings–many by young women and girls forced
into doing so–and other attacks
on population centers in the
Northeast and in Cameroon,
Chad, and Niger.

“Abductions by Boko Haram
continued. The group subjected
many abducted women and
girls to sexual and gender-based
violence, including forced marriages and rape. The government investigated
attacks by Boko Haram and ISIS-
WA and took some steps to
prosecute their members,
although the majority of
suspected insurgent group supporters were held in military
custody without charge,

“In its response to Boko Haram
and ISIS-WA attacks, and at
times in response to crime and
insecurity in general, security
service personnel perpetrated
extrajudicial killings and engaged in torture, sexual exploitation and abuse, arbitrary detention, mistreatment of detainees, use
of children by some security
elements, looting, and destruction of property. The country also suffered from ethnic, regional, and religious violence,” the report added.

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Ortom, do u see that ipob is already fighting for the rights of your people? I think u should apologise to Ndigbo and team up with them, otherwise Buhari will wipe out Benue from d map of d world coz of the way they stop the great grand father of Fulani terrorists Uthman Dan Fodio.

Bunch of noise makers, massive deportations loading.
Gidgiddy and horsepower, I hope you guys will be there too

this shows that all of them ar jobless..cuz if they ar nt, they wil nt leave their place of work and come and stage protest........ fr biafra matter may b in the next world nt thiz one

Yyeske:
Bunch of noise makers, massive deportations loading.
Gidgiddy and horsepower, I hope you guys will be there too

Afonja what is your problem with Ndigbo? please leave us alone and face your South West

Lajet:


Afonja

Aboki

Im ever proud of our people who stand up to tyranny, oppression and their right to self determination!

If not Igbos, who else? I hope that our people in the US will come out en masse to disgrace Buhari in Washington just like they did in London.

Yyeske:
Bunch of noise makers, massive deportations loading.
Gidgiddy and horsepower, I hope you guys will be there too

go and deport them naa, bigger noise maker

You may hate President Buhari for whatever reason, but there is something every Igbo must agree in his administration.

Since 1999, this is the first time, all the federal roads in southeast are receiving attention. In times like this, we must acknowledge some silent facts.

All the major federal roads in Igboland are under reconstruction, no president since 1999 has remembered us this way in terms of reviving the dearth of federal infrastructures in our region.

Why acknowledging this feat, we must as a people begin to differentiate between ethnic sentiment and genuine projects being upgraded that have direct benefit to our people.

These are some of the federal roads that works are ongoing in Igboland.

Pls verify and confirm.

They are;

1. Oba – Nnewi – Okigwe road linking Anambra state with Imo state.
2. Otuocha – Ibaji – Nzam road in Anambra state.
3. Abakaliki – Onueke-Abomega – Afikpo road
4. Nnenwe – Uduma – Uburu road connecting Enugu state with Ebonyi state.
5. Oji – Achi – Mmaku – Awgu road in Enugu state.
6. Ozalla – Akpugo – Amagunze road in Enugu state.
7. IkotEkpene – Aba.
8. Enugu-Onitsha expressway.
9. Enugu-PH expressway.

Southeast roads have not had this good.

Let's thank President Buhari for this.

Before nko!

In IPOB I Stand!!
Somebody should help buhari the illiterate answer questions properly when American journalists ask questions before the dullard start accusing Nigerian youths for witch craft.

adadike:
Ortom, do u see that ipob is already fighting for the rights of your people? I think u should apologise to Ndigbo and team up with them, otherwise Buhari will wipe out Benue from d map of d world coz of the way they stop the great grand father of Fulani terrorists Uthman Dan Fodio.

Don't mind them. Without IPOB, Nigeria will be a conquered estate for Fulani people.

ANIOMADEI2018:
You may hate President Buhari for whatever reason, but there is something every Igbo must agree in his administration.

Since 1999, this is the first time, all the federal roads in southeast are receiving attention. In times like this, we must acknowledge some silent facts.

All the major federal roads in Igboland are under reconstruction, no president since 1999 has remembered us this way in terms of reviving the dearth of federal infrastructures in our region.

Why acknowledging this feat, we must as a people begin to differentiate between ethnic sentiment and genuine projects being upgraded that have direct benefit to our people.

These are some of the federal roads that works are ongoing in Igboland.

Pls verify and confirm.

They are;

1. Oba – Nnewi – Okigwe road linking Anambra state with Imo state.
2. Otuocha – Ibaji – Nzam road in Anambra state.
3. Abakaliki – Onueke-Abomega – Afikpo road
4. Nnenwe – Uduma – Uburu road connecting Enugu state with Ebonyi state.
5. Oji – Achi – Mmaku – Awgu road in Enugu state.
6. Ozalla – Akpugo – Amagunze road in Enugu state.
7. IkotEkpene – Aba.
8. Enugu-Onitsha expressway.
9. Enugu-PH expressway.

Southeast roads have not had this good.

Let's thank President Buhari for this.

Carry your despicable lies commot for here. Buhari is a Terrorist!

I trust my people.
God bless Ipob.

BIAFRA SHALL BE FREE

you are such a prick...it only shows how naive and biased you are..you think this violence won't reach your region? it will spread across and your people will suffer the same

olasco18:
this shows that all of them ar jobless..cuz if they ar nt, they wil nt leave their place of work and come and stage protest........ fr biafra matter may b in the next world nt thiz one

you are such a prick...it only shows how naive and biased you are..you think this violence won't reach your region? it will spread across and your people will suffer the same

Can someone tell me the effect of Biafra protest both in Nigeria and abroad? For instance in Nigeria they were flogged and in abroad they were ignored and call nuisance.

Ndị Igbo Are always at the forefront in maintaining democracy in this sh!thole but in return gets abused by people they are fighting for.

God bless IPOB

God bless NNAMDI KANU