The Igbo Canadian Community Association (ICCA/Umunna) has described the action of the Federal Government in arresting, detaining, torturing, arraignment and incarceration of 114 Igbo women members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Imo State as a deliberate affront on Ndigbo and a recipe for anarchy.



In a statement issued in Toronto, Canada, the President of the socio-cultural and political group, Chief Ugochukwu Okoro, through the Public Relations Officer (PRO) Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, said said “ICCA/Umunna wants to sound a warning that with the gross show of abhorrent and execrate behavior in which President Muhammadu Buhari’s led Federal Government responds to issues involving Ndigbo is becoming too brutal for our endurance and if not stemmed at this moment, may pave the way for anarchy.

The latest onslaught on Ndigbo by the FG on our grandmothers, mothers, wives and daughters, 114 of who were serially tortured with chemical agents and remanded in prison for exercising their constitutional rights to exercise their freedom of expression is one brutality too many.

Ndigbo have always engaged in dialogue and advised our young people to respect the rule of law but when there is an obvious selective law enforcement clothed in discrimination with an objective to bear down on a people by pushing them to the wall, the reaction, which history bears witness to, is always a situation that does nobody any good.



We condemn in the strongest of words the dehumanizing treatment meted out to our women whose ages ranged from 72 to 18 years by members of the Nigeria Police Force who used over 100 tear gas canisters on a group of women going on a peaceful protest that in no way caused any breach of peace or break down of law and order.

The Police forcefully arrested them, tore their clothes and shot tear gas canisters directly on the faces of aged women who were asking for the whereabouts of their leader and our son, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

On April 18, 2018, armed men accompanied by a member of the legislature alleged to be in the camp of President Buhari stormed the Senate and stole the mace and also, early this month, members of the Directorate for State Security (DSS) laid siege at the National Assembly in a clear attempted hijack of the democratic process in the country. These actions, said to be perpetuated with the knowledge of the presidency and his party, were not met with the ferocity with which Igbo women on a peaceful protest was tackled which is evident of President Buhari running an apartheid system of governance in issues concerning people of the South East.

People from other parts of the country are allowed to exercise their right to protest and peaceful assembly but when any person from the South East gathers to ask for legitimate issues of concern, the government unleashes law enforcement on them. This has made bare the agenda President Buhari had in orchestrating the proscription of IPOB to serve as a cover with which to continuously degrade, dehumanize and imprison the Igbo nation.

Lest the FG forget, on December 17, 2010, the action of a police officer who slapped a young food vendor in Tunisia led the victim to undertake an action that became a catalyst for what later became known as the Arab Spring. President Buhari should know that actions such as using chemical agents on defenseless women, initiating torture and abusing their human rights can equally lead to the Bouazizi-effect in the South East.

Let this hostility towards Ndigbo by this government STOP.
The ICCA/Umunna hereby demand the immediate and unconditional release of the 114 IPOB women members remanded in prison custody on the orders of Magistrate S.K. Kadurumba.

Names & Ages of tortured and criminally incarcerated Mothers of the Nation:
1. Afoma Umoh Wisdom (64yrs)
2. Virginia Akwufube (62yrs)
3. Ezike Emmanuela (62yrs)
4. Uzoma Oraka (62yrs)
5. Charity Obioha (60yrs)
6. Chinyere Nwachukwu (55yrs)
7. Udeogu Margret (58yrs)
8. Rachel Okengwu (58yrs)
9. Angelina Felix (55yrs)
10. Monica Anaelechi (54yrs)
11. Esther Osuji (52yrs)
12. Florence Olewembu (52yrs)
13. Nkechi Ekwedisika (52yrs)
14. Kosarachukwu Udegbunam (51yrs)
15. Josephine Ogolo (51yrs) Monica Nwaeleke (50yrs)
16. Mabel Okoire (50yrs)
17. Chika Njoku (50yrs)
18. Grace Nkemakolam (50yrs)
19. Paulina Awunezi (50yrs)
20. Christiana Muonwuba (50yrs)
21. Margret Eze (50yrs)
22. Florence Egede (50yrs)
23. Rose Osuchukwu (50yrs)
24. Comfort Uti (50yrs)
25. Nnedinma Onuoha (49yrs)
26. Agatha Nwachukwu (49yrs)
27. Ijeoma Okorie (30yrs)
28. Uloma Ejiogu (30yrs)
29. Victoria Jacob (45yrs)
30. Vivian Ozuruigbo (30yrs)
31. Chinenye Imo (40yrs)
32. Chinyere Egbulom (38yrs)
33. Cynthia Onyebuchi (31yrs),
34. Chigbata Chinyere (38yrs)
35. Egesi Josephine (41yrs)
36. Hope Eze (45yrs)
37. Ikejiofor Amechi (44yrs)
38. Nkeiru Ajagba (45yrs)
39. Ngozi James (46yrs)
40. Nnene Nweke (46yrs)
41. Lucy Mary Kanu (21yrs)
42. Irole Goodness (30yrs)
43. Ogechi Okechukwu (30yrs)
44. Tochukwu Eze (38yrs)
45. Onyemaechi Ijezie (38yrs)
46. Ginika Awuzie (39yrs)
47. Vero Nnamani (30yrs)
48. Nkwoagu Chinenye (22)
49. Ijeoma Victoria Nnadozie (43yrs)
50. Blessing Udeme (25yrs)
51. Nnewuchi Obiageli (31yrs)
52. Ngozi Onyenwugo (22yrs)
53. Ruth Onwumere (45yrs)
54. Nkeiruka Ohanebo (45yrs)
55. Nzube Uwaigwe (22yrs)
56. Eberechi Iheanacho (39yrs)
57. Ego Nwafor (40yrs)
58. Chinyere Eze (32yrs)
59. Adaku Inyama (45yrs)
60. Ndidi Uchenna (45yrs)
61. Nneka Kingsley (38yrs)
62. Nkeiru Nwankwo (37yrs)
63. Chinwendu David (38yrs)
64. Juliet Nwaiwu (42yrs)
65. Juliet Innocent Onwuka (40yrs)
66. Chinyere Nwankwo (25yrs)
67. Nkeiru Orji (34yrs)
68. Joy Uwabunike (47yrs)
69. Nnene Ibeneli (38yrs)
70. Jane Isaac (25yrs)
71. Kelechi Emmanuel (40yrs)
72. Ngozi Nwajiaku (34yrs)
73. Ugochi Okwum (32yrs)
74. Ifeoma Emmanuel (42yrs)
75. Nkeiru Onyegbari (35yrs)
76. Eucharia Eke (42yrs)
77. Ijeoma Onyedinefu (33yrs)
78. Blessing Nnedede (26yrs)
79. Iheanyichukwu Ogueri (35yrs)
80. Ogochukwu Alaribe (35yrs)
81. Uchechukwu Okoro (48yrs)
82. Iheomachi Ejiaku (40yrs)
83. Uchchukwu Ahamuefula (32yrs)
84. Evelyn Usulo (38yrs)
85. Joy Chimezie (45yrs)
86. Precious Ogbonna (40yrs)
87. Obiageli Nwite (48yrs)
88. Ginika Ndibe (20yrs)
89. Chinelo Ugwueze (38yrs)
90. Nwachukwu Blessing (22yrs)
91. Rita Edet (29yrs)
92. Nnenna Okorie (36yrs)
93. Chinyere Eze (43yrs)
94. Iwuneme Bibian (45yrs),
95. Onuoha Ogechi (Age not stated)
96. Peculiar Nwachukwu (28yrs)
97. Felicia Ike (42yrs)
98. Obiageli Obumsolu (39yrs)
99. Ugonne Godwin (45yrs)
100. Kalunwoke Ekemiri (28yrs)
101. Nwauwa Cecelia (44yrs)
102. Igboka Ngozi, Angela Okeke, Blessing Aguama, Oguchim Chinedu and Mary Okorie(classified in their charge sheet as “adults” but possibly in their 70s).
Names of three young women including a sick patient and a pregnant woman who collapsed in the presence of Magistrate S.K. Kadurumba during their arraignment are not included in the above list.


More below:

https://zenithnaija.com/press-releases-names-of-114-ipob-women-remanded-in-prison-2/

Just grant them refrerendum na. Is it by force to remain in a union ni. Since 1914 no headway. Scotland was granted a refredum of recent. Nk self f&&ked up and got power drunk after his release. Abeg let them release those women jor

Biafra has com to stay,so not even police and army harassment can stop our freedom

Just tell me why are they in prison..

Buhari must be mad..

Tufia

114 of our sisters and mothers??

WHERE ARE THE MEN in all these

let them die there

Assuming this is how they have been curbing people, terrorist like boko haram and herdsmen won't have exist

post=70543065:
114 of our sisters and mothers??

WHERE ARE THE MEN in all these

You saw women as the topic and you are still asking foolish question.

Why were they remanded in prison??

Foolish government. Shey na those dey kill innocent people all these while

that's human right abuse on the side of the govt and a disgrace to democracy

Under the leadership of president BUHARI no place for criminals and other group of terrorists people in Nigeria .

Only if they just stayed in their homes all these would have been avoided. Now they're facing terrorism charges which carry life imprisonment.

Igboz, always putting themselves in a bad position.

So?

Congratulations to all of them, the food remaining outside will reach others at least make them stay till Buhari vacate office

TechCapon:

What's funny or am I missing something here?

.. one of the reasons I laughs each time people criticised Yahoo boys. what is yahoo boys if not for the UK and Americans that put Nigeria is the mess.

they fought and killed innocent people and put them in this failed contraption called country that is not working, there is no future for Nigeria youth and its the fault of UK and America. so Nigerian youth should deal with them.


they insisted Nigeria shouldn't break and should be preserved in unworking constitution. a Muslim majority and Christian majority cannot coexist as one country there is always conflict of law making. those who profit from this contraption are the political elite.

minority Muslim can only exist inside a majority Christian. not two giant majority.

Yomit71:
let them die there

Idiottt

Next Time After They Are Granted Bail They Will Learn To Use Their Heads.

Modified:

Thunder Fire Anybody Insulting Me On This Thread And Identifying The Arrest Of Those Women To Buhari.

1. Buhari Was On Vacation When These Women Were Arrested

2. Buhari Is Not The Chief Security Officer Of Anambra State

3 Buhari Wasn't The One Who Connived To Proscribe The Activities Of Ipob In The North. Southeast Governors Sensing Danger And Breach Of Peace In The Region Banned Ipob On Their Own Accord

4. The Conspiracy Of Silence By Igbo Repesentatives In NASS Over The Biafra Menace Cannot Be Blamed On Buhari, Aswell.

So Before You Blame Buhari, Blame Yourselves. Its A Shame Igbos Can Discriminate On Themselves Because Of A Fulani Man.

Yomit71:
let them die there

If you have any,your mother will die there.

omoadeleye:
Assuming this is how they have been curbing people, terrorist like boko haram and herdsmen won't have exist
You saw women as the topic and you are still asking foolish question.

YOU ARE RIGHT

Igbos should do all in their power to get those women out please. This is not right.

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why cant Nigeria expel these people?

Oluwaseyi00:
Why were they remanded in prison??

Wait make I ask ifá?

Great women

God help them in their case. But why associate with a terrorist-proscribed group in this Buhari regime?

ask them what are they fighting for they don't know ........ and they will keep shouting up and down.... if you do what is easy your life will be hard