You can even watch this too



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMKuy60UWqQ

U can watch this one also


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NqrHIVcyGU

Watch this one too



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuNh2_N4KME

PrecisionFx:



Go and read about King jaja of opobo. He didn't come to opobo(igbo land) as a slave. Receive sense.

You apparently don't read. Well at least I hope u watch. Watch this video. After that we will decide who will receive what



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6AoqbclJI8

PrecisionFx:



Go and read about King jaja of opobo. He didn't come to opobo(igbo land) as a slave. Receive sense.

He didn't come to Opobo as anything. There was no Opobo. HE founded it and HE named it Opobo.

PrecisionFx:




King Jaja of Opobo, an Igbo boy, came to ss as a SLAVE.
Yet within a few years he became a powerful king right under the nose of the native people.


"A top Afonja still sharing ur idiocy upandan'??.

This same people u hate so much n talk trash about asked for their freedom n u insisted that they must stay wit u or else u will declare a war to bring them back.
.

As for the Ahmadu bello video, it shows how much the north hated the igbos yet they are swearing n calling for war if they attempt to leave. It clearly shows why the coup plotters (igbo, Hausa and Yoruba) agreed unanimously that he should be killed, he was against national unity.



It became a crime (only in nigeria) for someone to have an ambition, set personal targets and work hard to achieve those ambitions - clearly a top reason why nigeria remains a hell hole 57 years on.

Nigeria would have fared better if we maintained the system where everyone competes and the best chosen(wen it was practiced, igbos excelled n and headed most parastatals in the country), instead of keying in to the beliefs of igbos in terms of ambition, hard work for success, u guys started the 'pull him down ' attitude n destroyed the country.

Jaja of opobo didn't come to SS as a slave, he became a slave and was sold to white men. He was very intelligent n resourceful and his master elevated him to join in on his business and even advise him on certain matters. This made jaja to make more money for his master and he paid for his freedom in quick fashion. He travelled back to nigeria and set up a kingdom in Opobo. Try n read about the man n stop talking trash, ur selling ur self

You had some points but then narrow-minded tribalism made u veer way off the road.
Look, as an Igbo, I'm much more admiring and proud of a jaja who started out with less than nothing and achieved so much than I would be of a jaja who was given a lot of money by his parents.

Jaja

PrecisionFx:




King Jaja of Opobo, an Igbo boy, came to ss as a SLAVE.
Yet within a few years he became a powerful king right under the nose of the native people.


"A top Afonja still sharing ur idiocy upandan'??.

This same people u hate so much n talk trash about asked for their freedom n u insisted that they must stay wit u or else u will declare a war to bring them back.
.

As for the Ahmadu bello video, it shows how much the north hated the igbos yet they are swearing n calling for war if they attempt to leave. It clearly shows why the coup plotters (igbo, Hausa and Yoruba) agreed unanimously that he should be killed, he was against national unity.



It became a crime (only in nigeria) for someone to have an ambition, set personal targets and work hard to achieve those ambitions - clearly a top reason why nigeria remains a hell hole 57 years on.

Nigeria would have fared better if we maintained the system where everyone competes and the best chosen(wen it was practiced, igbos excelled n and headed most parastatals in the country), instead of keying in to the beliefs of igbos in terms of ambition, hard work for success, u guys started the 'pull him down ' attitude n destroyed the country.

Jaja of opobo didn't come to SS as a slave, he became a slave and was sold to white men. He was very intelligent n resourceful and his master elevated him to join in on his business and even advise him on certain matters. This made jaja to make more money for his master and he paid for his freedom in quick fashion. He travelled back to nigeria and set up a kingdom in Opobo. Try n read about the man n stop talking trash, ur selling ur self

PrecisionFx can't u see I know Igbo language and history. and "omenani" more than u because I am more Igbo than u can ever dream of being.





KING JAJA OF OPOBO: NATIONALIST, FIRST NIGERIAN RICHEST MAN AND THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED ENTREPRENEUR OF THE 19TH CENTURY WEST COAST OF AFRICA
Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha; 1821–1891) was the first known Nigerian richest man, nationalist, a merchant prince and the founder of Opobo city-state which now forms part of Nigeria`s River State. Jaja whose real name was Mbanaso Okwaraozurumbaa was also a savvy political and military strategist, brought to the Bonny Kingdom as a slave, who was perhaps the most troublesome thorn in the flesh of 19th-century British imperial ambition in southern Nigeria.


EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND

Jubo Jubogba, also known as Jo Jo Ubam by the Igbo and as Jaja of Opobo, first, by the
Europeans and later by most people, was born about 1821 at Úmuduruõha, Amaigbo village in the Orlu district, now Imo State of Eastern Nigeria (Isichei 1976:98). At birth he was given a native Igbo name Mbanaso Okwaraozurumba and was the third son of his parents, the Okwaraozurumba.
Painting of Jaja of Opobo, anheuser-busch.com
According to different oral sources, Jaja was sold into slavery in the Niger Delta under circumstances which are far from clear. One version of the oral traditions says that he was sold because, as a baby, he cut the upper teeth first, an abominable phenomenon in traditional Igbo society. Another version claims that he was captured and sold by his father's enemy. Regardless, he was bought by Chief Iganipughuma Allison of Bonny, by far the most powerful city-state on the Atlantic coast of Southeastern Nigeria before the rise of Opobo.



To follow the Ja Ja story or, indeed, revolution, an explanatory note is necessary. Until the end of the 19th century, the Delta communities played a crucial role in European and American trade with Nigeria. Acting as middlemen, these communities carried into the interior markets the trade goods of European and American supercargoes stationed on the coast and brought back in exchange the export produce of the hinterland, basically palm oil. As the Delta is dominated by saline swamps and crisscrossed by a labyrinth of creeks and rivers, the canoe was indispensable for trade.
The Delta society was organized in Canoe Houses. A Canoe House was the pivot of social organization and also, notes K.O. Dike, "a cooperative trading unit and a local government institution." It was usually composed of a wealthy merchant (its founder), his family, and numerous slaves owned by him. A prosperous house could comprise several thousand members, both free and bonded, owning hundreds of trade canoes. In this intensely competitive society, leadership by merit - not by birth or ascriptions - was necessary if a house was to make headway in the turbulent, cut-throat competition that existed between houses. Any person with the charisma and proven ability, even if of servile birth, could rise to the leadership of a house, but could never become king. Ja Ja would achieve this, and much more.

Finding young Ja Ja too headstrong for his liking, Chief Allison made a gift of him to his friend, Madu, a chief of the Anna Pepple House, one of the two houses of the royal family (the other being the Manilla Pepple House). Ja Ja was slotted into the lowest rung of the Bonny slave society ladder, that of an imported slave, distinct from that of someone who was of slave parentage but born in the Delta.

As a youth, he worked as a paddler on his owner's great trade canoes, traveling to and from the inland markets. Quite early, he demonstrated exceptional abilities and business acumen, quickly identified with the Ijo custom of the Delta, and won the hearts of the local people as well as those of the European supercargoes. It was unusual for a slave of his status to make the transition from canoe paddling to trading, but Ja Ja - through his honesty, business sense, and amiability - soon became prosperous.

For a long while, Ja Ja turned his back on Bonny politics, concentrating his immense energies on accumulating wealth through trade, the single most important criterion to power in the Delta. At the time, Bonny politics were volatile as a result of the irreconcilable and acrimonious contest for supremacy between the Manilla Pepple House and the Anna Pepple House to which Ja Ja belonged. Coincidentally, both houses were led by remarkable characters of Igbo slave origins - Oko Jumbo of the Manilla House and Madu (after him Alali his son) of the Anna House.

In 1863, Alali died, bequeathing to his house a frightening debt of between £10,000 and £15,000 owed to European supercargoes. Fearing bankruptcy, all of the eligible chiefs of the house declined nomination to head it. It was therefore a great relief when Ja Ja accepted to fill the void. With characteristic energy, he proceeded to put his house in order by reorganizing its finances. Conscious that the palm-oil markets in the hinterland and the wealth of the European trading community on the coast constituted the pivot of the Delta economy, he ingratiated himself with both sides. In a matter of two years, he had liquidated the debt left behind by his predecessor and launched his house on the path of prosperity. When less prosperous and insolvent houses sought incorporation into the Anna House, Ja Ja gradually absorbed one house after another.

LIFE HISTORY AND LEGENDARY WORKS

By 1867, his remarkable success had become common knowledge throughout Bonny. The British consul to the area, Sir Richard Burton, had cause to remark that although Ja Ja was the "son of an unknown bush man," he had become "the most influential man and greatest trader in the [Imo] River." Predicted Burton: "In a short time he will either be shot or he will beat down all his rivals."
Burton's words proved prophetic. Ja Ja's successes incurred the jealousy of opponents who feared that, if left unchecked, his house might incorporate most of the houses in Bonny and thereby dominate its political and economic arena. Oko Jumbo, his bitterest opponent, was determined that such a prospect would never materialize.

Meanwhile, two developments occurred in Bonny, serving to harden existing jealousies. First, in 1864, Christianity was introduced into the city-state, further polarizing the society. While the Manilla House welcomed the Christians with a warm embrace, the Anna House was opposed to the exotic religion. Not surprisingly, the missionaries sided with the Manilla House against the Anna House. Second, in 1865, King William Pepple died and, with this, the contest for the throne between the two royal houses took on a monstrous posture.
Three years later, in 1868, Bonny was ravaged by fire, and the Anna House was the worst hit. In the discomfiture of his opponent, Oko Jumbo saw his opportunity. Knowing that the fire had all but critically crippled Ja Ja's house, he sought every means to provoke an open conflict. On the other side, Ja Ja did everything to avoid such a conflict, but, as Dike states, "Oko Jumbo's eagerness to catch his powerful enemy unprepared prevailed."

On September 13, 1869, heavy fighting erupted between the two royal houses. Outmatched in men and armament, though not in strategy, Ja Ja pulled out of Bonny, accepted defeat, and sued for peace with a suddenness that surprised both his adversaries and the European supercargoes. Peace palaver commenced and dragged on for weeks under the auspices of the British consul. This was exactly what Ja Ja planned for. It soon became doubtful if the victors were not indeed the vanquished.
Ja Ja had sued for peace in order to gain time to retreat from Bonny with his supporters with little or no loss in men and armament. A master strategist, he relocated in the Andoni country away from the seaboard at a strategic point at the mouth of the Imo river, the highway of trade between the coastal communities and the palm-oil rich Kwa Iboe and Igbo country. There, he survived the initial problems of a virgin settlement as well as incessant attacks of his Bonny enemies.
In 1870, feeling reasonably secure, Ja Ja proclaimed the independence of his settlement which he named Opobo, after Opubu the Great, the illustrious king of Bonny and founder of Anna House who had died in 1830. As Dike writes:
[I]t is characteristic of the man that he had not only a sense of the occasion but of history… . Kingship was impossible of attainment for anyone of slave origins in Bonny. Instead he sought another land where he could give full scope to his boundless energies.
Long before the war of 1869, Ja Ja had been carefully planning to found his own state. The war merely provided him with the occasion to implement his design.
In naming his new territory Opobo, Ja Ja was appealing to the nostalgia and historical consciousness of his followers while giving them the impression that he was truly the heir of the celebrated king. That this impression was widespread and accepted by most Bonny citizens may be judged from the fact that of the 18 houses in Bonny, 14 followed Ja Ja to Opobo.

To no avail, the British consul tried to coerce Ja Ja to come back to Bonny. Against the admonition of the consul, and in the face of Bonny's displeasure, many British firms began to trade openly with Opobo while others transferred their depots there. By May of 1870, the Ja Ja revolution had driven the death-knell on Bonny's economy. British firms anchoring there are said to have lost an estimated £100,000 of trade by mid-1870. The city-state fell from grace to grass as Opobo, flourishing on its ashes, became in Ofonagoro's words, "the most important trade center in the Oil Rivers," and Ja Ja became "the greatest African living in the east of modern Nigeria."

For 18 years, Ja Ja ruled his kingdom with firmness and remarkable sagacity. He strengthened his relations with the hinterland palm-oil producers through judicious marriages and blood covenants which bound the parties into ritual kingship. He armed his traders with modern weapons for their own defense and that of the state. He thus monopolized trade with the palm-oil producers and punished severely any community that tried to trade directly with the European supercargoes.
In 1873, the British recognized him as king of independent Opobo, and Ja Ja reciprocated by sending a contingent of his soldiers to help the British in their war against the Ashanti kingdom in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Queen Victoria expressed her gratitude in 1875 by awarding him a sword of honor. It seemed a honeymoon had developed between Opobo and Britain.

Ja Ja's reign has been described as a striking instance of selective modernization. He retained most of the sociopolitical and cultural institutions of Bonny, such as the house system, and stuck steadfastly to the religion of his fathers, arguing that Christianity was a serious ferment of societal destabilization. While recognizing the value of Western education and literacy, he objected to its religious component. Thus, he sent his two sons to school in Scotland but insisted they acquire only secular education. He established a secular school in Opobo and employed an African-American, Emma White, to run it. An Englishman who visited Opobo in 1885 stated that the standard of the pupils in the school compared quite favorably with that of English children of the same age.
The honeymoon between Ja Ja and the British turned out to be meteoric: the ultimate ambitions of the two ran at cross-purposes. Ja Ja guarded his independence jealously, had a tight grip on the interior markets and confined British traders to Opobo, away from these markets. He made sure that the traders paid their comeys (customs and trade duties) as and when due.

But in the 1880s, the clouds of British imperialism were closing in menacingly on Opobo, the overthrow of indigenous sovereignties having been initiated by John Beecroft, the first British consul to Nigeria (1849-54). British imperialism had begun to assert itself forcefully; British officials on the spot were increasingly ignoring indigenous authorities, while British traders had begun to insist on trading directly with the hinterland palm-oil producers. Ja Ja tackled these formidable problems judiciously and with restraint.

In July 1884, fearing German intrusion in the Delta, the British consul, Edward Hewett, rushed to the area, foisting treaties of protection on the indigenous sovereignties. With a veiled threat from a man-of-war, Ja Ja too was stampeded into placing his kingdom under British protection. But unlike the other African monarchs, this was not before he had sought explanation for the word "protectorate," and had been assured by the consul that his independence would not be compromised. Hewett wrote to Ja Ja informing him, inter alia (among other things), that:
the queen does not want to take your country or your markets, but at the same time she is anxious that no other nation should take them. She undertakes … [to] leave your country still under your government; she has no wish to disturb your rule.
At Ja Ja's insistence, a clause providing for free trade in his kingdom was struck off before he agreed to sign the treaty.

The following year, European powers entered into the Treaty of Berlin which set the stage for the scramble and partition of Africa among themselves, without regard to the wishes of Africans. The treaty provided for free navigation on River Niger and other rivers, such as the Imo, linked to it. On the basis of this, the British consul asserted that British firms were within their rights to trade directly in the interior palm-oil markets. That same year, 1885, Britain proclaimed the Oil Rivers Protectorate, which included Ja Ja's territory. Sending a delegation to the British secretary of states for the colonies to protest these actions by right of the treaty of 1884, Ja Ja's protest fell on deaf ears. A man of his word, he was shocked at Britain reneging on her pledge.

Worse times were yet to come as political problems were compounded by economic dispute. The 1880s witnessed a severe trade depression that ruined some of the European firms trading in the Delta and threatened the survival of others. The surviving firms responded to the situation in two ways. First, they reached an agreement among themselves, though not with complete unanimity, to offer low prices for produce. Second, they claimed the right to go directly to the interior markets in order to sidestep the coastal middlemen and reduce the handling cost of produce.
As would be expected, Ja Ja objected to these maneuvers and proceeded to ship his own produce directly to Europe. The British consul directed the European firms not to pay comey to Ja Ja anymore, arguing that in shipping his produce directly to Europe, he had forfeited his right to receive the payment. Once again, Ja Ja sent a delegation to Britain to protest the consul and the traders' action. Once again, this was to no avail.

Under a threat of naval bombardment, Ja Ja signed an agreement with the British consul in July 1887 to allow free trade in his territory. By now, he knew that Britain's imperial ambition was growing rapidly, and he began transferring his resources further into the Igbo hinterland, his birthplace. But as Elizabeth Isichei points out, "he was confronted with a situation where courage and foresight were ultimately in vain."

Harry Johnston, acting vice-consul, a young hothead anxious to advance his colonial career, imagined that Ja Ja would be a perfect stepping-stone to attain his ambition. Arriving at Opobo on a man-of-war, Johnston invited Ja Ja for a discussion on how to resolve the points of friction between Opobo and the British traders and officials. Suspicious of Johnston's real intentions, Ja Ja initially turned down the invitation but was lured to accept with a promise of safe return after the meeting. Said Johnston:
I hereby assure you that whether you accept or reject my proposals tomorrow, no restrictions will be put on you - you will be free to go as soon as you have heard my message.

tourists dressed in traditional Ijaw dress at the Statue of King Jaja of Opobo

But again the British reneged on their pledge: Ja Ja would not return to his kingdom alive. Once on board the warship Goshawk, Johnston confronted him with a deportation order or the complete destruction of Opobo. Nearly 18 years to the day when he pulled out of Bonny, Ja Ja was deported to the Gold Coast, tried, and declared guilty of actions inimical to Britain's interest. Still afraid of his charm and influence on the Gold Coast, even in captivity, Johnston saw to it that he was deported to the West Indies, at St. Vincent Island.



With the exit of Ja Ja, the most formidable obstacle to Britain's imperial ambition in Southeastern Nigeria had been removed. But the circumstances of his removal left a sour taste in certain British mouths. Lord Salisbury, British prime minister, could not help criticizing Johnston, noting that in other places Ja Ja's deportation would be called "kidnapping." Michael Crowder describes the event as "one of the shabbiest incidents in the history of Britain's relations with West Africa." Among the indigenous population, it left a deep and lasting scar of suspicion of Britain's good faith and, for a long time, trade in the area all but ceased.

In exile, Ja Ja is said to have borne himself with kingly dignity. He made repeated appeals to Britain to allow him to return to Opobo. In 1891, his request was granted, belatedly as it turned out: Ja Ja died on the Island of Teneriffe en route to Opobo, the kingdom built with his sweat and devotion. His people gladly paid the cost of repatriating his body and spent a fortune celebrating his royal funeral.
Today, an imposing statue of Ja Ja stands in the center of Opobo with the inscription:
A king in title and in deed. Always just and generous.

Caseless:
just like he said, they're domineering.

They find a way to win. It's like u r playing a game with someone and they always do whatever it takes to beat u.
Whether it takes - being honest, being dishonest, deceptive, hard working, working smart, eye-service, whatever. Of course after a while u won't particularly want to play with them anymore because they always end up winning.

What Ahmadu Bello didn't say was that the person who would make the Igbo laborer headman over Northerners
would likely be a Northerner.

Caseless:


I'm a man fitted with all manly gadgets.



To make it less intricate;

Your husband=igbo
You= the SS minorities
Me= North

Lol. Does that solve the problem? Maybe not.

I'm now saying, henceforth, you cease to be seen as part of his property. Own your own land and be independent of his influence and control. This offer is better than the one you painted up there.

Maybe not a clear scenario, but I think I can understand you.

You're right . Dogged doc

Creation of states had little effect in Biafra because the FG could not enforce it (as my apology suggests). If Biafra had succeeded in seceding it would have stayed meaningless.

Caseless:
and somebody made this a reality. There's a difference between what you want/ or don't want and , making a reality. A visible line was drawn between them and the east and this they love. I'm in the SS right now, I had a discussion with a native this morning. He told in clear terms how he does wanna have anything doing with the Ibo.

To pacify the Catalans , they were given semi-autonomy (even though they're asking for more now). I think this is what Gowon did kind of...a sense of departure from being lumped with the igbo to begin tagged with a region they could call their own and it's wholly theirs.

And I'm telling u that attitude was there long b4 Gowon created states. If you want to know the genesis of it, here is a hint:
King Jaja of Opobo, an Igbo boy, came to ss as a SLAVE.
Yet within a few years he became a powerful king right under the nose of the native people.
Multiply such feat many times over with other Igbos who came to ss.
It is also the same reason Ahmadu Bello said this (long b4 the civil war):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSosECbcmM

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Caseless:
did you hear when Gowon came out last time to blame ojukwu?

Well u.can surmise who is telling the truth. Gowon said he became ill and couldn't make the announcement as agreed (lol)

Femi Adesina is a one-Nigeria man, a Buhari man.

Here's his take on it (note the bolded):

Federal Government's Violation Of The Aburi Accord Led To The Nigerian Civil War - Femi Adesina

(Femi Adesina is currently the special adviser on media and publicity to President Buhari.)

"The meeting held on January 4 and 5, 1967, and came out with what is popularly known today as the Aburi Accord.

The agenda of the meeting consisted of three crucial issues: (i) Reorganization of the Armed Forces (ii) Constitutional agreement (iii) Issues of displaced persons within Nigeria.

The two-day meeting reached consensus that were acceptable to both sides... This was something akin to federalism, even under a military government...

What does this mean again in simple language? Equity, fairness, true federalism.

Matters like the holding of an ad hoc constitutional conference, fate of soldiers involved in the January 15, 1966 coup, rehabilitation of displaced persons, etc, were also amicably resolved, and the conferees returned happily to Nigeria. Only for the Federal side to deliver a blow to the solar plexus: The Aburi Accord, Gowon said, was unworkable, and he reneged on all the agreements".

Caseless:
this is like you telling me you don't like your husband/BF(with belief I'm talking to a lady), if I want to come in , I'd build on the existing gap and give you reason why you shouldn't stick with him.

We knew there was not much support from the minorities , but we couldn't have ruled out possibility of an alliance if biafra had succeeded.

Here is a better anology:

(I'm assuming u r a man)
I live with my husband. We never liked each other and live in different rooms. Say my husband is having a big quarrel with you. You now announce that my room would henceforth be called by my name, my husband's room by his name. Don't u see it will have minimal effect

Caseless:
why do you quote that post?

You mean this. Don't u think it's shocking that there is so much evil?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0m6N3f40Bg

Caseless:
shift make I faint. No even resuscitate me

I forgot to mention Fulani herdsmen and military and aviation and seaports (Apapa)

Caseless:
I'm sure the warlord wasn't looking for a "weak center", he was just being selfish.

The unitary setup was brought about and advanced by his his kinsman, Aguiyi ironsi. Why must all if us suffer for what his own brother did?

Aguiyi Ironsi's setup wasn't unitary as such. If it were, the East would not have been able to even talk of secession.
Ironsi simply continued the system he met, unlike today when all power is at the center.

As for Ojukwu, he sincerely wanted the Aburi accord followed. It was Gowon and FG that reneged.

Caseless:
who else should take the credit for acting smartly, if not Gowon? Adaka boro was fighting for ijaw, the whole of SS is not ijaw, you know.

If the ijaw had arm struggle, other minorities in the region didn't.

Nobody should take any cradit for minorities not wanting to be a part of Biafra. Ken Saro Wiwa was not Ijaw but he and his folks also didn't want any part of Biafra.
Did u miss this part of the write-up:

But the Biafrans knew that their vulnerable line was along Ogoja, Ikom, Calabar, Port Harcourt, and Yenogoa. Support from the six million people making up the Eastern minorities was very much unsure.

The minorities viewed their leaders in Biafra high command as traitors.
And without the minorities, Biafra would be landlocked and most likely, unviable as a state. More so, their vast oil and gas resources were the reason they contemplated secession in the first plac

Caseless:
well, you can check the state creation by Gowon , the pattern it took and what it was meant to achieve.

But the minorities were agitating for their own region, as in midwest from west, long before that. Point is the minorities didn't want to be part of Biafra BEFORE states were created.

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Wiki on Adaka Boro:

He formed the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, an armed militia with members consisting mainly of his fellow Ijaw ethnic group.
They declared the Niger Delta Republic on February 23, 1966 and gallantly battled the Federal forces for twelve days but were finally routed by the far superior Federal firepower.
Boro and his compatriots were jailed for treason. However, the federal regime of General Yakubu Gowon granted him amnesty on the eve of the Nigerian civil war in May 1967. He then enlisted and was commissioned as a major in the Nigerian army. He fought on the side of the Federal Government but was killed under mysterious circumstances in active service in 1968 at Ogu (near Okrika) in Rivers State.

Caseless:
The masterstroke was to give the minorities identity. This actually shredded the mosaic of their enclave and has frustrated the possibility of a less complex disintegration. Gowon was smart at that.

It wasn't Gowon's doing at all. Long before that the minorities (esp. Ijaws) had been mildly agitating that they were not part of Nigeria or Igbos. The aagitation became more heated once they knew oil was there.
So it wasn't Gowon. Most minorities never wanted any part if Biafra from the begining. See story of Adaka Boro below.

Ishilove:
Caseless do you have our girl's number? I lost it when my phone had issues

PrecisionFx whatcha think of that my last video clip?

THIS IS EXTREMELY INTERESTING



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0m6N3f40Bg

EFCC Discovers N6bn Hotel In Abuja Linked To Patience Jonathan


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has traced a magnificient architectural edifice of an uncompleted eight-storey building in Abuja to be allegedly owned by wife of former president of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan.

The building, which is valued at N6billion, is located within the Central Business District, between the National Mosque and the Federal Secretariat.

It was alleged that the property was bought through her foundation known as Aribawa Aurera Reach Out Foundation.

In a document, which has been attached to a court application, the anti-graft agency said it had written to the Corporate Affairs Commission to get the identities of the directors of the foundation who are believed to be fronts for Patience.

The commission further stated that it had written to the Abuja Geographical Information System to get the history of the property and how and when it was bought.

The anti-graft agency has also written eight banks: Skye Bank, Fidelity Bank, First Bank, Union Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, Zenith Bank, United Bank for Africa and Unity Bank.



Recall that the EFCC had frozen tan account belonging to the Aribawa Aurera Reach Out Foundation with account number 1222014221 in Ecobank with a balance of N479m.

The document read, “Plot 1350 Cadastral Zone A00 CBD which was allocated to Ariwabai Aurera Reach Out Foundation in 2010 and Certificate of Occupancy issued in 2011. The plot bears an eight-storey building still under construction.



“Inference may be drawn from investigation that the suspect’s (Patience) last known official position was permanent secretary in Bayelsa State. Hence, there is no way such magnificent architectural edifices could have been built within a short space of time.

“There is a high probability that it could have been built with the proceeds of crime. It is evidently clear that it is a case of money laundering but there is a need to do more investigation.”

The commission had also sealed a five-storey hotel, belonging to Patience, believed to be worth about N3bn located near Setraco Construction Company beside Mabushi Kado Expressway.

The property, which has not been officially opened, has between 50 to 100 rooms, a gymnasium, a fountain and other amenities.

Patience has been under probe since May 2016 when the commission arrested a former Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa.





Patience laid claim to about $15m found in bank accounts allegedly belonging to Dudafa’s domestic servants.

She later sued Skye Bank Plc and the EFCC after which the commission, through a court order, froze her personal account with a balance of $5m.

However, in the case of the alleged N2bn hotel, the Anti-graft agency, it was learned, had proceeded to court to obtain an interim forfeiture order for the hotel and a N6bn plaza.

The document read in part, “In view of the foregoing, I request for an interim forfeiture order on the two properties amongst others linked to the suspect and believed to have been acquired from the proceeds of crime.

“This is particularly very important because attempts to mark the properties were resisted and even the portion that was successfully marked was later cleaned off by the agents of the suspect.”

In a similar development, the anti-graft agency has also traced three other properties in Abuja to Patience in Karsana, Wasa and Idogwari areas of the Federal Capital Territory.

According to documents from AGIS, the three properties were bought in the names of two companies – Finchley Top Homes Ltd. and AM-PM Network Limited.

The bank accounts of Finchley Top Homes Limited, which have been traced to Patience, were frozen by the commission a few months ago.

The accounts include: Account number 1102001996 in Ecobank, with a balance of N226,376,700.23 and a fixed deposit of N1,099,511,484.88; a Skye Bank account numbered 1771731336, with a balance of N14,173,848.85; Fidelity Bank account numbered, 4011019539 with a balance of N1,800,494,000; Stanbic Bank account numbered, 0016901361, with a balance of N40,594,12.88; and Diamond Bank account 0019213687 with a balance of N39,418,712.12.

In his reaction, Patience’s lawyer, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), said he was not aware of the fresh attempt to seize more of his client’s properties.

He, however, said it was sad that the former first lady had become a victim of a witch-hunt.

Adedipe said her client had dragged the EFCC to the Court of Appeal over the freezing of Mrs. Jonathan’s account while a harassment suit had been filed against the anti-graft agency before a Federal High Court.

The senior advocate said, “I am not aware of any of these but we are in court over the freezing of her accounts and that case is at the Court of Appeal level and we have a fundamental human rights case against them in court.

“My thinking is that the EFCC, which says nobody is above the law, should have waited for the judiciary to finish its process. In my humble opinion, it appears they are abusing judicial powers. When you file something today, tomorrow you file another. Why not put everything in one pot? That is why they lose cases.

“Why are they focusing on Mrs. Jonathan who was neither a minister nor a government official? I’m not saying people should steal but it may seem she is being persecuted wrongly”.

Court Freezes N350m Traced To Patience Jonathan

Posted By: Joseph Jibueze


The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday granted an order temporarily freezing N350million allegedly traced to wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience.

The money is in an account domiciled in Stanbic IBTC, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said.

Justice Hadiza Rabiu-Shagari granted EFCC’s ex-parte application filed by its lawyer Mr Rotimi Oyedepo.

The commission said the money was allegedly transferred to a company’s account while Mrs Jonathan was serving as a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa State between 2012 and 2013.

The commission alleged that the former first lady “unlawfully enriched” herself with the money.

In a supporting affidavit to the application, an investigating officer at EFCC, Musbahu Yahaya, said the commission received “a cogent, direct and positive intelligence report” that a company, AM-PM Global Network Limited, was in possession of proceeds of the unlawful act and retained it in an account.

He said, between June 20, 2012, and November 15, 2013, the company fraudulently received N1,206,950,000 via its Diamond Bank account, numbered 0026718889.

EFCC said the money was “proceeds of unlawful enrichment derived by Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan who was then a Permanent Secretary appointed by the Bayelsa State Government.”

According to the deponent, in a bid to dissipate the funds, the company opened an account numbered 0016971559 with Stanbic IBTC.

“Out of the alleged proceed of unlawful enrichment of Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan, the respondent transferred the total sum of N350million from its account in Diamond Bank to the account sought to be attached (Stanbic IBTC) in a desperate bid to dissipate the funds.

“We have traced the said N350million to the respondent’s (AM-PM Global Network’s) account sought to be attached and the order of this court is needed to instruct the bank to attach the account to prevent the dissipation of the funds.

“The respondent is making frantic effort to dissipate these funds,” the deponent said.

EFCC said unless the application was urgently heard and determined, the company would tamper with the account.

“It will serve the course of justice to grant this application,” the commission said.
Justice Hadiza decided the application as prayed.

She granted “an order directing Manager of the Stanbic IBTC Bank to in the interim freeze the account pending the determination of the investigation and possible prosecution of this case.”

EFCC, however, did not state in the affidavit who owns the company.

Two other judges of the court, Justice Mohammed Idris and Justice Mojisola Olatoregun-Ishola, had earlier frozen Mrs Jonathan’s accounts.

Justice Idris froze her accounts with $15.5million. Mrs Jonathan is praying the court to unfreeze the accounts.

The EFCC, however, urged the court not to unfreeze them because the money was suspected to be “proceed of crime”.

Justice Olatoregun froze Mrs Jonathan’s account $5.7million. EFCC is seeking permanent forfeiture of the money.

The judge, on April 26, made an interim order forfeiting the money to the Federal Government.

Justice Olatoregun also ordered the temporary forfeiture N2,421,953,522.78 found in an Ecobank Nigeria Ltd account numbered 2022000760 in the name of La Wari Furniture and Baths Ltd.

The commission said the money also belongs to Mrs Jonathan.

Justice Olatoregun stayed proceedings pending the outcome of an appeal challenging the temporary forfeiture of the $5.7million.

Also yesterday, Justice Idris refused an application by a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Jonathan on Domestic Affairs Dr Waripamo-Owei Dudafa to travel abroad for medical treatment.

Dudafa, through his lawyer Mr. Gboyega Oyewole (SAN), urged the court to order the release of his international passport to enable him travel abroad to treat spinal cord injury which he claimed to have sustained while in EFCC custody.

But, Oyedepo urged the court not to grant the application on the grounds that the EFCC had written to a Lagos State government hospital to examine Dudafa’s health and to determine whether he could be treated in the country or abroad.

Justice Idris faulted Dudafa’s application, saying that a motion of such nature ought to be backed by hard evidence that the problem cannot be treated in Nigeria.

“I find it difficult to grant this application. I hereby dismissed it,” Justice Idris ruled.

Nigeria's Richest First Lady Ever. What A Woman!


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($31.4 = 11.2 billion naira)

The admission by Patience Jonathan that she owns the whopping $31.4 million recently discovered in four bank accounts that were frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has placed her as the richest First Lady that Nigeria ever had, investigation by Daily Trust on Sunday has shown.
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You have read of countless, jaw- dropping plunders in the order of billions of naira, of loot packed in septic tanks, and of some salted away in offshore tax havens. But you are shocked by this umpteenth scandal, notheless. You are appalled – in spite of yourself – by reports that former first lady, Patience Jonathan, has gone to court to lay claim to ownership of $15 million deposit in four bank accounts frozen by the EFCC.
She is standing on the premise of her constitutional right to “own property” to assert that the curious accounts opened and maintained in the name of the houseboys of her former domestic aide were hers, in actual sense.

And, while you are trying your level best to process this obscenity without compromising your sanity, a corrective arrives to complicate matters: The EFCC has found a fresh $5 million in another Patience bank account. Which means that the balance of her deposits in the Nigeria banking system, as we know it today, stands at $31.4 million –‘only’! You remind yourself that you know the Patience in question. She has never been, at any time, a household name in the Nigerian business environment or elsewhere. The highest position she ever attained in her almost non-existent civil service career was permanent secretary. Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson gave her a ludicrous ghost worker appointment for the sake of his own political survival.


Beyond that, she was nothing more than the wife of a man who became president by a stroke of fate.
So you find yourself wondering how she managed to earn $31.4 million. Has she been paying her taxes? What investment yielded her such abundant profit? Where might one locate a trail of sweat or handprints of labor or any in-demand product or service that could account for her Olympian dollar heap?

Her so-called $31.4 million balance, mind you, is not a picture of the total leafage on her money trees. It’s only a pruned remainder. Patience had been cutting off many Branches since the Nigerian electorate evicted her husband and her from Aso Rock. She had been disappearing money from those accounts up until when they were frozen. EFCC placed a No Debit Order on the four accounts on 7th July, 2016.

The fourteen months between May 29, 2015 and July 7, 2016 is an ample period for her to significantly reduce her lodgments to a pittance.
There is no way to make sense of the phenomenon of a Patience Jonathan boasting $31.4 million as part of her net worth. More so, you cannot understand the surpassing stupidity of her public declaration that she is the owner of an amount of money she is absolutely incapable of earning legitimately. Her coming out of the closet as an amazon of money laundering is as outrageous as it is stupefying. The Patience Jonathan that Nigerians know cannot make a clean $1 million except through a lottery.

Her claim to ownership of $31.4 million she obviously stole from the Nigerian treasury is the salt of a lie on the wound of a heist. Her preposterous possessiveness resembles the spectacle of a thief pleading that the stolen goods that represent the collective wealth of an entire neighborhood belongs to him! It’s clear that keeping those millions of dollars for too long gave Patience a false sense of ownership. Possession is nine-tenths of the law. But, the truth is that the number of years she has had the spoils doesn’t make her the rightful owner. Neither does it make her less a thief. If anything, every new day she kept the stolen goods made her a more impenitent thief! And talking of repentance, Patience is impervious to it.
Even a close shave with prison has not transformed her covetous core. In 2006, during her husband’s term as governor of Bayelsa state, EFCC caught her twice trying to launder money.

First time, Patience tried to launder 104 million naira through her ‘business associate’, a certain Nancy Ebere. Ms. Ebere implicated Patience in a sworn affidavit. Second time, Patience was intercepted at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport while trying to smuggle out a baggage of $12.5 million cash. She escaped prosecution on the two occasions.
She was allowed to go home and sin some more. Obasanjo had, before then, decided to make her meek-looking husband the running mate of Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. So he declined to authorize EFCC to expose the wife of the future vice president as a kleptomaniac! The free pass gave Patience the impression that she was above the law. She could steal without fear of any repercussion. If she was caught, she would not do the time. She would be set free to relearn the art of stealing and escaping with the booty!

It turns out that the companies Patience used to launder money were fairy tale entities. They had no earthly address, no staffer, no robot. The firms did not exist. She conjured $31.4 million out of nothingness – by sheer magic!
Patience Jonathan’s $31.4 million is the stuff of occult fortune. What makes this case very grievous is that Patience is insisting on her right to squander all the money she has stolen. She says she has a right to ‘own property.’ She implies that the Nigerian people have no right…not even to the right to reclaim what is left of her loot! Patience Jonathan once requested Nigerians to call her by the new name of “Mama Peace.” Her concept of ‘peace’ is totally divorced from justice. She wants to be left alone. Her definition of ‘peace’ is a state of respect for her ‘right’ to consume millions of dollars of Nigerian taxpayer money!
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Daily Trust on Sunday and
Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu

What sort of people are Nigerians??!!

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This EFCC will become another NPF if care is not taken

Internal Crisis Rocks EFCC As Aggrieved Staff Petition President Buhari

There is perceived internal crisis in the EFCC as aggrieved Civilian Course one operatives of the Commission have petitioned President Buhari over alleged attempt by the Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu to stagnate their career and "Policize" the Organization.

In a leaked petition to the President, the staff claimed that Magu has refused to grant them promotion even after spending five to six years on the same level. They explained that the move was intended to bar them from heading the Commission while perpetually ensuring that Police officers continue to flood the Commission.

The staff also claimed that police officers in the Commission are interfering with investigation as they usually interface with suspect, advise them on what to say, tamper with evidences, steal exhibits and even disclose official information.

They also complained that Magu has brought their juniors from the police to head operation units established in most states even when they are more qualified and trained to handle such units

They added that the untrained police officers would continue to affect the operations of the Commission unless something is done.

They appealed to the President to investigate the matter and address the issue if he truly wants to fight corruption

THIS COUNTRY!!

Super Cop Who Arrested Evans Has Been Killed

The Intelligence Response Team (IRT) under the watch of an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Abba Kyari at the weekend, lost one of its gallant officers to the cold hands of death.

The gallant officer was one of the leading ‘field detectives’ who tracked and demystified Lagos based billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuadike aka Evans.

It was in the middle of a similar arrest that the suspect pumped bullets into Lanre’s stomach while his colleague got shot in the hand.