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“Let’s forget the business of state of origin and go to state of residence. Once you are resident in a place and you perform your civic responsibilities for the period, there is no reason why you should not benefit, provided, of course, you don’t claim dual residency”

Desola: what is it with you people and lies, propaganda et al? Why do you choose selective texts and rewrite it to make it appear as a quote from another? You lot cannot and should not be trusted. Here is the full article and I highlight senator Mark's quote:

Abagworo: I love Nigeria with all its diversity and want us united as one people forever. What I'm only saying is that self-praise is not same thing as tribalism. It rather encourages competition and not hatred as exhibited by those who stated that they wanted all Igbos dead. I've heard people say Igbos have occupied their land but why can't those same people go and occupy Igbos land and compete with them too? Even recently I read where someone stated that 40% of voters in Kano were Igbos and it angered a section of the country but why can't those people just move to Onitsha, buy up land and become 40% of Onitsha?

Abagworo: The Igbos must be considerably reduced in number" (Lagos Policeman quoted in New York Review, 21 December, 1967)
''One word now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards secessionist Biafra: genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word which fits Nigeria's decision to stop the International Committee of the red Cross, and other relief agencies, from flying food to Biafra" Washington Post (editorial) July 2, 1969).

''In some areas outside the East, Igbos were killed by local people with at least the acquiescence of the federal forces, 1000 Igbo civilians perished in Benin in this way"
(Max Edward- Reporter on the ground-New York Review, 21 December 1967).

''After federal forces take over of Benin, troops killed about 500 Igbo civilians after a house-to-house search with the aid of willing locals" (Washington Morning Post, 27 September, 1967).

"The greatest single massacre occurred in the Igbo town of Asaba where 700 Igbo male were lined up and shot as terrified women/children were forced to watch"
(London Observer, 21 January, 1968)

"Federal troops, killed, or stood by while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Wari, Sapele, Agbor" (New York Times, 10th January, 1968).

"There has been genocide on the occasion of the 1966 massacres, the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, federal troops having, for unknown reasons, massacred all the men"
(Paris Le Monde, 5th April, 1968).

"In Calabar, federal forces shot at least 1000 and perhaps 2000 Igbos, most of them civilians" (New York Times, 18th January, 1968).

"Bestialities and indignities of all kinds were visited on Biafrans in 1966. In Ikeja Barracks (Western Nigeria) Biafrans were forcibly fed on a mixture of human urine and faeces. In Northern Nigeria numerous Biafran house-wives and nursing mothers were violated before their husbands and children. Young girls were abducted from their homes, working places and schools and forced into intimate intercourse with sick, demented and leprous men'' (Mr. Eric Spiff (German War correspondence Eyewitness, 1967).

"There has been genocide, for example on the occasion of the 1966 massacres , Two areas have suffered badly [from the fighting]. Firstly the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men. According to eyewitnesses of that massacre the Nigerian commander ordered the execution of every Ibo male over the age of ten years" (Monsignor Georges, sent down on a fact-finding mission by His holiness the Pope reporting his finding in Vatican Rome, Le Monde, French Evening newspaper, April 5, 1968).


I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary and no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves and when our troops march into the centre of Ibo territory, we shoot at everything even at things that do not move," (Benjamin Adekunle, Commander, 3rd Marine Commando Division, Nigerian Army to French radio reporter).

The war aim and (final) solution properly speaking of the entire problem, is to discriminate against the Igbos and in their own interest. Such discrimination would include above all the detachment of those oil-rich territories in the Eastern Region, in addition, the Igbos' freedom of movement would be restricted, to prevent their renewed penetration into other parts, leaving any access to the sea to the Igbos, is quite out of the question, "(Federal Nigerian Minister speaking to E. C. Schwarzenback, Swiss Review of Africa, February 1968)



Somebody please show me where any Igbo man made such hate statements against another ethnic group. The only things Igbos ask for is removal of quota system and allow level playing ground for the fittest to ascend. You can't suppress ingenuity with mediocracy or we end up in a retrogressive cycle.

Andro Blaze: I don't get the educated people offended by this writeup, FFK has given exact quotes and dates when he feels the[b] first[/b] overtly sectional supremacist sentiments were publicly expressed in southern Nigeria- is it to academically challenging for his bashers to look for a date that precedes his when their regularly scapegoated tribe made theirs

I don't think that should be too hard, don't they normally accuse the Yorubas of talking about their Yorubaness too much?? Weren't most of the early pre independence political and historical books about Nigeria written by Westerners?? Surely they should be able to find where an eminent Yorubaman expressed their disrespect and superiority over the other inhabitants of southern Nigeria and Africa like FFK feels those Igbo Icons did??

Abagworo: What those Igbo icons did was self praise and not tribalism as alleged by FFK. I still believe in what they said. Trying to suppress Igbos is one of the bane of our national integration and development. Let us leave our doors open for competition and let the best work for our country. Look at what Soludo did in our banking, Ndukwe did in communication, Akunyili did in NAFDAC and Nnaji just did in power.

bobofati: where did u get that
report from? u are AN EDUCATED ILLITERATE. Have u ever seen a state that has a predominantly muslim population being marginalised by christians?

charlsecy4: What does it mean to sin against the Holy Spirit?

See:

https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/unpardonablesin.html

tiarabubu: [size=25pt]See the kind people wey suppose get national award for bringing qualitative education to Nigerians[/size]

VoodooDoll: Chinua Achebe has fallen apart.

ACM10: I'm tired of your hide-n-seek style of debate. You have been making ignorant assertions and you expect me to prove you wrong. I think the onus is on you to prove your assertion. You cannot tell me that starvation is not a war crime and expect me to prove that it is a war crime. If you continue in this fashion, I might be forced to ignore you.

Section B. Sieges that cause
starvation
I. Treaties
Geneva Convention IV
Article 23 of the 1949 Geneva Convention IV
provides:
Each High Contracting Party shall allow the
free passage of all consignments of medical
and hospital stores and objects necessary
for religious worship intended only for
civilians of another High Contracting Party,
even if the latter is its adversary. It shall
likewise permit the free passage of all
consignments of essential foodstuffs,
clothing and tonics intended for children
under fifteen, expectant mothers and
maternity cases.
The obligation of a High Contracting Party to
allow the free passage of the consignments
indicated in the preceding paragraph is
subject to the condition that this Party is
satisfied that there are no serious reasons
for fearing:
(a) that the consignments may be diverted
from their destination,
(b) that the control may not be effective, or
(c) that a definite advantage may accrue to
the military efforts or economy of the
enemy through the substitution of the
above-mentioned consignments for goods
which would otherwise be provided or
produced by the enemy or through the
release of such material, services or facilities
as would otherwise be required for the
production of such goods.
The Power which allows the passage of the
consignments indicated in the first
paragraph of this Article may make such
permission conditional on the distribution
to the persons benefited thereby being
made under the local supervision of the
Protecting Powers.
Such consignments shall be forwarded as
rapidly as possible, and the Power which
permits their free passage shall have the
right to prescribe the technical
arrangements under which such passage is
allowed.
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II. Other Instruments
Lieber Code
Article 18 of the 1863 Lieber Code provides:
When a commander of a besieged place
expels the noncombatants, in order to
lessen the number of those who consume
his stock of provisions, it is lawful, though
an extreme measure, to drive them back, so
as to hasten on the surrender.

www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul_rule53

acidtalk: This man called Olusegun Aremu Mathew Okikiola Obasanjo still remains Nigeria's FUNNIEST and WITTIEST president Ever.

The man made a whole lot of these Comedians who they are today.

Obj patronized them at the slightes events the State House Organized and he never only enjoyed them and permit them to yab him, he also yabbed them back without mincing words.


Na Corruption just spoil OBJ name and record.
Aside that, he is the best yoruba leader after Awolowo.

Yoruba's the earlier you all start appreCiating this man, the better for you all.

airmark: It means ZUBBY77, has been truthful with his claims about Anambra's criminality. I am ashamed of all those who have been attacking ZUBBY77, for uncovering the truth. Truth is scary.

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