₦airaland Forum

BALLOSKI:
this effervesce double standard. If that had happened somewhere in the north, won't have been hasty to place it on a certain group?

If it had happend in the North it would have been a different issue because there is a history of killing Igbos in the North. There is no history of killing Northerners in the East

Kanu wasn't only talking, he walking the walk. You people kept saying it was just a threat . Are you saying it was wrong for a government to be proactive in the face of security challenges?

There is nothing wrong with the government being proactive but it must be by the law. This is democracy, the President is not allowed to use the Nigerian Army to invade anybones house. That is the job of the police. The military is not a crime fighting unit. What you hear the government say about fighting kidnapp abd crime with opration Python dance is all nonsence because the constitution does not the military the power to fight crime.

If someone says he's coming to kill you, so you'd wait until he carries out that act before act?


I no you're intelligent, but this should not come from you.

If someone says they will kill me, I will protect myself by any means necessary but I will not go and start looking for the person to kill him over mere threat

ProWalker:
Stop saying gibberish
We know compliance with igbo directives is more of 90% of avoiding story that touches by ipob hoodlums and not necessary out of support
Ww kmow many people will avoid go stay away from pooling booths on election day to avoid the wrath of crazy ipob members.

Kanu lack of sense killed the agitation

If the people were truly scared and afraid of IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu, they would not come out in their millions wherever he goes

ifyonuoha:
petrol explosives were seen in his house during day python dance stuff, and he should not have used such words in proverbs cos people lik buhari won't understand it d way he thought

Did you see any picture released of petrol explosives? Besides, do you think that it if Kanu was into producing explosives, he would hide such a thing in the same house he sleeps in and risk his life? There are many bushes he could hide such things but he chose to hide something that can take his own life in his own house. Lol

ifyonuoha:
nnamdi kanu shouldn't have violated the bail terms, he shouldn't have formed an army, he shouldn't have threatened to stop anambra election.....If I were in buharis shoes I would even make sure that someone like kanu is locked away until my regime is done. hope u know that he threatened to behead buhari? which even a pastor with take likely with.

That Nnamdi Kanu violating his bail condition is a non issue. The courts gave him bail and it is up to the courts to revoke the bail. It is strictly a court matter. Kanu never formed an Army. That some people are wearing berets and saluting themselves does not mean they are an Army. Are Boyscouts or boys Brigade Armies? An Army has to armed.

Kanu never threatend to stop the Anambra elections. What he said is that he will urge the people to boycott the elections so that elections would not hold. Election boycott is legal

He also never anything about beheading Buhari, what he said in Igbo is "I will bring back the head of Buhari" which is an Igbo proverb that means he will defeat Buhari in court.

As far as Im concerned, Kanu did nothing wrong.

Nnamdi Kanu is talking about referendum not war. Abia state was very peaceful until Buhari came with opration Python dance to cause trouble.

We now know that opration Python dance is illegal because the President had no powers to order the military to go into a peaceful area to do the job of the police.

Thought provoking write up, not everyone has the courage to rise and speak against injustice

ProWalker:
Stale story!
If you dont have your destiny (power) in your hand...other people will continue to write your destiny for your

Igbos never had their destiny in their hands as soon as Lugard included them in Nigeria they will never have that destiny in their hands until they leave Nigeria no matter who is president

From what I gather, nobody has ever challenged a proscription in court in the history of Nigeria.

We can only wait and see how it plays out but if the greatest country in the world such as America can say it doesnt consider IPOB a terrorist organisation, its publicity boost for IPOB

ProWalker:
Keep deceiving yourself
You and i know that is practically impossible now, so you need to console yourselves that presidency is not important to you

Who cares if it possible or not, what will the presidency do for us?

You think Obasunjos presidency did anything for Yorubas or GEJ's Presidency offered Ijaws anything?

There are far more important things that Igbos should be worrying about at this time and not the useless position of presidency.

Lucifar is king of Hell but nobody will want to take over that position from him

sarrki:
Python dance will correct that

If the civil war could not coreect that, the Python can from here to the North pole, it wont do much either

anonymuz:
Stop wasting your fvcking time because you can get Biafra now. You people are spread all over the country with some with huge investment in other state. You think Ifeanyi ubah is ready to lose all his filling stations across the country for just on N. Kanu who has no single investment in Aba?or you think many of you who dominated Alaba,Ladipo markets and Co will love to lose what they have been working for? What about fidelity bank owner with building all over the country?go and wait till you start investing in you own states. Till the n, forget Biafra.

An who told you that Ifeanyi Uba will lose his filling stations because of the emergence of Biafra?

That is like saying that Dangote will lose his Cement plant in Ethiopia because he is not Ethiopian

nairavsdollars:
Nobody seems to be talking about Igbo presidency. Even Obasanjo who said Igbos should prepare for 2019 is not sincere about it. The North already said power will come to their region in 2019, while the South is already warming up in 2023. When will we have a president of Igbo extraction?

Igbos are not particularly clamouring for the presidency of Nigeria, there many things that are more important than that.

The only thing the Nigerian government banned snd proscribed was a name. The agitation cannot be banned

Funny people who think that Nnamdi Kanu exiting the scene will stop the agitation for Biafra.

Gowon also thought that Ojukwu exiting the scene in 1970 would mean the end of Biafra

In this case, assuming Nnamdi Kanu does not show up in court, the judge is likely to ask Kanu's Lawyers why.

If the Lawyers say that they lost contact with Kanu after the military invasion of Kanu's home and presume him dead, only God knows what the Judge will pronunce.

Personally, I dont think Kanu is dead. I believe that he will show up for his court date

BALLOSKI:
tell me the operational base of herdsmen, their leaders, where they burn down a police station, where they frisk travellers bus to see people of other tribe to kill, show me where they confronted the military or prevent them from passing , where they promised to tear Nigeria down in 24hrs , the tribe that's the object of attack of herdsmen, etc, then I'd tell you what they're.

Lets dispel some assumptions here. IPOB did not burn down any Police station, those who live around the station have since told the story of what led to the burning of the station by a mob who had initially gone there for help

As much as we did see a video of some young men asking if there were northerners on the bus, it is hasty to jump to the conclusion that the boys were IPOB members or if they were looking for Northerners because they wanted to kill them. So far, I have not heard of any Northerner killed

As for confronting the military or not allowing them to pass, thats too shallow of a reason to call people terrorists.

Threatening to burn Nigeria down, who doesnt make threats? The question is if the threat was carried out.

ihatesycophant:
You may be seeing it in another prism but I tell you the angle you're seeing it may be totally wrong and not on the face of constitution has claimed. The Army did not invaded his father's residence for fun or outright disobedient to court order or on a show. The Nigerian Army has stated reasons for the invasion and the intent of its proscription but you guys intentionally put eyes away from the reasons. One of the issues raised was Nnamdi Kanu establishing Security outfit, BSS and National Guard which is against any known law but at the local level and international. UN Convention never anticipated agitators establishing security outfit to press home self determination but Nnamdi Kanu openly formed it and told the world BSS would be the one guarding BIAFRAN land. Even the dullest govt will not tolerate govt inside govt. it's his greatest undoing to go form security guard and outfit openly. He should have done it secretly because that power he has not gotten it. That act alone means he's calling for war and you know one of the duties of Army worldwide is defending the national and sovereignty integrity of its nation. You don't expect them to fold arms till they grow and become what we have in Borno State. It was the same laxity that birth Boko Haram, because they were initially treated with kid's glove and it snowball to a National Problem gulping monies and attracting world attention.
The proscription may be wrong but the proactiveness is needed to stem untold future menace. He was ill advised to have formed that outfit, he should have just be doing it with civility and he will gain more sympathisers than condemnation.

The important thing is what the constitution says. The costitution clearly says what the Army can be used for and what it cannot be used for. The Army cannot be used to do the job of the police. The formation of BSS is not illegal, any group can buy berets, call themselves what the like and salute each other. If the authorities are concerned about the group, the Police should investigate.

But a situation whereby Buhari decides that BSS will one day take up arms and orders the military to invade Kanu's home, shoot people and arrest others is not only wrong but illegal on several grounds.

To suppprt tbis means that whoever the president of Nigeria is, all he needs to do is to think that someone might take up arms and send the Army after the person.

It was illegal to send the Army after Kanu, thats not the constitutional role of the Army

ivolt:
Igbos have never at any time in history run their affairs together.
Every town was on its own fighting its neighbours for dominance, I doubt you
want to return to such era.

Yes, and we would rather return to that system than be fighting with the rest of Nigeria

ivolt:
Scotland has always run its own affairs with some deference to GB.
No such history exists for any part of Nigeria since its creation.

Igbo land has always run its own affairs until Lugard came to create Nigeria

afroniger:
Well, if he is in hiding and deliberately refuses to tell his sureties, that would imply that he is a man of very questionable character because then he would be knowingly putting his sureties crebility and assets at risk. He at least owes them the right to know that he is alive, and his whereabouts. These people put their reputations and assets on the line on his behalf to secure his conditional release. It would be unfair to them. Very unfair.

What is actually unfair is the Nigerian Army violating the constitution by invading the residence of Kanu in what can be termed Military gangsterism, shooting up the whole place, then rushing the next day to pronounce IPOB a terrorist group. The same Army did not release any details about the military operation in Kanu's house but the video of the enormous amount of shooting in the place is on youtube.

Why hasnt the Nigerian Army released any report about the invasion of Kanu's house? They are good at rushing to shoot unarmed people and gun down Kanu's Dog but they cant say anything about what transpired at Kanu's residence.

This is a big joke

Alcatraz005:
Yes, Nigeria doesnt work but let us go about the agitations for our separate nations peacefully. I am confident that if the rest of Nigeria {South} continues to prevail on the North, they would have no choice but to allow for a restructuring of the Federation and/or dissolution of the country.

I laugh. The North is never going to allow one inch of Nigeria to be restructured, neither are they going to allow Nigeria to disintegrate.

A lot of 'restructuring noisemakers' in the south of Nigeria dont yet know that they are in prison. It is only when the North slams the door on restructuring they will finally realise what Ojukwu realised 50 years ago, that ONE NIGERIA only means slavery to the North

Thats why those in the south who mock IPOB now will gnash their teeth later.

Come and get restructuring from the North lets see if you wont be even worse than IPOB get it.

I dont care what anyone says, Igbos and Igbo land must become independent of this illegal and fraudulent 1914 British colonial arrangement commonly refered to as Nigeria!

I find it highly insulting and embarrasing that Gambia of just 1.8 million people, less than the population of the city of Onitsha, is an independent country but my 45 million strong Igbo nation is still being made to sing a national flop called ONE NIGERIA

There must be a referendum and we Igbos are going to exit this colonial contraption called Nigeria.

OsunOriginal:
Hahahaha....

Watch this video and come back to defend or correct the trash you spewed up here.


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

What I heard were threats. Anyone can make threats, what the law cares about is if the threats were carried out or if there is any preparation to carry it out

The day that Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the famous singer Madonna came on national tv to say she is thinking about "bombing the whitehouse". Why do you think she was never arrested

NCP:
Promoting a terror organisation is against the Laws of The Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The illegal organisation stands proscribed. The promoters of the group are committing felony against the state and her constituted authority.


Be warned.

You can proscribe an organisation but no one can proscribe an agitation

Nice one

One smart thing Kanu did was to build IPOB families all over the world before he returned to Nigeria.

Ban IPOB in Nigeria, its international wing will continue.

The guy is a spitting image of his father

luluman:
Don't be dumb now, what they did with hate speeches, & insults to Nigeria & to other tribes is more than carrying arms.Use your brain.

Really? Now ask your self this. If Shekau had just being insulting people, pouring hate speech, denigrating Nigeria, would you have prefared the Shekau of today that has taken up arms and killed so many people?

What about Niger Delta militants that have taken up arms destroyed many infrastructures?

Herdsmen have slaughtered many thousands all over the place

But the most important thing for you is Nnamdi Kanu who has no arms, never killed anyone and only wants referendum?

My brother, there are many bereaved families that have lost loved ones who wish boko haram, herdsmen had only had never taken up arms abd just stuck to hate speech and insults. Hate speech and insults are just words that cant kill anyone, guns abd bullets are a different matter

IPOB was manning checkpoints and extorting money? And yet people in Abia state did not raise alarm and inform anyone untill the Nigerian Army came?

What a lot of people dont seem to realise is that the Army is not constitutionally allowed to do the job of the police. The Army is not a crime fighting outfit.

By this announcement, the Army only confirmed that opration Python dance is an illegality

OsunOriginal:
A man who threatened to burn down a country is not unarmed. Otherwise how would he burn down the country?

If it making threats was a crime, every Nigerian would be in jail

naijastoryz:
It’s too late for Igbo to pull out of Nigeria – Igbo lawmaker
September 23, 2017
A Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu, on Saturday, said it was too late for the Igbo nation to pull out of Nigeria. Idimogu, representing Oshodi/Isolo Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, told newsmen in Lagos that secession would be injurious to the Igbos. He said: “As a full blooded Igbo man and a Nigerian, I believe, Igbo staying in Nigeria as an entity will prosper the Igbo nation better than pulling out. “After the 1967 Civil war, the Igbo man started all over again to build up; now Igbo nation has made progress in terms of economy and politics.
“Though the Igbo nation has not reached where it is expected to be politically, we should dialogue rather than be creating war scenarios. ‘’It is too late to pull out (of Nigeria), Igbo nation has united Nigeria because they have businesses everywhere in this country,” the lawmaker said. The lawmaker urged Mr Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to rescind from any action that could create enmity against Igbos around the country. He urged the Igbo nation to unite with other ethnic groups in the country to articulate their grievances and actualised their dreams. “My children were born in Lagos and some of them don’t even know their state of origin, they speak Yoruba and so many Igbo children are like that across the North and West.

“We have our future in Nigeria. The only thing Igbo nation should fight for is political power not by creating war scenario but by merging with other nations/tribes in Nigeria – the Northerners and Westerners. “Most Igbos, over 50 per cent, don’t even believe in Biafra because they have counted the cost from 1970 after the war till 2017. No one wants to go back to square one; it is not possible. “As a person, I am against it; what the Igbo man should struggle for in this entity are equality, fairness and justice, not pulling out. “It is very late to pull out, it will be difficult because majority of us are not ready to fight any war; I don’t want to lose my life nor my sons and daughter in war; I believe we can make Nigeria our home,’’ he said. According to him, even if the Igbo nation wants to pull out of Nigeria, it is not going to be overnight or by aggression, rather it should be via a friendly and democratic process. “Kanu should calm down, unite with Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a tree cannot make a forest,” the lawmaker said. Newsmen report that there had been several agitations by IPOB for a Sovereign State of Biafra, the development that lead to the proscription of the group.
source-https://naijastoryz..com.ng/2017/09/its-too-late-for-igbo-to-pull-out-of.html

Somebody should tell him that Scotland was part of Britain for over 300 years but had referendum on independence in 2014.

But he is talking about Nigeria thst was created just the other day in 1914

LegitBoy:
Boss let's be sincere to ourselves for once, I stay here and I can confidently say the fear has gone for away for now. In Anambra people in my area have been scared of coming out to participate in the forthcoming election not because of respect for IPOB but the fear. We all know this present government is a disaster and has failed irretrievably but I don't agree with Kanu's ways too. We were all living in fear and I'm partly grateful that is gone now, before you label us cowards please do ask yourself if war breaks out what will Kanu do to help the Igbo nation? With which Army will Biafra defend her land? Ojukwu lasted that long because he was a military governor with standing Army. Nobody should drag the Igbo nation to another genocide while we will continue to call for restructuring of the country or secession through referendum not some empty threats.

You stay were? Im an Anambra man and there is no fear in home state. Everybody already knows that Kanu is not looking for wsr but referendum