₦airaland Forum

willibounce1:
show us pictures and videos of the NA opening fire at your so called unarmed criminal pigs. At least we saw pictures of ipod criminals with sticks, bottles and throwing stones at the NA. We saw pictures of a soldier and innocent passers by. We saw pictures of a police man that was killed and mosques burnt by ipod criminals. Show us one picture of any soldier shooting the ipod criminals or STFU

Pictures? You can do better than pictures. Video of the Nigerian Army shooting IPOB members is not a new thing. They are all over youtube dating back since 2015

When Nnamdi Kanu was still in jail, his father granted an interview where he said he would gladly give up his throne for Biafra.

Buhari is just clueless. What Buhari didnt remember is that Before Nnamdi Kanu returned to Nigeria, he had already created a network of IPOB families all over the world.

What these countries with IPOB families are going to ask is why it is only in Nigeria that IPOB get killed, tortured and branded terrorist.

Nice one! Im happy they are spreading the word about the dictatorial government of Buhari who uses the Nigerian Army to shoot unarmed people

ERockson:
Like Onahaeze like Ipob. Dispatching letters to court in order to intimidate the judge. How could a whole leaders be so foool in this manner. They caused the dead of a lot youths by misleading them into stupiid agitation that is purely based on politics.

You mean the people that your Nigerian Army shot? We didnt know that the Nigerian Army was created to shoot unarmed people where there is no war

Other countries Armies shoot armed people where there is war.

obyrich:
I do not think so.

Well you better check how many legislators the NE and NW have in total. They have enough to stop any restructuring from happening

Yyeske:
Radio Biafra reporter, the reverse is is the case

Oh really? So what you are saying is that Igbos watched the videos of of their brothers being tortured and murdered by the Nigerian Army and fell in love eith Nigeria?

Whoever write this trash is just another "one Nigerian" apologist. In less than 2 weeks, these so called Nigerians will go to celebrate their independence day. The average Nigerian agrees that it is a good thing that Nigeria got its independence from Britain but the same Nigerian will turn around and say he doesnt know why Igbos should be seeking independence as Biafra.

Isnt that pure hypocrisy?

Nigeria is just 103 years old and some people think that we are all siamese twins joined forever.

Scotland has been part of the UK for over 300 years but even them agitated for independence and got referendum in 2014

But peoole are still looking for reasons why Igbos should remain part of Nigeria

Tufiakwa unu

SLIDEwaxie:
I am tired of these people...

How empty can u be?

If you think you have outsmarted buhari, tell your director to come and hold another rally na

I dey wait o

Opration Python dance converted a lot of Igbos and even non Igbos to Kanu and IPOB. The videos and pictures of those killed and tortured by the Nigerian Army have swelled IPOB

I think Nnamdi Kanu's next rallies are going to be the biggest we have ever seen

maclatunji:
You really believe this?

Of course. There are many examples.

Years Governor Fayose was thrown out of Government house abd turned into a fugitive hiding from the authorities. Look at him today back in Government house

OPC leader Ganiyu Adams wa once a a fugitive from the authorities, he was captured, badly beaten, stripped to his waist and put in handcuffs. Pictures of gim went round all the news papers. Today, Ganiyu is a very wealthy and influential man in Yoruba land

Its not about the number of times you fall at the huddles, it about if you make it the finish line.

Kanu is already bouncing back, the terrorism declaration and the ban by the governors has already been ruled illegal, no one has declared Kanu a wanted man as far as Im aware. I think Kanu is just waiting for the Army to pullout so he can make a triumphant return.

Yorubas love shouting restructuring but if you ask any Yoruba man how he intends to achieve restructuring, they will not be able to say anything.

Always about talk and no action

Ok, I will see if restructuring falls from the sky

0m0nnakoda:
That is sentiment.

Maybe you are too young to remember or maybe not even born when Tianamen Square crisis occurs. Go and read it up

I can assure you China IS NOT a country only on paper.
Again where were you when Chechnya War happened.

Stop living a theoretical textbook life and deal with reality. You mess about with Secession in some countries you will pay dearly for it and Nigeria is one of such countries

Dont use China or Chechnia as an example in this matter. Niether one is a democracy

Yyeske:
Attackgat I sight you, what do have to say because you supported IPOB activities

Nothing to say except that Nigeria already showed the world with what happend in Aba that it is a country on paper only

Even before I ever heard the name IPOB, I wanted Igbo land to be an independent nation.

Just the same way Zik, Awolowo and others felt that Nigeria should be independent of Britain, I feel Igbos should be independent of Nigeria

Throwback:
Below are some selected speeches already communicated to relevant global agencies and world power states, depicting the brave Ohamadike in his civil and non violent campaign while directing the broadcast of Radio Biafra.

The post bail speeches of the brave Ohamadike would be made available soon enough.
The text of these exciting speeches would also be shared globally, so the whole world will know the Mandela of Nigeria who has now been termed a terrorist and he is in hiding.

Regardless of what he may have said, he never killed anyone. Unlike your Nigerian Army, Boko Haram, OPC,Herdsmen

The international community knows who commited the bigger sin

Biafran supporters like myself are tired of Yorubas giving us advice on how to go about Biafra. How the Yoruba man does his thing is not how the Igbo man does his thing.

Let Yorubas go and figure out how to get restructuring before advicing IPOB how to get Biafra

He also said the Army did not over step its bounds? The Army that invaded NUJ centre Umuahia to beat up Journslists?

The Army that invaded Kanus residence?

What happend in Abia was genocide by the Nigerian Army

obyrich:
This is why I expect the South to unite. The North Central can be convinced to back restructuring leaving out the other two Northern regions against the rest of Nigeria. A divided South, not the North, is our problem.

Even if the entire South and North central unites and demands for restructuring, it still will not be possible because the core North or the NW+NE have more than enough votes to make sure it is never passed into law

Crystolexy:
IS there a clear difference between Aburi Accord and restructuring? If many people are now accepting the restructuring as the solution to Nigeria problem why was Aburi Accord not accepted?

Lets discuss this!

The Aburi accord and restructuring are the same thing. The only difference is that the Aburi accord was of a military era.

However, just like Aburi, the North will never allow that Nigeria be restructured

Alcatraz005:
The ipob has never hurt anybody by their messages but only endangered the millions of igbos especially in the north. No

Whenever hate speech endangers people in another part of the country, the endangered people are in the wong country.

If Nnamdi Kanu can say something in one part of the country and people can be killed in another part, then he is right about everyone going their separate and those who wont kill themselves over hate speech should go and form their own nations

SmartyPants:
That quotation means the presido can call upon the army to aid any civil authority whatsoever (including himself), in the interest of peace and order.

obviously, matters of personal interest to the president do not have anything to do with the work of civil authorities (including himself).

When the President is calling on the Army "to aid himself" it is as it personal gets.

Naturally, when an armed group invades your house and you dont have a gun to defend your self, you withdraw and wait for the dust to settle. You dont stay back and present your self to be killed

The Nigerian Army left their constitutional role as guardians of the territorial intergrity of Nigeria and assumed the role of assasins who invaded Abia to Kill Kanu and his suppoters on behalf of this APC government and silence all voice of dissent.

The dust is now settling with many legal minds declaring the invasion of the home of Nnamdi Kanu illegal and the branding of IPOB as a terror group unconstitutional.

When the Army completely withdraws from Abia, Kanu will return to his house and the agitation kicks off again and I believe this time, with even bigger support than before

You stumble, you pick your self up and continue

smartty68:
Why use military force when the fulani herdsmen are peace lovers and unarmed civilians are terrorists

Exactly. The hypocrisy is too much

Michael004:
For those shouting ipob and their leader are not terrorists group. Read the meaning of terrorist and after reading this, just decide whether they are terrorists or not.

Well you that bothered to write this, can you mention one act of violence by IPOB before this so called operation Python Dance?

SmartyPants:
Noun 1. civil authority - a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs
civil officer
authority - (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; "the authorities have issued a curfew"
city manager, mayor - the head of a city government

Who or what, by the above definition, is the President of Nigeria?

Is he not a civil authority?

Besides that section of the constitution is simply interpreted to mean that the army may take on roles typically assigned to civil authorities. It does not mean that they require the involvement of those authorities.

"suppressing insurrection and acting in aid of civil authorities to restore order when called upon to do so by the President, but subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly; "

I stead of you defining civil authority, read the above section of the constitution. It is the president that has to call on the military to aid civil authorities

Are you trying to say that they meant that the president can call upon the military to aid himself?

If that were true then it means that whoever is president of Nigeria can use the Nigerian Military as his personal property

What a ridiculously stupid write up. I was actually hoping he would say something tangible that would warrant Kanu rennouncing his British citizenship.


Kanu's British citizenship is an advantage to IPOB. He can reach places that someone who only has that cursed "Green Passport" cannot.

If Kanu was going to take his British passport and run back to Britain, he would never have left London in the first place to come back to Nigeria where he is a wanted man. I see nothing wrong with Kanu using the advantage he has as a British citizen to help his situation and Biafra

13th September 2017

By Femi Falana (SAN)

No doubt, the federal government of Nigeria has the duty to maintain law and order in the country. But it is the duty which cannot be carried out outside the ambit of the law of the land. Last weekend, armed troops invaded Abia in Abia state to deal with the alleged threat of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to destabilize the country. It was reported yesterday that the troops have taken over the family house of Mr Kanu and put him under house arrest. I wish to submit, without any fear of contradiction, that the deployment of armed troops in Abia state and the house arrest of Mr. Kanu are illegal and unconstitutional on the following grounds:

(1) By virtue of section 215 (3) of the Constitution the Nigeria Police Force has been conferred with the exclusive power to maintain law and order and secure public safety and public order in the country.

(2) Having filed an application in the Federal High Court for the re-arrest and detention of Mr. Kanu for allegedly breaching the conditions attached to his bail the federal government ought not to have presented the trial judge with a fait accompli by resorting to self help in the circumstance.

(3) Although the President is empowered by virtue of section 217(2) of the Constitution to deploy the armed forces for the “suppression of insurrection and acting in aid of civil authorities to restore law order” he cannot exercise the power until there is an insurrection or civil disturbance which cannot be contained by the police.

(4) Since there was no insurrection in Aba State which the Nigeria Police Force could not contain the deployment of armed troops by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces cannot be justified in law.

(5) However, if the federal government has evidence of other criminal offences recently committed by Mr. Kanu the Police should have been directed to arrest him and charge him to court without any delay.

(6) Neither the Constitution nor the Armed Forces Act Cap A20 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004  has empowered the Nigeria Army to arrest any citizen who is not subject to service law.

(7) In the case of Yussuf v Obasanjo (2005) 18 NWLR (Pt 956) 96 the Court of Appeal held that “It is up to the police to protect our nascent democracy and not the military, otherwise the democracy might be wittingly or unwittingly militarized. This is not what the citizenry bargained for in wrestling power from the military in 1999. Conscious step or steps should be taken to civilianize the polity to ensure the survival and sustenance of democracy”.

Regrettably, no conscious efforts have been made by the civilian government to demilitarize the country since power was transferred from former military dictators to the civilian wing of the political class in May 1999. Hence, armed soldiers have been allowed to continue to be involved in the maintenance of law and order in all the states of the federation. Up till now, state governments have allowed armed soldiers to remain members of the police anti robbery squads. They have been deployed, from time to time, by the President to deal with the menace of herdsmen and kidnappers. They have just been authorized to deal ruthlessly with civilians who are involved in any form of agitation for self determination.

There is no legal basis for authorizing the Nigerian army to take over police duties. Even under the defunct military era in Nigeria the military dictators had to declare a state of emergency to legitimize the usurpation of police powers by the armed forces. But under a democratic dispensation the President and Commander-in-chief of the armed forces lacks the power to deploy members of the armed forces in the maintenance of internal security in any part of the country. Hence, in waging the war on terror in the north east region a state of emergency was declared by President Jonathan to justify the deployment of members of the armed forces as part of the extraordinary measures required by him to restore law and order pursuant to section 305 of the Constitution. Thereafter, the President sought and obtained the approval of the National Assembly for the said deployment of the armed forces.

In view of the foregoing, the President should direct the armed troops who have invaded Aba in Abia State to withdraw and return to their barracks forthwith. At the same time, the Commissioner of Police in Abia state should be allowed to take over the case of Mr. Kanu in line with the provisions of the Constitution and the Police Act. If he is indicted in the investigation that is expected to be conducted by the Police he should be charged to court as he is not above the law. But on no account the army should the army be involved in the arrest, investigation and possible prosecution of Mr. Kanu or any other civilian in the country.

Cacawa2:
In June 2013, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan proscribed Boko Haram as a terrorist Organisation. This, he did, without any recourse to the High Court as most people would expect; and reasonably so.

There are two sections in the TPA act that may be deployed into making such declarations: Section 2 and; Section 9.



The TPA act makes provision for the declaration of a group as being a Terrorist group on a number of grounds.

It is very easy to refer to[b] Section 2 of the act[/b] which makes provision for a process that involves judicial processes, procedures and pronouncement. Most applicable to local terrorism.

However [b]Section 9 of the act[/b]makes express approval for the executive arm to immediately declare a group as a Terrorist group. This is specifically in relation to international affiliations and sponsorship.

In the case of IPOB, there is reliable Intel available to the Nigerian Army suggesting the foreign links and backings of IPOB to certain international terrorism networks.

The move by the Nigerian Govt. is therefore in order and can only be upturned by any aggrieved person who takes the matter to a court of competent jurisdiction. In the mean time, the declaration remains in full force and anybody (either physically or over the internet), found to be soliciting for a terrorist group may be found culpable.

Let us be enlightened.

Regards,

CACAWA2


source: http://www.lawnigeria.com/LawsoftheFederation/Terrorism-(Prevention)-Act,-2011.html

But neither the executive arm of Government nor did the Presidency declare IPOB a terrorist organisation, the Nigerian Army did

Yyeske:
b and c relates to the activities of IPOB

How? In subsection(b), IPOB has not yet declared a separate state of Biafra so the territorial intergrity of Nigeria is still intact

In subsection(c) there was no insurrection. Insurrection means "violent armed uprising" by a group. Before the Army came to Abia state, was no insurrection. IPOB may have stoned the soldiers during their clash but stonning is not insurrection and neither were the Army acting in aid of any civil authority

Im no Lawyer but section 217 of the constitution spells out the duties of Military:



(a) defending Nigeria from external aggression;

(b) maintaining its territorial integrity and securing its borders from violation on land, sea, or air;

(c) suppressing insurrection and acting in aid of civil authorities to restore order when called upon to do so by the President, but subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly; and

(d) performance such other functions as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.


Of these 4 sub-sections, only section c even relates to IPOB and Kanu.

There was no isurrection in Abia state nor were the Army acting in aid of any civil authority.

The invasion of Kanu's home by the Army was a clear violation of the constitution since the Army

The Army also violated its constitutional role by doing the job of the police

Because the Army had no legal right to be where they were, all the people they shot and killed was murder

maclatunji:
Nah, not hating, just being factual. This Nnamdi Kanu case is a classic one of a 'spoilt child' running out of control. One of the most difficult things to do is to curb military men that have been trained to kill as a profession.

Never allow them at your doorstep in the first place should have been Nnamdi Kanu's motto and the Southeast leaders. However, Kanu's ego had
run out of control and for a few months he forgot that he is just another citizen.

I frankly don't like the fact that he has by his utterances and actions put millions of lives at risk. If I have to make a choice between Nnamdi Kanu being convicted of treason and millions of people dying, I will have to choose the former.

Only a fool will be looking at a smaller problem and ignore the much bigger problem. Maybe some people were not happy with the way Nnamdi Kanu went about his agitation or some of his utterances but IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu that is the smaller problem out there. Before this opration python dance, there was hardly any act of violence reported against IPOB and they do not bear arms.

The much bigger problem that exists is that if one individual who has no position in government and no political power can cause millions to be at risk just by his uttrances, then Nigeria is not a nation worth the paper it is printed on

So when one person in the East says something offensive , people in the North are put at risk? When another in west says something not palatable , people in thr South are put at risk?

So what is the point of ONE NIGERIA if the people cant rise above mere words? It would make more sense to divide Nigeria into congregations that are more alike and comfortable with each other than be in a Nigeria where different people who dont like are routinely killing each other. People want Nigeria to be together for the sake of being together and not because the country actually works as a nation

You take down Nnamdi Kanu another rises to replace him, so what is the point?

Python dance was just to provok IPOB into being violent